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Friday 17 September 2010
Friday 3 September 2010
Script update
This week has consisted of the usual script writing for me. I've gotten quite a long way into it now so I'm much happier with the progress of it all. It doesn't seem as troublesome as it was beforehand because I know where we're going.
I've also worked out another ending for this comic. I pitched it to Kathryn when we met up and she also loved it. The idea sprang to me, once again after indulging myself into the many chapters of The Writers Journey and got me thinking about ways I could possibly incorporate the theory into Heartstones. But we'll see what happens. One thing I have noticed about this project is that although I know exactly what it is that's going to happen.
After I've written this blog (which was yesterday to those people who are reading this :P) I'm whizzing myself straight back into the script and hopefully getting a lot further into it. I'm about 20-something pages now. I know it doesn't seem like a lot, I suppose it's more like a standard issue of a comic in a shop. But it's a lot of story. The story in V2 especially is very fast paced and moves a lot between different characters.
And that makes it really interesting, frustrating, hard and brilliant all at the same time for me. You get used to one character/storyline and you move on faster than you blink. Then when you stop writing, all I seem to think about is what's going to happen next.
As you'll probably have read, you'll know full well that I've planned ahead. Just not detailed planning (in which I mean where you know what the character is going to say or do!). The way I do it is plot points, so when I get down to writing it I sometimes have to think about how to stage the scene, what to make the characters say, where they should be, or even what time of the day it is.
It's all essential for the artist. If I don't write what the time of day it is, how does the artist know how to colour the sky blue if it's in the day? How would Kathryn know that there has to be snow on the floor and that this story is set in the middle of winter if I don't put it onto the script?
So when it comes down to writing the scenes within this comic. It sometimes stalls me because I have to think about these extra details to put there. Now, don't think I don't enjoy that. Because truth is I love it. But I also think that it's because of this that it stalls me sometimes when writing, because I have to think about how to stage it.
And then the ideas come. My mind gets a picture in it's head (usually of a comic page for this project :P) and I write it down onto the computer, and throw myself further into the story. Then I send it to Kathryn, who reads it and says whether she thinks it's any good or not. So far, she's always said yes. :)
This is how I write. And I will continue to write as much as I can until I have this volume finished. So when I come back and start up this blog again in a few weeks time (because lets face it, we're not going away for that long really are we? :P) I will most likely have quite a few more tales to tell of writing this project!
Until then!
Adiós!
Ps, I had Tapas last night and have Spanish things in my head. :P
I've also worked out another ending for this comic. I pitched it to Kathryn when we met up and she also loved it. The idea sprang to me, once again after indulging myself into the many chapters of The Writers Journey and got me thinking about ways I could possibly incorporate the theory into Heartstones. But we'll see what happens. One thing I have noticed about this project is that although I know exactly what it is that's going to happen.
After I've written this blog (which was yesterday to those people who are reading this :P) I'm whizzing myself straight back into the script and hopefully getting a lot further into it. I'm about 20-something pages now. I know it doesn't seem like a lot, I suppose it's more like a standard issue of a comic in a shop. But it's a lot of story. The story in V2 especially is very fast paced and moves a lot between different characters.
And that makes it really interesting, frustrating, hard and brilliant all at the same time for me. You get used to one character/storyline and you move on faster than you blink. Then when you stop writing, all I seem to think about is what's going to happen next.
As you'll probably have read, you'll know full well that I've planned ahead. Just not detailed planning (in which I mean where you know what the character is going to say or do!). The way I do it is plot points, so when I get down to writing it I sometimes have to think about how to stage the scene, what to make the characters say, where they should be, or even what time of the day it is.
It's all essential for the artist. If I don't write what the time of day it is, how does the artist know how to colour the sky blue if it's in the day? How would Kathryn know that there has to be snow on the floor and that this story is set in the middle of winter if I don't put it onto the script?
So when it comes down to writing the scenes within this comic. It sometimes stalls me because I have to think about these extra details to put there. Now, don't think I don't enjoy that. Because truth is I love it. But I also think that it's because of this that it stalls me sometimes when writing, because I have to think about how to stage it.
And then the ideas come. My mind gets a picture in it's head (usually of a comic page for this project :P) and I write it down onto the computer, and throw myself further into the story. Then I send it to Kathryn, who reads it and says whether she thinks it's any good or not. So far, she's always said yes. :)
This is how I write. And I will continue to write as much as I can until I have this volume finished. So when I come back and start up this blog again in a few weeks time (because lets face it, we're not going away for that long really are we? :P) I will most likely have quite a few more tales to tell of writing this project!
Until then!
Adiós!
Ps, I had Tapas last night and have Spanish things in my head. :P
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