Day 13: Isn't this Book Over Yet?

I am starting to get the sneaking suspicion that this novel is never, ever, ever going to end. No matter how long I write, the story just keeps stretching into the horizon. Hmph. It's fun, though.

Day 13: 5,353 words! For a running total of 57,658 words to date for October. Whoa.

Day 12: Write Yourself into a Corner

I think it's a good idea to write yourself into a corner sometimes. It's a great way to get around a mental block, especially if you feel like your story is getting too predictable. Put your character in an impossible position and see how he gets out of it. If nothing else, it'll force you to consider other avenues your story might go down. Or it'll force you to scrap that entire section of the story and rewrite it the way you intended. There's really no telling.

Day 12: 5,353 words. It seems like I'm getting closer to the end of the novel, until I realize how much more story need to go in it. I keep revising the target word count upward and upward. I should have killed that fucking political maneuvering subplot but now I like it too much and the ending won't work without it. Well, serves me right for caring, doesn't it????

Today's photo of me, by the way, is actually not a photo at all, but a picture my daughter drew (unsolicited) of me as a Jedi knight.

Day Twelve- Nap-Time

Got some sleep and did some writing. The rain has been falling here without cease.

Having a hard time with the lack of productivity now. Just finished Page 22 of the new OGN. Now stuff starts blowing up. Maybe pacing it like a novel makes it a harder read. The lazy entry to the story is a treat though.

For some reason, I've been looking for vintage suit images and came across this one of a Dirty Harry era Clint Eastwood. Dig that giant hair like a lion's mane.

2 comic pages--> 1000 words.

Daily total 1000 words. Running total 12,135 words.

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Days 10 and 11: Circling Back

Day 10 was a bit frustrating, what with all the "spending time with my kids" and "being a husband" I had to do. Don't these people have lives? They just don't get that I'm in a meaningless writing competition and that this must take precedence over nonessentials like cooking dinner and reading to them. These kids can both mostly read anyway; I don't know what they need me for.

So Day 10: 2,822 words of le novel.

Day 11 was all about revisions. For a time there I was about 500 words in the hole, as I chopped a lot of deadwood out of part one. But then all the little tidbits and odds and ends that I'd been slipping in along the way started to add up, and I ended up with a net of 846 for the day.

Day 11: 846 words.

Day Eleven- I Attack...

My occasional D&D group got together for the day. Not much writing done before the game. Much dice rolling. Then much proofing.

I seem to have cut Sturges' lead to a mere 31,000 words. Take that. Hah!

Good God I just saw a note that NBC has bought the rights to do an American version of PRIME SUSPECT. That fact makes me want to burn something down.

3 comic pages--> 1500 words.

Daily total 1500 words. Running total 11,135 words.

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Day Ten- Foo'ball

Finished a spot illustration that I have been avoiding. Sent out a package to an artist that wants me to script a fantasy series for him. And watched loads of football. Go Horns.

And a couple of episodes from DEXTER Season Three with Kate. Why do people taunt the serial killer? How can that end well?

3 comic pages--> 1500 words.

Daily total 1500 words. Running total 9635 words.

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Day Nine- Noche del Sandwich

Have been paralized since dinner which was an enormous Texadelphia sandwich. And chips. And queso.

Pecked away at the new thing which looks like it is going to be an Original Graphic Novel released on the web and maybe broken up into chunks for other digital delivery. Settled on 11 page chapters and inspired in part by the BBC series Jekyll.


CRIMINAL is the best comic that I have read this week so far.

1 comic page--> 500 words.

Daily total 500 words. Running total 8135 words.

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Day 9: Novel, novel, novel

5,847 words. Fingers numb. Good night!

Day Eight- I Can't Get My Car Out of Second Gear

Did some boring art chores today, but it was all for SideChicks and my unnamed upcoming video project. Was nice to spend time inking. No fun was had scanning pages to be lettered. Twittered more than usual. Spent time clipping sentences.

For some reason, I can't seem to start writing before 10PM. Pecked away at a single page.

This is the finest flag ever made. (Yes, the hero gets it in the neck.) It was from the Benin Empire, a pre-colonial African State. See more here.

1 comic page--> 500 words.

Daily total 500 words. Running total 7635 words.

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Day 8: So-so

Today was mostly spend concocting a little ditty for Sergio Aragones to draw in Issue 21 of House of Mystery. An odd tale of Old West meets Great Old Ones, with more than a little inspiration by Mark Finn. So I ended up with six pages of comics, and 1,270 words of novel.

That makes 3,000 words of comics, and 1,270 book words, for a grand total of...4,270.

Not half bad.

Roberson's Daily Result - 10/07

The thumb is all healed up, at least on the outside. Still not bending quite right, though.

Anyway, yesterday I managed to finish the novel proposal I mentioned the other day, giving it a nice polish and sending it off to the folks who were waiting on it. (Vague, no?) It topped out at 4,463 words, bringing my grand total to date to 5,463.

I spent the rest of the day outlining a short story for an anthology, which I'll probably be writing next week. Watch the words just pile up then...

Day Seven- Taking Shape

Today, I had a carbon copy of the day before but I got back home by 5PM. People keep throwing hurdles at me. I am thinking that the new thing should be a graphic novel in the sense that it should break at 11 pg chapters and come out on the web before print or e-versions get released. Feels like a hundred page thing. Saw the SideChicks pages formatted for iPhones and they are fairly faithful to the webcomic. Saw the ANGEL pages from our first issue and they look great.

And I got the big damn Bloom County book.

2 comic pages--> 1000 words.

Daily total 1000 words. Running total 7135 words.

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