Today I began to get a real sense of the illustrative possibilities of this game novel. Besides being a creative inspiration for the story (and the story for the art), I'm beginning to understand how these images could tell my story in a way that the words couldn't (which surprises me). It seems to me almost as if the final part of the novel is more graphic novel than plain ol' novel--and by that, I mean that I want to convey the story in a more allusive, imagistic and dialogue driven way.

This of course brings up the aesthetic/philosophical question of what kinds of fiction seem more real than others. It seems to me that the graphic novel is inherently (not simply by virtue of tradition) more fantastical than the printed page (even when the printed page can be magically realised.