Full Page Art – TIP
If you’re like me, flagging a panel as full page art in a script is easy to do. It’s almost second nature to separate a powerful, emotional panel that capture […]
Month: July 2016
Choosing Your Best Comic Concepts
When you’re developing original comic IPs, what your writing about is far more important than how you write it. A weak script can be rewritten–especially with the help of a […]
Working for Free and Being a Shmoo
Working as a full-time Mercenary Writer in creative fiction is never easy. When you’re starting out, you almost always have to have another job on the side, or at the […]
Writing Natural Dialogue
Dialogue is a cornerstone of comic scripting. As such when it’s off point, a book can quickly fall apart. So how exactly do you write natural sounding dialogue and for […]
Engaging the Reader in 22 Pages
This was a multi-part post originally posted on the facebook page. It’s long, but the 10 tips discussed below are ones worth knowing. *** The best stories and comics engage […]
Scene Selection and Narrative Drive
So you’ve written an outline and now you’re sitting down to script an issue. In my experience you’ll almost always have a surplus of scenes (especially if you’re scripting a […]