Post by AndrewCrossett on Oct 7, 2009 13:39:59 GMT -5
Is here.
It's mostly about his experience as an editor and writer generally, but there's some Buffy-relevant stuff. He mentions that Joss just recently turned in two scripts (I assume for the Willow one-shot and #31), and there's this:
It's mostly about his experience as an editor and writer generally, but there's some Buffy-relevant stuff. He mentions that Joss just recently turned in two scripts (I assume for the Willow one-shot and #31), and there's this:
What's the creative process like with Joss? Does he set the basics for the upcoming "season" of comics and let the process unfold from there? Or is he much more hands on with each individual issue?
It's complicated, and there's some variety to it, but basically, he mapped out the overall arc a long time ago. We've adhered to that original plan. Along the way, we pick writers for an arc, or the oneshots, and Joss generally has a one-on-one session where he tells them what major beats the story needs to hit, and they tell him what sort of things they'd like to do. And they meet in the middle. A lot of the ideas in the upcoming arc by Brad Meltzer came from Brad himself, but they're all in service to the story Joss worked out, and they're all the product of a lot of back and forth between Joss and the writer. So they work up the storyline like that, and then the writer turns in a first draft directly to Joss. Joss gives notes, the writer does revisions, and sends it to me. Sometimes I'm in on that first draft, sometimes not. The most important part, to me, is that Joss breaks the story with the writer, in person or on the phone, the way he broke the stories with the writers on the show. He steers the overall arc, he shapes the individual arcs with the writers, and then he edits the scripts. That's pretty hands on.
