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March 14, 2007
Too Late for Smiling
That's the title of my next project. It is, put in the most cliched way possible, a neo-noir with a twist. It's going to be very much a Kansas City book, even more than Black Chamber is. I'm aiming for 200 pages. I'm setting it up to be a 'pilot' for a series that I can write for other artists to draw. (Side note - has that ever been done before? Using a graphic novel to lauch a series? I'm sure it has, but I can't think of any off-hand. Dreadstar maybe? The Elric stuff by P Craig Russell? I know it's been done a lot in television, the original Battlestar Galactica leaping to mind. It seems like a smart thing. A lot of Vertigo series don't really pick up in sales until the first collection hits. Why not just start with that?)
I've got the basic plot down, and I'm fleshing out the characters and the mythology right now. I'm hoping to get a fairly well-written plot done soon, and then begin scripting in earnest. Over the weekend I picked up 'The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler', and there's a great bit in there about writing a novel, and hints to effectively flesh it out. I'm going to try that out with this, but modified to fit the form I'm working in.
Posted by Schamberger at March 14, 2007 09:12 AM