I had taken a cool picture of my notebook up at the cottage but then my SD card crashed, so here’s a cool picture of the rain in NDG
Did I Write This Week? I sure did. Actually, quite a bit. Which is good because it’s been two weeks since I’ve written one of these so if I hadn’t, it would be extra shameful.
What Did I Write?
So this was an interesting little period for me since I got to do a couple of different little creative writing workouts.
Despite not being my turn up as “head writer” for our little comic strip, we’ve had a few sessions lately hammering out the next comics from Jon and Sophie. Everyone kind of has a different style of how we approach the comic-writing process, and in this case both Jon and Soph only had sort of vague ideas and a few punchlines. The four of us then sit around and think about how to structure it into 4 strips, each with its own joke, that also kind of tells a story and wraps up to some degree at the end of the final comic.
I really like the process, I like the immediate response of knowing whether or not a joke lands (even if it comes at the price of immediately seeing that something you think is hilarious falls totally flat to three other people) and I like being able to ask questions like “will people get this?” and having a group to figure it out, or to make it pop a little more. You can get stuck in your own head writing and it’s pretty easy to down on yourself. Writing in a group gives you a bit of validation for your good stuff and also lets you know what your bad stuff is almost immediately.
Really hope that with everyone’s new schedule we’ll be back up and rolling weekly again with the comics, since chilling with the gang and writing funnies is one of my favorite things to do.
I wrapped up another piece of Zombies and Loathing, which is turning out to be more and more of a chore as I get more excited to really start cutting into the supposed novel plan. It’s good though. My idea, as previously mentioned is to get the last parts finished up and then publish them to the site. I also want to test my hand and editing them so I’ll likely be going back to Part 1 and revising everything. After that, I think I will make it all available on Amazon for free or a penny or something. Whatever. It will be done and that is what will matter. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
