An alternate script
Sometimes people ask me about my writing process. It's not very interesting, actually- it just consists of sitting in front of my computer with a blank text editor file open, writing, deleting, and rearranging dialogue until I hit upon something I think is funny. Some days I get lucky and think of a comic in 30 seconds in the shower that morning,
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Google has a policy for their developers where they're allowed to do whatever they want with 20% of their time, so long as they can reasonably justify it in business terms. Things like Google Maps and Google Reader and Gmail started out as 20% projects.
I've been a big fan of yours for a long time. I don't think you had 100 strips in QC yet. Your art has evolved amazingly, and deservedly so because you really exercise it. You're always tweaking and it's awesome, because you can really see the improvements.
Since you push yourself so hard on the art, maybe you could implement a 20% policy with your writing? Try making it so that once a week, you try writing backwards, from punchline up. Maybe "write" a strip with no dialogue that's played out all in actions.
I'm trying to do some of this sort of stuff myself with my free time, pushing into new languages and approaches, and I've really learned a lot, and hearing you talk about always writing in one way made me think "Hey, maybe the idea of 20% time would help there". :)
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