Original Commentary

My goodness, what has it been, 3 months? In retrospect, three months isn't so bad for a major story plot, considering other comics make you wait years upon years for a romantic interlude.

So what was the point of this story arc? To bring these two to their breaking point and try to both have them grow as people. If they grew as much as I was hoping, who knows. I think they both learned a lot about dealing with other people and about themselves. Did it set their relationship back a few steps? Yes, but sometimes you have to lose something to gain something. As for those who complained about things taking so long or not liking this or that: I have a lot of things to say, and despite not being very-lady like I'm going to hold my tongue on THAT matter except for this: it's our story to write as we see fit: nagging us or complaining to us isn't going to make things go any faster. When I came up with the idea of the break-up twist to the story arc I thought of the basic plot all in one day- didn't WRITE it in one day, but I knew of the basic steps the story would have to take and needed to take as much time as I needed to make sure I got my story done. Sure I didn't know exactly how many steps it would take, there were a lot of times when I thought the story arc would end that month, but then I recalled aspects of things I was forgetting to add and thus needed to write in. I'm not sure if some of you out there would have rather been told every month "Oh yeah, it's ending now" only to have it go another month or more.

Oh yeah, so what was the original plot twist going to be, the one I couldn't tell you all about back then because I wanted to use it later? It was Sofia returning to the story. Now I don't know about most of you out there, but I'm personally glad I didn't mention it. It would have made her entrance a little lukewarm.

Quite frankly, I'm a lot annoyed about a lot of things now- there were quite a few times where people's comments about this story arc made me extremely depressed and honestly a lot of those comments made it hard to write the story. Heck, on particularly bad days it made it hard to get out of bed. There were days when I was so frustrated I literally ripped up the drawings I did for the day and vowed I would never work on You Say it First again. Fortunately I'm a stubborn ass whose determination is only fueled by her hormones.

But would I do it again? Heck yeah. Would I do it again while stranded on a desert island, so no one's comments would get to me while I was working on it? Hell yeah. -Isabel

Modern Commentary
People had the right to say how they felt. I don't blame them for it. It's not their fault I couldn't take it, but sometimes it gets to me.

On one hand, we want people to be invested in the story. We want them to want things for our characters. We want them to feel things when they read the comic and let us know, because otherwise we're shouting into the void. On the other hand, sometimes things could get a bit much and seeing folks get angry about our stories is unpleasant. - Isabel