Tropical Storm Beryl & Reworking An Ending

This weekend gave us some fun here in Jacksonville as Tropical Storm Beryl barrelled in to our coast and gave us a good deal of rain, power outages and wind.  Where I live things were thankfully uneventful, but it was pretty crazy throughout town.  At one point I did wake up in the middle of the night to hear just an insane gusting of wind.  Thankfully I had some big tree branches cut down last year that posed some problems with the house, so I was able to sleep easier.

With all of the rain, and potential power outages, I had the computer turned off and decided to spend some time reworking the ending of the book. I know that the final moment in Adamsville in which everything comes to a head really needs to matter.  It needs to be a moment where you stop and say. “that was great!”   It needs to feel like it was worth it.  I literally feel like if this moment doesn’t work, the book is a failure as a story.  No pressure, right?

 The interesting thing with it is that it’s been more of a process of redoing the layouts for this scene than actual rewrites.  So I have been rewriting on paper rather than in my software.

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It’s pretty cool how many ways we can make comics and how there really is no right way. This process of rewriting with thumbnails is interesting because in an anction sequence or something that really hinges on the visual, you can control the overall flow better. In the end I feel really good that the final moment of the book will sing the way I hope it will. Here’s hoping you all agree!

The only bad thing, if it’s bad at all, is that the process of rewriting has added about 9 pages to the over all product, effectively adding about half a month of work to my process of finishing this book. I’m still working hard to be done by September so I can pursue all of the publication options, but the goal is a great book first and foremost so we’ll see how things go.

Thanks for coming by and reading. See you all next time.

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