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You Can't Always Get What You Want
I've spent the last month or so trying to get Least Likely To Succeed off the ground. For whatever reason, the story isn't coming out of me. I know what the story is about. I know how I want it to end. But for whatever reason, I simply cannot write it at this time. I'm thinking this could have a lot to do with the characters. With Test-Tube, the characters of 3D and Lewis came first, then I created a situation to put them in and the story pretty much wrote itself from there. LLTS is different, in that I have the story, but I only have a vague idea of what the characters are like. And when I sit down the write the script, all of it feels forced...as if I'm making these characters say things that they probably wouldn't regularly. It's like they're not real enough in my mind to write yet. Or maybe Test-Tube just spoiled me because it became relatively easy because 3D and Lewis were such great characters.
In any case, I don't feel like waiting for the characters to catch up with the story, because it would take forever to happen, if it even happens at all. I don't want to wait too long before I have another book to show people, and I want to have at least 2 or 3 more for the next convention I attend. So, it's back the drawing board...
NINJAS
Like I did with Test-Tube, I sat down and tried to think of the characters first. A person or group of people that interest me enough to place them in situations. For some reason, I was just thinking, "You know, ninjas would be fun."
Wa-la. So my next project is going to be a sort of "mini-comic graphic novel"...a 60 page comic book featuring the adventures of Ninja Tall, Ninja Smart and Ninja Snacks. The book is simply going to be called Ninjas. I'll try to post more details as the project progresses. Again, much like my first comic book, Ninjas seems to already be writing itself.
Besides, kids love ninjas, right?
I've spent the last month or so trying to get Least Likely To Succeed off the ground. For whatever reason, the story isn't coming out of me. I know what the story is about. I know how I want it to end. But for whatever reason, I simply cannot write it at this time. I'm thinking this could have a lot to do with the characters. With Test-Tube, the characters of 3D and Lewis came first, then I created a situation to put them in and the story pretty much wrote itself from there. LLTS is different, in that I have the story, but I only have a vague idea of what the characters are like. And when I sit down the write the script, all of it feels forced...as if I'm making these characters say things that they probably wouldn't regularly. It's like they're not real enough in my mind to write yet. Or maybe Test-Tube just spoiled me because it became relatively easy because 3D and Lewis were such great characters.
In any case, I don't feel like waiting for the characters to catch up with the story, because it would take forever to happen, if it even happens at all. I don't want to wait too long before I have another book to show people, and I want to have at least 2 or 3 more for the next convention I attend. So, it's back the drawing board...
NINJAS
Like I did with Test-Tube, I sat down and tried to think of the characters first. A person or group of people that interest me enough to place them in situations. For some reason, I was just thinking, "You know, ninjas would be fun."
Wa-la. So my next project is going to be a sort of "mini-comic graphic novel"...a 60 page comic book featuring the adventures of Ninja Tall, Ninja Smart and Ninja Snacks. The book is simply going to be called Ninjas. I'll try to post more details as the project progresses. Again, much like my first comic book, Ninjas seems to already be writing itself.
Besides, kids love ninjas, right?
2 Comments:
So um, Scott, Shana here.... how does ninja snacks eat with his mask on? Just wondering... I'm sure it's his ever so fast ninja powers... or the joy of comics... maybe something wrong with physics? ...I'm looking too much into this... yup, that's it.
-SJZ
Well, at least I know my kid sister reads this blog.
You know you're going to be an aunt in 8 months, right?
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