Writing Exercises
In early 2026, I finished my most recent webcomic, The Rest Is History. For the previous 15 years, whenever a comic was done, I had always transitioned directly into working on the next one. But my health had worsened, and I came to the difficult conclusion that my body would not allow me to continue as a sequential artist. I didn't have the energy to devote 6-12 hours to a single page. The mere physical acts of sitting at a desk and holding a tablet pen were causing me pain I could no longer ignore. But just because I wasn't making comics anymore didn't mean I had given up on my passion for storytelling.
When I started telling stories all the way back in 2005, I did so in prose. I didn't know what comics were and I didn't have the artistic skill to make them. So instead, I wrote short stories, and dreamed of being a novelist. As I got older, I continued to write prose, both fanfiction and original works, although I never took it as seriously as I did my comic art. But with comics off the table, I decided that maybe prose was worth revisiting. It turned out that I loved writing prose, but I wasn't nearly as good at it as I was at visual storytelling, since I hadn't spent 15 years (and my college education) honing those skills.
Around the time I was having this dilemma, I joined a writer's group that posted writing challenges for members to complete. This proved to be the perfect opportunity to hone my rusty writing skills, and also develop characters for a setting I had been working on for years by that point. I didn't do every prompt, just the ones that inspired me, and I took some creative liberties with the prompts themselves. I'm very proud of the results, which you can read below.
All stories take place in the world of the Corvidan Archipelago, which you can read more about in my lore wiki here. Or just enjoy them out of context.