[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-co-writing-morning-brain-landscapes":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I spent the morning with writer and illustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://www.scribblehound.com\">David O'Connell\u003C/a> (\u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tozocomic\u003C/a>) working on a picture book manuscript that's gone back and forth to David Fickling about five times. We already have the contract for the overall concept, based on a comics jam we did (like \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/new/airship.html\">\u003Ci>Airship\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, but a different one), but we're still doing a lot of fine-tuning. We sent off two more draft options today. \\r\n\\r\nHere's Dave at his desk, which I almost had to mess up a bit to show off some of his stuff, it was so tidy. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dave_studio-ff3c1bc340.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the desk I came back to, which is a bit chaotic: \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mydesk-be725426f8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI love writing with Dave, his brain works absolutely nothing like mine, so he constantly surprises me with the ideas he bring up for our story. I saw \u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.com/2008/10/26/089/\">one of his panels in Tozo\u003C/a> and thought it was a bit like how his brain would look if it was a room: very airy, large and spacious, with clean parallel and perpendicular lines. ('You mean, empty,' said Dave. 'No!' I said, 'just very ship-shape'.)\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/davehangar-7f6a41fc53.jpg\"> \\r\n\\r\nThe closest thing I've ever drawn to the inside of my head was a picture way back in 2006 in art college. I think the landscape of my brain is like a darkish swamp with glimmers of light peeking through in areas, and lots of strange plants growing closely together and intertwining, with not a straight line to be seen anywhere. It's very easy to get lost in there; if you make a map, the terrain will soon overgrow and shift about. And you have to watch your footing, it's very boggy in places.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/swampbeast-6fbc3e2a99.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhat would the inside of your brain look like? How about drawing a picture, or making a map?","2010-05-18T14:18:00.000Z","co-writing-morning-brain-landscapes",[],"co-writing morning & brain landscapes",1776628718182]