You know what’s frustrating? Having a good idea that you never get around to completing. Case in point: I have a great idea for a graphic novel/comic book script I’ve been sitting on for over two years. It’s great, it’s intense, it’s dramatic and it’s not cliched. Or at least, it wasn’t when I started it.
The project, code-named EMBER, focuses on a young girl with fire-based superpowers who has no interest in her powers because her life’s already filled with too much drama as it is. Of course, the real power of the story is in the specific way I tell it, but the concept is getting less fresh as the months trail into years.
The latest blow to the freshness of the idea was the NBC drama, HEROES. It’s the same general idea, only with a lot of characters. It’s people with superpowers who (other than Hiro) have no particular interest in being heroes because they’re too busy with their own lives.
I have a great artist lined up to work with me on it. But both of our lives have reflected the same general principle as the story we want to tell: I have a solid talent for writing, he has a solid talent for drawing, and yet both of our lives have interfered with us using our talents to tell our tale. We’re too busy to use our talents to finish a tale about a girl too busy to use her talents to save her friends, her school, her state, her world.
Life’s ironic that way, isn’t it?
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