She believes this is because she’s so weird, people just don’t like her very much, but it’s mostly because she’s retreated inside her head and has given up reaching out to people in real life. She doesn’t really have friends at school, and kids she used to be friends with no longer speak to her. There’s this great disconnect in Eliza’s life between how popular and beloved she and her comic are online, and how isolated she is in real life, even from her family members. Eliza holds herself aloof from her family, who she believes (for the most part) don’t really understand her or what she does. She doesn’t think she needs to go, and they have no idea that she has enough money to do basically whatever she wants, because they have no idea how popular her comic is. The comic has been ongoing for years, but now not only is she approaching graduation, she’s also nearing the finish line for the story she’s been telling for years, so she has a lot of anxiety about both of those big changes, and she’s arguing with her parents about college. Only her family and two online friends know who she really is.
She has managed to keep her anonymity intact. Eliza is still in high school, but she is also secretly the creator of an uber-popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea that has millions of followers.
Įliza and Her Monsters is about a lot of things (love, family, anxiety, the deeps that exist under a person’s surface, friendship, overcoming trauma, fandom), but my favorite thing that it’s about is the process of creating art.
I really want to watch My Best Friend’s Wedding now. The whole thing makes me feel like pond scum. I have attempted NaNoWriMo for the last four years, and failed spectacularly every time. Desire is the fuel of creators, and when we have that, motivation will come in its wake.”įitting that I am posting this review on November 1st, the first day of NaNoWriMo. When you want the thing you’re creating, the beauty of it will shine through, even if the details aren’t all in order. We create art for many reasons-wealth, fame, love, admiration-but I find the one thing that produces the best results is desire. Sometimes feeding simply means working, working through nonmotivation, working even when you hate it. Books, television, movies, paintings, stage plays, real-life experience. “If you want the motivation back, you must feed it.
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