{"id":12751,"date":"2008-04-08T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T15:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12751"},"modified":"2014-01-14T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:50:47","slug":"how-he-writes-non-fiction-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/08\/how-he-writes-non-fiction-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"How he writes (non-fiction comics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comic-book writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Ottaviani\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Ottaviani<\/a>, creator of science-related comics such as <i>Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firstsecondbooks.typepad.com\/mainblog\/2008\/04\/from-the-desk-o.html\" target=\"_blank\">posted this flow chart yesterday to shed some light on  his working methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m out of the comic-book loop for the most part these days, so I&#8217;ve got to sheepishly admit that until discovering his post, I&#8217;d never heard of Ottaviani. But since I&#8217;m a major fan of Richard Feynman&#151;I long ago took up the title of Feynman&#8217;s autobiography <i>What Do <\/i>You<i> Care What Other People Think?<\/i> as a mantra&#151;I&#8217;ll have to keep an eye out for Ottaviani&#8217;s upcoming graphic novel about the physicist.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me, though, that the road map laid out in these squiggles, arrows, and boxes speaks to the journey of non-comics writers as well, and so I decided that it was worth sharing here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OttavianiChart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OttavianiChart-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"OttavianiChart\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OttavianiChart-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/OttavianiChart.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only thing missing from the chart seems to be the part where we spend time blogging about what we should have  been doing instead of actually doing it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic-book writer Jim Ottaviani, creator of science-related comics such as Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, posted this flow chart yesterday to shed some light on his working methods. I&#8217;m out of the comic-book loop for the most part these days, so I&#8217;ve got to sheepishly admit that until discovering his post, I&#8217;d never heard of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-12751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12753,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751\/revisions\/12753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}