I hit a wall. The more I thought about the Adventure prompts, the bigger that wall seemed.
An adventure story is lengthy! In order to set everything up just so, it takes time, space. So I thought about it from a different angle. And I came up with an idea for the first set of prompts (somewhere during the second week unfortunately).
I was going to make a comic. The first panel—tall skinny—shows a mer-creature swimming up from a remote seafloor, boldly striking toward the surface. He’s nasty and intimidating.
In panel two, we would see a nightscape establishing a tropical location, palm trees on a nearby island buffeted by a summer storm.
Panel three: the creature breaks the surface of the water (in my mind it’s as epic as the Kraken in Clash of the Titans breasting the waves before snatching at Andromeda). He’s armed with a spear and prepared for conquest.
The fourth panel is lit by a great lightning bolt and the sea creature is surrounded by a fishing fleet with its sailors going about their workaday lives, just another rough sea in the fisheries. And by comparison, the creature is tiny, something so small they would have overlooked him in their net.
In the last panel—tall and skinny again—the creature has dropped his spear and is frantically thrashing toward the safety of his underwater deep.
I tried to draw it a couple of times, but I couldn’t get it out of my head. I managed a thumbnail, but I don’t like it.
I hope you guys had better results than I. If so, I’d love to see what you created!