"I find when I write straight into the machine it results in ridiculous levels of verbosity, but if it's all written long hand it hurts to waffle on and on.... I also find working longhand, I'm less precious about scrubbing out what I've just written...
"It always looks so finished on screen, so untouchable, which it shouldn't be.
"When I started out (and although everyone's forgotten, I was more a writer than an artist in them there distant early days) Steve Moore gave me the best bit of advice ever -- write out your script and then cross out pretty much every second word. Hone the text to the minimum.
"The artist should be able to make the pictures dazzle and tell the story. On the odd Doctor Who's I've written, I've given myself scope to do some insane dramatic no-BBC-budget-could-afford- this visuals.
"Too often as artists, we get scripts from writers who though fine and talented don't think in pictures. That's why writer/artists at their finest make the best comics... Gibbons, Miller, Eisner... all storytellers who make the medium all it can be."
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