...you should send out, today, the best work you are capable of doing today. Of course you'll do better a year from now. But a year from now you should be writing the story that you care about and believe in at that time--not reworking this year's story.
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Elton Pruitt
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Re:I Keep Running and Running and Running
Posted: 2008/01/24 13:32
Caleb Monroe wrote: The new column's a good read, Elton. Fits in nicely with one of my recent favorite writing quotes:
"Writing is a process of outwitting the process of not writing." -Neil Gaiman
Do you ever find yourself getting stuck on the blank page of the spiral notebook? I LOVE that quote!
Thankfully, I do not have that problem with the spiral notebook. I think because I'm not in Butt in Chair mode. With the notebook, it's low-to-no pressure, kicked back on the bed or sofa, feeling like I can do no wrong.
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Howard Wong
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Re:I Keep Running and Running and Running
Posted: 2008/01/28 12:26
I never let myself sit in front of the computer blankly. Just start typing something and the rest will come to you.
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Caleb Monroe
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Re:I Keep Running and Running and Running
Posted: 2008/02/02 05:48
Good column, Elton. I agree with your general conclusion that courtship is preferable over the cattle call or guy you know.
HOWEVER...
I should point out that a cattle call was how I ended up working with the storied Noel Tuazon. This was before he had anything out like Elk's Run or even Western Tales of Terror, so otherwise we might have missed each other. Instead, we're now working on our sixth project together. So sometimes the cattle call can help you find a special artist you didn't even know you were looking for.
So really, any of the approaches can work. But by and large the courtship definitely seems to provide me with better results more often than the other two approaches combined.
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Elton Pruitt
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Re:I Keep Running and Running and Running
Posted: 2008/02/02 06:17
Caleb Monroe wrote: Good column, Elton. I agree with your general conclusion that courtship is preferable over the cattle call or guy you know.
HOWEVER...
I should point out that a cattle call was how I ended up working with the storied Noel Tuazon. This was before he had anything out like Elk's Run or even Western Tales of Terror, so otherwise we might have missed each other. Instead, we're now working on our sixth project together. So sometimes the cattle call can help you find a special artist you didn't even know you were looking for.
So really, any of the approaches can work. But by and large the courtship definitely seems to provide me with better results more often than the other two approaches combined.<br><br>Post edited by: Caleb Monroe, at: 2008/02/02 05:51
Thanks for sharing that, Caleb. I was wondering how you guys hooked up in the first place.
Despite my anti-cattle call leanings in that column, I'm actually tempted to try that out for a future project, just to see how it works.
It is, after all, how Drew Melbourne wound up getting Joe "Inker of every comic ever published but Cerebus" Rubinstein to ink Archenemies for him!
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