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[shadesong]

I know I haven't posted much actual content recently... I'm wrestling with a lot of big unwieldly concepts in my head. They'll make it out, I promise.

So tomorrow, I'm going to start working on the Purges graphic novel. It hasn't got a title yet. I'll let you know when it tells me what it's called. :) This is going to be very different from how I've been writing Shayara thus far... when I'm writing issues, I'm writing chunks of story, serially accessible, 22 pages. In other words, I have an out. I present the sequence, then I'm out. It hasn't taken me more that two or three writing nights to write any of these issues thus far.

The Purges GN will be different... for the first time in eight years, I'm not writing till I find the logical 22-page stopping point, I'm writing until it's done. I have no idea how long it's going to be. I know the story - gods, I know the story, most of it's been in my head for years; the image of Capri against the wall as the Hounds tear her parents to shreds is one of the earliest images I have of modern-day Shayara (as opposed to first-draft). The Purges have lived in my head, images flickering in rapid succession, for what...12, 14 years, I think.

So. I'm writing, from sunset to sunrise, the most harrowing night imaginable. And I don't know how long it will be, or how long it will take to write. The only out is sunrise.

This is also going to be the most emotional thing I've written for Shayara thus far (yes, Mouse and yendi, even beating Shawn's reactions in issue #5. By a long shot). And I'm going to be going pretty deep to do it. So I may be a little fragile around the edges while it's getting done.

I hope you like it, when it's done.

Comments

[morenasangre.livejournal.com]

Be brave. Watch and listen carefully. And it will be beautiful in its own way when it is done. You can do this and do it well...it's what you need to do. And I can't wait to see it!! :-P

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thank you. :)

I still have to send you the scripts for issues #1-5...

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

Gaaah... you're going to turn me into a comic fan if you keep up with this. (I don't even have Sandman; just some copies of the X-men and The Crow. Oh, okay, and The Rook. And, um... )

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

You need to read Sandman! You would love it. Seriously. I'm not saying that just because I recommend Sandman to everyone - you, personally, would love it.

Check out www.shayara.com if you want more info on our comic. :)

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've already been there. By the time you read this I'm sure I'll have joined the community. I'm such a big fan of Mousie's, and your updates about what you're scripting are really interesting. Not "I don't know what to say so I'll say 'interesting'" interesting, but honest-to-goodness "this is engaging, I want more info" interesting.

And I want to read Sandman. I lus... er, love, Neil Gaiman.