I wrote -18,000 words today.
No seriously. I read Italo Calvino’s essay on Quickness. Got very excited, cut 20,000 words out of Unkillable. (which will make it stronger, shorter and allow me to finish it faster.) Then I wrote 2000 more words. 2000-20,000 = -18,000.
At this rate I’l have no story at all by the end of the week [...]
I AM CORRUPTING YOUTH!
Some fine folks that I don’t know posted this video to YouTube of their adorable child. In the comments, they mentioned that the audio in the background was Patrick E. McLean’s “How to Succeed in Evil.”
I’m not sure how to feel about my voice screaming obscenities and hilarities at a child, so I will default to AWESOME!
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HtSiE:tN Chapter 18: Edwin Makes his Pitch
Why fight for it when you can simply buy it?
Be of good cheer…
…for I will not desert you.
It’s a paraphrase from one of my favorite parts of Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman. And even though I haven’t been podcasting, I have not abandoned well, the faith, let us say.
The book proceeds. Such arrogance to attempt such a long work, but it goes well. I can’t say [...]
Regular updates — Who really cares about spoilers?
So I have a t-shirt somewhere that says “Evo is my God” — he was giving them out at DragonCon a couple of years ago. He’s a magnificent bastard, not self-effacing, but.. Anyway, I think Evo’s spot on. I think I’ll start doing podcasts of the process. You will NEED to tell me if it [...]
An 'Evil Update and a Question
I’ve found that if I try and put the hurry up on it (like I sometimes do with my shorter work) it always, always comes out bad. But if you just plug away at it every day at the same time in a workmanlike fashion, it comes together faster than you expect.
Call it a draft already.
I’m printing 200 pages.
The First Issue of the Comic in PDF
So I’ve recently had some questions about the comic. And we don’t have anymore printed. But, I do have a pdf of the the completed and colored first issue. Call it a Christmas present to the faithful and the early adopters.
Ideas take time. Farewell to Jordan.
So I had this dynamite opportunity that sucked up all my time for the last three months. The way it goes I guess. But ‘evil has suffered. Just the way it has to be. The reality is that it’s touch and go and tug of war until I can get this thing to start paying [...]
How to Succeed in Evil Update IN GLORIOUS COLOR
Okay, okay. So I’m lame for being quiet for so long. (And I know I’m lame)
But things are bubbling. I swear they are. For one thing, we’ve got a colorist (the Mighty Myron Macklin) and he’s awesome. And we’re almost, almost, almost, so close I can taste it, done with the color version of the [...]
It LIVES!!!
And I’m not talking about the carpet. It’s the first run of the first issue of How to Succeed in Evil. 25 issues done digitally so we could have something to flash around at HeroesCon. Not in color, not perfect. But very, very good.
Soon they will be in color and soon they will be for [...]
How to Succeed in Evil #1
The first issue is drawn and will be printed soon. I promise. Final pencils are finished today (June 14th) and we’re going to be shopping a digital comp of the book around HeroesCon and to a number of publishers.
I’ve also found a number of interesting on-demand options. And I’m determining what kind of quanties you [...]
What’s in this coffee?
Take a Class.
Patrick's Tweets
- RT @SVAllie: Come and join us at http://bit.ly/df9kBy for @PatrickEMcLean's reading at 9:30 pm EST #dragoncant
- Getting ready for a reading on #dragoncant at 9:30 -- first few chapters of Unkillable
- @KatCutler Thanks for your kind words. Make those little kids into readers will ya ;-)
- Rule of Creation No. 5 -- The middle of everything is hard. #creating
- @Cianmm Safe travels my friend. You'll have a blast. Sadly, I will be unable to attend. But enjoy it to the hilt for me.