For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.
I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.
I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.
And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.
Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.
Meanwhile, I was doodling pictures of vampiric cougars.
When we were done and not picked up to series yet, they wanted us to read lots of writers. I was like, "No." Then we finally were picked up. It is hard not to start thinking of story lines. It is like doodling.
