2012.148 - desktop Life, yo. Shopping with the little man - broke story through discussion with him. Then straight into yard work. Filled a trailer with branches and leaves and then took it away. A great way to lose four hours. Quality night with the missus catching up on MODERN FAMILY and gossiping. Notice how it’s night and I still haven’t mentioned writing? Yeah…that. Managed to sneak in some email time, finalised a small webcomic guest spot art from a mate, sent another script for another webcomic guest spot, then sent off my 22 beat sheet for a one-shot for the ongoing. Ended with a reread of my full issue #1 script for HEIST as its being picked up so I need to write the rest now. Liked that first issue script and started more finitely planning the next act. Loosely scripted the first two pages and then it was late. Boo-urns to that.

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Life, yo.

Shopping with the little man - broke story through discussion with him. Then straight into yard work. Filled a trailer with branches and leaves and then took it away. A great way to lose four hours.

Quality night with the missus catching up on MODERN FAMILY and gossiping.

Notice how it’s night and I still haven’t mentioned writing? Yeah…that.

Managed to sneak in some email time, finalised a small webcomic guest spot art from a mate, sent another script for another webcomic guest spot, then sent off my 22 beat sheet for a one-shot for the ongoing.

Ended with a reread of my full issue #1 script for HEIST as its being picked up so I need to write the rest now. Liked that first issue script and started more finitely planning the next act. Loosely scripted the first two pages and then it was late. Boo-urns to that.

2012.147 - desktop Curry night. At a mate’s house. Lots of banter. Yet I still percolated story in the background. This is honestly my life now. I was up at 5am, breakfasts, play gym with little man, early lunch, to a 1st birthday party, then helping mother-in-law move furniture, then straight to curry night with a fine stout. No writing whatsoever. But story, ah, I’m always working story.

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Curry night. At a mate’s house. Lots of banter.

Yet I still percolated story in the background. This is honestly my life now.

I was up at 5am, breakfasts, play gym with little man, early lunch, to a 1st birthday party, then helping mother-in-law move furniture, then straight to curry night with a fine stout.

No writing whatsoever. But story, ah, I’m always working story.

2012.146 - desktop Wind outside like a reckoning. Another day where fatherhood took up most of the time, and I have little issue with that. Polished some notes on a future project I wish to do. Did this because two major breakthroughs came while playing with the little man. Feels damn solid now. Who wants to read some PKD noir? Looked over notes on script for #2 - script is finished but needs tightening. I’m still waiting on final editorial notes Di am hesitant to put more time into this one as it may change. Am happy to wait, it’s all just about staying ahead of the artist. Approved a very ambitious thumbnail for a secret project. @nathanox is slaying this monster. Dud most of this while catching up on, of all things, Aussie television. Really enjoying BIKIE WARS (terrible title but surprisingly tight show) and OFFSPRING is always dominant. Feeling a little off as I realised some people will smile when it’s convenient and then suddenly…not. I’m not a fan. I’m doing my best to block a few other negatives out as well. Big day tomorrow, not sure how much/if any work I’ll get done. I’ll make a new list, get focused, then feel back on top.

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Wind outside like a reckoning.

Another day where fatherhood took up most of the time, and I have little issue with that.

Polished some notes on a future project I wish to do. Did this because two major breakthroughs came while playing with the little man. Feels damn solid now. Who wants to read some PKD noir?

Looked over notes on script for #2 - script is finished but needs tightening. I’m still waiting on final editorial notes Di am hesitant to put more time into this one as it may change. Am happy to wait, it’s all just about staying ahead of the artist.

Approved a very ambitious thumbnail for a secret project. @nathanox is slaying this monster.

Dud most of this while catching up on, of all things, Aussie television. Really enjoying BIKIE WARS (terrible title but surprisingly tight show) and OFFSPRING is always dominant.

Feeling a little off as I realised some people will smile when it’s convenient and then suddenly…not. I’m not a fan. I’m doing my best to block a few other negatives out as well.

Big day tomorrow, not sure how much/if any work I’ll get done. I’ll make a new list, get focused, then feel back on top.

2012.145 - desktop I am an idiot. Pretty sure I got nothing done tonight. Wife had to work, I got little man to bed, I had two whole free hours. I did nothing. I rearranged some files on my computer that have been waiting for months. I finalised a one-shot plan. It’s tight as hell now — see earlier post. I rewrote an issue 22 line beat sheet out in pen and paper, found some faults, fixed the hell out of them. Then opened script and started auctioning changes. Bought some indie comics in PDF form. Supported SULLIVAN’S SLUGGERS because Mark Andrew Smith is my boy. Read SCALPED #58. Good as always. Read all of JONBOT VS MARTHA. Just a superb webcomic. See, I got nothing done. Such a damn waste. Though, to be honest, this week has been hella busy at work and revisions on one script and another essay kind of swamped me. It was kind of nice to relax tonight. And my reviews are all written for the week so I’m clean and clear from here on in.

