Okay, well maybe I'm not but . . .
I'm far enough ahead in my sundays that I don't have to do anymore until I get back from Newfoundland in mid July.
Yesterday I wrote 4 weeks of dailies. FOUR WEEKS. (well, almost four weeks...I'm three dailies short but they'll come to me) I did have about three weeks worth of outlines to work with so I wasn't starting cold . . . but that is still a feat incroyable.
Today and tomorrow I will draw them. Friday and Saturday I will ink and photoshop. I'm kinda thinking I might need at least part of Sunday to get it all finished but I'll see how it goes.
That will give me MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY to shop, clean out the van, pack, organize some paperwork, etc., etc. I really could use another day but I'm just thankful I'm not going to be photoshopping the night before we leave.
Please don't tell my editor that I managed to write 4 weeks of strips in one session. He might expect me to be all . . . you know. . . efficient and productive like this all the time or something. Seriously though, if I can do this, there's no reason I shouldn't be able to make some substantial headway in the deadline schedule in future. I actually like that idea.
Oh . . . and the Cartooning Women Conversations? They are coming along very nicely! I think you're going to find these interviews interesting. I've been e-mailing a question to each woman and they e-mail back an answer and I play off their answer with the next question. You're going to think you're eavesdropping on a little private cartoonists chat.
I'll get back to you soon with a schedule and some names.
Four weeks worth of writing in ONE DAY????
You ARE wonder woman! Do you find that time soars while you're writing? When you return home and the dust has settled you'll have to tell us your inside dope on story telling.Please?
Posted by: Margaret Shulock | June 25, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Actually, what she meant to post was "I just wrote a story arc in which Maeve takes up again with her ex and decided I'd like to get as far away from my email, phone and friends as I could about the time it hits the papers." ;-)
Posted by: Mike Peterson | June 27, 2009 at 05:48 PM
Hooray for you, Sandra! I'm almost finished my questions, btw – you'll be getting an email from me very soon!
Posted by: patricia | June 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Please tell me it was a very long day, it was raining outside and the internet was broken.
Posted by: Alex Hallatt | July 03, 2009 at 05:23 AM