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The Plan to Not Plan
On Thursday, March 1, I’ll turn in the final manuscript for my book, Comics for Film, Games, and Animation: Using Comics to Construct Your Transmedia Storyworld. Since I started the book at the end of September, I’ve logged more than 700 pages of writing, research and drafts on legal pads, computer programs, Scrivener, Microsoft Word, ...
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A Few Thoughts on Why I Color
As I’ve been whiling away the hours typing like a madman with a machine gun on the book, relaxation has become a luxury (though I try to indulge at least daily). There is an unending logic to the work I’m doing: critical, research-oriented writing that dissects a methodology that hasn’t been invented yet. I have ...
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Ten Favorite Things
I had hoped to get around to scribbling a new post about writing the book or something useful, but I’m finding that the more I write the more difficult it is for me to talk about it. Not difficult bad, just difficult in that I don’t feel one way or the other about it — ...
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10 Lessons
While the text is flying fast and furious on Comics for Film, Games, and Animation: Using Comics to Construct Your Transmedia Storyworld (a mouthful, I know — hence why I just call it ComicStoryworld) and other writing projects (like Whiz!Bam!Pow! and assorted writing gigs), and I’m getting accustomed to new (awesome) changes in my life, ...
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Gritty Sexy Media
About a week ago, I received my first vinyl in a long time in the post thanks to a good friend of mine. It was an LP of one of my favorite albums, The Verve’s “Urban Hymns” (the album that has, in my humble opinion, the finest album-opening duo of songs in the last 20 ...
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Vroom at 25%
The day I signed my book contract in September, it hit me. All the celebration was done after a gulp (or twenty) of Guinness, and I had stumbled to bed (couch). I laid there and one thought careened into my head: “Oh fuck. Now I have to write this.” So, from the next morning until ...
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Vintage Randomness
I’m a junkie for vintage mystery paperbacks. A few days ago, I picked up this little gem at my local used book store, Books In Stock, in Wooster, Ohio.Other than the beautiful painted cover, the coolest piece is in the front matter: It was produced during World War II, adhering to the paper conservation regulations ...
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Stuff I’m Reading
Whenever you undertake a creative project, your brain knows it’s going to be in various stages of mush for the duration of the project. When you take on a creative project that happens to include things you used to read for leisure, it’s a whole different animal… an awesome animal. But vicious. Like a lion. ...
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The Creator vs. The Thinker – Writing the Book, One Month In
Anyone who tells you that the life of the writer is a romantic one is on crack. Daily, you are faced with a roller coaster. Sometimes it goes well, and your confidence is up. You can tackle anything! And five minutes later, you’re the worst writer on the planet, a pretender to the altar of ...