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I am an idiot.

Pretty sure I got nothing done tonight. Wife had to work, I got little man to bed, I had two whole free hours. I did nothing.

I rearranged some files on my computer that have been waiting for months.

I finalised a one-shot plan. It’s tight as hell now — see earlier post.

I rewrote an issue 22 line beat sheet out in pen and paper, found some faults, fixed the hell out of them. Then opened script and started auctioning changes.

Bought some indie comics in PDF form.

Supported SULLIVAN’S SLUGGERS because Mark Andrew Smith is my boy.

Read SCALPED #58. Good as always.

Read all of JONBOT VS MARTHA. Just a superb webcomic.

See, I got nothing done. Such a damn waste.

Though, to be honest, this week has been hella busy at work and revisions on one script and another essay kind of swamped me. It was kind of nice to relax tonight. And my reviews are all written for the week so I’m clean and clear from here on in.

2012.145 - one-shot plan Your favourite action one-shot for 2013. This thing reads like a runaway freight train and yet still packs this massive emotional punch. I’m very proud of this, cannot wait to script it, but absolutely cannot wait for the art. Note: I’ve used colour to break up the tone of the issue. First time I’ve done it that way.

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Your favourite action one-shot for 2013. This thing reads like a runaway freight train and yet still packs this massive emotional punch. I’m very proud of this, cannot wait to script it, but absolutely cannot wait for the art.

Note: I’ve used colour to break up the tone of the issue. First time I’ve done it that way.

2012.144 - desktop Solid day. Proofed two pages of art. Sent off an essay. Schmoozed one editor. Got to work with another editor to hash out a deal. Sent in a script revision for another roundtable edit session. Spoke with printer about my writing ashcan. Organised a Skype with an industry titan about another project of mine. Read a PDF, reviewed the comic and sent it in. Planned a one-shot out in a 22 line beat sheet. I think that’s all. Oh, still managed to work an 8+ hour workday, go for a walk with wife and kid, do fatherly duties, and rub my wife’s shoulders. Going to now read a comic then sleep. Sorry if this sounds wickedly arrogant — I assume no one reads these so I’m really just tallying for my own interest and future posterity.

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Solid day. Proofed two pages of art. Sent off an essay. Schmoozed one editor. Got to work with another editor to hash out a deal. Sent in a script revision for another roundtable edit session. Spoke with printer about my writing ashcan. Organised a Skype with an industry titan about another project of mine. Read a PDF, reviewed the comic and sent it in. Planned a one-shot out in a 22 line beat sheet.

I think that’s all.

Oh, still managed to work an 8+ hour workday, go for a walk with wife and kid, do fatherly duties, and rub my wife’s shoulders.

Going to now read a comic then sleep.

Sorry if this sounds wickedly arrogant — I assume no one reads these so I’m really just tallying for my own interest and future posterity.

2012.143 - desktop I think this script is looking better. It’s taken 36 hours but it’s been beat up pretty damn well and I’m feeling more calm and assured. Here’s hoping I’m actually on the right path. That’s been about my day. I’m focusing on it so as not to hold up the production line after me. The wife gave me the night off so smashed a few consecutive hours on it. She’s a champion. I have a list for when I wake. Will be straight into it.

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I think this script is looking better.

It’s taken 36 hours but it’s been beat up pretty damn well and I’m feeling more calm and assured. Here’s hoping I’m actually on the right path.

That’s been about my day. I’m focusing on it so as not to hold up the production line after me.

The wife gave me the night off so smashed a few consecutive hours on it. She’s a champion.

I have a list for when I wake. Will be straight into it.

2012.142 - desktop Editor’s notes. I’d hate them if they weren’t so damn right. Some things need to tweak and shuffle and I’m all up for the challenge. Even now, in bed, I see a few extra changes I can make. Once the alarm goes off in the morn, I’m diving back into this one. I also have to remind myself that whatever didn’t get a note he must have loved. LOVED! Edited and sent in two reviews. Wrote one very hard email. This was my night.

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Editor’s notes.

I’d hate them if they weren’t so damn right. Some things need to tweak and shuffle and I’m all up for the challenge.

Even now, in bed, I see a few extra changes I can make. Once the alarm goes off in the morn, I’m diving back into this one.

I also have to remind myself that whatever didn’t get a note he must have loved. LOVED!

Edited and sent in two reviews.

Wrote one very hard email.

This was my night.

2012.141 - desktop Sundays should be about relaxing, right? I take the little guy on weekend mornings while the wife works and so he keeps me busy. Plenty of housework to be done, etc. Afternoon was spent at the comic meet up. Always a good time. Wrote a review after dinner, believe my writer’s ashcan to be ready, possibly finalised my second script, started the third, and generally just tinkered. Not a massively productive day but it was Sunday.

