{"id":1353,"date":"2013-01-10T19:12:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T19:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamsvillecomic.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2013-01-10T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T19:12:25","slug":"book-1-pitching-what-to-do-with-fear-and-book-2-breaking-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/book-1-pitching-what-to-do-with-fear-and-book-2-breaking-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 1 Pitching &#8211; What To Do With Fear and BOOK 2 &#8211; Breaking The Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy everyone! Well book 1 is\u00a0off to all parties and reviewers at the moment. So much out there could happen and while that is at once nervewracking it is also very very exciting. Only the anxiety is usually the prevailing emotion sadly.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to lose yourself in all the questions and the silence you experience while you wait is often defeaning.\u00a0 You start asking questions about what everyone is thinking of you, your work: Did you do well enough? Is it sub par art?\u00a0 It&#8217;s almost impossible to fight that fear down.\u00a0 In some ways that is good thing.\u00a0 It means you care, it means this matters , it means you took a chance on something\u00a0and THAT means you&#8217;ll probably keep going no matter what if you don&#8217;t let discouragement keep you down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But on the flipside, it could mean that the thing you hope for to happen will!\u00a0 It could mean things finally start to click.\u00a0 Either way, your life doesn&#8217;t end\u00a0here and it won&#8217;t if you don&#8217;t let it.\u00a0 So keep going.\u00a0 Keep believing and KEEP WORKING!\u00a0 Also, the silence seems a lot quieter when you pick yourself up and keep going on to the next project.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, what am I working on right now?<\/p>\n<p>A number of things.\u00a0 I am finishing up a book my oldest daughter and I have been working on.\u00a0 You can see the line art for the first story we finished right here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/?p=994\">http:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/?p=994<\/a>\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what we will do with it all when it&#8217;s done, but we will share it all online at least.\u00a0 I have some ideas on what we could do charity wise with it and that excites me.\u00a0 So stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that I am doing a free video tutorial on how I paint in Photoshop.\u00a0 In it I will be explaining my process for making a portrait painting of the great Marvel villain\/deity GALACTUS!\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be fielding questions and talking through lessons I&#8217;ve learned in the art world, so please if you are interested in painting digitally, watch the first video and leave your thoughts.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to sharing some time with you all.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the first video:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xyl9uQPkctI\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the comics front, its time to make book 2 of Adamsville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You always hear how breaking a story is inspiration or hear excuses from others that they don&#8217;t write because they aren&#8217;t inspired&#8230; well sir, fix that thought.\u00a0 Making a story is labor.\u00a0\u00a0It may have started as inspiration but the doing is hard work.\u00a0 Frustrating back stepping, starts and stops all the way around and then finally you look and your story is there ready to be made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This past week\u00a0I finished my first pass at the whole book in a treatment form and that&#8217;s what I wanted to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>Now when I write my stories, I start with just a blank word document and let myself have a free for all.\u00a0 I write down everything and anything I think I want to see in the book and just really allow myself to be free to mess up, be crazy and come to some bigger story ideas.\u00a0This goes on for awhile.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been addressing book 2 of this series since around July of last year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gone through many stops and starts.\u00a0 But the first thing I recommend for you all is to define what you want the book to be.\u00a0 What I mean by that is very open but for me it was deciding I wanted Adamsville to absolutely be\u00a0 a trilogy of books.\u00a0 Before now it had been fairly open and it could have gone on for forever, but defining it was good so that I had something I could more definitively pitch the book.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was able to define the book as a trilogy I knew where this book needed to end for it to be right on track for book 3.\u00a0 Once that was done I got to writing a one page breakdown of the book.\u00a0 This is a super consolidated version of the story that makes sure the plot has a beginning, middle and an end.\u00a0 In many ways this is the absolute hardest phase for me with writing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s where I have to actually have a story for the first time, not the trailer that is in my head.\u00a0 Lol.\u00a0 This goes on for months with me, since I don&#8217;t get a ton of\u00a0 time to spend in it.<\/p>\n<p>Then finally once that is good and set, I begin a treatment of the book.\u00a0 A treatment in its simplest defintion is a scene by scene break down of the book.\u00a0 It tells what happens every beat of the way.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the skeleton of your story that you will put the flesh on to.\u00a0 Many times you&#8217;ll find that you will need to leave this phase and go back to your one pages summary to make sure that the plot is truly working.\u00a0 It took me about four or five drafts before I finally finished one that I thought was solid and ready to be tightened up before writing the book.<\/p>\n<p>And what can I say of book 2 so far.\u00a0 It&#8217;s gonna be bonkers, lol.\u00a0 Big conceprt, a nigtmare to actually draw and hopefully the emotional and kinetic experience I see in my head.\u00a0 Very excited to finally see these moments in book form after so long them sitting in my head.\u00a0 Just remember when writing, serve your story.\u00a0 Listen to what it is telling you it needs and don&#8217;t fight it to hard.\u00a0 Your instincts are usually right.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s where book 2 is.\u00a0 A treatment is done and now begins writing the script.\u00a0 So until next time!\u00a0 Have a great day! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy everyone! 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