Goal for January: develop at least two pitches for the Image Comics/Newsarama "Who Wants to Creat a Super-Heroine" contest. If you follow the comic industry at all, you should know that getting in as a writer is stupidly hard. Almost all of the focus in talent searches revolves around the artists. This makes sense, of course. The industry isn't all that large, and a lot of money goes into putting out a book, so editors want proven writers for their projects. Hey, guess what, people with novels and tv shows and movies under their belts are clamoring to write comics. Kinda hard for us aspiring writers to get in, having to be as good as people already getting paid to do it. Not that that's any excuse at all.
Anyway, this is an awesome opportunity because it's open to anyone, regardless of experience or who you know. The next Stan Lee or Mark Millar could be typing up the most awesome paragraph ever as you read this. I'd be dumb to not at least try to be that person. Fortunately I've had a female super-heroine running through my head for the better part of the last year. She's been on quite a few exciting adventures in that time, and I've gotten her and her cast of allies and enemies mostly fleshed out. I just need to pick which of her adventures to go with for the pitch. I think that I'll have the pitch written up by this Sunday and will post it up here. After that, I think I'll start really introducing you to Monkey Girl.
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