The Basics

Hi, Hello

The basics are all you need to be happy.

The simplest things matter the most, sometimes.

Someone remembering something you mentioned to them, buying your pet their a special treat, waking up next to your favorite person, grabbing a coffee from a local coffee shop, finding a bat shaped wine-bottle opener, etc.

The littlest things can make the biggest impact on people.

We aren't taught that though.

But we all know that, we all know that we are taught to desire the theatrics of life, instead of cherishing what we already have.

So, here is a list of simple things in my life that I am grateful for that I feel like can be taken advantaged of often:

• Making coffee on my day off & watching my plants from my desk

• A villager I dislike on my ACNH island, called Aeaea, finally leaving (iykyk)

• The way Gabe smiles at me from across the table

• The Saturday morning farmers market

• Hearing my friends laugh over a glass of wine

• Freshly washed sheets

That all being said, let me include that I've finally been able to write! This morning while sipping on too-hot coffee & scrolling instagram, I became inspired to begin the third installment of my comic!

The inspiration was from an artist named Picolo who is one of my favorite artist & the creator of the new wave of Teen Titians. If you don't know of him or his titans or of his work, then you should check him out.

(https://www.dccomics.com/talent/gabriel-picolo)

Picolo's causal Titan's have given the original Titan's a breathe of fresh air & have kept them current w/ today's comic audience w/out losing the charm of the original team. Their is something about the way that he designed them that is both familiar as well as refreshing & I love it. He accomplished what the DC New 52 series wishes they could accomplish.

Raven has to be my absolute favorite! His design pays so much homage to her original design, even before the Teen Titan's animated series & the Titan's comic. The fact that we can actually meet Beast Boy's parents is great, even though we lose the aspect of his before-titans attributes but, whateva. The romance between these two also, it is to DIE for cute. I love them separately & together. We don't know too much about his re-design with the rest of the team but the fourth graphic novel comes out w/in a year (it's Robin!!) & I can not wait!

Moving on, sorry about the fangirling there...

This morning he posted a new photo of Beast Boy & Raven (I'll attach it below, b/c it's adorable). Here is the thing though, I can't tell you what it is about this photo that brought inspiration but it did. Between the photo & that I was looking to purchase train tickets, I guess the two added up to a great opening.

The issue with the opening I had originally is that I'm trying to open with a flashback but don't know how far to go back. To where the reader last left off at? When they first meet/arrived in Ithaca? Wait, there are no trains that connect where they started with Ithaca. They could meet at a coffee shop? No, that's been done before.

This isn't an uncommon issue that writers face, we all know this right? The simple but not so simple question of: where to start?

Thankfully, I knew where to start: w/ a flashback. BUT where in the flashback do I start, is the issue that I was having.

That was, until I saw that photo. Something about the pair of them & the caption "Golden Retriever Boyfriend" & the sea of train tickets I was searching through. All of that equalled the inspiration that I needed to finally get the first page down & I was so happy.

I'd even say gibby.

& it was so fun to write like that again!

Maybe I can still be a writer, maybe I haven't completely lost it & the hope is great. It's so weird how strongly writers block can affect your state of mind, how you view yourself & the work that you create. That & the hit my writing ego took when I was kicked off the last comic I was apart of.

But, w/ this comic it's 100% me which is way better than the prior comic. Or rather, that is what I'm working to convince myself of to help my writers ego. So far (as in today) it has worked.

Here is the connector: Picolo posting that photo was a simple thing, a little thing, it was something that he might not know would make my day. But, I am grateful for it. It meant a lot to me, seeing his new art.

It was the basics that brought me out of my writer's block.

Now, I'm not saying that my writer's block is completely gone but, for now, the desire to write is here. To create & build on the world that I created on my own, give life to my characters, craft their adventures. I'm sure that writer's block will return but I have hope that it won't be as bad as it has been the last few months.

I supposed that it can't be as bad as it has been, ya know? Once it's bad it can't be worse, right?

I'm going to tell myself that, regardless.

Anyways, it's late here so I should attempt to get some sleep.

Until Next Time,

Haunted Lore

P.S. give Picolo a follow on his socials, his name is the same on all for them & I believe that they are all connected to the website I posted above. You guys won't regret it!