Writing Stories

Last night was pretty quiet. I started writing a short prose story set in the Lonely Cities universe. I was kind of thinking of including it as an extra feature with the first issue of the comic or whatever.

It was another fairly dull day at work today. Tomorrow I'm planning on getting into work early again and leaving early so I can go to the comic-book store and I'm also planning on heading up to see Black Swan.

First Script Finished

Last night I finally finished the script for the first issue of my Lonely Cities comic-book. I'm hoping to write some more scripts for later issues and at the weeknd to work on doing test drawings for the artwork and trying to plan out the pages. When the writing is going well than it is the best feeling in the world.

It was another pretty dull day at work.

Life During Wartime

Last night I did some more work on the Lonely Cities comic. I think it's coming along pretty well. I do find that when it is going well I feel better than I have felt in a long time.

In the evening I watched most of a movie called Life During Wartime, directed by Todd Solondz. It's a kind of sequel to his movie Happiness, but the same characters are all played by different actors. It wasn't bad but it was really depressing. The movie is kind of a dark comedy about a disfunctional family.

Today was another dull day at work. I got home at around six again.

More Lonely Cities

Last night I wrote a review of EmiTown by Emi Lenox on Permanently Weird, wrote some more on my comic and watched an episode of The Wire and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

It was another dull day at work. I got back at around six.

I actually think that I have nearly finished the script for the first issue of my comic. I know the look I want to go for on it. I'm going to try and write a few more issues this week and then at the weekend do some test drawings for the artwork.

Early Rise

Last night I wrote a bit more of the Lonely Cities comic. I got up at about five o'clock this morning and was in work for seven. There was a baguette run today. I ordered a panini with honey chilli chicken, onions, barbeque sauce, jalapeno peppers and savoury cheese. It wasn't bad but for some reason they had put sweetcorn in it, which I really don't like it, but the rest of the flavours managed to drown them out.

I left work at about one. While I was waiting for the bus some random drunk guy told me that I looked like a serial killer. I didn't know what the hell he was talking about. I had never seen this guy before in my life.

I went up to the comic book store and bought Batman issue 706, The Amazing Spider-Man issue 651, King City issue 12, Spawn issue 200, DMZ issue 61, Batman: Streets of Gotham issue 19 and Memoir issue 1. Afterwards I went and had a couple of drinks.

The Wrestler

Last night I did start working on a comic-book. So far it's called Lonely Cities. It opens with someone arriving in a strange town looking for something that they've lost, but they don't really know what it is. The feeling I'm kind of going for in it is that feeling you get when it's 3AM and you're completely alone in a strange part of a strange city and you can't find your way home again.

I watched the 2008 movie The Wrestler, directed by Darren Aronofsky. The movie stars Mickey Rourke as a one-time professional wrestler who was at the top of his career twenty years earlier but is now pretty much forgotten and spends much of his time wrestling at the weekend on the independent circuit trying to recapture his glory days. It also stars Marisa Tomei as the stripper with whom he strikes up a tentative relationship, and Evan Rachel Wood as his estranged daughter. It was a really good movie. It's reviewed over at Permanently Weird.

This morning someone came to my door at quarter to eight while I was having my breakfast (or at least a cup of coffee, I never seem to have time for a proper breakfast). It turned out it was the book that I ordered on Friday. The book is EmiTown by Emi Lenox. It's described as a "Sketch Diary", and is pretty much an autobiographical comic-book, along the lines of American Splendor.

It was another fairly dull day at work, but there was a baguette run that was good. I had cajun chicken, onions, savoury cheese, jalapeno peppers and chilli sauce. It was really nice.I was listening to Mary Chapin Carpenter songs on my iPod on my way to and from work this morning (I walk, so if takes about twenty five minutes each way).