Steps to Create – TIP
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 […]
Process
Ideas are Cheaper than Dirt – TIP
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 […]
DON’T Kill Your Darlings
“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 […]
Comic Pacing Decompression and Compression
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 […]
Writing to Strengths and Weaknesses
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 […]
Editors Make it Better
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 […]
Sacrifice your Ego for Story
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 […]
Homeless Guys Have an Opinion Too – TIP
Somebody PM’ed yesterday asking me to confirm or repudiate some advice on comic writing he received. Nothing against homeless guys, but the point here is when you turn to public […]
Real world premises – TIP
When you’re working on real world premises, you can often take some creative license and meld fact with fiction, but you can’t contradict fact with fiction. Important distinction.▪ About the […]
Mini-series Outline – TIP
When you outline your mini-series, don’t try to break the story into issues WHILE you make the outline… Instead, make the outline as one complete story, then when you’ve got […]