Taken Away

A new caption, and a new layout for posts. This should be fun.

 So first up a quick word on the caption. This was supposed to be a quickie, but the story just kept growing. Since it usually goes the other way, I try not to cut myself short when the ideas keep coming. If I don't have a second image, I'll do some revising if the text gets too small, but for this one everything seemed to wrap up nicely and I didn't need to cut too much.
 

Now onto the new post layout. The results of the poll were 24 to 16 in favor of keeping the older post style. And while I respect the verdict, the sample size is just too small for me to put much stock in the result. So I'm going to try out the click-through format for a little while, just to see if I like it. If I do, it'll stay, or if I don't/enough people request to go back to the old style I will. But for now, I want to see how this goes.

Broken

An early Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate, if you're not sick after dinner you did something wrong. I finally get a few days off for the holiday, so hopefully I'll be able to make some longer captions that I've been planning for a while. As it is, this is another single panel I pulled together earlier today. The idea's been done over and over in the tg world, but I still like how this one turned out. Also, because of the holiday there's a chance the Friday update will come out Friday afternoon, but I'll try to get it out at the usual time.

Everything You Ever Wanted

And I'm back. Vacation was all right, some unforeseen complications made things a little more stressful than I would have liked, but that's just the way it goes sometimes. Anyway, I've got some cool stuff in the pipeline and I hope to get it out to you soon. But in the meantime, here's a quickie I pulled together for all of you nice people as I get back into the swing of things.

I love this picture. I like the story I put with it, but I have to say it was actually one of the more difficult things I've written in a while. The main reason is I wanted this to be fast. More of a moment than an actual story. The problem was the story didn't like staying small. I could easily have made this into a two or three panel mental rambling that explored all the feelings and thoughts going through the protagonist's mind, but I didn't want that. This image was short and to the point, and the text needed to match. I probably spent more time cutting things out than putting them in. Funny how writing less can be so much more work. Have a good weekend everyone.

Oh So Pretty

Hey there everyone, I've got some good news for all of you. I'm not dead! Yay!

I just decided to take a break from the tg community for a while to try to clear my head. But now I'm back, and hopefully better than ever.

To everyone who gave me feedback on my last post and on the new page I created, thank you. No seriously, thank you. There were a lot of great suggestions on new topics to explore and things to consider and you all gave me a lot to think about. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.

So with some new ideas, a nice stack of new images, and a clear head, let's see if I can pull off a string of new captions for all of you lovely readers. Sound good to you? Because it sounds fantastic to me.

P.S. The whole feedback thing is still in effect. If you think of something for me to work on, please leave a comment on anything I'm going to post from here on out. The more you give me to work on, the better captions you're going to see.

Cute Little Sissy

After the last caption's more serious tone, I felt the need to do something fun. And nothing says "fun" quite like rhyming couplets. I need to be in the right mood to write in this style, but these kind of captions are the ones I probably enjoy creating the most. Enjoy.

All You

Time has not been my friend lately. I apologize that this caption is a little on the short side, but despite lacking a lot of free time and motivation, I really wanted to get something out since it's been too long since my last update. I'm going to try to turn out some more captions over the next few days in an attempt to build up a little momentum so there aren't as many long gaps as there have been recently.

Home Early

What started out as a quickie cap turned into something a lot more fun.

So this was meant to just be something I pulled together as a tie over until I finished up the next part of Seven. But as I started writing the story just took on a life of its own, a pleasant surprise that hasn't happened for far too long. So what was supposed to be a couple of quick sentences turned into one of my longer single panel captions. It's still not a full story by any stretch of the imagination, but I have to say it was really nice to finally have inspiration take hold of a caption again. It's writing experiences like this that remind me why I'm still making captions after two and a half years. And as long as the inspiration keeps coming, I don't see myself stopping any time soon.