So you filled your hands

Very abruptly last night, just after my last post and before I was trying to get to sleep, I came to be at peace with something I've been struggling against for several years.

The Falling Woman is a graphic novel. It just is. There's no way around the fact that almost everything I know about this story is deeply visual and cinematic. It is a Vertigo-style epic starring Lady Macbeth and a host of other characters. I need to stop fretting about trying to work around this and just write it as a script. (Even if I decide otherwise later, a script is as good a draft as any to revise.)

Never mind that I've never written a comic script before. I've done plays and screenwriting, a little, and I've read The Sandman and Lucifer and Y: The Last Man and Promethea and many others enough to have an idea of what's what.

Did I just make a terrible spirituality pun in the subject line?

In less groundbreaking news, this looks like a terribly fun exercise. I'm already scribbling what I hope are non-obvious choices for words that rhyme with "nine": midline, pseudospine, Levantine, alkaline...