Time to stop being such a load, I guess.

Total word count: Somewhere around 2000 (officially 2017, but that includes some notes and things.)

I mostly got this bit written on Wednesday, with a few additions on Thursday. It's not great in written form, but should work well as a page in a comic book--lot of crowd shots as we spotlight some of the important figures in Beacon City. Some of these people will be important later.

Narration provided by Brenda and Pablo (they have last names, I assure you,) hosts of KBCN-TV's morning show and possibly also news anchors as well. They're very talented.

Oh hai

So, yeah. No progress made this weekend--busy with other writing things on Friday and Sunday; social engagements on Saturday. Monday was just...meh.

Perhaps today will be better. I've borrowed several jazz records; maybe those will help.

Punchline Q&A

While a lot of you are familiar with my lead character, many of you aren't. So I wrote some questions and then some answers about Punchline, to help you get familiar with him. These questions mostly have to do with his back story. Ideally, in a longer comic series, I would go back and write about some of these things in story form...but since the past isn't going to be the main focus of the story, I'm safe in throwing it all in here now.

If you've got questions about him (or anything else relating to the setting and/or history) ask away, and I shall answer as best I can. It'll be fun!

Day 9: No Clever Subtitle.

Managed some semi-outlining today, to hopefully make future work go easier. Unfortunately, it will still be work.

The plan for Act 2 is to set the stage for the modern story--showing off Beacon City and some of the major characters--while also showing how important the Cowboy was to the city. Act 3 will be "shit happens, someone's gotta deal with it, and who you gonna call?"

Yeah, I dropped a Ghostbusters 2 reference. You can't stop me.

Day 8: Clever Subtitle

Word Count: 1629.

I've skipped ahead a bit in the story; now working on what is basically Act 3 of the first "issue." Was able to make some decent progress. Back when I did more internet writing stuff, I used this "connect the dots" style of writing a lot--figure out the important beats I wanted to hit, write those, and then filled in the blanks until I liked the flow of it. (You might call this a case of doing the easy bits now, and the hard bits later...and you wouldn't be wrong. This is one of several reasons why I gained a reputation as a notorious deadliner.)

I'm still hesitant to post pieces of the project, simply because there isn't very much of it. If I put up segments every day, you'd have it all pretty much read by now. (Right now it's just over four pages in my preferred format--12pt TNR font; single-spaced.) That said, I might pick an interested few to give Act 1 a look, since that's finished.

Day 7: It's Been One Week, And You Asked Me To Stop Making Barenaked Ladies References

Word count: 1329. Wheels were spinning hard today; couldn't seem to make any progress. I think I need to spend more time thinking about this scene, and maybe do an actual goddamn outline or something. (This is one of the problems I have with writing--I rarely plan ahead, and I only have a vague idea of where I'm going with something. It's like trying to do a paint-by-numbers, but only checking the instructions for one color, then trying to guess what the rest should be.)

Day 6: Slow going.

Not much today, but I did get the one linking paragraph done...so the first scene is finished, and I made a little progress on the second scene as well. (Word count is now at 1281.) Also, wrote more about wrestling on Twitter.