Award winning comicbook writer "reduced to a blubbering wreck"

Blazing Reader,

"On good days," says comic book writer Alan Moore, "everything goes right and I have the whole script executed from start to finish within four or five hours. On bad days, I write the whole script in four or five hours, realise that it’s useless, tear it up and start again. I repeat this process four or five times until I'm reduced to a blubbering wreck that just slumps in the armchair and whimpers about how it has no talent whatsoever and will never write again."

While I've never been reduced to a blubbering wreck, I've certainly had moments (e.g. the last week with my current novel in progress) where I wonder if I should have been a plumber rather than a novelist.

"Next day," continues Moore, "I'll get up, get the whole thing right the first time and spend the rest of the day walking round reading my favourite bits to my wife, children, or visiting tradesmen. (This is why you should never marry an artist or writer. They’re bad news to have around the house, believe me.)"

I'm quoting Moore's afterword to his five-star graphic novel, V for Vendetta. Reading it has been on my bucket list for years. Finally did it. And, in upcoming posts, I'll review the story (and the artwork).

Rather than a "blubbering mess," I think Moore is a highly talented writer.

—John C.A. Manley

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John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.