Daily Inspiration Quote by Len Wein

There is a quiet rebuke baked into Len Wein's distinction: "organic" versus "cerebral" isn’t a humblebrag about being intuitive, it’s a defense of craft that happens below the level of self-mythologizing. Comics culture loves the wizard-at-the-desk narrative, the auteur who plans ten moves ahead and then reveals the grand design. Wein, a builder of mainstream mythology (co-creating Wolverine and reviving Swamp Thing), is telling you the opposite story: the work is grown, not solved.

"Feel my way along" is a deliberately physical phrase, closer to drawing than to outlining. It admits uncertainty without glamorizing chaos. The key word is "hoping" - a small confession that punctures the fantasy of total control. For a medium built from panels, deadlines, and collaboration, that hope isn’t naïveté; it’s realism. Comics scripts often evolve in conversation with an artist’s page, an editor’s note, a character’s unexpected traction with readers. Calling that process "organic" frames adaptability as intelligence rather than lack of planning.

The line also signals a particular kind of professionalism: intention matters ("the place I intend to reach"), but the route can’t be entirely mapped. Wein’s subtext is that story is discovered through doing, that momentum and instinct are not the enemies of thought but its delivery system. For a cartoonist working in serialized worlds, it’s an argument that the best narrative architecture sometimes emerges after you’ve started laying bricks, not before.