How to Start Spirit Keeper

Posted by santosj on August 4, 2006

I’ve been thinking of the best way to start Spirit Keeper. I would usually start at the very beginning and work my way up to where the action is. This leads to tedious and boring writing and I”ve been contemplating starting at the point where the reader would still have no idea of what the plot is about, but open with enough clues to keep the reader asking for more.

The start of Spirit Keeper has always been at the school or more accurately, the city the school is in. I would then introduce each of the characters. There are two central groups for which to start the city. In one draft I introduce the team that starts at the school and in another I introduce the team that sets out to destroy another city.

The plot has changed somewhat as I focus more on the seemly magically beasts and not on the battle between the two fractions. It will still be within the story, but it will no longer take center stage on the story. Only when the different fractions meet will it come up.

The Third Element

There is a major subplot within the two main plots. It will gradually be introduced over the course of the two main plots and the travels of the team with the main character. The subplot deals more with dreams of the main character with no impression of whether the dreams are of real or not. That will be revealed later when the three plots converge and a new plot forms.

Would It Still Be Interesting?

The style and the way I going to write this may not be the best and I’ll probably rewrite the whole thing a lot better than what it is now. I’ll say it should take a few years to completely finish this story. To do it right should probably take 5 to 7 years.

Book Or Comic Or Graphic Novel

I can’t draw, so I would have to either find or pay another artist to draw the panels. It does have a greater chance of someone buying the editions if they are serialized in graphic form. I don’t have any money to pay an artist and the originial intent was that it would be a web comic and two or three artists would take over drawing the panels.

That sort of dropped out and new artists would have to be found at a later date. I’m still going to write it in a comic script fashion. If I do so, then it would be easier to pick out any flaws in the story and rewrite pages that suck. I would like to make the story as a comic, same with Obituary of Josh if I can.

If no artists are willing to take up the project, then I’ll most likely take the scripts and write the story in book form.

Artist Input

The issue of bringing it up as a web comic is that the artist may want to take it in another direction separate of mine. I don’t have a problem with that as long as I don’t have to change that many pages. I think it would be good to have two or more inputs for how the story should be developed and I’m willing to gain experience from another critique.

However, for Obiturary of Josh, I’ll most likely won’t be as accepting of input for the story as I have a very good idea of where I’m going to take the story.

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