How I Write (plus a Plea)
Aug. 11th, 2003 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguy18 months ago: Get an idea. Scribble it down. Like it.
17 months ago: Write four good pages over lunch, one on the back of a napkin. Realize I know very little about the script format for this (comic book, for the record). Decide Doing Research Is Important, start getting books from library.
16 months - 3 months ago: Get distracted, occasionally Do More Research.
3 months ago: Read a publisher's profile, get excited. Revise original idea to fit their format. Begin hunting for those good pages I wrote a year ago.
3 months - 1 month ago: Storyboard the comic in very rough, stick figure fashion. Tear the apartment apart three times trying to find those good pages.
1 month ago - 1 day ago: Finally give up the search, start writing. Do pretty well.
1 day ago: Realize there's a lot about the profession of my main characters (tabloid journalists) I don't know about. Start feeling impulse to Do Research; remember what happened 17 months ago.
So, my erudite readers, at least three of whom I know have experience with journalism...anyone know anything about the shady side of the business?
17 months ago: Write four good pages over lunch, one on the back of a napkin. Realize I know very little about the script format for this (comic book, for the record). Decide Doing Research Is Important, start getting books from library.
16 months - 3 months ago: Get distracted, occasionally Do More Research.
3 months ago: Read a publisher's profile, get excited. Revise original idea to fit their format. Begin hunting for those good pages I wrote a year ago.
3 months - 1 month ago: Storyboard the comic in very rough, stick figure fashion. Tear the apartment apart three times trying to find those good pages.
1 month ago - 1 day ago: Finally give up the search, start writing. Do pretty well.
1 day ago: Realize there's a lot about the profession of my main characters (tabloid journalists) I don't know about. Start feeling impulse to Do Research; remember what happened 17 months ago.
So, my erudite readers, at least three of whom I know have experience with journalism...anyone know anything about the shady side of the business?
