March 6, 2018

[zombie]

i don't know if i can find the whole scores online. but this is the ending song for the original score.

[zombie]

https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Birthday-M ... hday+to+me <--- this edition has the original score.

https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Birthday-M ... 919&sr=8-2 <--- this edition has the other score.

[zombie]

i always find myself losing steam when it comes to an actual story. i can do characters that i really like, but i just can't write anything worthwhile around them.

I think it helps that I let a bunch of these ideas stew for a long while, kept taking notes (whether good or bad), and decided not to fear the mixed bag of things I simply want to draw, in 7 issues, I cover demons, demons using zombies as puppets, regular zombies, werewolves, vampires, and an undead dragon. All linked in one fuck'n plot. I think I made it work.

i'll probably try to just take notes and see what feels right and what doesn't with each different set of characters.

[Jason]

I can't find a link to hear the second score. Is it much different?

[zombie]

it's a little different. the main difference is that the re-done score starts and ends with a disco song. "coming out of the blue, it's got to be you. this feeling is you" etc.

[Jason]

Hey, funky.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

i always find myself losing steam when it comes to an actual story. i can do characters that i really like, but i just can't write anything worthwhile around them.

I think it helps that I let a bunch of these ideas stew for a long while, kept taking notes (whether good or bad), and decided not to fear the mixed bag of things I simply want to draw, in 7 issues, I cover demons, demons using zombies as puppets, regular zombies, werewolves, vampires, and an undead dragon. All linked in one fuck'n plot. I think I made it work.

i'll probably try to just take notes and see what feels right and what doesn't with each different set of characters.

I definitely didn't use all my notes. I even used postcards, where I'd jot down notes, and eventually start numbering them in a sequence so a narrative starts building up.

I stole that idea from Bob Gale, cause that's how he wrote Back to the Future.

[Dream]

I invested in Scrivener and feel like that was the stepping stone to finally get a story from start to finish for me.

Before that, I had notes and notebooks full of ideas but didn't do anything with them.

From the first version to most current version, the main plot has stayed the same but a lot of details and steps to getting from point a to b changed quite a bit.

Characters have changed purpose throughout as well. One was supposed to just be a side character that drives one small aspect of the plot and he became a major component of the overall story and is pivotal to books 2-4. One was supposed to be a main character throughout and I just ditched him after a short scene in the second book.

Mine have been evolving as I go and I'm finding each read through shows me something else I can either ditch or expand on to make the story flow better or make a character more pivotal or impactful overall.

I never expected to get as far as I have with these stories, it's crazy but I love it.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

I feel like I asked before, but what's Scrivener?

[Dream]

I feel like I asked before, but what's Scrivener?

fancy word processing program that lets you lay out different scenes of a story right from the beginning. It's like digital index cards with each index card having an unlimited stack of paper underneath it. You can write what you want for the scene and move it around in the story however you want with none of the mess of real paper. It took a while for it to win me over, to be honest. I was very hesitant, Mark got me to try it out and I just started blazing through the story. It caught me off guard, but somehow it helped me focus much better than real index cards. Probably cause I couldn't lose any while I was writing and they stay in the order I put them in until/unless I want to move them around.

So yeah, a fancy word processing program for people with a tendency to lose things

Its also got some neat features for helping you build out a setting or character, save reference photos for characters or places specific to that story, set up different manuscript formats for sending off to real publishers, etc. but I don't really use those features.

[Foo]

i always find myself losing steam when it comes to an actual story. i can do characters that i really like, but i just can't write anything worthwhile around them.

Perhaps that is a sign you should be focusing on the story and then writing characters to fit it? Work in reverse.