The Web Haunt of Ryan K Lindsay

I would love to one day write comics. I make no hidden aspirations to this. I also want to write novels. This is certainly make clear on this site. I completely believe that I can do both, and one day will. I look at current writers like Duane Swierczynski, Joe Hill and Warren Ellis who have all managed to tread both lines, and successfully all. That is my dream, one which I work every day to trying to fulfill.

To do this I have been writing my ass off every day. It is about all I think about most waking moments, and I sometimes find it hard to scrape myself away from the computer because I am stuck into my writing, which is a good thing. I’ll die peacefully while writing one day, though it will be in bed with a pen and paper. I don’t want an overheating laptop to torch my remains before the proper crematorium gets their chance with me.

In the last week I have written twenty thousand words for a new novel. I am stoked with my output and am sure that it will be decent writing. Salvageable at least. But it feels good to be creating, so I will continue on that path.

I was chatting with Marvel Awesome Person, and senior art director, Jeff Suter on Twitter and he asked if I had been published at all. I said I had not but directed him to this here wwInterweb home of mine. I then wondered what he would think of the site, and what information he could glean about me, and more importantly my writing, from what he found. It was this that gave me another idea.

Another path is that is simple idea creation. I have read and heard numerous comic editors talk about one line pitches, where you should be able to sell a rough idea or concept in one succinct line. I like it, and it makes sense. So, I want to compile some one line pitches to keep in a compendium on the side bar to show that I can put some stuff together, some easy stuff, and I have the ideas within me. Every writer should be an ideas factory, and I am but I know I focus on one idea most of the time and it owns me completely. It’s only when I think to do it that I can rattle off a few decent concepts in a day. Most times I am so consumed by the current idea that I worry I am missing others as they float by.

I had to drive today to Sydney and back, a seven hour round trip, for a forty-five minute stopover, and on the drive managed to score some quiet thinking time. In that time I whipped up an idea for a Daredevil arc, or mini-series. This idea I will post up soon, and then add on the sideboard to be there for any prospective editors to look at, love, and hire me on the spot. Not that I set my sights too high.

Posted on July 14th, 2009 by ryan
Filed under: Uncategorized, Writing, comics