Updates, end of March 2019

A quick check-in:

• Doing the A-to-Z Challenge again this year, again at Sigild V.  This year will be poetry, riffing on a character from Crisis Weekly.  This has the effects of the proverbial birds with a stone, as I've been wanting to do some poetry again anyway, and I figured I owed the A-to-Z folks thanks for the recent book tour thing.
• Pretty sure I've nailed how I'm going to be writing George & Gracie, after transcribing what I'd written in a notebook at the end of the year and not initially knowing how to proceed from there.
• Submitted a story.  It's the Montague in the Leviathan proof-of-concept I wrote last year, where I finally buckled down and attempted some straight literary fiction, which I still hope can become a book later, if I can do the necessary research.
• It suddenly occurred to me that I can turn that Exemplar comic book script into something if I look into getting someone to draw it.  So that's something I'll be strongly considering.
• It's nice to have a number of prospects in the air.

Exemplar!

I'll be headed to the Tampa Comic Con tomorrow, my first full-sized con visit.  If I'd had my kit together, I might have tried to get a table there.  I'll still try to make connections. 

BOLO!  That's one of those trendy acronyms (be on the lookout).  But it's also the name I decided on for the Big Foot comic I previously talked about as Dirty Animals.  I'm talking about it again because it's something I can hopefully circle back around to soon.  All I need is lettering done and I have eight sample pages to shop around.  I had the art completed earlier this year, and then things went kind of screwy and I had to put the project in a holding pattern. 

Obviously I had another existential crisis recently, but then I wrote a different comic book script earlier this week, a MillarWorld writing prompt challenge involving a Superman analog named Exemplar.  I think it turned out well.  Anyway, it's a full-length script that can easily be used as a writing sample, too.  Between that and BOLO, I'm starting to feel a tad bit of confidence about the future again.

We'll see...

Juggling more projects???

Just in case you wondered if I'm working on anything...

In addition to everything I talked about last time, here're more ideas that're threestooging themselves through my creative doors:

• Montague in the Leviathan - Big book project, wrote a short story related to it a couple weeks ago.  Inspired by a number of real events...
• The Hired Gun - A sequel/prequel to The Whole Bloody Affair, something I've been working toward since that one...
• Bandit - An even older project!  A comic book I conceived way back in the '90s but began to refine in 2004...
• Youths of a Nation - Like The Whole Bloody Affair (but not necessarily Hired Gun), a young adult project...
• Exemplar - Another comic book project...
• A Theory of Balance - A sequel to Sapo Saga...Likely to end up serialized on Wattpad, where I'm currently resurrecting 101 Star Wars Variations...
• An Affirming Flame - A wizard story...