I mean, it's not like I've been working on it solidly, 24-7, for 6+ months - that's an elapsed-time thing, and I have (honest!) been doing loads of other things in-parallel. But I am a slow mother-fucker of a writer compared with some folks (and we'll talk about that another day) - I approach stuff in a very dense / compressed / compacted / choreographed way - am I control-freaky? - well, maybe, a bit - but I leave blocks of story open to chance / change / happenstance -- the artist might throw a bunch of GREAT ideas at me that reframe what I'd originally thought, or I might change my own mind about shit or... sometimes, the characters just tell me where they want to go, and then it's not up to me, the artist or - well, maybe the editor might have some say in all that... but a good story will kinda tell itself if given the chance, and the artist n me just end up going along for the ride. The medium is the medium.
But, yeah - where was I? - Oh, yeah: just finished something that wasn't even, I dunno, a major event, but it weirdly occupied a serious chunk of my thinking time for months - even when I weren't overtly thinking about it, I wuz... I'd write endless notes, scratch my head in [Cogs Cage, Yeovil], walk around the garden, hassle my wife ("So, there's this bit where...").
A better, more switched-on writer dude than me, woulda tuned it out, I'm sure -- just another job -- Bang! Done-in-one! On to the next! - but I didn't know the characters - they're not mine - (and sometimes, even that don't help, the 'knowing' them)...
But hey, it's been a super-interesting 6 months - everything's a learning process - one script a month-ish on this series (man, that's not fucking working! And before you kick me - quite rightly - for my self-indulgent privilege in talking about all this non-important boojswaz writin' shit, I have worked in the past as a toilet-cleaner, office-cleaner in helicopter n train company offices, chemical factory cleaner, super-market warehouse boy, blahblahblah; oh, fuck, all over the place LOL, so cut me some slack, here... ) - but now that they're out my head, these characters, I kinda miss them.... or, maybe I just miss thinkin' about them....
Life, huh?