It's been a while since I have posted, but I have been busy. I have written a big script - a 6-book short series, 22 pages in each book.
It's a modern-day mostly realistic story set mostly in London. A woman who's son is diagnosed with leukaemia turns to wiccan magic to try and effect healing. While she is striving for control, her attempts at magic take her more and more out of control, and we find just how much she is willing to risk.
Of course there's more than that, and there are some nice twists and turns. I think it's pretty good, so I'm not going to give any spoilers here. I've been reading a book on telling stories ("Into The Woods"), and while I'm a little skeptical about its formulaic approach, it helped to give me some hooks in structuring the story.It could be seen as a hero quest, a 3-act story, a 5-act story, a 6-act story, it has a midpoint and symmetry. It has a crisis and character change. What it doesn't have is a lot of violence. Almost no violence at all in fact, which might make it not that appealing to the comic book world. I find myself not really wanting to write violence.
So I started thinking it would be a single-shot story. Then I realised it could be longer, but I thought that it would probably work best as a graphic novel. Then it started to nicely break into a 6-episode story. So currently it's written like that.
I got quite obsessively into it as I was writing. It was like an internal pressure building up that had to come out. I ended up researching some strange things, from obvious details about leukaemia, to domestic water purifiers, to how to break into Stonehenge.
I have a couple of friends who may read it and give me feedback before I submit it anywhere. I have a small quandary about submission. I wrote it intending to submit it to Dark Horse, and I still might. I actually think it would best suit Image, but they don't take writer-only submissions from un-established writers. There is a British Publisher, Markosia, who it might suit better, but they would either only publish it electronically, or a collection, or maybe as a graphic novel. With it being set in London it might do better with a UK publisher. They also take email submission which Black Horse do not. Submitting nearly 180 pages of paper to the USA might be a little expensive. Also it would take time. On the other hand, Dark Horse are the third largest publisher of comics in the world, Markosia are much smaller, likely to not publish in print (is this important?) and seem to want a different format for the script.
So I'm going to mull this over while my friends have a read.
Meanwhile, I have heard nothing from 2000AD or Timebomb, Timebomb said it would be March. 2000AD say 6 weeks and it's been nine. Maybe I need to do another Future shock for them.
