4 days ago

I know this is kind of a late post but follow me here. #writing


Here's a little excerpt of how I write stuff. Comics or otherwise. I include images for reference, tangents with fun facts, opinions, and other things. I've even written a ranking of all 14 Star Trek movies in one outline. This is coming from an autistic person. I tend to compare and cross-reference something with another thing. Like cooking something, I'm reminded of SpongeBob. It's not uncommon for me to go off on tangents to talk about different things like my interests, history of X, why I write this way, backstory, or otherwise. I could turn a script for a detective comic into an essay about my favorite pizza at the drop of a hat. Even if the info is irrelevant to the comic itself.

My first and foremost goal as a writer and artist is to get whatever idea I get in my head out. My writing is my strong suit and my madness. It's easier for me to write than to draw. I probably write more than I draw at a certain point. I use pictures because sometimes I can't think of the right words to say and words can't describe what's in my brain.

I make my story outlines a numbered list because it'll be easy for me to know what scenes should be in what order and to get a general idea of how big it'd be. I highlight stuff used in the final cut green to show it's being used. I highlight red for stuff cut from the final cut for time, continuity, pacing, or just being unable to fit it in. Since I limit the number of pages and time for these episodes, I have to pick and choose what I want in them. Anything I don't do in one, I do in the other.

The pictures I include come from Google Images, Deviantart, cartoons, movies, tv shows, or otherwise.

I feel like I write like George Lucas writing stuff that sounds like gobbledygook. “I told George: ‘You can’t say that stuff. You can only type it.’ But I was wrong. It worked,”

- Harrison Ford (The Making of Star Wars by J.W Rinzler)

Speaking of Star Wars, it's also common for me to go back to previous scripts or words I've written not only to re-read them and play them in my head, but to add new reference images and edits after the fact where I see fit. Even if the script was finished for months, I might still somehow, someway shoehorn some change which probably wouldn't even matter other than to help previz the scenes in my head better. This only applies to scripts only and not to final art. I'm a comic artist, not a film director. Changing stuff after they're made is already a complicated and controversial topic as is.

I'm also well aware of Jellystone getting a Cartoon Network crossover with its new season. I understand it's a big deal for some given how Cartoon Network has been. But any good feelings I had for the show have long since gone. The only reason I still use screencaps of Jellystone in my writing is because they have some decent visuals that'd work for references and I at least want to put the fact that I watched the show at all to good use. I'm okay with Greenblatt's other shows (I enjoyed Chowder and Harvey Beaks), just not that ONE show. (Although there are a few times where I unknowingly written stuff that Jellystone did. Coincidentally sharing ideas with other people or things happens all the time with artists.)

This screencap is a window into what I write for comics or otherwise.



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