tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post6346250742183634054..comments2024-01-17T22:00:41.839-08:00Comments on Full Throttle and F**k It: Making PassesSteve Malleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561234111786788616noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-42099673223875209512009-04-27T01:54:00.000-07:002009-04-27T01:54:00.000-07:00Ralph, hello and welcome! As it happens, I think t...Ralph, hello and welcome! As it happens, I think the world of graphic novels-- my first four books were both written and drawn by me! And yes, I did a lot of revising on those two, enough that I learned not to put page numbers on til the end!Steve Malleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17561234111786788616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-69309176570511920412009-04-26T19:16:00.000-07:002009-04-26T19:16:00.000-07:00What do you think of graphic novels? Being a write...What do you think of graphic novels? Being a writer and an artist both? Even tho I'm an old guy (70 and counting) searching for a means of expression has been a life-long quest. I like both writing and drawing/coloring. Wonder Woman was my first muse. But I never got into superheros. By age 12 I had encountered both EC comics and pulp fiction. Loved both. EC led me even more intently into drawing. Pulps led to intense reading. But not into writing that much. Not until my 20s when I started my first journals. Today that - journaling - remains my main form of expression. Now I am stumbling forward into blogging. Like what I do but miss having much connection with similar searchers. Looking the net I ran across your posts. I appreciate artists/writers whatever form they take. Thank you.Ralph Ivyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07937135000344065468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-76174054003804882482009-04-25T15:00:00.000-07:002009-04-25T15:00:00.000-07:00Sphinx, thanx! :)
CS, your words of wisdom turned...Sphinx, thanx! :)<br /><br />CS, your words of wisdom turned out to be prescient. *Scarily* prescient. To be fair, I did have backup copies on memory stick and on my phone. Only problem was, they were two or three passes old...<br /><br />Anna-Lys, glad I could help!<br /><br />Avery, will do!<br /><br />Barbara, so far this seems to work for me. :)<br /><br />Merelyme, is fiction fun? Hard work? Both? To answer, I shall fall back on the words of another:<br /><br />Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.<br /> - James M. BarrieSteve Malleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17561234111786788616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-54228501863242055202009-04-25T07:57:00.000-07:002009-04-25T07:57:00.000-07:00This is really fascinating to hear about your writ...This is really fascinating to hear about your writing process. I write non-ficition...essays...so I never have to think of villians...unless I look at diseases as villians. <br /><br />I wonder if I would ever be good at writing fiction. Is it fun? Tell the truth? Or is it grueling work or both?Synchronicityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07631238942909923311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-58306018527019626262009-04-21T19:01:00.000-07:002009-04-21T19:01:00.000-07:00Great post on writing, Steve. This time round I ha...Great post on writing, Steve. This time round I have an outline of sorts to keep my current work together. I like how you divide the passes on your rewrites. Makes perfect sense.Barbara Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00610140328527165017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-26135784338350847982009-04-20T20:01:00.000-07:002009-04-20T20:01:00.000-07:00I vaguely remember your weirdo graphs. Hook me up...I vaguely remember your weirdo graphs. Hook me up with them if you run across them again.AvDBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16574481780173046619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-72304449960121079572009-04-20T10:32:00.000-07:002009-04-20T10:32:00.000-07:00Very interesting! I did a comparison with my own w...Very interesting! I did a comparison with my own writings of scientific articles ... and I learned a lot by You, on how to put them together in my thesis!<br />Thank You!!!ANNA-LYShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03503734017177492952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-30059332995165597972009-04-19T20:03:00.000-07:002009-04-19T20:03:00.000-07:00You only JUST printed it out? For the FIRST time? ...You only JUST printed it out? For the FIRST time? You obviously trust computers far more than I do. I print out every scene I write, as soon as I write it.<br /><br />Interesting look at your process. I'm not that disciplined. I'll sometimes mark passages to go back and fix something specific, but I usually can't resist fixing anything and everything I see that's wrong with each pass. Except for those pesky fill-in-the-blanks. They're always the last thing I do. So how *does* one say 'fuck off' in Thai?cs harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-42543196642926096872009-04-17T13:51:00.000-07:002009-04-17T13:51:00.000-07:00What a great post! Kudos to you on completing the ...What a great post! Kudos to you on completing the ms., and good luck with the beta readers. I like your way of inhabiting your Villain; good suggestion on how to beef up a character.Sphinx Inkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03429797402360703839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-11694543286253415952009-04-16T13:55:00.000-07:002009-04-16T13:55:00.000-07:00Charles, no of us writes as fast as we like. What ...Charles, no of us writes as fast as we like. What gets me is, you're sitting there sweating out the story one word at a time, but when I read it, the adventures run at such a breakneck pace!<br /><br />Lana, you are *no* slouch where art's concerned!!<br /><br />Avery, try my weirdo graphs. They work! (just wish I could remember which post I talked about them in...)<br /><br />Shauna, the new method *may* have sped me up a little, I'm not sure. What I do know is that the story's at least as good as my other efforts and I got it done without a tenth the doubt, anxiety and hairpulling.<br /><br />And language gets hit at every pass. Especially the hero/villain passes, where one of the jobs I'm doing is to make sure that my 3rd person narrative stays in the 'voice' of the head that scene is inhabiting...Steve Malleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17561234111786788616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-87678562292544077942009-04-16T13:12:00.000-07:002009-04-16T13:12:00.000-07:00Thanks for the discussion of the new method you tr...Thanks for the discussion of the new method you tried. Did you think this worked better than your previous method? Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see where you polished the language. Do you naturally write in beautiful sentences, or do you do work on sentences after your beta readers are done?Shauna Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03871768714926149114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-49453486986947204062009-04-16T09:21:00.000-07:002009-04-16T09:21:00.000-07:00Nice to know you do as many run-throughs as I do. ...Nice to know you do as many run-throughs as I do. Except you're much faster.<br /><br />I'm still stuck in the plotting phase. A couple really rough chapters written, but I don't know exactly where I'm going and that bogs me down. So, detailing first with some writing shoved in every day, even if it's just a random scene without a home, then I'll get to hammering it out.AvDBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16574481780173046619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-5695373858252241492009-04-15T22:08:00.000-07:002009-04-15T22:08:00.000-07:00Love the comparison between the writing & art ...Love the comparison between the writing & art here. Makes me feel like a slouch, where art's concerned. ;) *L* (kdn!)Lana Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06975996208260144558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052003455667869062.post-68687650896931711722009-04-15T20:32:00.000-07:002009-04-15T20:32:00.000-07:00I'm doing that first passs now and not writing as ...I'm doing that first passs now and not writing as fast as I'd like. I really need to get substantial more done so I can have some stuff to polish up over summer.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.com