“Unveiling the Unseen: Teresa Wong Explores the Extraordinary Depths of Everyday Life in Her Graphic Memoir”
LL: That’s beautiful.
TW: I got to that point and thought, well, I think I can solve the problems now, because I’m a mother, and because I’m a cartoonist now. It really changed the nature of the project. I mean, I had that digital copy, and before I started this version, I did read it through, but it wasn’t like I was consulting it.
LL: Just sort of refreshed your mind?
TW: See if I had forgotten anything, or exact details. But really I didn’t need to refer to it—it was enough to start new and re-approach it from the person I am now. I’ve read somewhere, or maybe I heard on a podcast that the writer and director from New Zealand, Taika Waititi, and what he does is when he writes his scripts, he writes a full first draft, and then he puts it in a drawer and waits a few months, and then he writes his second draft. But he doesn’t go back to that draft in the drawer. He just remembers the big scenes that he wrote in that first draft. And honestly, if the scenes are good enough to remember later on.
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