In the meantime . . .

What do you do when you're waiting to see if your comic is going to be accepted?

You write the next three pages of a story that might not ever see the light of day. Pages, I might add, that took way too long to write.

I will say, though, if nothing else comes of this Zuda experience, I will come out the other side of it a better writer. Writing in this format has taught me how to ''trim the fat'', so to speak--the value of being economical with words.