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Writing Comics is Different – The Perspicacious Geek

by on December 20, 2016 at 10:29 pm
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Man, I can’t wait until I have a better put together office. You know, better put together than all my stuff out on the coffee table.

On a totally unrelated note, every single time I write the word “Perspicacious” I think I’m going to mess up the spelling, but I think I’ve got it nailed.

Did I Write This Week?

Yes! Not what I was originally planning on writing, but writing happened all the same. But I didn’t finish off the zombie story as I had planned. Still, I managed to find time to write a little bit creatively. Sophie’s turn as head-writer over on 9to5 (illustrated) is coming to a close and I’m next in line, so that meant for the first time in a very long time, it was my turn to helm the strip for a while.

I looked it up, my last run as head writer was my “True-Er Detective” story that we published back in January of 2015. Which means I probably wrote them around November or December 2014. Wow. It’s been 2 years.

I was a little rusty. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Coping With Broader Themes – Perspicacious Geeks

by on December 13, 2016 at 7:19 pm
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Hurr hurr hurr, winter is coming.

Hurr hurr hurr, winter is coming.

Let’s get this show on the road, it’s almost 7:00 pm as I write this and I just finished editing this week’s episode of Go Plug Yourself and contemplating, as ever, why I do any of this when I could have just come home and played video games. Especially considering I’m fighting off a cold because there’s nothing more cliché than battling a cold right before your winter holidays. It’s like a very special 9to5 (dot cc) Holiday Special trope or something.

Did I Write This Week?

Yes! I laid out the second to last part of the zombie story, which means I am almost certainly on track to have it completed by the end of the year. Now, I know that I said I was going to start releasing it when I got close to completion. But, if you’re among the 3 people who read this column who actually care about when it gets released, I will reveal to you why that’s not the case. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Did I Write This Week? – Perspicacious Geek

by on October 11, 2016 at 5:07 pm
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These headphones are in their last week of regular use. You will be fondly remembered blue headphones.

Did I Write This Week?

Yes, but woefully little. I took some notes on how I want a few key interactions to work out in the novel. Some major revelations and turning points for the characters. [Game of Thrones Spoilers ahead] I feel like George R. R. Martin had some major moments like the Red Wedding or Ned’s beheading already in mind before he got to them. These moments profoundly change the way many other characters behave for the rest of the story and I think that if you’re going to have these big twists you need to know they’re coming so you can start thinking about how the character will react moving forward.

No matter how much of a grasp you have on a character and who they are, a life-changing moment can possibly drastically shift the way they’re going to behave for the rest of the story. So, since I’ve got a few of these moments in mind (ok, so probably not Red Wedding level twists), I think it’s a good idea to have them in my head so I can think about how characters will react afterwards.

Then I got to thinking about these moments, and how they’re going to be communicated to the audience.

I marathoned my way through Mr. Robot over the past few weeks. Both seasons in about 20 days or something. As I discuss on the upcoming 9ES, a device that Mr. Robot starts using an awful lot towards the end of the second season is where they reveal something to a character, but not to the audience.

Example:

A character walks in and hear’s gasping coming from the living room. The character gets nervous and approaches cautiously, peering around the corner. The camera angle shifts to the character’s face. “You.” Cut away to another scene.

So, in this case, our character knows who is in the living room, but we as the audience do not. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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A Perspicacious Change of Pace

by on August 16, 2016 at 4:38 pm
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Keith2Hey there friends. Did you realize that I didn’t post a blog last week? You probably didn’t. That’s not your fault. I don’t blame you.

Here’s what’s been going on with me.

I’ve written this blog for just a little over 100 consecutive weeks, so for nearly 2 full years I’ve managed to churn out about 1000 words about whatever tickled my fancy every single week. That’s a lot of words. As I’ve stated a few times in the past, I’m obviously more proud of some entries than other but really, the whole “I’m going to write a blog” thing was always meant to be more of a challenge for myself than any sort of active attempt at cultivating a dedicated audience.

Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t have turned down a dedicated audience but I’m also fully aware that I’m all over the place in terms of tone and subject. I’ve written about wrestling, monthly delivery services, movies, music, Montreal, boardgames and a host of other random topics over the last 2 years. Basically, this is a blog with a target audience of myself. Unless you’re me, you probably aren’t interested in all of the things that I’ve written about.

But at the end of the day I was like “wow, I’ve written over 100,000 words.” Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone is about 77,500 words total. Twilight is about 119,000 words total. The Hunger Games is about 99,750 words total. This averages to about 98,750 words per novel. (Source)

That means that if I was more focused and engaged I could’ve written a best selling book for teenagers over the last 2 years.

I know that’s not what it actually means, but I’m sure you get my point.

If you don’t, let me spell it out for you.

When we were in school, there was a heavy emphasis put on being well rounded. Particularly in elementary school. If I recall correctly, we had Language Arts, French and Math every day. We had Gym 2 or 3 times a day a week. We had multiple chunks of “free play” time in the form of Lunch breaks and Recess. We had Music classes twice a week and probably some other stuff too. This was all in addition to whatever time we spent playing video games and watching television after the school day was out. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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