I love the writing process sometimes. I was working on the outline for chapter one, and started putting up some ideas I had jotted down on a white board to get  everything in one spot. Then, I was working on writing it down in the notebook with a little more detail so I could start writing scripts from it.

While I was writing down one of the main points in the chapter, I started expanding upon the details and what happened, with stuff I hadn’t even thought of. I didn’t even consciously think of these ideas, they basically wrote themselves. It’s a pretty serious plot now, which I will of course sugar coat because, hey, I draw a humor comic, this isn’t an episode of Law & Order or CSI.

It’s not the first time it’s happened, and hopefully not the last, because this ensures that I won’t have writer’s block for quite a while, except for maybe lines here and there. Hopefully, I can manipulate it enough to not seem out-of-place in the comic.

Then again, I’ve already strayed from my original intentions with it. Some things are what I usually run into. Personality swaps (CJ was supposed to be the lush and Sam was supposed to be May but with a bass instead of a hockey stick), plot changes (Jack wasn’t originally struggling to get by, he was just lonely), and subtle (or un-subtle?) changes (Jack was never going to be working at a restaurant, CJ was supposed to work at a clothing store). Luckily, I’ve never really set anything in stone, not even an ending, because you never know what little ideas you’ll change that can affect the entire storyline or a plot point three years from now.

After all, what would the comic be like if Sam didn’t drink?