Location Detail Dumps
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 […]
Author: nickmac
Continuity of Action Eats Real Estate
In case you missed it in the opening of my article Screenplays ain’t Comic Scripts, I explain that live action (screenplays) use as much as 4 times (or more) as […]
Worldbuild AFTER Storybuilding
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 […]
Writing Comics is Fast and Easy
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 […]
Story Shine
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 […]
Character Arc Old Belief
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 […]
Highlight Reel NOT a Complete Narrative
If you want to write comics well, you’ve got to comprehend this concept… Comics are a Highlight Reel of a narrative… NOT the complete narrative. Full stop. I get an […]
Silent Panels
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. […]
Promises Conventions Obligatory Scenes and Genre
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 […]
Maxiseries and Graphic Novels with Less Money
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 […]