Comes the Knight

by Alvin

It's cool, we didn't drop off the face of the globe; never to grace the internets again. A lot of things have happened since Bobis and I's last post(s), and our current fate in the wheel of time has forced us to adopt very, very irregular moments to "present" The Night Time Brothers.

Don't worry we haven't broken up, we are still very much in love and happily married (hoo hah hah!)

I'm not sure if we introduced a project of ours that's currently in "will it be taken up/will we still pursue it" limbo. But one of us will give an update on how our graphic novel pitch is shaping up.

There's not a lot of feedback so far, and we haven't touched it in a long while (only during our guest lecturing gigs about graphic novels, do we get the chance to see our "baby"), but it's worth mentioning how we as creative minds; eager to kick ass all up in your face yo! have progressed.

Though I must say, since wrapping up that proposal. I've had a sudden direction to swap roles and attempt something not in my "type-cast", and that has gone hand in hand with the events that have whirlwind'ed from then till now.

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2 major things:

1. one i'll discuss now
2. the other i'll leave for next, bat time.

Around August sometime, I decided to do a Bobis and try my "novelist" hat rather than my illustrative hat. It's like the various Mario caps, but instead of wings or tannuki ears, it's made out of paper and sucks at keeping you dry.

So for the last 11 months, I've been writing my very first novel. Now I'm no literary genius, but I'd like to think my writing ability is just as good as my drawing ability, and to my golden shade of "animal blood" diet eyes: so far so good, and I love it!

There's just something therapeutic about writing that has made me love the art form, even if it's fiction. I've found it's allowed me to be creative and at the same time: stress less about coming up with something competent, that drawing, design or the graphic arts never provided.

I'm not saying, I'm abandoning drawing and that it sucks; no, no way! It's hard to explain, but writing has been more versatile and easier on my imagination and hands.

I've planned for 20 chapters + a prologue and epilogue, and so far I've started my 20th chapter with only the epilogue left to accomplish after that. Then finally; after a very quick and dedicated run, my story will be complete!

I won't leak out too much in the blurb, but I'm writing a young adult love story per se that is also part vigilante, crime noir, set in the context of an upper class Filipino society in Australia - titled: Comes the Knight

Think Batman crossed with Gossip Girl (that's a very poor and maybe inaccurate comparison, but that's what I've been telling people - so I'm running with it)

The story is set to be a definite series of books, & is told between two young adult characters: "Mel" - the son of a respected Filipino family - who charges himself with bringing his older brother's killer to justice after returning from a 2 year hiatus overseas. Whilst in the midst, reigniting an old relationship with "Ella" - a girl he's been in love with for years, and one of the reasons why he left...

... and that's it, hehe. A terrible blurb I know, but I don't like unveiling too much + for some reason, I've been having a hard time trying to come up with a good enough synopsis of my novel. Which sometimes worries me, as I've heard if you can't write a reasonable "gist" of a story - then you have no idea what your actual story is... maybe I'm an exception?

So far; through the downright luck, and the help of a classmate. I've found a potential publisher in Ouroburos Books, the editor/owner of which: likes my manuscript and is willing to help me out with it - an incentive I've used to drive me to finish ASAP.

Fingers crossed, I'll keep you in the loop.

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