Looking for the Sun
Dec. 29th, 2007 03:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
toothycatThis may not mean much to the vast majority of the people who read this so-frequently-updated LJ, but I finished Looking for the Sun this morning.
Well, when I say "finished", I mean, I completed the final comic issue. I've still got the cover to do, never mind all the bumf for the fourth book. But the story is complete. It's over.
I started it three years ago, and it was only ever meant to be a single issue, but it was fun and there was room for more so I carried on with it. When I started, I didn't even know what the 'sun' that Kite was looking for was, exactly, and I didn't have a clue how it was going to end ;) I didn't expect it to turn out the way it did. I'm not sure what I did expect, really.
It's been an odd time - it has run alongside three webcomics (Phoenix Feathers, Artifaxis and - just - Ambient Rhythm), and it's been the story I have been most interested in for the longest, if that makes sense. I kept going even without the constant deadline hassle that a webcomic provides, because it was fun, and because I knew people wanted to read it, which is an incredible feeling. I love knowing that the characters who are so real and alive in my head are alive in other people's heads too.
I don't think this is the final end, really; I don't feel like I'm bidding Kite & Saryth farewell, although I may feel differently when the book's done. But it's the end of the story arc - and it's a 28 issue story arc, and it's been three years in the making, and of all my stories, this one is special, and this ending is important.
Well, when I say "finished", I mean, I completed the final comic issue. I've still got the cover to do, never mind all the bumf for the fourth book. But the story is complete. It's over.
I started it three years ago, and it was only ever meant to be a single issue, but it was fun and there was room for more so I carried on with it. When I started, I didn't even know what the 'sun' that Kite was looking for was, exactly, and I didn't have a clue how it was going to end ;) I didn't expect it to turn out the way it did. I'm not sure what I did expect, really.
It's been an odd time - it has run alongside three webcomics (Phoenix Feathers, Artifaxis and - just - Ambient Rhythm), and it's been the story I have been most interested in for the longest, if that makes sense. I kept going even without the constant deadline hassle that a webcomic provides, because it was fun, and because I knew people wanted to read it, which is an incredible feeling. I love knowing that the characters who are so real and alive in my head are alive in other people's heads too.
I don't think this is the final end, really; I don't feel like I'm bidding Kite & Saryth farewell, although I may feel differently when the book's done. But it's the end of the story arc - and it's a 28 issue story arc, and it's been three years in the making, and of all my stories, this one is special, and this ending is important.
