Nope, nuh-uh. No National Novel Writing Month for me. But I am reading all this conversation and discussion of NaNoWriMo, and have decided to use all that talk to re-focus on script writing.
Over at iFanboy, Josh Flanagan talked recently about The Will vs. The Fear — essentially, about all the excuses we use to not write. In his article he nailed my current excuse:
“Why should I work on that script? I don’t have an artist for it.”
My my my my my. My goodness, yes. It has been desperately hard for me to work on scripts this fall. I don’t have artists lined up to work on them, I don’t know anybody willing to work for free or on spec (that I haven’t already cornered into working on something,) and I don’t have any money with which to pay an artist right now. So, surely writing scripts can wait?
Hah.
No.
The answer to that is, no, it can’t wait. Writing gets better with practice. I have to keep practicing, whether of not the work ever sees the light of day. And, besides — when I do meet up with an artist who is interested in collaboration, I want to have scripts, right? I want to have pitches and proposals. I want to have a raft of projects to choose from.
I’d Twittered that I was going to write a four page comic each day during November. This is patently ridiculous. But I figure I can get another four or five short projects done this month. Since Halloween I’ve finished the first drafts of two four-page short stories. Neither of which have artists and neither of which are likely to see print. But that’s okay. I’m putting in the work, getting the writing done.
Filed under: Comics, Writing | Tagged: nanowrimo, short works
