Argh
Reposted from my dA journal because well I pretty much said it in there. Sorry for incoherency, but I'm feeling pretty incoherent at the moment.
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
That, my friends, is the sound of idea block. Which I may or may not be in the process of getting over.
Let me describe idea block:
Okay, so you have been working on a couple of stories for a while, and they're solid. But it gets pretty tiresome to always be on those subjects, right? So you want to come up with a new idea to work with. But not just any old schlock. Something new, something you haven't done anything like before. You have some idea about the territory you want to work with, but not much else.
The problem with this is that trying to find such an idea without any real-life impetus other than your own mental bent is horrific. If you have even the slightest concrete notion of a story element, then you at least have something to work with and build on. But just having a very vague idea of what flavor of story you want to come up with and not any concrete object or character in there--doesn't make for a very good brainstorming session.
I spent most of the past hour staring at the wall. I think it's almost passed though.
In other news, I have no 'writer's block', and by that I mean that established stories are developing nicely and I started writing a script for one of the long-comics. I've settled on doing one semi-long comic to practice comicking and doing something more realistic-styled (artistically) for a change that will probably end up being about 100 pages long (hopefully less if I can re-compress the story a bit). I want to write it all out and then just churn through the drawing bit. The style is going to purposely sloppy-ish so that I can get into the comic without wanting to cut off the hand that offends (haha lookit that a biblical allusion). This is mostly to give me time to develop another comic idea while still feeling productive. The second comic idea involves a lot of historical BS and I'm not a history major so it will involve a lot of consulting of library resources and so on and so forth. That will be a lot longer but I will definitely be coming into it with a set series of events and beginning and end. And... well that comic should probably be "Erin screwing around with history because she felt like it" but it's mostly a comedy. Blargh.
Okay. I think I'm going to set a due date for myself. The first script will be due by the end of February. Eek.
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
That, my friends, is the sound of idea block. Which I may or may not be in the process of getting over.
Let me describe idea block:
Okay, so you have been working on a couple of stories for a while, and they're solid. But it gets pretty tiresome to always be on those subjects, right? So you want to come up with a new idea to work with. But not just any old schlock. Something new, something you haven't done anything like before. You have some idea about the territory you want to work with, but not much else.
The problem with this is that trying to find such an idea without any real-life impetus other than your own mental bent is horrific. If you have even the slightest concrete notion of a story element, then you at least have something to work with and build on. But just having a very vague idea of what flavor of story you want to come up with and not any concrete object or character in there--doesn't make for a very good brainstorming session.
I spent most of the past hour staring at the wall. I think it's almost passed though.
In other news, I have no 'writer's block', and by that I mean that established stories are developing nicely and I started writing a script for one of the long-comics. I've settled on doing one semi-long comic to practice comicking and doing something more realistic-styled (artistically) for a change that will probably end up being about 100 pages long (hopefully less if I can re-compress the story a bit). I want to write it all out and then just churn through the drawing bit. The style is going to purposely sloppy-ish so that I can get into the comic without wanting to cut off the hand that offends (haha lookit that a biblical allusion). This is mostly to give me time to develop another comic idea while still feeling productive. The second comic idea involves a lot of historical BS and I'm not a history major so it will involve a lot of consulting of library resources and so on and so forth. That will be a lot longer but I will definitely be coming into it with a set series of events and beginning and end. And... well that comic should probably be "Erin screwing around with history because she felt like it" but it's mostly a comedy. Blargh.
Okay. I think I'm going to set a due date for myself. The first script will be due by the end of February. Eek.