>I suspect a good bit of that can be attributed to the fact that I have
>a very cinematic imagination - that is, I often see things as animated
>sequences, then have to translate them into prose. This can be
>rewarding, and is often terribly frustrating as well, especially since
>I can clearly see the way things ought to be drawn, but have no skill
>or talent whatsoever to draw them with

I know exactly what you mean. My "writing imagination" is very cinematic (and, as of late, "anime-tic"), and I run into exactly the same problem with images that don't go down on paper well. I have a good double handful of scenes and songs for Drunkard's Walk that won't be going in there (yet) because they yet defy my ability to translate them to prose. As far as artwork is concerned, I'm not hopeless, but the amount of time it takes me to do anything I feel satisfied with pretty much rules out production in that direction.

What I'm hoping for, someday, is a good PC-based animation studio, that'll let me do character design and modelling, and will tween for me between key images... then I'll start getting these recalcitrant images out of my head...

Anyway, back to the original topic...

-- Bob
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"Shinji. Same name as the master key -- well done, Ikari. Shinji can't be copied. Splendid plan." -- Tabris, in Tenshi Muyo! Rei-o-ohki