Last night I found out that it is national novel writing month (NANOWRIMO for short) last night. While I like idea of a deadline, people to help support you in your efforts, and writing in general. I do not feel like I genuinely have the time to put forth writing a 50,000 word novel in one month. Searching out the website I found this article, “Why I hate national novel writing month, and why you should too …”. Surprisingly the article talks about a previous goal of creating a comic book in 24 hours. This amused me since I was considering modifying and participating in the NANOWRIMO in my own special way. The goal for me would be to create a full months worth of webcomics. When complete I would post them on my blog here in a typical webcomic type fashion.
Depending on how much I enjoyed it, and how many ideas I had… I could continue to make more, or be pleased with my one month’s worth of work on a webcomic. Of course, there is only ONE major problem. I have insufficient drawing skills. Fortunately I ran across Dinosaur Comics, and realized that I could reuse the same illustrations with different words. I could even get crazy and have multiple characters that show up looking the same over time. So I have come up with a possible character list:
- Dr. Mayhem – The repentant mad scientist
- Pirate
- Ninja
- Wizard
- Robot
- Dinosaur
- Monk
- Presbo – The President of the United States of America
- Warrior
- Office Worker
- Dragon
- Doctor
My list is clearly too long, and still leaves me with the problem of getting initial illustrations done. Other than Dr. Mayhem, Ninja, and Presbo… Which characters should I keep and why? FYI, I already have 3 comics written.
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Personally, I can't stand the whole Pirates vs Ninjas debate… I am a huge pirate fanatic, and definitely have respect for the whole ninja scene as well. I think that since you've gone with the ninja already, if you decide to include the pirate as well, they should be friends.
I was actually already planning for them to be friends. Although I must say that ninjas by infinite amounts are much cooler than pirates. Also, one ninja could assassinate and entire pirate crew before the pirates even knew what hit them.