In my opinion, I’m a much better writer than I am an artist, and my self-consciousness can get in my way. How is 24-Hour Comics Day similar to NaNoWriMo?īoth 24HCD and NaNoWriMo convince you not to wait for the muse. I’ve completed 24-Hour Comics Day three times-each time, taking on a part of a novella I wrote called “Stranded.” This year, I completed the third part, so I have a complete graphic novel of one of my stories! Can you explain what that is?Ģ4-Hour Comics Day is a yearly challenge to create a completely new comic in 24 hours. You are also involved in a great event called 24-Hour Comics Day. This is great, as you can work on whichever one inspires you most at any given moment. I always want to start an essentially new novel for NaNo, so I end up having several novels in progress at any one time. NaNoWriMo requires 50,000 words, but typically my novels pack in between 90,000 to 150,000 words-so I need to keep writing for a year or more after NaNo to finish a novel. Do you have any advice for those of us who will soon be struggling in the revision doldrums? And I’ve done it ever since!Īfter November’s over, revision time inevitably rolls around. Every November, I’d pick a novel-unwritten or not-and add 50,000 words to it, and that would be my challenge. That’s when I decided that I didn’t care about following the rules specifically. I had 12,000 words before November, and tacked on another 50,000 during the course of the month. I became so happy with Frost Moon that I started working on a second book, which became Blood Rock. I’d been planning ideas around my protagonist, a magical tattoo artist named Dakota Frost, and had written a couple of hundred words when November rolled around and I decided to tackle NaNo. Yes! The cores of both Frost Moon and Blood Rock were written during NaNoWriMo. The first two books in your SkinDancer trilogy started as NaNo drafts. We talked with him about revision, publication, and 24-Hour Comics Day: Anthony Francis is a long-time NaNoWriMo participant, who’s recently published the first book in his series about Dakota Frost, a tattoo artist with magical powers.

Blood Rock by Anthony Francis