My Future Shock Hell

[Alec Worley]

Wotcha!

Was going to post this last week but it took a while for my forum account to get set up. Anyway, I gave a talk at this year's Bristol Comic Expo about my experience of submitting Tharg's Future Shocks, from sending my first script to landing my first series. I've since written up my notes as a blog, which covers how I went about submitting scripts and coping with rejection to how I realised there's no such thing as 'breaking in'. Here's a link: http://alecworley.weebly.com/blog/my-future-shock-hell-breaking-into-2000-ad-and-what-i-learned-while-doing-it

I didn't have room to write anything on twists - different types, how they work, and wotnot (at least how I see it) - but will do so sometime soon.

Cheers,
Alec

[locustsofdeath!]

Nice one, Alec. A thoroughly interesting and informative read.

[Recrewt]

Nice one indeed.  A very interesting article with some helpful points.  Reminds me I need to pick up those Future Shocks collections.

[The Bissler]

Fantastic piece, thank you very much for sharing this!

[Proudhuff]

lots of good handy stuff there, except the bit about...

[Darren Stephens]

Good stuff, Alec. Some great pointers in there.

[Tiplodocus]

That was a good, interesting and entertaining read, thanks.

[Alec Worley]

You're welcome, punks. Hope it makes sense. Have been getting a few messages asking about stuff, so if anyone has anything they wanna ask feel free to ask it here so's everyone can see, innit?

[Proudhuff]

lots of good handy stuff there, except the bit about...

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