My computer appears to be briefly behaving itself, so last night I
spent a little time writing Hudson Falls - as a novel. It was just an
experiment to see it it'd work more than anything, and as it turns out
it feels pretty natural and I think I might give it a try.
I'm
playing a little with a semi-epistolary form, staggering newspaper
stories and press articles in between chapters, and it seems to give the
story a bit of extra body. I've not written much of it so far so
there's no major changes to report, but I'm already tinkering with the
idea of ramping up the fantasy quotient and having a denouement that
resolves the story in a more unreal, anthropomorphic way.
It'll
be a while yet before I can get back into it properly, but when I do I
think I shall be having a real go at this novel thing. Hell, if it
doesn't work out, I can always re-convert it to a comic book. In any
case it felt good to be writing again, although I'm woefully out of
practice writing prose after so long concentrating on comics.
Darren Ellis writes, except when he doesn't.
When he doesn't he's more than likely doing something sedentary and fun, like playing video games or reading a book. Or procrastinating over what he's supposed to be writing.
Oh yes. He does that last one quite a bit.
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