A Little Light Goes "Click!"

[the_gneech]

I've been having a lot of trouble writing the current storyline in SJ, because it's not coming to me in chronological order. The individual strips are fine, but the order, and the way they link together, has been all over the map. I have big pieces of the ending, and several strips from the middle, but getting the ball rolling has been the hard part.

Neither Leonard nor Conrad have been real cooperative when it comes to telling me what they talk about; I know the final result, but they keep trying to jump to the bottom line instead of giving me the details. Tiffany, meanwhile, is rather deliberately being evasive -- she's not proud of herself at the moment -- and keeps trying to distract me by talking about something else. So I'm taking notes about what she will talk about (BIG plot element coming up soon), but I keep trying to steer the conversation back to what's happening now -- because I need to have strips for the next two weeks!

Well, persistence wins out again ... Tiff finally made a big admission to me today. I knew it already, but I didn't know that she knew, and that is a big piece of letting the story move forward. Because if she can admit it to me, she can admit it to the readers.

Thanks, Tiff! I knew there was a reason I liked working with you. :)

Suddenly, the rest of my week becomes very easy indeed. Now it's all just logistics, which is the easy part!

-The Gneech

Comments

Leonard and Conrad's conversation, and Tiff's revelation...

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Harumph. You think that a good bartender like Leonard would give away what his good customer Conrad was saying? C'mon, Conrad is still employed, and can pay his tab. (As far as I know, he's still working as a model, correct?) Leonard wouldn't want to lose that, not even to his cartoonist! *grin*

And I bet I know Tiff's big revelation... on the Watering Hole's wall, SHE drew "Hey! Who drew that on the wall?"

[Actually, my guess is that she's realizing she's growing too old to be a supermodel, and is accepting it. That doesn't mean she can't get into acting, television, or whatever...]

Don't you love it when they do that?

[merryjest.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I had to cut the Nightyard was because I didn't have time to sit down and find out what Merry was all about. The first series was ok because I could actually get to figure him out, but as college got worse and worse, nighttime was exclusively for homework (and we're talking 11PM when I get off rehearsals as 'nighttime', not 6pm) and without an extra artist to take care of some of the work while I plotted, The Nightyard went the way of the Dinosaur.
A pity, really :p

[level-head.livejournal.com]

I wonder what you are saying with your choice of music. ];)

It's a good song, too. Catchy.

===|==============/ Level Head

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Actually, if I was going to include a secret message in my choice of music, it would have been "Whip It!" by Devo. :)

BTW, there is a package on its way to you. :) Sorry for the wait!

-The Gneech