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qcjeph

An alternate script

Nov 18, 2009 19:19

Sometimes people ask me about my writing process. It's not very interesting, actually- it just consists of sitting in front of my computer with a blank text editor file open, writing, deleting, and rearranging dialogue until I hit upon something I think is funny. Some days I get lucky and think of a comic in 30 seconds in the shower that morning, ( Read more... )

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bloodmoonrising November 19 2009, 01:09:04 UTC

heh, I know some people who WOULD be sated with that kind of explanation actually, so it's not entirely unrealistic...but I think the version you went with was definitely more true to the characters.

Witty banter, snarky hipster quips aside, when it comes to writing an actual 'arc' or section of plot, how far ahead do you usually write? (& if you're already in the middle of something & think of another, do you just mental note it, or try & tie the two together)
Was just curious considering how often it's updated, how much flexibility you give yourself when planning I guess.

qcjeph November 19 2009, 01:12:26 UTC

it varies widely and is very rarely actually written down anywhere, I mostly keep the longer-term stuff in my head

bloodmoonrising November 19 2009, 01:15:26 UTC

Well, if you've got a decent memory, you're less likely to loose anything that way!
(Unless, your head is running windows vista or something) :P

This all turned very sour very quickly... jyhash November 19 2009, 03:23:08 UTC

and I have no Idea why ( ... )

Re: This all turned very sour very quickly... holterya November 19 2009, 05:13:22 UTC

Dude, you were approaching webcomics like it was some sort of business venture. Have you ever met any artists, let alone ones who work in a highly independent and low-profit field like webcomics? An attitude like that is inevitably going to be alienating.

More importantly, though, if you're going to freak out over criticism from random strangers then the internet is really not going to be a positive working environment for you. And I mean that quite sincerely. Anonymity gives people licence to say and do all kinds of dumbass shit that they would never do in real life. This is obviously not a good thing, but regardless, if you can't adapt to that environment then you might want to reconsider working in such a highly interactive medium.

Re: This all turned very sour very quickly... qcjeph November 19 2009, 09:44:03 UTC

You got advice because you had some very mistaken opinions. It's up to you what to do with it.

etherrant November 19 2009, 03:41:08 UTC

You've written over 1500 comics! I don't think I've written 1500 anything. Maybe Facebook comments.

holterya November 19 2009, 04:46:20 UTC

Cool, this is pretty similar to my own scripting process. Which I guess means we are comparably awesome? That's all the evidence I need, anyway.

volkai November 19 2009, 05:33:06 UTC

Fun little post. Both this and the published version of the punchline are quite funny, but I can definitely see why you went with the other one.