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Work Journal 1/22/05
I don't want these posts--especially the first few--to be dry, so I'll level with you. When I got this Superunknown gig, I jacked around for a while. For one thing, I was already working on Irregular Joe and my mind was pretty caught up in that. Also, I was going through a tough time with my wife, moving into a new house, getting told to leave that house and find my own place, and dealing with the new situation, divorce arbitration, finding a new vocation--just a whole lot of things on my mind that got in the way. So, I did have a raft of good excuses, but it did take a while to get focused.
Once I did, Superunknown started to come alive to me as much as Irregular Joe. I know it would be more interesting if at this point I could describe both series, but I need to leave that to my publisher for now. When the time comes, believe me, it will be impossible to shut me up about both books and the goals I have for them. For now, though, here's a bit of a progress report on, oh, the past few months work.
The Irregular Joe idea percolating for many months between myself and the guy who originated the basic idea. I fleshed it all out in fits and starts and eventually finished the first draft of issue #1 (of a planned 6) just before Thanksgiving of 2004. Both this guy (his name must be protected for now) and our artist had some suggestions, and so the idea was to do a second draft after I wrote the first issue of Superunknown. My plan then, and now, was to alternate between each series until Irregular Joe was completed, at which point another project would take its place on the front burner.
It took some time to focus back on Superunknown and what I wanted to do with it (I was starting a new job at the same time), but I got the first draft done about a week ago, so I guess it took about a month-and-a-half, a few days of which were spent on the Irregular Joe second draft, also completed last week.
Obviously, that kind of schedule just isn't going to work if I want two monthly books next year, so I picked up the pace this week. As of tonight, Irregular Joe #2 has 11 of 22 pages written. I figure one more week and I'll be done with it. So everything is smooth right now.
Once I did, Superunknown started to come alive to me as much as Irregular Joe. I know it would be more interesting if at this point I could describe both series, but I need to leave that to my publisher for now. When the time comes, believe me, it will be impossible to shut me up about both books and the goals I have for them. For now, though, here's a bit of a progress report on, oh, the past few months work.
The Irregular Joe idea percolating for many months between myself and the guy who originated the basic idea. I fleshed it all out in fits and starts and eventually finished the first draft of issue #1 (of a planned 6) just before Thanksgiving of 2004. Both this guy (his name must be protected for now) and our artist had some suggestions, and so the idea was to do a second draft after I wrote the first issue of Superunknown. My plan then, and now, was to alternate between each series until Irregular Joe was completed, at which point another project would take its place on the front burner.
It took some time to focus back on Superunknown and what I wanted to do with it (I was starting a new job at the same time), but I got the first draft done about a week ago, so I guess it took about a month-and-a-half, a few days of which were spent on the Irregular Joe second draft, also completed last week.
Obviously, that kind of schedule just isn't going to work if I want two monthly books next year, so I picked up the pace this week. As of tonight, Irregular Joe #2 has 11 of 22 pages written. I figure one more week and I'll be done with it. So everything is smooth right now.
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