How has the writer's room style of creating stories you first experienced working on "The Walking Dead" TV series adapted to comics so far?
So far it's been pretty neat. I've been working with Nick Spencer on this first arc and batting ideas around. I just had a writer's meeting with a few of the other writers who are working on other arcs of the series in Los Angeles a few weeks ago and it's kind of fun to walk into a room with a nugget of an idea and sit there for an entire day saying "Oh, this could happen. That could happen. What if we did that? This could lead to that." Like in the "Walking Dead" writer's room a group of writers comes up with things that one person might not necessarily come up with on their own. It's neat having different people come up with different angles on stories or suggest things you hadn't thought of or -- my favorite thing -- noticing plot holes you aren't aware of or really picking things apart so what we end up with is a story that has been crafted into tempered steel as I like to say.
After hashing out the details, how is the actual script-writing done? Do you work off the same document or work it out via phone calls and emails?
There's a little bit of that. Right now we're going off of various story documents, passing those around and tweaking those before scripting is actually done. With Nick [Spencer] it was a few phone calls here and there and I had written up a bunch of documents laying out what the series was and what I was going to do with it and who the characters were and what the story beats were. You know, the main structure of the story. Then Nick went off and started doing scripts based on that stuff. There are cool things that happened. There's a car-stealing scene in the first issue. It's really cool and has great dialogue and has a fun bit of insight into both characters and also a master class on the best ways to steal a car. There's cool things like that where I would have never done that on my own and he's throwing that into the script, that's a contribution of his.
Source: Full interview @ CBR
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