So I'm rewriting a story...

I tend to have a habit of revisiting stories of mine and wanting to retell them. My main creative focus now is rewriting my Experiencing Technical Difficulties comic book, an unfinished tale I started way back in 1990, into a new tale that I am entitling TV GOD. This new title is partly a pun based on TV Guide, but it also is a more appropriate title thematically. Basically the theme being how does one find an authentic spiritual and emotional well being, when our American reality seems to be a fictional work written by the greed and desires of our corporate overlords.

I wasn't intending to do this story, but on my hour plus daily commute to work, while my left brain was asleep, the creative ideas started pouring in. I would arrive at work and hastily scribble notes into a yellow notepad, trying to recall the imaginings of my commute, as if i was journaling dreams from the night before. What started developing was the framework of a new approach to my basic story. One I am very happy with and one I want to drive myself into completing.

Heres a digital painting I did with the goal of trying to capture the mood of the first Book of my story.

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War-N
When can we expect a rough draft? :) Love the painting. May I suggest an audio recorder to get those ideas out during your commute?
tv god comix
Well I don't want to share my rough draft, but i am contemplating creating a 24 page comic book as a PILOT episode. Maybe to shop around for a publisher? I tend to lean towards the self-publishing avenue but who knows. I just want to concentrate on the work for now. I thought about recording thoughts on the commute, but i think interrupting the stream of thoughts, with trying to describe what i am thinking might be counter productive. I tend to get everything written down when these commuting trance states kick in.
War-N
self-publishing ... all the way baby! Good point on the audio recorder ... better to let it flow.
fyshmom
I've tried repeatedly to use recording devices for writing, but it just doesn't work out for me. Different parts of the brain are used depending on whether you are speaking or writing, and my "speaking" center rarely says the things that I would write. Looking forward to seeing what you write.....
tv god comix
If only there was a recording device that I could wear on my head that would record the ideas as I think them. Oh, wait that's a plot element in my story. :)

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