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"A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God."
— Sidney Sheldon

Nick Macari

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror: Story Consultant, Editor, Writer in Comics, Video Games and Fiction

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Author: nickmac

Attention to Tension Writing Hack

September 25, 2025 nickmac

Nothing keeps readers engaged with story more than well developed tension. It’s often the difference between successful and average writing. You can’t develop tension without understanding and developing the super […]

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Location Detail Dumps

August 17, 2025August 18, 2025 nickmac

Y’all know I don’t just write comic books, I write/edit in every medium and often help people with their novels, screenplays, whatever… This article is gonna talk more specifically about […]

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Worldbuild AFTER Storybuilding

August 6, 2025August 9, 2025 nickmac

Over at Story to Script, I’ve got a solid article on proper worldbuilding… practical tips on discovering and shaping the worldbuilding details your story actual needs. What I wanted to […]

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Writing Comics is Fast and Easy

June 10, 2025June 11, 2025 nickmac

Writing comics is wicked fast and easy… and illustrating comics takes forever! As such, illustrators need to get that money… writers; just throw them some petty cash and they’ll be […]

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Story Shine

June 8, 2025June 8, 2025 nickmac

I updated my article on comic writing fundamentals, with a concept I actually didn’t cover in Storycraft for Comics. Story Shine is usually something I go over during a direct […]

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Character Arc Old Belief

June 3, 2025June 4, 2025 nickmac

I’ve written so much about writing, it’s easy to forget what I’ve explained and where. It kind of sucks for me, because when I’m dealing with writers, I often have […]

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Silent Panels

March 8, 2025 nickmac

As I’ve said elsewhere, describe two things at once to someone and they will have less focus on each thing, then if you had only described one thing to them. […]

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Promises Conventions Obligatory Scenes and Genre

January 23, 2025January 24, 2025 nickmac

Grab a coffee, we’re gonna be here for a bit with this one. I was actually planning to put this on my paid member site, Story To Script, but decided […]

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Maxiseries and Graphic Novels with Less Money

January 14, 2025January 26, 2025 nickmac

The golden rule of comics, uttered here so many times; The bigger it is, the more expensive it is to produce. Yet, in my travels, over 60% of first-time comic […]

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Creating Covers

January 9, 2025January 14, 2025 nickmac

As a freelance writer you might not be tasked with conceptualizing a book’s cover too often–much of the time, the person hiring you prefers to handle that themselves. Publishers/creators just […]

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