Muscle Beach: C'mon Flex Those Projects!

[Sinobyte]

As writers we're all working on some project or another on any given day. We start some, we move to different ones. Constantly pitching to ourselves and praying the perfect collaborator comes along. Occasionally a pissing contest occurs on the forums and people start to feel inferior & superior. Here's your chance though to let others know what you're working on and what you hope to do with it. We're all struggling and that makes us equals. Nobody is above anybody else so let's have some fun.

Consider it a bragging post for the writers on the writers forum. Don't be ashamed to talk about what you're currently working on and what you plan to do with it. Take a few minutes and pimp your work. I know everybody is working on something, hell several things. Let's hear what you're all up to.

[Mwynn]

1. Expanding the first Silent Strike mini-series from 4 to 5 issues.

2. A new web comic.

3. Novel number one, The Signal

4. Novel number two, Rancid.

5. Top Secret.

[Sinobyte]

Originally Posted by Mwynn

3. Novel number one, The Signal

4. Novel number two, Rancid.

Awesome. What genre are your upcoming novels?

[Mwynn]

The Signal is mystery with a sci fi twist.
Rancid is mystery with horror.

[Sinobyte]

Very nice! Good luck man. Anybody else?

[Carlos Javier]

I'm working on 12 3-panel comics for Jason Moser and his Ellium universe. Feel free to visit the Ellium website. Very interesting stuff. The moment I looked around it the first time, I knew I wanted to be apart of it. Not only is there an 'X-Files meets DaVinci Code directed by Hitchcock' feel to it, but there seems to be a lot of indie exuberace put into it. Not only that, but Jason's preferred format seems to be the OGN. You can get a 100+ page graphic novel for under $10.

And while I haven't posted here since I had to create a new screenname, I've been lurking. I know there has been a lot of bickering and confrontations, but I'm sure that if anyone's supposed 'antagonist' were to acheive success, we'd all be cheering. Life for a comic book writer is just plain too shitty for us not to be happy one of us makes it.

Pimp-mode off.

[nefariousderringdo]

right now I'm putting together a screenplay
the title is up in the air right now, but basically it's about four people and how their lives are affected by each other when one screws around, is an asshole etc. etc. without all that glorified drama jude law bull$h!t a real tale about real people.

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS: combines my contempt for super-hero comics and their nine-part max-mini 'pivotal' until the next arc crap, into a stand alone super-hero universe where we follow one guy ALAN through his daily trials and tribulations of trying to get noticed by the federally sponsored super-heroes. of course there are twists and turns and only like four pages of fight scenes in a 48-page book. but no damn talking heads.

MACHINE ELVES: is about the fabric of reality placed into a sci-fi setting...the less you know the better. it is on like the fiftieth re-write cause most artists (and sane people) have no idea what the hell i am writing about.

LOVE STORY: a 100+ page graphic novel i am writing and illustrating. problem is i cannot draw, so i am teaching myself to draw with old, knackered copies of someone else's 'how to draw the marvel way' with steve buscema and pinning up photgraphs of things I would like to be able to draw all over the place (much to the chargrin of my girlfriend, cause i have like 14 pictures of a man slumped against an overflowing garbage bin trying to reach the top garbage bag...if i can draw that i can be the next FRANK MILLER).

that about sums it up, I have all types of other word files on here that i havent touched or looked at in oh...a year or so...but one of these days.

[darkwriter]

The Lycan Bug: A graphic novel about werewolves. Involves viruses and mutations rather than the moon and curses.

Bowen: Story set in the middle ages about a Knight who is charged with finding a kidnap victim important to the king.

Behind The Door: Horror submission for You'll Never Be A Published ***** Writer.

Every now and then I'll do a short just for the fun of writing such as my No Dialogue? stories.

[Sinobyte]

• Secured the rights to release the 15 issue back catalogue of Clive Barkers Lost Souls Magazine.
  
  
• Finished co-writing "Sacrament of the Blind Dead", a comic continuation of the 4 Spanish horror films of the 70's.
  
  
• Just inked a deal with horror novelist Brian Keene for Indie Gods Publishing to adapt his Bram Stoker Award winning novel, "The Rising". His novel was also been optioned for a feature film and video game.
  
  
• Just secured the rights to produce a directors cut comic adaptation of the indy horror film, "Shadows of the Dead". I'll be handling the writing chores myself. (you can snag the DVD over at Amazon or CD universe)
  
  
• Currently working with co-creator Zac Atkinson (9-Volt Studios) on Skanles #0.
  
  
• Creating a new cover for the 2nd edition of my poetry book and finishing up the poetry for my 2nd volume.
  
