Lately I've been thinking I'd like to write for comics. I realize this is the sort of thing people usually figure out in their teens, but I didn't even start reading comics until my early twenties. I don't know. It's just one of those artforms that have captivated me so much I'd like to be part of making it happen. I'm having trouble finding my niche as a writer, maybe that's where it lies. I'm often told I should try writing screenplays, because dialogue is my biggest strength, but for some reason that holds no attraction for me. Actually, if I could write screenplays for small indie productions, that would rock. Still, it doesn't hold as much appeal as having someone be able to hold something I've written in their hand and read it. So I'm thinking comics. Best of both worlds, right? How much would it kick ass to see my name printed on a cover alongside a Kelly Jones or a Brian Bolland, or to be held in such esteem as Alan Moore or Grant Morrison, or for that matter Devin Greyson (she who rules)? Quite a lot, actually.

But fangirl writer fantasies aside, what really prompted this was that I was reading through my novel manuscript for the umpteenth time recently and thinking how well it would lend itself to a comic format. I was thinking that if I fail to find someone who wants to publish it in novel form, then maybe I should think long and hard about grabbing one of the many artists in my family (I think I'm the only member who missed out on that particular gene, actually) and see if they'd like to collaborate on producing the story as an indie comic. That would pretty much rule, too.

Of course, first I have to quit fiddling around with the manuscript and actually try to get it published. Then there's the screenplay I'm supposed to be writing that my friends and I are going to produce, just for the hell of it. Plus the short stories I'm supposed to be redrafting to try and sell.

Oh, and today I completed and mailed off my college application. I marked Social Science as my intended major, because the college just got accredited as a full-blown university and they don't yet offer Psychology. If they do, then it should be an easy enough switch, and if they don't, then I can still switch and get the degree through another university while attending classes at the college. Confusing, I know. Even more confusing is, what the hell am I going to do with a psych degree? If the comic book writing doesn't work out, my screenplay never gets produced, and I never become a best- or even moderately well- selling novelist, then it shouldn't be too hard to find myself a decent job, and if I do manage to figure out a way to support myself by writing, then the knowledge garnered from earning the degree can only enhance my writing by giving me an insight into human behavior, right? That's my theory, anyway. Either way, I won't have to be a secretary for the rest of my life, and today that's all that really matters.

So how does one go about writing for comics, anyway? I haven't a clue.