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I finish work and I come home. As per usual I sit down at the laptop, eventually, and I prepare to work for another night. Yet I am not sure what to do…it’s not writer’s block, I’m not Barton Fink (nor am I going to write it in this hiatus), but it is something.

It is the lack of any tangible goal. I recently set myself the goal of writing the first 12 scripts for my comic series, Ego. I now have those scripts done, and am stoked about that. But what to do now? I am waiting on my artist to come back with his sample pages from the treatments I gave him. So I look to other avenues of creative output. I have the first 6 scripts of Atlantis, so I just need to polish my future plan on that. I foresee that being about 70 issues, so I need to tighten up my planning and get it sorted…but that can wait.

I’ve written the first 6 issues of Hail HYDRA!, so I’m in the same boat there. I am especially reticent to write more when this series hinges entirely on Marvel picking it up, I can’t really take it anywhere else…and i couldn’t modify it…not my baby.

The Man In The Red Suit has been written, I just need to break it up into issue scripts, instead of it being one large slab of script. But, again, in the same boat as it is so Marvel specific and I’m not sure that pitching it before I am in the business is the best idea, I’d rather have a title under my belt when I walk into the EiC’s office with that manuscript ready to go.

I have a few other ideas, but they are all in note mode at the moment. When I get an idea I just think about it and jot notes for a while, see how it goes there. If it is interesting enough to make me want to take those notes and write something based on them, and not just wipe my ass with, then I have something viable. Something worth my time.

I can proof read the hundreds of pages that I currently have saved to hard drive, flash drive and disc, but I would honestly rather try and peel my skin off and sell it on eBay, with a ‘buy it now’ option for $666!

I know I am going to end up planning ahead on Atlantis…I have taken a break from it while I worked on my Ego scripts, but it is time to go home to it. Atlantis is a great story, I love the characters and I love what I am going to do to them, so I know I want to make sure I do it all right. But the motivation is just ebbing at the moment. I sat down with the first script, and loved it, but then looked at my bedside table which has so many trades that I have yet to read…it’s not hard to see what ended up happening.

I have to tease myself…reread, and proof, one more issue and then I can read some more Runaways, which I just got the first digest of.

I need something to put a rocket underneath me. I need a timeline. I need an artist and a submission, then a publisher. I need a lot of things.

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by ryan
Filed under: Writing