Doing It Wrong

Since a new threshold has been crossed (finished Draft Two) work on Draft Three reminds me how many mistakes I've made already. Let me count the ways....

1.  I should have written the whole script in WORD (as a stage or screen play) and once finished dumped it into Publisher. Instead, plot development has been encumbered since day one by images, page layout, fonts, balloons, characters, etc. I wonder how the creative writing process would have been smoother had I not been juggling so many tangential details. On the bright side, keeping all these details in mind has left little room for grieving.

2.  I should have gotten a better handle on the perplexities of Ecclesiastes before launching this project. Instead, I've been plodding through verse by verse supplementing my musings with commentaries galore. I'm not sure why I think creativity should be linear. In my case it's anything but.

3. I shouldn't have used that bad font. It took ten unpleasant days to replace it.

4. I should have bought stock in Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. As you can see in the previous post's video, I'm going through a lot of paper. Draft Three initially was to be the hard copy on which I drew pencil sketches. As it turns out, I'm honing Draft Three by combining all the ideas I've collected in Drafts One and Two as well as inserting random words, phrases, ideas which I've collected in a separate file. It's now becoming a mass of corrections and therefore unsuited for drawing. This means Draft Four will be the one on which I start pencil drawings. Good night, another 428 pages to be printed. Trees shudder at the sound of my name.

5.  I should have been more thorough in project management. My task list is helter-skelter. Once Draft Four has been roughly drawn I will then scan it and combine pages creating 214 digital pages. That doc will then be offered to several persons for proof reading. The subject of proof readers requires a blog post of its own so I'll come back to this. Once proof readers have made suggestions I'll incorporate them into Draft Five which will be printed on card stock, penciled, inked, colored, and once again scanned for final unveiling to the public. I have no road map on how to create a graphic novel so I'm sure I'm wasting lots of time.

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