WEEK 55
This has been an amazing week, but before we can share it in a way that will have meaning, you need some preamble. Some of you have heard the story of how we got started and how Blank first came together. And while we aren’t going to retell that story here, it’s important to know that when we decided to do Blank we only wrote part of the first book in the Trilogy: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8. We didn’t write 6 and 7 because we didn’t feel prepared to include a new and important character — a character we decided to introduce in those chapters.
So I’ve been reading on the subjects of virology and epidemiology for over two years. For me this stuff is fun and interesting, as I was at one time on an academic path to medicine, which gave me some background. (Maybe someday I’ll write about my experience with cadaveric dissection.)
Also, in addition to the research on all things small and deadly, we’ve also been plotting and outlining our story.
Which brings me to this week.
We sat down on Monday and made several decisions about revisions to Chapter 5 that we’ve been talking about for a while now. Those decisions in hand, it was time to do some Blank writing.
As I said, this new and important character was going to be introduced in Chapter 6. But one of the decisions we made was to introduce her at the end of Chapter 5 instead.
Which was what turned out to make this week so amazing, I was able to write a bit more than a thousand words of Blank Death. And it’s probably been more than a year since I’ve done that. More on that next week.
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We also recorded our radio interview with Kim and Julian on their wonderful show “Life with Twist” and it was a blast. If you haven’t heard it and need something to listen to the next time you’re having root canal…but seriously folks… these are cool humans, so go to their link, listen to their show and give them some love! Hell, they might even have us back.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/twistradio/2010/05/16/life-with-a-twist
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In another cool note, Blank Death has had over 50,000 views at My eBook and is still the Number 1 “Most Favorites” Comic/Graphic Novel. This makes us very happy.
BIG BLANK
The LARGER Blank community, as of Friday May 21st:
Followers of Blank on Twitter: 58,798
Fans on the Facebook Fan Page: 517
Members on the Blank-thegraphicnovel.com website: 445
Page Requests on the Blank-thegraphicnovel.com website: 69,019
Views of Blank the Blog: 2,426
Views of Blank on MyeBook: 50,713
Subscribers to Blank on YouTube: 29
