A while back, I promised a new feature or two around here. I do try to be a man of my word.
Back when I had time on my hands, sitting behind a desk at my own store, I came up with a comic book story that I thought needed telling. My buddy Aaron was supposed to help with the art, but he's now studying to be the great artist he will one day become and little comic projects are not on his radar right now.
So...I am trying my hand at it. I'm not an artist, just a dabbler. It's not so much about the art as it is about the story, in any case. I don't have a schedule, but when each page is ready, I'll post it. I've only got a couple of pages ready, but feel free to check them out.
Click here to read. I'll add a permanent link on the blog once I've got more done.
And speaking of reading, I'm trying my hand at a science fiction novel. It sounds odd, but I've never turned my writing in that direction. I usually stick to fantasy, but this idea popped into my head one night and I like it.
A Big Ball Of Dirt will (hopefully - time and energy permitting) be an ongoing serial novel. The first chapter is up now. Click here to read.
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About Me
- Greybishop
- An old guy who you would find boring. Special skills include: Ability to eat a whole pizza in a single sitting, regardless of size; Amazing taste in comic book related apparel; My cleverest moments invariably occur when there's no audience.
4 comments:
You told me once that you valued my opinion because I was always honest with you. I hope that you still feel that way.
The comic book sounds intriguing. I'll have to read more, of course...
"A Big Ball of Dirt" did nothing for me. There was no "hook", so to speak, that drew me in and made me want to read more.
Morgan and "Bred in the Bone", on the other hand, drew me in immediately. The same with your other novel, "The Diary" (I think that's the name of it). I want to read more of both of those.
That's just my opinion, though....
Hey there, GB! It's good to see you posting here again. I'd begun to worry that maybe something had happened to you. I hope all is well.
What you've got here looks like a fine premise for a story. However, it could use some characters that you give me a reason to care about. While I can feel some concern for "the world at large" with what you have, that's too abstract to make me want desperately to find out what happens next. If you put somes faces on the troubles, I become concerned for what happens to them.
It's possible that the story really begins with the crashed spacecraft. Maybe you can introduce your characters at the site where it's located, and fill in the background gradually as the story unfolds. Then I can be immediately drawn in by what happens to them.
It may take a little convincing for make me accept that the world actually chose to wait through the winter to locate the craft, no matter how great the challenge. I mean, faced with such an enormous disaster, I'd expect them to keep trying and trying, even if they just kept failing and failing. Maybe you can convince me, but that would take up valuable story time. Might it be possible instead to make the crash a later discovery? Perhaps the only witness was a "crazy" hermit that no one believed, at the time, or who was himself stranded over the winter, and couldn't get the word out until the thaw. That would still preserve your timeline, and you'd have nothing to justify.
Anyway, keep at it and thanks for sharing. I hope what I said didn't come across as critical. What you've started with has the makings of an intriguing story.
Hey GB good to see you!!!!Glad you are still keeping up with your writings...Good luck. HI WesB and Lady!!!!
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