What Writers Do
I was reading some Hunter Thompson this past night and that reminded me of Warren Ellis. (For those of you that don’t know Spider Jerusalem, from Transmetropolitan was a thinly disguised Thompson.) And that inevitably reminded me of Ellis’s talk at Wizard World this year. One of the questions that Ellis fielded was what he did when/ and if he had writer’s block. Ellis had quite the interesting response. He said that he had never really had that particular phenomenon, and anyone that did probably wasn’t a writer. His point was the the thing that defines a writer is the fact that they write. If you can’t, or don’t, write anything you are no longer a writer, you are now something else, whatever that may be.
I started this blog over a year ago because I want to be involved in the comics industry in some capacity. If you look at the archives (if there even is an archive at this point) you’ll see how incredibly pathetic the number of entries is. I have not been a writer, and I want to be. (Actually, I really want to be an editor, but that’s a tale for a different time.) So, as of today, I’m going to be much more proactive in my writing and reviews.
Later this afternoon I’ll be posting a review of Vertigo’s House of Mystery revival (’cause Vertigo needs more press). Later in the week will be a review of Jennie Breeden’s The Devil’s Panties. And later still I’ll take a look at Jim Reaper Week One from Dwight MacPherson and Mathieu Bendit. After that I’ll have to try and sort out some sort of rational posting schedule that will work with my work schedule (I’m an English teacher of all things) as well as the posting duties I already ignore at Drunken Pumpkin and my own webcomic Stamp of Adventure.
Well, let’s let the insanity begin.
