Reply from the editor!

June 24, 2012 at 01:10 (Scriptwriting, Writing)

My friend Jane and I just got a reply from the editor after we sent in the script and the drafts of the comic strips. I honestly didn’t expect her(the editor) to reply on a Saturday, but it’s only a first-impression feedback for the time being, but her feedback was indeed positive!

She liked the unusual spy vs. spy concept(can’t really reveal more than that) and that she hadn’t seen anything like it before, which was usually a good sign. But she wanted to see more drafts of the strips themselves, to better give a full feedback. So while Jane makes more drafts, I’m gonna try and come up with more ideas:)

Did this totally make my day? Yes it did:) I’m even getting paid for it! I’d be happy just to get the script on print, but hey, my wallet contains more moths than coins, so I’m not saying no-thanks either!

Then there is the really stressful part that my friend Jane mentioned. If this becomes a success(unlikely, but who knows?) we would have to establish a firm. That would mean deadlines for more script. Wage distribution. Taxes. All the legal stuff. Makes me break out in a cold sweat just thinking about it. Particularly since I’m completely retarded when it comes to numbers and economics, and anything even remotely related to it. I think derp, is in order here.

But like Jane said; One step at the time!

*Breathe*

 

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Testdriving as a script writer

June 22, 2012 at 19:48 (Funny, Scriptwriting, Writing)

I recently got the opportunity to test-drive the art of script writing. It quite literally dropped into my lap! My friend Jane, who is a great illustrator, got an opening in a Norwegian cartoon magazine where she was offered a few pages for a cartoon of her own.

My friend ran into a roadblock though, she already had a deadline for a different customer coming up and now she had to come up with a cartoon out of the blue. Considering she “only” had been granted couple of pages, she couldn’t have something too big and epic. There simply wouldn’t be enough space to develop the characters and the plot. The solution was a humor based cartoon, which tend to be a bit simpler.

But Jane complained to me that she wasn’t good at coming up with funny stuff. Somehow it ended up with me throwing together a script on my laptop. I have never tried writing a script for a cartoon before, it was all new to me! And it was in my least explored genre too; humor.

But I finished the script, Jane made a draft of one of the strips before it was all sent to the editor. Now we are just waiting for the verdict, if it is a go or no-go. I don’t know what to expect, I’m a complete newbie at scriptwriting, but it was a funny experience. Working with Jane was pretty easy too since we have good chemistry.

So I do hope our idea will be published. If it does get published… could I start referring to myself as a writer…?:P Since I’m published? Beginner obviously, but still… Writer… It does have a nice ring to it;)

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