{"id":15431,"date":"2023-02-12T18:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T00:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=15431"},"modified":"2023-02-12T19:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T01:01:30","slug":"brush-with-peril-the-original-unpublished-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/15431","title":{"rendered":"Brush with Peril – The original, unpublished Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I began working on Brush with Peril in 2009, and I thought I had finished the first volume thirteen years later, in 2022. After sitting on it, waiting to sign a contract with a publisher, I began to get antsy about the prologue I had begun so long ago, and after so much time had passed in addition to my improvement of art skills and story-telling, and my understanding of what I thought the project should be and where it should go, I began to think I should make a new, different prologue, to better illustrate the purpose of the story. And so I did. But lucky you; here’s…<\/p>\n

The Original, Abandoned Prologue:
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X-00d<\/a><\/strong>, X-001 Splash<\/a>, X-003 Splash<\/a>, X-005<\/a>, X-006<\/a>, X-007<\/a>, X-008<\/a>, X-009<\/a>, X-010<\/a>, X-011<\/a>, X-012<\/a>, X-013<\/a>, X-014<\/a>, X-015<\/a>, X-016<\/a>, X-017<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nBACK TO MASTER LIST<\/b><\/a>
\nSmall List of Great Artists\u00a0<\/a>
\nSmall List of Museums<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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