Recently I heard or saw a parody of Sounds of Silence that I thought was really nifty. I can’t remember any of it now, but today I offer my own inept attempt:
Writer’s Block my old friend
You’ve come to torture me again.
The ideas come so slow, they’re creeping.
Frustration’s keeping me from sleeping.
And the story, that is stuck inside my brain
Will remain
Until I nail the synopsis.
Last weekend I drew the last of the strip scripts I had written out. So before I could begin drawing this weekend’s strips, I needed to write new material. The last strip I drew goes up a week and a half before Christmas, so I figured I could try to whip up a little story around Crismus’s birthday again. Okay sure, but what happens? Well, Deema hasn’t met Crismus yet, surely there’s something to be told there. I quickly mapped something out but realized there was no way I could fit everything into four strips (the number of strips I have left between December 13th and New Year’s).
“So what?” you’re asking. Well, I had a strip I wanted to tell specifically for New Year’s Eve and I couldn’t think of a way to transition from a story taking place on December 25th to something that happens on December 31st and then go back to the events of the 25th. The only solution I could think of was to write the New Year’s strip as an interlude and continue with the story through however long it takes. I still have a little time to rework it, but the ideas aren’t coming. More as it develops.