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[Kavanagh]

Thanks for the thread Alice!

I'm struggling to get any new projects done right now as my work and my life are wearing me thin. So far I have the 52 page Vol. of World's Worst written, working to raise the funds but that's waiting on a motion comic and for me to tweak the website. I have about 2 and 1/2 issues of Eye, Hand and Voice written,which with luck may have at least one issue finished by the end of the year (my partner Nick is donating his time which is truly fantastic of him, as he pencils for a living). Trying to get a few five pagers done, one for Futre Noir and two for Future Quakes, but they aren't going so well. Wish me luck.

Best of luck James! If I can give you a dig out in any respect, drop me a line.

Thanks for the thread Alice!

I'm struggling to get any new projects done right now as my work and my life are wearing me thin. So far I have the 52 page Vol. of World's Worst written, working to raise the funds but that's waiting on a motion comic and for me to tweak the website. I have about 2 and 1/2 issues of Eye, Hand and Voice written,which with luck may have at least one issue finished by the end of the year (my partner Nick is donating his time which is truly fantastic of him, as he pencils for a living). Trying to get a few five pagers done, one for Futre Noir and two for Future Quakes, but they aren't going so well. Wish me luck.

Best of luck James! If I can give you a dig out in any respect, drop me a line.

Great thread by the way, Alice!

Edited by Kavanagh, 05 April 2012 - 06:45 PM.

[Christian U]

Like I've shouted from the rooftops, I've recently finished and sold a children's radio play that is going to be produced in late summer or so. I'm currently writing a play for young adults, but this is just for fun, really - we couldn't find a play we wanted to do with the drama group a while back, and decided we'd develop our own. I will probably try and put it out there afterwards, but this kind of play doesn't get very much attention nor does it make money, so it's still just a fun thing.

[Kavanagh]

If you guys are looking for a play in future, I wrote one for the drama society in college a while back called Funny Pages. It's a bit foulmouthed, but its about the adventures of the staff of a second-hand comic book shop. Think "Glengarry Glen Ross" mixed with "Clerks".

Like I've shouted from the rooftops, I've recently finished and sold a children's radio play that is going to be produced in late summer or so. I'm currently writing a play for young adults, but this is just for fun, really - we couldn't find a play we wanted to do with the drama group a while back, and decided we'd develop our own. I will probably try and put it out there afterwards, but this kind of play doesn't get very much attention nor does it make money, so it's still just a fun thing.

[Christian U]

If you guys are looking for a play in future, I wrote one for the drama society in college a while back called Funny Pages. It's a bit foulmouthed, but its about the adventures of the staff of a second-hand comic book shop. Think "Glengarry Glen Ross" mixed with "Clerks".

That sounds pretty cool. My drama group currently isn't an English language one, but I'd be interested in reading the play, in case I get the chance to do an English play anytime soon.

[Owen Baker]

I have a question; where do you guys get your research?

Complicated science stuff and the likes, or just about anything? Do you just dig it all up on-line or at the library/ There's been a number of times that i've wanted to write about stuff but felt that I was going to clearly end up sounding false. How do you get that stuff together and know at what point it begins to sound like you actually know what you're talking about?

[craggy]

just recently, a wee while ago, checked out what I remembered as a comic strip short story...and found that it has no panel descriptions or breakdowns, and it just solely the POV character's internal monologue and the dialogue between the characters involved. I need to sort that, so that I can trick someone into drawing it.

[THE REAL SCOTt]

Just letting the wind take me where it wants...

[ditta]

I need to sort that, so that I can trick someone into drawing it.

Promise them your first born.

[Kavanagh]

@Christian U - drop me a line at lazarusconsortium@vodafone.ie and I'll mail it on to you.

@Owen Baker - it generally tends to be a mix of stuff picked up from the internet and other journals and my own embellishments. I find it best to just embellish what's written in the research so it a) sounds interesting and b) is at least basically accurate.

On the subject of what I'm writing and how it's going, my project at Ascendant Comics is getting a new title, and I'm beavering away at scripts. It's going okay, but I hate continuity with a passion usually reserved for much more despicable things.

[craggy]

Promise them your first born.

I think that might be the way to go to get an artist right now. As long as they haven't met me, or spoken with me much, I should be able to blag it.

[James L. Sarandis]

Best of luck James! If I can give you a dig out in any respect, drop me a line.

Great thread by the way, Alice!

Thanks Liam, you're a true gent. Oh and as for the continutity issue, remember continuity is like a flavor when used well it adds a richness, and when used poorly it leaves a bitter taste in your fans mouths. If you don't think you can use it properly you could always leave it out. In fact a comic without continuity adds a element of chaos that can be very appealing.

Congrats Christian!

Owen, I read Popular Science and Scientific American, I watch and read plenty of sci-fi (the newer typically the better), and I read any articles that pop up on the internet and check out facebook. If you can fool the layperson into thinking you know what you're talking about you got it down. However there will always be people who know it better than you so I just wouldn't stress about it.

Craggy, I've found just putting my scripts up for people to read often lead to people being interested in working on it. Maybe you should take that route?

[David Meadows]

I have a question; where do you guys get your research?

Complicated science stuff and the likes, or just about anything? Do you just dig it all up on-line or at the library/ There's been a number of times that i've wanted to write about stuff but felt that I was going to clearly end up sounding false. How do you get that stuff together and know at what point it begins to sound like you actually know what you're talking about?

I'm too lazy for research. I only write about things that I already know about.

[ditta]

Kung Fu Hobo issue #2 is underway.

Man, I am having sooooo much fun writing this.

[craggy]

should I done post some scripts that I done write?

[Alice]

A link to said scripts would be nice. Maybe get some feedback going.

I'm currently working on the opening 6K words of two stories so everything is half baked but it's nice to be writing again

[Kavanagh]

This is a weird one, but I'm in the extremely early planning stages of a spec script for a movie based on Megadeth's 1997 album "Cryptic Writings" that would be informed by and ideally soundtracked by said album.

The concept is about an author who's drug use drives him into a vortex of self-destruction that turns into a twisted campaign of revenge against his perceived enemies.

Any Megadeth/movie fans, I welcome any input you have on the concept or the actual task itself.

In comic news, I'm up to Issue #4 (technically the third full script as #1 is a 9-pager) on Wulfen, working on a nice little 2-part siege story, and about to proof-read and okay part 1 by the end of today.

[Russell H]

Nothing, and I really should be.

I've been 3 pages away from the end of the script for Fast & Frightening issue 4 for months now, and I think I've just got to accept that issue 3 is actually the final issue, and this is a three-issue miniseries and not an ongoing.

Once I finally accept that, I can finish issue 2 of The Swingin' Dubbo Renwick (my comic about a lounge singing chimp), and then start on the scripts for issue 3 and 4, whilst plotting Inconstant Moon and researching Remembering The Sixties.

[Christian U]

Nearing the end of the little play I'm writing for the kids. Everything but a few things are clicking and making sense, and I'm up to 34 pages now, which means I don't want it to go much longer - nor does it need to. Almost, almost done here.

I'll look through it again tomorrow and hopefully be able to improve on passages I find I don't like. And then finish the bastard, we need to start rehearsing next week.

[Christian U]

Alright, finished the bastard. There's nothing like writing those four letters - Ende. - and being done with something.

Of course, not done at all - I'll revise it a few times and then I'll start rehearsing with the kids and probably change a few things and towards the end of the schoolyear, we'll hopefully stage the play. And then I'll know if it actually works. And then I'll see if I can do something else with it, send it to publishers and whatnot.

[THE REAL SCOTt]

Finished issue one of the space comic and sent it to a badass artist.