The Diary Of A Novice Comic Book Writer

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Panel 1

It’s now 9 am Saturday morning

Tzedek is still passed out in the brush by the retention pond. She lies flat on her stomach in her burnt and tattered costume, her burnt skin now healed. Only her unhealed scar on her back remains.

CAP:

Nightmares. I always get them in the morning.

Panel 2

Sweat drops down her brow as she struggles to wake up.

CAP:

They keep me going, they keep me alive…

Panel 3

She awakens with a start and peels off her mask.

CAP:

I still want them to go away…

Panel 4

Minutes later, Tzedek is back in the apartment complex sitting in the car that the two men had pretended to work on.  A few feet away she sees a mother tying her little girls’ shoe before putting her into the minivan.

CAP:

I use to have one of those when I was a kid…

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Mother..I used to know what that word meant.

Panel 5

Tzedek begins driving away.

CAP:

I saw it in action, I touched it and felt it, I loved it…

Panel 6

She continues to drive away leaving the mother and her child in the background. A tear escapes from her right eye.

CAP:

I used to talk to one as a child and then I was taken away from her…

CAP:

And then the nightmares began…

Copyright 2011. Tzedek by Talisha Harrison

Copyright 2011. Tzedek by Talisha Harrison is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

You can repost this but you can’t make money off of this, you have to let people know I created it and you have to share it under the same terms that I do.

Everyday for the past couple of weeks I was able to rewrite my Tzedek script and I was finally finished on Sunday. I spell checked it and re-read it over again and then yesterday I resubmitted it to ComixTribe’s The Proving Grounds. I got an email today letting me know that they received it and it will be February 17th when my script will be reviewed. I’m nervous and not excited. I’m not expecting any good news. Anytime I get excited it never turns out right…but I digress.

I do believe that this script is way better than what I wrote before, but I’m still not sure what to expect. 

Well we’ll see what happens…I’ll post a page of the script up and not the whole thing. 

So if you haven’t been following my posts then you probally don’t know about how I wrote my first ten page comic for Tzedek and I submitted it for review and the review was horrible. I at first felt hurt personally and it ruined my day…it took me a few days to get over (well it still stings a little) and after a second review by one of my fellow Womanthology writers I felt much better and vowed not to give up and also to rewrite the script.

Well a few months have past since then and much as gone on-I’m working and writing and finally I’ve rewritten the script. It’s 11 pages so far but I hope to make this a 22 page story (my second and hopefully better than the first 22 page story I wrote). 

So I’ll be sending it in for review and hopefully this review will go much better than the first. I feel that this a better script and I hope that it’s not horrible. I’ll be putting it up tomorrow. I need to spell check it first. My Word’s spell check isn’t working so I need to find a spell check program that’s free to use forever and free to download anyone have any suggestions?

Finally today the Womanthology Holiday PDF was released to all the backers who’ve supported the project! I hope you all enjoy it and I want to thank Miss Brenda Kirk @brainconfetti & @Geektress for being my artist on the one page story! Also to the backers Thank You!

I will wish all of you Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanza, Happy New Year, Happy Three Kings Day and Happy Holidays!

Tali

My comic for @Womanthology’s Holiday PDF is finished! It looks awesome! Thanks again to Brenda Kirk who was my artist she did an excellent job!

Now I’m working on re-writing my Tzedek story that I did a few months back and I had it reviewed by two people and both had great advice (one was my fellow Womanthology writer Rachel Pandich) to give me and I hope that I learned from it.

I know it’s been a while since I’ve worked on Tzedek but I’ve been busy doing some research and working at my job at the library. But I haven’t forgotten about it.

Last week I also published the first @Comicmaniacs Magazine so check that out it’s on the Tumblr page. I think that if I write everyday it’ll definitely improve my writing.

So that’s what’s up for now. I’m on page four for Tzedek. I don’t know how long this story will be but it’s gotta be at least eight pages.

Alright later!

That’s right! I’ve got an artist! After writing my post a few days ago and having it retweeted and receiving inquires I got an artist @Geektress & @brainconfetti . She does her own webcomic too. Check out her sites too: http://www.geektress.com/ http://www.brain-confetti.com/

So I wrote the story on the way to visit my sis in Tampa (She’s graduating this friday from college fyi I’m very proud!) and then I edited it and re edited it. Originally it was 9 panels then 8 now it’s 7. To write a one page story is extremely challenging. I mean how do you fit everything that you want to say on page with the max six/seven panels? Then you’ve only have a week to do it in! 

I sent my tagline out to the editor so I’m waiting to hear back. 

I decided to check out Walking Dead. When I’m gonna start catching up is probally over the winter break. Work is going good-a couple of my co-workers are into comics, writing, research, history, anime, Japan, and films. I like the library. It’s a good fit for me, but one day I hope to be a writer for Marvel, DC or whatever comic book publisher writing their established characters and creating new ones, and writing my own. 

Okay that’s all for now. 

Tagline: Sadden and upset by the vandalism of her synagogue, a young girl becomes hopeful after observing the resolve of her fellow congregants during the clean up and becomes inspired to never let the light go out.

If you’re interested I’ll send you the rough draft script that I wrote earlier today. It’s 8 panels.

So I have a challenge to write a one page comic for Womanthology’s project. I’m excited and a little stressed but I know I can do it. It’ll be due next week so I have to get started. 

I’m in need of an artist, I’ve asked my Womanthology artist if she could do it but alas she has an important deadline to meet. So who would like to work with me?

I would like to do a Hanukkah theme and that’s all I’ve got for right now…good thing I did the #30Characters challenge..

I do have a backup if I can’t get an artist-I’ll write a poem. 

Alright that’s all for now…

I completed the #30Characters Challenge a few minutes ago and I did it! 

This helped me soo much! It helped me flesh out characters like Tzedek and Defect and get them more detailed and it helped me create new characters for stories that I can do in the future.

Now my next challenge is to rewrite Tzedek’s script. While fleshing her out even more, I discovered that the story would have a lot of changes-grammar wise and script flowing wise, etc. 

I didn’t get to draw all of the characters-which is okay considering I’m a novice artist but the ones that I did draw I’m happy I was able to show what they will look like-or a rough estimate of what they will look like. 

Along this monthly journey I’ve had ups and downs but I got through it. So after I rewrite Tzedek’s script, there’s the script challenge in April from ScriptFrenzy so I look forward to it. 

Alright later!

Character #29

The Elders of Ben-Mali:  Are between 120-150 years of age. There are six of them-three men and three woman. They are extremely knowledgeable about dragons, magic, history,etc. and have achieved the highest level of magic, meditation, and fighting skills.  They live on an island in the sky in the western province of Muli. They are the ones who use the dragon eye stone to chose the six people who’ll become the new dragon eye warriors in 410 years. The elders of Ben-Mali will also mentor and train the dragon eye warriors.

Characters #30

The Monks of Ben-Mali : Are monks from all social statuses, male and female who answer a higher calling. The leave all worldy things behind.  They study ancient texts, learn the ancient arts of magic, meditation, and fighting. They are roaming monks. The donations they receive go to purchase food and lodging and to help the poor of Muli.   Though not as powerful as the elders of Ben-Mali are, they are extremely skilled.

Copyright 2011 Talisha Harrison