Graphic Novel Rebels!

There was a thread like this last year I think. Anyone else writing a graphic novel like me for their nano?

I'm writing the script for my graphic novel/webcomic thing in novel format, so I don't know if I'm really rebelling... but I'm kind of here with you!

I started on a comic story during NaNo 2009 (I never do a script first though, I just start drawing and see where I'll end)
Took me till October 2010 to finish it (141 pages) so during NaNo 2010 I started editing the drawings (I just draw directly in ink, so some drawing need to be straightened a bit and so does A LOT of the text) and inking them (that's fun but also harder than I thought!)

This took waaaay more time than drawing did, but I still managed to do over 90 pages. I still have 50 left though, so I'll try and finish those this NaNo.

Hooray, I was hoping some comic people would show up. I'm doing a comic too. I'm thinking 30 pages in 30 days. The whole shebang too: planning, drawing, scanning, layout. All of it. What do you guys think? Does 30 pages sound like a good goal?

Awesome goal! I wish you luck! :D

I'm doing a comic script! It's a steampunk dystopia gaslamp fantasy. [/jumble of words]

I don't have the balls to attempt this - you are all my heroes. I'll be cheering you on from my beige boring novel cubicle.

I'm planning on doing a graphic novel for NaNo, I thought that since I'm an artist, it would be a great way to get started in the graphic novel world by just sitting down and doing it during NaNo.
I still don't know what story I'm going to use!

Count me in! I've been doing NaNo for seven or eight years, and I've always finished within a week. I don't find the 50,000 words even remotely challenging, and I eventually got bored of going for 200k or any other amount. I absolutely love drawing, so my goal is going to be 50 pages (planning, sketching, and polishing) in 30 days.

Even though I have a graphic novel and a short story comic (and several more ideas I'd like to work on) I'm still writing a novel this year. The graphic novel, I really want to have the first volume finished by the end of December, so I'll prolly be doing some work on that in November... somehow... (I think I might need a time turner...)

Anyway, good luck to all of you. I'll be cheering you on, and if anyone wants to be writing buddies/friends, I would love to have some fellow graphic novel writers as amigos~

YAY! Go Graphic Novel Rebels!!! :3 I cheer all of you on!

*sneaks in*

Er, I'm writing a graphic novel script. Was going to do it in prose, but my artist worries that it won't be visual enough that way (and she's probably right).
Who knows, maybe it'll dither back and forth between script and prose! < -- incredibly likely. Prose is my weakness. Don't know bout no pages or word counts, but I'm going to try to get as much of the story down as I can. :)

*rises out of the lurk* I'm writing the script and bible for a (hopefully) ongoing webcomic. I don't have a set page count, but I have at least 3 pre-planned story arcs (maybe more) to play around in, so with any luck that will get to 50k. I am REALLY hoping for the 50k, but want those arcs completely scripted/thumbs as a minimum.

I may end up drawing a few pages of my memoir, and eventually my fan-fic (that's based on some comic I made years ago, anyway).

No script for me. I may end up with a mix of written pages and drawn pages with graduated stick figures in them (I'm using marble notebooks, so there's no room otherwise).

I only registered after I've read there's more rebels here doing GN scripts. I just want to write my darn script that I've been neglecting for years. And it doesn't matter if I don't finish it by Nov 30, but I'll really, really try to.

In previous years I've written about 100k of autobiography (using yWriter4.) This year I'm ink-drawing and plan to draw some jobs/people/places from memory, but I'll be applying writing techniques like timed 'sprints' etc, so I have no idea how many pages to aim at yet or quite what will come out. I'm hoping my subconscious will wake up and play.

Drawing under time pressure will force me to keep the pen moving, and that's all I want to do.

I'm up in the air whether or not I want my young adult story to be a graphic novel or a traditional novel, and it's good to see other graphic novel folks right here. Initially I planned my story to be a comic, but I've been so tempted as NaNo draws close to scrap my plans to write the script and do basic storyboard, in favour of doing a more typical novel. I'm in a bit of a writing mood, and I feel like I'd probably get more readers with a traditional story. Hum.

I'm still sort of bouncing around on the idea.

I'm an artist but I haven't been drawing or very productive with my projects, which is another thing that makes me think I should do a comic. I've done some basic sketches of her bedroom and the characters, so I have something to WORK with to begin.

Any thoughts on the subject?

So glad to find other comic writers here. My goal is to write the script for 5 22-page comics during November. Wow, typing that seems way more ambitious then I'd initially planned. Guess I'll see how it goes. . . .

Alas, I'm merely novelizing the manga idea I've been working on since 1992. However, I'm writing it as if it were a graphic novel (of telephone-book size, actually), all the better to adapt it back into what it should have been in the first place. It's because I like to play around with words the same way I do my layouts. My base style is a hybrid of Masamune Shirow, Hayao Miyazaki, CLAMP, and Neal Adams, but lately I've been changing the way I do layouts under the influence of Raw and Chris Ware, and my prose style has similarly mutated. But then, I'm really less a novelist or cartoonist than a multimedia artist...

The easy way to cheat would be the Marvel-type script in which one paragraph represents a page of comics, possibly with dialogue added, then going back and fleshing it out (my full scripts can get pretty detailed) or just adding filler to pad the word count. Anyway, I always write the script before I do layouts, or at the same time. Just as I edit my novels until I get them right, I draw only when I feel the script and layouts are right. So I guess I wouldn't be rebelling anyway...

Yep, I did a graphic novel for NaNo last year (75 pages of artwork in November) and it got PUBLISHED, so I'll be doing the same again this year with its sequel (which is under contract).

Anyone else planning to do artwork for NaNo?