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Oh yeah! Aure was not based on my ex. Their names are similar admittedly. Aure's original name was going to be Ari Morales, but Ari sounded too similar to Aria Lunaris who we already met as Awe-Woman in Writer's Block Issue #3. Also Aure isn't hispanic so I did a slight name change: Aure DuVane which fits better because Nick Twisp (Youth in Revolt) and Joe Goldberg (You) both have a thing for women with dramatic names. Aure is based physically on a former crush of mine from many moons ago. I'll never share whom. Hehe.
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Trivia: You're It. was inspired by the "You" and "Youth in Revolt" book series. Both series have the word "you" in the titles, I went with something "you" adjacent. I wanted a protagonist that wasn't a typical male chasing a woman kind of story. So, I leaned into a queer main character.
The nonbinary part came from someone I was talking to many months ago. I wondered how one writes a nonbinary character. Then I found Tag's unhinged voice while writing entry #1 and the rest is history.
I will admit that a tiny part of the story was based on truth: I live in my ex's garage and one day, I found myself high as hell just staring at her room from my door. Then the missing pieces of "You're It." came to me: a queer protagonist changing their whole identity around to move in with their ex. Beyond the living with our exes, Tag and I cope with and handle our emotions differently.
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The goal is to have 10 issues per volume of Writer's Block. The endgame is 3 volumes of Writer's Block altogether.
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"Make Me The Perfect Woman!" was birthed from two things:
- The story of Pygmalion in Greek Mythology was about a sculptor who "hated women", but was a worshipper of Aphrodite. He makes her this statue in her image and Aphrodite brings it to life and they live happily ever after. (YUCK!🤢🤮)
- My own personal frustrations with women in past dating. I write it honestly as a personal lesson to myself. Not everytime a woman is coming off aloof is it about us men. Sometimes they have shit going on too and that's okay.
So then I wondered "What if Pygmalion learned a lesson before he got his perfect partner? What if he became the perfect woman before getting her?" and then I wanted my protagonist to not be entitled or an awful man. Just romantically exhausted and capable of learning a lesson in contrast to Darren Farley in the previous issue.
* The stinger/epilogue at the end was also planned since I first wrote the story, but it was a different superhero that would cameo. The timeline of the universe didn't align so it became Secret Agent instead.
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Arthur Finch's wish for the perfect woman backfires spectacularly when he wakes up in her body as Amy.
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Be-Deviled came to me a decade ago when I had this crazy idea of blending "Bedazzled" and "Bruce Almighty" together plot wise. It was too delicious not to write.
Darren Farley's name is a wink to the Devil in Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell. Darren Farley is the revealed actual name of the person we thought was the Devil for 3 seasons. So I figured I'd pay tribute to my comfort show with the name.
Hell will return as a place and we'll explore the ecosystem of the afterlife as well.
Lucifer and Lilith will return sooner than you think.
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