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Sundays should be about relaxing, right?

I take the little guy on weekend mornings while the wife works and so he keeps me busy. Plenty of housework to be done, etc.

Afternoon was spent at the comic meet up. Always a good time.

Wrote a review after dinner, believe my writer’s ashcan to be ready, possibly finalised my second script, started the third, and generally just tinkered.

Not a massively productive day but it was Sunday.

2012.140 - desktop I let someone get me down. Stupid, I know, but it’s a thing and it just happened. Someone, with their passive aggressive garbage, which barely hides their hugely crippling personal insecurity, managed to infect me with their venomous brand of pitiful worldview. It didn’t last long. I’m certain it lasts much longer for them. I’m over it. Used the rest of my day to be the man about the house and do some chores. I finished listening to THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH. Bloody good book. I caught up on a bit of podcasts. I read some comics. I finished the first draft of issue #2 and it’s good. I know I’ll tweak it and only make it better in edits and revisions. Ridiculously tired right now and supremely looking forward to sleep.

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I let someone get me down. Stupid, I know, but it’s a thing and it just happened. Someone, with their passive aggressive garbage, which barely hides their hugely crippling personal insecurity, managed to infect me with their venomous brand of pitiful worldview.

It didn’t last long. I’m certain it lasts much longer for them. I’m over it.

Used the rest of my day to be the man about the house and do some chores. I finished listening to THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH. Bloody good book. I caught up on a bit of podcasts. I read some comics.

I finished the first draft of issue #2 and it’s good. I know I’ll tweak it and only make it better in edits and revisions.

Ridiculously tired right now and supremely looking forward to sleep.

2012.139 - desktop This is my rifle and this is my gun; this is for reviewing and this is for fun. Big plans to wake up and smash a script at 5am but the world got in the way. I woke, I’m a weapon like that, but then I saw the SULLIVAN’S SLUGGERS Kickstarter from Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe had gone live. That meant I had to post my article for it on TWC. Then I had to marvel at it reaching it’s goal in 4 hours. It asked for $6k and is currently, in just one day, at $20k. That’s unreal and I’m stoked to see it happen for many reasons. Then my son woke up and would go back down. That sealed the deal, I was done for. However, not completely. I had to iron a shirt, have a shower, etc before work but I got it all done earlier as I usually have to wait until later for him to be up. While playing with him, naming things, that sort of fatherly thing, I kept the laptop close and managed to smash out five pages. I’ve now nearly finished the second script. It’s all coming along nicely. Tonight, I took a break to go on a brodate. Caught up with a mate over great food, tasty dark beer, plenty of smack talk, and a cleansing affogatto on the way home. I returned to a switched off house in time to read a comic and review it in one smashing session. I quickly looked over my script/plan before sleep now so the story will permeate my thinking over night. I’m looking forward to writing these last six pages, they’re easily plotted out and one moment is do damn good. That is all. Now, weekend mode activate.

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This is my rifle and this is my gun; this is for reviewing and this is for fun.

Big plans to wake up and smash a script at 5am but the world got in the way. I woke, I’m a weapon like that, but then I saw the SULLIVAN’S SLUGGERS Kickstarter from Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe had gone live. That meant I had to post my article for it on TWC. Then I had to marvel at it reaching it’s goal in 4 hours. It asked for $6k and is currently, in just one day, at $20k. That’s unreal and I’m stoked to see it happen for many reasons.

Then my son woke up and would go back down. That sealed the deal, I was done for. However, not completely. I had to iron a shirt, have a shower, etc before work but I got it all done earlier as I usually have to wait until later for him to be up. While playing with him, naming things, that sort of fatherly thing, I kept the laptop close and managed to smash out five pages. I’ve now nearly finished the second script. It’s all coming along nicely.

Tonight, I took a break to go on a brodate. Caught up with a mate over great food, tasty dark beer, plenty of smack talk, and a cleansing affogatto on the way home. I returned to a switched off house in time to read a comic and review it in one smashing session.

I quickly looked over my script/plan before sleep now so the story will permeate my thinking over night. I’m looking forward to writing these last six pages, they’re easily plotted out and one moment is do damn good.

That is all. Now, weekend mode activate.

2012.139 - barker @nathaox drew this for our secret project. And man did he outdo himself. This thing is so insanely perfect. It’s creepy but you cannot look away. You are all going to dig this when it drops.

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@nathaox drew this for our secret project.

And man did he outdo himself. This thing is so insanely perfect. It’s creepy but you cannot look away.

You are all going to dig this when it drops.

