Wrong or Right in Comic Writing – TIP
There is no wrong or right path to creative writing… but some paths ARE definitely longer than others. If you want to avoid unnecessary pitfalls and mistakes, listen to experience. […]
There is no wrong or right path to creative writing… but some paths ARE definitely longer than others. If you want to avoid unnecessary pitfalls and mistakes, listen to experience. […]
Let’s do an exercise; Pick a movie or comic you enjoy. Doesn’t have to be your favorite—something you’ve memorized since you were fifteen—just something you’re familiar with… ok, got it? […]
Ok, so you’ve got a futuristic, dystopic, anime-inspired, story idea for a script, with male and female MC leads… They start off cold towards each other and eventually fall in […]
You can write a comic script any way you want. Concept discovery revise/fix concept Outline revise/fix outline write script revise/fix script is gonna save you the most time. ▪ About […]
Ideas 12 for 10 cents. Good ideas 4 for a dollar. Awesome ideas $1 ea. Executing any of them successfully—platinum cards accepted. Every writer has dozens of ideas… heck even […]
“Kill Your Darlings” (and its many iterations) has been attributed to Stephen King, William Faulkner, Arthur Quiller-Couch and more… While the quote means, to kill the superfluous bits that you […]
In the Working Writer’s Guide to Comics and Graphic Novels I have a section dedicated to pacing. I cover the basics there, discussing the relevancy of panel counts, word counts […]
I do my best to answer every question that comes in on the website and across social media. Someone recently asked, “How do you write to your artist’s strength?” As […]
It’s a sad fact that in efforts to keep budgets down, editors are a part of the creative team often cut in indie comic productions (or hired in a limited […]
Lots of folks are lazy. Their stories don’t have a well thought out concept, an underlying message, their characters aren’t developed with full, meaningful arcs, and they don’t bother to […]