Well, I'll be mostly reiterating things alrady said, but it depends on the project.
I'll cite by example, I was working on a short 5 page script as a request for someone. The request was for a "pulp" script. Knowing nothing about the genre, I did several hours reading up on the Pulp genre, and once I got the gist of it, I wrote my script.
On the other hand, I've got another project, a 50+ issue behemoth, which I've been planning for about 4 years. So far I've written the first 10 pages of the first issue. All the rest is planning and plotting and building characters, and the world.
So, once again, it really depends on the scope of the project.
p.s. Hi Trey!
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