The Industrial Revolution!

I made some serious progress today!  I got six full pages written and most importantly moved the story along.  Not sure of the quality, but as I've said before, it's more important for me to get this DONE and then to go back and tweak, than to get gold from the first swing of the pick.

I worked on character today, which was part of the homework for class that I pretty much finished too.  Like I said, real productive day.  Spent 4 hours at Borders!  So, character is the name of the day, and my assignment was to describe how I get to know my characters.  I realized that I had done a lot of character thought all through my comic strip stuff.    This was a revelation to me, as I hadn't really put that together in my head.  But really, back then I was always developing characters, quality of that development will be left to my critics, but I fondly recall my process.

I took someone I knew, then had them make some choices.  The choice they made may not have been exactly what the person would do in real life, but my perception of them would translate to the characters choice.  Since that decision should serve the story, that character would quickly begin to take on a life of their own, and develop further from teh original template.  If I thought far enough ahead of publication, I could take that decision and backtrack it into the story. 

This last part was much harder to do with a daily strip, because I was making it on the fly, but with a complete story, I'll be able to go back and sow the seeds into the early part of the tales.  I like that.

MotD:  The Bucket List
I was expecting to dislike this movie simply for cheese purposes.  And certainly, it was cookie cutter and predictable.  With any other actors, it would have sucked.  However, they managed to find the PERFECT actors for this role.  Nicholson and Freeman could re-enact "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing" and I'd watch that.  It was real enjoyable, if toothless.