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I had a rather insistent dream about drawing the two characters in the center over Saturday night, so apparently it was something that I needed to do. Spent a good chunk of Sunday pounding this out.<\/p>\n
The characters, from left to right, are Orathane, Rory, Johara, and Novah from a defunct novel project called Interregnum. Novah is still in active use and I\u2019m building a new home for her. The rest\u2026 Their status is a bit more vague. The co-writer of the project liberated it for her own profits some time ago and I didn\u2019t find out until at least thirty chapters later. An awkward situation. Novah, developed solely by me, was not taken and I am grateful for that. While I primarily developed Rory and Johara and was quite involved in the development of Orathane, they were not spared. I ended up in the bizarre position of choosing between a long-standing friendship and bits of fiction. I ended up losing both anyways. As to why their status is a little vague, I don\u2019t know how the characters were written afterwards. For all I know, their names were pasted onto completely different characters, effectively sending the characters in the image above into limbo.<\/p>\n
So, here\u2019s some hard-learned advice to aspiring writers or even veteran writers: Do not enter into a collaboration project without some sort of legal understanding. Yes, it\u2019s often a fun and enriching experience, but it won\u2019t be worth the heartbreak and resentment when the darker elements of human nature inevitably raise their hydra heads.<\/p>\n
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