Comments on: Only ONE Week Left to Order Your Book! http://www.maroonedcomic.com/only-one-week-left-to-order-your-book/ A Space Opera in the Wrong Key Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:30:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=938 hourly 1 By: Major Tom http://www.maroonedcomic.com/only-one-week-left-to-order-your-book/comment-page-1/#comment-4310 Major Tom Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:16:31 +0000 http://www.maroonedcomic.com/?p=826#comment-4310 I think I've discussed this on podcasts before - including one coming up shortly. So if you want more info check the about page and listen to those - however. When I decided to have a story, I basically sat down and wrote out a document that was not really an outline, but kind of a high level rundown of what would happen. It had the characters, conflicts, changes, plot twists, etc written in. But it wasn't dialog - just a top level guidepost. The document I have like that right now for the current story arc is like 3,500 words and has gone through a few revisions. I follow that along in a sense, and the individual strips are written as I go. :) I think I’ve discussed this on podcasts before – including one coming up shortly. So if you want more info check the about page and listen to those – however.

When I decided to have a story, I basically sat down and wrote out a document that was not really an outline, but kind of a high level rundown of what would happen. It had the characters, conflicts, changes, plot twists, etc written in. But it wasn’t dialog – just a top level guidepost.

The document I have like that right now for the current story arc is like 3,500 words and has gone through a few revisions. I follow that along in a sense, and the individual strips are written as I go. :)

]]> By: Chris http://www.maroonedcomic.com/only-one-week-left-to-order-your-book/comment-page-1/#comment-4309 Chris Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:28:18 +0000 http://www.maroonedcomic.com/?p=826#comment-4309 This really has nothing to do with pre-ordering the book since I've already done that, but I had a question I wanted to ask anyways. I think you might have covered it before but I couldn't find the blog entry where you talked about that. Anyway my question has to do with how you went about creating the story for Marooned. Obviously you have the major plot points and probably much more already mapped out, but to get there did you end up simply writing a long story/novella that you then turned into a script and then a comic strips, or is the whole story simply an outline that you expand into a script? Basically to get Marooned as it is today, did you end up writing a full on book that you adapted to a strip format? This really has nothing to do with pre-ordering the book since I’ve already done that, but I had a question I wanted to ask anyways. I think you might have covered it before but I couldn’t find the blog entry where you talked about that.

Anyway my question has to do with how you went about creating the story for Marooned. Obviously you have the major plot points and probably much more already mapped out, but to get there did you end up simply writing a long story/novella that you then turned into a script and then a comic strips, or is the whole story simply an outline that you expand into a script?

Basically to get Marooned as it is today, did you end up writing a full on book that you adapted to a strip format?

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