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Dead or Worse

Filed under: comics, writing, crazy guy, news — Brendan @ 6:32 pm

SEPTEMBER 23 2008, 2:43PM

There’s danger behind every door, over every hill, on every grim face. In a place that’s half real and half legend, these wretches do what they must to carve out lives in a time when the only choice is to step on others, or be walked on yourself. Every face and every scar has a story if you can stand to look. The lucky die, for the rest, there’s worse.

Watch this space, because artist LUIS BOISVERT and writer BRENDAN PEVERIL are bringing the fucking noise very soon.

LUIS BOISVERT has been a fixture in the local comics scene for years both as an artist and a writer. His fledgeling efforts at both webcomics and self publishing have met with universal praise and brought him no small amount of recognition. After years of honing his craft, the antediluvian art of drawing tits and violence, he’s ready to change the landscape of online comics with his most ambitious project to date.

BRENDAN PEVERIL has been an Internet dirtbag since before you knew what an Internet was. His exploits are many, and though his name may not be a household one, important men grow quiet when he enters a room. He’s dabbled in many things, fiction, comic writing, journalism, blogging, but always with an intensity that usually escapes a mere dilettante. You may not know him now, but you will, and by then it might be too late.

DEAD OR WORSE debuts MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD, 2008.

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not drunk yet

Filed under: writing, for screen, crazy guy, news, disorganized mess — Brendan @ 7:19 pm

So, I’ve been doing this for a year, right? Well, it hasn’t been the best year of my life, but it was better than 2006, I guess. Rather than dwelling on that shit, though, I’m looking forward to 2008. You see, I’ve been taking it easy on the writing for the past couple of weeks, and conducting business. Let me tell you about it.

First off, the ironic bit. I go back home from LA to discover that I’ve got film contacts. Early in this new year I’m going to write something, we’re leaning toward a nasty little horror/black comedy. More on that as it develops.

The novel is still underway. I’ve had time to really discuss it with my co-writer, and it’s big, it’s good, and it actually feels like a real thing that I’m working on. It’s still a lot of work, but once I stop feeling so burnt out and I get back into the swing of writing, it really shouldn’t be too long before it’s written and being shipped to agents.

Comics. I’m starting to rethink A Deeper Shade of Gone, just because I’ve found it nearly impossible to get anyone else to be interested in that. I have, however, found somebody who wants to publish comics but doesn’t really draw or write them, so we’re discussing starting a label. We’ll see how that goes. I’ve got three reasonably large projects in various stages to launch this thing with, so I’ll be working my ass off on those. They’ve even got artists on board! Huzzah! Hopefully before 2009 you’ll all get to hold in your hands the first Peveril brothers’ (all three, not just Shamus and I) joint project. The brother gimmick works, so we figure we should take advantage.

As always, I’m still producing the short fiction and shopping it around. I had a breakthrough today that I think might get a piece that I like, but nobody wants to print, published.

That’s it for now, I guess. The third page of Death’s Children is up too, I’ll probably upload the last on before I leave Halifax. I think I’ll pop up in the next couple of days to tell you all about the webcomics I discovered in the past year too. LOOK FORWARD TO IT!

-bmp

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What?

Filed under: writing, news — Brendan @ 10:35 pm

So, here’s a question. A question that probably has an easy answer that I’m missing. Whatever, nobody reads this anyway, so nobody can tell that I’m an idiot.

Who the fuck decided that “dammit” is a word? I can understand the need to contract “Damn it” to a single word, that’s cool. But dropping the n? For serious? Come on.

Worrying about things like that is how I avoid doing work. I’m pounding out words on the novel (which has no name yet, although I’ve considered things like “Juggernauts”, “No God Here” and “The Path Outward”) and doing a final edit on Hallowed, whichever feels more like something that I shouldn’t be doing at the time.

I could put off work for a little bit longer if I sent out some submissions, couldn’t I?

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Unprecedented Productivity Strikes Local Writer

Filed under: comics, writing, crazy guy, news, disorganized mess — Brendan @ 11:19 pm

So, I just finished the first typed draft (meaning the second draft, but the first I’ll ever show someone) of Hallowed. The whole goddamned thing. Holy shit. It will still be a while before the likes of you has a chance to read it, unless you’re unlucky enough to be in my reading team. Of course, even they don’t all read it.

Whatever, though. Here’s a list of what I still need to do:

Find an artist

Figure out how to write a treatment

Trick the artist into producing a few pages for the treatment

Write a treatment

Perform oral sex on the editorial staff of one or more comic publishers

Howl my wordless anguish at the sky

Choke the living shit out of the artist for being a flaky artist

Profit (a very small profit, barely worth mentioning, really)

If you’re an artist who wants a piece of Hallowed, or perhaps a member of the editorial staff of a comic company who wants oral sex, email me.

I’ve got time for a little bit more work related news.

The novel is happening! Seriously. I’m surprised at how much I’m writing, and how real it feels. Creeps me out, really.

Gone is grinding along. Why don’t we all stab Shamus, for not being a little quicker with that. Hell, I’ve got work from other artists waiting in the wings for Shamus to hurry up. Seriously, dude.

There’s a new project! A magazine type thing, which will happen as my credit limit allows in the real world. I think I may have to self publish, on account of it being three shades of batshit insane. On the bright side, I think it will probably make so little money that I won’t actually have to pay taxes for it. Sweeeet.

-bmp out

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What the…

Filed under: site shit..., cautionary tale, comics, writing, pieces, news — Brendan @ 7:52 pm

I have a place where I can type things and imagine that many people will read it. Of course, I can also look at the site stats and see that… nobody reads it. It’s like I’m writing this in a diary hidden under my pillow, really. Following are bits of news related mostly to this site.

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Here’s something cool. Neil Gaiman’s story How To Talk To Girls At Parties is available both as text and audio here. Gold if you’re too cheap/poor to buy the book it’s in right now, like me.

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Work rolls on with A Deeper Shade of Gone and Hallowed. Shamus is working away at that first page, but apparently he’s having a few problems. I’ll post it as I get it. Hallowed is still in script form, but I’m getting closer and closer to the point that I’m ready to start aggressively seeking and artist so I can get a treatment out. Any artists who stumble across this should get in touch with me if they’re interested in taking a look. There will be much blasphemy.

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I’m looking at a new short story too. It’s a solid idea, it straddles genres, it’s staying in my head; all of the good things. Now, one way to learn to write good stories is to read good stories, but there’s a problem with that for a beginning writer. To sell a story, Hell, just to get someone to read a story, even if they get it for free, you need to hook them with a killer beginning. I can read good stories by other writers until my eyes bleed, but most of them will be by writers already established as good. Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Theodore Sturgeon, they just don’t need as strong a hook as I do. I’ll read the whole story no matter how weak the beginning is, because I know it’s good. If I find a story by an unknown, though, I’ll not bother to finish it if the beginning is weak, because chances are that the whole thing is.

I’ve got a killer story, with a compelling narrative, a delicious twist, and a startling twist on the twist (which I hesitate to call a meta-twist, it’s more like a re-twist), but no fucking hook.

Anyway, I’m dangerously close to turning this into a lecture on literary theory, and nobody enjoys that. I’m out.

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