The spirit of ‘new-year-ness’

10th January, 2010 - Posted by Chris

One of the things that habitually destroys my writing flow is the the urge to change the formatting of my script, of having to devise a clever system if I want to write scenes out of order.

There’s nothing worse then going back to write in a scene and realising it needs more pages than you’ve allowed for it, being faced with having to go through the hold script renaming page page numbers can really halt any progress you are making.

I have in the past dabbled with a program called Celtx for writing screenplays and recently it has been updated to support comic scripts. I’m loving it it so far and will I think be using it for all my comic writing in future.

It does mean I need to work on getting my partially written projects into it but I think using Celtx will force me to write my scripts in a more simple straight style, to get the story and dialogue down and then  I can worry about adding the extra useful details as a secondary pass as it should be.

In other news I am currently working on a few projects actively :

• SHIVER – I’m trying to force myself to make a big push to get a lot of this written, hopefully regardless of what happens with my artist woes when they are sorted I hope to have everything done and ready.
• Hometown Heroes – Assuming I can crank out some pages of this soon there may be a chance it gets printed this year. More about this when I know something.
• MURKY DEPTHS – I am working on a Prose competition entry for the Mike Carey competition in Murky Depths, it’s difficult so wish me luck. I am also knocking up a few short scripts which I have approached an artist to draw one, when her schedule clears up in the next few months hopefully I’ll have another submission to make to Terry. *fingers crossed*

There are always others knocking about my head but for now those are my active projects, speaking of which, I should really get back to it.

Cheers,
Chris