{"id":1197,"date":"2012-05-02T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2012-04-30T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:26:07","slug":"project-rambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/project-rambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Project rambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you noticed that I have a few comics listed on the site that haven&#8217;t really started yet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of a commitment to the project.\u00a0 If I tell someone I&#8217;m going to do it, then I have to live up to my side of the bargain.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what this is, I&#8217;m going to ramble on about all these great ideas I have and that will mean that I&#8217;ll have to follow through eventually.\u00a0 I am actively trying to limit myself to how many running projects I have at any one time.\u00a0 I found that the relief and pride of getting one of them done is too good to delay by adding more commitments to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>I will be finishing a couple more things before I get on with it, I mean with the other things I want to do.\u00a0 The other stories I want to write.\u00a0 Did I tell you that I usually think of my characters first and then make the story around them?\u00a0 Maybe they aren&#8217;t completely thought out, but they&#8217;ve got flesh.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got so many stories racing through my head, gathering up so many characters, that I felt bad about abandoning them to dreamy memories.\u00a0 So when I drew them I had to figure out a container to put them in so they wouldn&#8217;t get lost.\u00a0 That container is a highschool.\u00a0 Yup, at some point in time they all went to school, sorta.\u00a0 Anyway, once I get some things scanned I&#8217;m going to start building an online (and expandable) yearbook so ya&#8217;ll can see the people who fall out of my head.<\/p>\n<p>And in the midst of thinking up a highschool for all these people to live in, I figured out a great flashback story for Levi Levi.\u00a0 It will explain how Annie became his book-keeper\/office-manager type person.\u00a0 And it will feature the time traveling twins Clement and Rosalie Skitt.\u00a0 They&#8217;re up on the characters page, but did not yet have a story of their own.\u00a0 Technically Levi Levi&#8217;s next chapter isn&#8217;t their story either&#8230;so I came up with one.\u00a0 It will be a choose your own adventure type alternative format comic &#8211; which means I can&#8217;t put it up anywhere until it&#8217;s mostly figured out and drawn.\u00a0 I mean, choose-your-own adventures don&#8217;t happen linearly so they can&#8217;t be doled out once a week.<\/p>\n<p>And none of this has anything to do with my next huge comic idea:\u00a0 The 22 Lives of Marcus Trapp.\u00a0 This one actually requires research, so it&#8217;s slow going.\u00a0 Just writing about all of these makes me excited about them all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you noticed that I have a few comics listed on the site that haven&#8217;t really started yet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of a commitment to the project.\u00a0 If I tell someone I&#8217;m going to do it, then I have to live up to my side of the bargain.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what this is, I&#8217;m&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/project-rambling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project rambling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[7,47,104],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-comics","tag-levi-levi","tag-projects","tag-time-twins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":598,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/12\/04\/in-the-holiday-spirit\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":0},"title":"In the Holiday Spirit","author":"leems","date":"December 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is my Christmas card this year, inspired by Krampus cards from Victorian times.\u00a0 I'm still reeling from having a started and completed novel project for November.\u00a0 But now there are comic pages to draw, and old projects to get back to.\u00a0 I intend to make good use of my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GrusVomKrampus2_55by8-206x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":72,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/09\/18\/more-more-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":1},"title":"More More More","author":"leems","date":"September 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Alright kiddies.\u00a0 I had an epiphany--I greatly dislike manual upkeep on an rss feed, which is what I was doing for Levi Levi ever since I took it off of it's old blog platform years ago.\u00a0 Combine that with the guilt I've been feeling about not regularly updating the Bean\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/images\/comics\/NE\/NoEvilCover003.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7743,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/levi-levi-and-comics\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":2},"title":"Levi Levi and Comics","author":"leems","date":"October 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Ya'll knew, right?\u00a0 That Levi Levi is back!\u00a0 New comics are posting on his very own comics site:\u00a0 http:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/comics\/levilevi\/.\u00a0 If you view the Bean in it's natural state you will see a combined feed of comic pages on the right. 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