So, I figured out that I can only actually write this thing if I draw it simultaneously. I'm of the firm belief that comics should be a fully integrated media - the  pictures and words are not separate entities, but part of one combined language that is used to tell the story. Also  included in this language is the arrangement and layout of panels and borders. So, every time I try to simply script out the words, typing on the computer, nothing comes out, or at least nothing good.  

The most I can usually do is general plot outlines - set my goals for the chapter and let the narrative wind its way towards those goals. There are little touchstone events that I am working towards. In chapter two that touchstone was the moment Serp. revealed that Felix had encouraged her to kill. Other goals for the chapter were to end with her on a roof, and to reveal that all of Serp's old contacts were going to be unavailable due to Felix's defection.

If you really don't want spoilers, I'm putting chapter three goals under this cut - you have been warned.

Some of the goals are visual rather than narrative- there are scenes, moments that are stuck in my head, that need to be exacted in the comic. Chapter three has one of those scenes - the reason I wanted her on a rooftop in the first place. It's going to be a bitch to draw though- it involves a sunrise and a hella impressive landscape. I still have about nine pages undrawn before that though, so we'll see.  I've never really done a big landscape before, so this wigs me out..

Another touchstone of chapter three is the scene where the Serp. goes to visit a character named Mo. Oh Mo... In the original version of the comic, Mo was introduced as a known contact of the serp. at the start of chapter two. Mo will not be nearly so happy to see her this time around, and he's a bit more of a bastard than he was before - I think everyone is a bit meaner actually  (except Carmen, the 'virgin' from the previous post. I think she's nicer somehow. Carmen won't show up until chapter 4 or 5, depending on how I split this mo thing up)
Spoilers over.

Anyway, so now when I script, it looks something like this: (I don't consider this a spoiler by the way, it's hard to tell what it means without context)


(I've already done the first panel in inks as you can tell)  but mostly all of my writing is done via really crappy stick figures, and panel descriptions, but written inside the panels. I did about 10 pages of chapter three this way in a flurry of writing, after which I had to carefully go back and re write all the panel descriptions in  so that later, I would know what the hell I was getting at when I drew a circle with an arrow on it.

This has mostly taught me that dialouge is not supremely important, as I used to think it was. The first chapter was written with an eye towards stuffing as much of that dialouge int there as possible. Chapter two was less so, and chapter three, I hope, even less than that.