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I've been thinking a lot about Homegrown, lately. It's like a hook, attached into the back of my mind, always tugging slightly. I never intended to walk away from it... it's just so very, very difficult to create characters from scratch and know how they interact in every scenario. I became frustrated trying to figure out exactly what my characters needed to be, and so I had to take a break. If I'm not enjoying the concept, neither will you. One of the biggest issues that I saw was that my characters were one-note. They weren't believable. They were archetypes, stereotypes, a single character trait expanded to the extreme, until there was li

Inspiration is a strange thing... I've gone for weeks without it, unable to write new ideas for my comic. Then, last night, out of the blue, I was chatting with a friend online when BOOM, inspiration flooded down upon me. The strange thing is that this inspiration was not actually for Homegrown, but for another webcomic idea I had years ago that I was unable to get off the ground. So now I find myself still unable to write for Homegrown, but I've written several typed pages of ideas for an entirely new comic. So who knows. Life's like a box of chocolates; if you wait and pick at random, you never get the one you wanted.

Writer's block ruins comics. My previous webcomic was completely parody-based, so I had very little trouble writing comics. I knew the characters, I knew their personalities, and all I had to do was mock them. It was easy, and random ideas came to me in the strangest ways. Today, writing Homegrown, it's much more difficult. I thought I knew what the characters were like, what their personalities were, how they interact. But as I write the comic, everything changes. All of the previous ideas start to clash. Where I once thought a character should be like this, that character decided it didn't want to develop that way, and that particular trai