Here’s a writing thing that I suspect a lot of people don’t know about me. Everything starts with a Zero Draft. Every comics script starts as a Notepad file. Notepad is raw and unformatted and gives me permission, frankly, to be shit. Everything in my head about the job can just be vomited into monospace type, where it cannot possibly be sent out as finished work. Once I’m empty, the file gets copypasted into OpenOffice, which is where I write comics scripts, and I can start arranging stuff and picking at it and seeing what’s wrong with it. Everything from that point happens in OpenOffice, and the process forces me to write two drafts of everything.
warrenellis, from his http://orbitaloperations.com/ newsletter