Keeping Things Real

Here's my latest Elephant Words story.

As always, please rate and comment honestly. I like this quite a bit more than last week's post.

Last week's post, which you can view in my archives on Elephant Words, or by clicking here, felt, to me, like it suffered from being a student film.

The problem with student films is they are often short, and when one wants to make a comedy, one often ends up telling a joke with a punchline, rather than having an actual story where the comedy comes naturally from the characters and their actions (as well as delightful window dressing). So it felt like a set-up and a punchline to me. I enjoyed the first story I did there, because it was a pulp sci-fi piece masquerading as a love story/relationship deconstruction. This one is probably the one I'm most proud of so far, though there's at least three weeks left (and hopefully more!).

Tomorrow is a meeting with my artist for our first comic project, and I'm really excited about this one. It's going to showcase a lot of old Pittsburgh, which I think is pretty cool.