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Hello, I'm Chuck.

I am embarking (albeit a wee bit late--after 40 years in the trenches of the workaday world) on a career as an author and comic script writer. I've been writing "Savage Investigations", a novel, since `05, ever since the US government decided they were paying me too much and could get somebody else cheaper (oh wait, did I say that out loud? Purely rumor and innuendo, I can assure you...) and my wonderful wife encouraged me to embark on the fulfillment of my lifelong dream by supporting me for six months while I toiled away and managed to crank out 85-90% of Savage before I hadda go back to work onnaccounta we needed the money.

Now I work for the largest computer manufacturer in the world (oh, I didn't say, I'm a professional geek, read: field engineer) back in the workaday world again and having a hard time finding the time to finish the damned thing.

As Brian K. Vaughan says: "Write more. Do other stuff less." I even have that printed out and taped to the top of my TV, my rear view mirror, and the top of my laptop screen. Funny how life gets in the way, ain't it?

Okay, there is a lot of other stuff I could not be doing, but I find that in order to actually get to the headspace necessary to create, it takes longer than my current lifestyle will allow (generally 5 to 6 hours of going over the old stuff to see where I can put in the new stuff) and by the time I'm ready to write new stuff, it's time to go to bed--the workaday world--and consequently, the last few years have been lean indeed.

To further complicate things, I have hopes of turning the book into a comic (despite the protestations of my friend David Lloyd, who has advised me that it would be best to leave it as prose) and I already have the scripts written for the first two issues. See, my plan is to release them both simultaneously (maybe through Dark Horse with their print and comic publishing houses) with enough stuff different in each so that if you love the comic, you'll read the novel and vice versa. Obviously the novel will be much more detailed. But the comic will be easier to read. See where I'm going with this?

I can feel it coming over me again, though. These things take time and who has the time, y'know?

And if anybody might want to see what I've done, send me an email (chuck@larntz.com), Tweet me (chucklarntz) on Twitter, or message on MySpace (www.myspace.com/k8tdad), and I'll get back to you.

Wish me luck, kids.

Good to be here...

Chuck

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