2012.138 - desktop Guess this movie. Sometimes life is distracting. Watched tv with the wife while writing one review, editing another, then submitting both. Finished the first pass of an essay. Will let it sit til next week for another pass then I’ll ship it off to the editor. Tweaked a short script so as to match the amazing art coming in from Nathan Ooten. So keen on this project. Think I finalised my writing ashcan. I just want to proof it one more time before I ship it to the printer. I’m now going to sleep with a firm goal to wake and get straight into my script. No distractions.

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Guess this movie.

Sometimes life is distracting. Watched tv with the wife while writing one review, editing another, then submitting both.

Finished the first pass of an essay. Will let it sit til next week for another pass then I’ll ship it off to the editor.

Tweaked a short script so as to match the amazing art coming in from Nathan Ooten. So keen on this project.

Think I finalised my writing ashcan. I just want to proof it one more time before I ship it to the printer.

I’m now going to sleep with a firm goal to wake and get straight into my script. No distractions.

2012.137 - desktop Night hijacked, did some reading for a change. Wife took my computer so I tapped a few words into the iPad and then read a sneaky PDF of an upcoming OGN from a creator I massively respect who forwarded it on to me and I loved it. Sank right into all 200+ pages and it was sublime. I then started, and got over halfway through, an exciting essay that should appear in a comic alongside one of my favourite writer’s work. Very keen on this one and it’s flowing well. Didn’t script, though did help carve some characters out of thin air. Daniel did a character sketch but I wasn’t feeling it — and no wonder because I had yet to describe the character to him. I finally did and he knocked it out of the park. So damn good. I then gave him my tone for another character and he’s got me thinking for yet another character and I think he’s going to love it. The man creates, and animates, characters so damn well. Upon waking, I will need to buy two comics from ComiXology, review at least one of them, and then work on the final stage of this writing ashcan. All seems to be in place now but someone remind me in the morning, please. Thanks.

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Night hijacked, did some reading for a change.

Wife took my computer so I tapped a few words into the iPad and then read a sneaky PDF of an upcoming OGN from a creator I massively respect who forwarded it on to me and I loved it. Sank right into all 200+ pages and it was sublime.

I then started, and got over halfway through, an exciting essay that should appear in a comic alongside one of my favourite writer’s work. Very keen on this one and it’s flowing well.

Didn’t script, though did help carve some characters out of thin air. Daniel did a character sketch but I wasn’t feeling it — and no wonder because I had yet to describe the character to him. I finally did and he knocked it out of the park. So damn good. I then gave him my tone for another character and he’s got me thinking for yet another character and I think he’s going to love it. The man creates, and animates, characters so damn well.

Upon waking, I will need to buy two comics from ComiXology, review at least one of them, and then work on the final stage of this writing ashcan. All seems to be in place now but someone remind me in the morning, please. Thanks.

2012.136 - desktop Good news and waiting on news. Got the greenlight on a strange and ethereal project but one I am truly and honestly excited for. No money, not sure how much attention, but a great labour of love. Wrote maybe 5-6 pages on issue #2 for the ongoing. Shaping up nicely. Also gave notes on the thumbnails for first eight pages of first issue. This thing is going to look fantastic - Daniel really brings a page together like I want to see in my head. Maybe even better. Now I’m just waiting to hear back from a publisher in regards to a few queries. Oh, and another guy about a thing. And this other guy about this very important thing. Luckily I subscribe to a very personal philosophy of everything happening at a certain time for a specific reason. I figure this guy can’t do this thing now because if it happens later it’ll be better for me. He’s surely doing me a favour. Such a mindset makes everything better. Wrote an advance review tonight. Also watched BIKIE WARS. Not bad in some subtle ways. Easily enough to lure me back in for more. I think I turned down a promotion at work. Long story short; minimally more money, way more work, not exactly what I want to do, and I’m ready to focus on my writing. This was my leap of faith. I’ve sent all these emails out. Here’s to waking up to replies.

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Good news and waiting on news.

Got the greenlight on a strange and ethereal project but one I am truly and honestly excited for. No money, not sure how much attention, but a great labour of love.

Wrote maybe 5-6 pages on issue #2 for the ongoing. Shaping up nicely. Also gave notes on the thumbnails for first eight pages of first issue. This thing is going to look fantastic - Daniel really brings a page together like I want to see in my head. Maybe even better.

Now I’m just waiting to hear back from a publisher in regards to a few queries. Oh, and another guy about a thing. And this other guy about this very important thing.

Luckily I subscribe to a very personal philosophy of everything happening at a certain time for a specific reason. I figure this guy can’t do this thing now because if it happens later it’ll be better for me. He’s surely doing me a favour.

Such a mindset makes everything better.

Wrote an advance review tonight. Also watched BIKIE WARS. Not bad in some subtle ways. Easily enough to lure me back in for more.

I think I turned down a promotion at work. Long story short; minimally more money, way more work, not exactly what I want to do, and I’m ready to focus on my writing. This was my leap of faith.

I’ve sent all these emails out. Here’s to waking up to replies.