  
• Preparing files and waiting on the last bit of inking by Marc Deering (Candyappleblack) on Dustin Chadwell's Deadhattan #0 for completion. This should be on sale by the mid to end of March.
  
  
• Indie Gods/Studio Orlof/ IDEP b.v.b.a. Production will be working on a comic adaptation of 80's splatter flick, "Lucker The Necrophagous".

[PedroPierre]

I know threads get bogged down and sometimes obliterated when people go off topic to give personal opinions when what we're really here for is to build our writing and critiquing skills, but let me start this post by doing just that: giving my personal opinion.

Sinobyte - I just want to pat you on the back for this. This is a great thread created with great intentions. Thank you. It's about time we all get back down to what we are here to do.

Enough of that.

I'm working on two projects:

BACKWARD DEVIL - Don't know whether this is going to be graphic novel or continuous series yet, so I'm just taking it one chapter/issue at a time. It's a psychological drama about the life of a vampire who doesn't want to be what he is. A self-proclaimed pacifist who's forced to kill innocent people to survive himself, his life goal has become to find and terminate the monster (Father) who made him what he is. After that goal is complete, he'll be able to end his life of suffering and making others suffer. The problem is, though, he doesn't know who his Father is or where he can be found.

and

THE DIVINE - A graphic of three people "chosen" by angels from on high to first find God who has been imprisoned for two thousand years, and then lead an army to defeat the Lowers (devils, demons) in an inevitable divine war. Sounds a bit contrived and unoriginal in a one-sentence-synopsis, but I think it has the makings of something quite unique. This is a future project, as I have come to understand the values of not just researching the material, but INTENSELY researching the material.

Thanks, Sin.

[Jason Berek-Lewis]

I'm not really here to brag, rather to share my admiration for everyone else's work, and talk a little about my own.

I'm currently writing an 8 issue comic series about a young girl, a robot, a phayrie, a mage, a semi-retired knight and a bunch of very, very pissed off dragons! I've scripted 2 issues and plotted 6. I just have no time to write.

I am also always tossing around ideas for another mini series that I want to write called The King of Adventure which is sort of inspired by Farscape, Sliders and Stargate AND will be semi-autobiographical.

Besides these projects, I am writing a fortnightly column about life as a comic book fan ... all the way out in Australia. The column is called "A View From Over The Edge" and is available at www.comicsnexus.com

I'm also preparing to pitch an idea for another column to a different website.

Jason

[Boy]

Got a story that's being submitted for DWP (cross fingers and say prayers, people)

A story that's supposed to be drawn, but I haven't talked to the artist in a good while.

And I'm heavily involved in the You'll Never Be a Published xxxxx Writer book as both a writer and even more as an editor.

[samy]

~~~~~~HERO OF THE BEACH~~~~~~

(Sorry, the subject line was screaming for it.)

(Not even sure anybody'll get that.)

[samy]

I am working on the character design and long-term plotting phase of several aspects of a fictional universe. It features a whole bunch of completely unoriginal blatant ripoff characters in multiple teams/books that I hope to tell interesting stories with. (In the style of, say, Moore's SUPREME or Gruenwald's SQUADRON SUPREME.) I'm really excited about this project and proud of what I've knocked together so far. I've got all the obligatory Superman ripoffs, X-Men ripoffs, Power Man/Iron Fist ripoffs and I think I'm coming up with some pretty damn nice twists and flip-flops on the original concepts, and interesting places to take them.

My only real problem is that I don't have enough money to hire as many artists as my brain keeps coming up with concepts.

[DarkOra]

1. Writing, coloring, and lettering the weekly Brat-halla webcomic
2. Writing, coloring, and lettering the weekly Spook'd webcomic
3. Putting together a 120-page TPB for Brat-halla
4. On standby to edit another TPB (that I also wrote a couple short backup stories for)
5. Reworking a pitch I'd previously submitted to a publisher and writing up a spec script for it (for a property they recently contacted me about trying to get rolling again)
6. The Art of Words column at the soon-to-be-relaunched Scryptic Studios website
7. Finished recoding the Comicaze Report section of my website, so I can relaunch it as a weekly column.
8. Working on finishing up/finalizing three screenplays to submit to the Nicholl Fellowship and Austin Film Festival this year
9. Writing a spec script to submit to the Warner Bros Writers Workshop in the fall
10. Picking away at three short stories (two science fiction and one fantasy)
11. Using what little time spare time I have to work on scripts for my Party Crashers, Arazel & Xarenia, and Steampunk Faeries properties.