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Adventures in storytelling

by on June 24, 2013 at 6:00 am
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In between all my varying comic projects and work, I’ve been trying to get back into my prose-writing groove. While I still love writing my post-cyberpunk crime story whenever I can, I also dashed down something quickly just to capture an idea. I have an idea for writing a story about modern fae, tying it in with allegories about the creative life. Somebody at the writing group recently read out a story that she had written in the second-person, and it was fantastically engaging; the thing with first and third person is that you are essentially being told about another person. With second-person, you are being told about YOU, as if your senses are reporting back to your brain. read more

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Feminism?

by on May 31, 2013 at 6:00 am
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Now, I’ve never outwardly identified myself as a feminist (mostly because, to be honest, I don’t fully understand the feminist/masculinist movements). What I’ve always done is to simply write characters and roles, and allow the physical aspects of the character develop later on.

As you can clearly see, I lean towards having more female characters than male; indeed, I feel that some of my male characters are actually quite flat and are in dire need of development (JN, I’m looking at you!) As a result, my female characters tend to have very varied personalities, goals and interests. read more

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Un plus! Another short story

by on April 29, 2013 at 6:00 am
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Hello all! As promised, another short story from last week’s workshop! Quite looking forward to tonight’s writing group, as I’ll be presenting the final few pages of the script I’m writing for submission. It seems to have been well-received thus far!

Anyway, have a great week, and I’ll see you on Friday!

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Story Prompt: A character has to escape from an abusive partner.

“I’m sorry, that’s my decision, and we’re going with it.” read more

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Non-Fiction is hard

by on March 15, 2013 at 6:00 am
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So, in my spare time (amongst all the other projects and whatnot that I’ve got going), I’m scribbling down notes for a self-help book based on different coping strategies I’ve developed for coping with the stresses and strains of being creative while holding down a dayjob. And what I have discovered is this:

Non-Fiction is FRIGGIN hard! It’s nothing like writing fiction, where anything can happen and you can adjust anything you want to have things become more interesting or make more sense. Even though I’m writing advice that I would give to other people, I’m finding it quite tricky to do so in such a manner that I don’t come across as being dull, preachy, or some combination of the two (pull? dreachy?). read more

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Quality Assurance

by on February 25, 2013 at 6:00 am
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Allow me to elaborate a little on the history of this page. Originally, Fliss and Carlita were supposed to be depicted in this scene as having sex, and Shanna was to interrupt this. Now, don’t get me wrong; I’m not squeamish, and I really don’t have a problem depicting my characters in that kind of setting. But as I thought about it, I realised that while I COULD have illustrated that scene, all in all there was no real purpose to it. Who, really, would I be doing that for? For myself? As fanservice? Did it even provide any form of development or was it simple, base titillation? read more

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Let’s build a world!

by on January 25, 2013 at 6:00 am
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Part 2 of our impromptu writing class/musing continues today with a little delving into world-building.

The most successful properties and franchises have flourished because they have constructed plausible, engaging universes around themselves. Even for the most fantastic of stories, a well designed ‘world’ can enhance the reader’s suspension of disbelief and provide an interesting background against which the characters and plot can develop. Without it, it’s that much harder to flesh out the characters and their motivations, or to truly grasp the measure of their personality as there’s not much to compare them to. As readers, in order to relate to and care for the characters we need to know a little bit about where they come from, what they’ve experienced, what drives them. read more

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Genesis of a character

by on January 21, 2013 at 6:00 am
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Aloha everybody, I’ve been making a concerted effort in advancing the work I’ve been doing on my novel as of recent, and I thought I’d share a little bit about how I develop initial characters with you! (Partially because I’ve not got a huge amount of actual news to share, but also because it might be interesting to some of you!)

First, I identify the need for an agent in the story. Usually, I have a general event that takes place that affects the setting overall in some way. The best way of making a reader care about these events is to have them influence characters; That way, readers have someone to identify with and relate to, as it’s quite difficult to make someone care about (say) a mountain. You need an emotional core, a human face. read more

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A Consultation

by on June 25, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Morning all!

Unfortunately it’s been a bit of a wet weekend, and as such we didn’t get to see Batman: The Dark Knight Rises since nobody was all that keen on swimming to the cinema. So America and anyone else who gets films after the UK: I think we can call this one a draw 😛

Anyway, I wanted to see if you guys had any insight, as readers and some of you as fellow creators: I have an idea for a short comic, which I believe has the capability to become quite popular (It’s a cute little four-page funny, about a kid who is a 10-year old tortured artist, his doomed escapades and how he gets through it with tea and kisses from his beloved muse). read more

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Chinese Comedy

by on May 14, 2012 at 6:00 am
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I’ve been thinking about something: Why don’t we have a Chinese comedy show here in the UK? (Non-UKians, consider the following shows required watching as they are HILARIOUS) Indian and Pakistani humour’s been represented by Goodness Gracious Me, Scottish Humour’s had an excellent run with Chewin’ The Fat and Still Game; Why don’t we have a sketch show involving Chinese humour?

It’s not as if we’re a small minority. Most every large city here has a Chinatown, and a sizeable portion of any office (stereotypically enough, especially technical and scientific offices) will be of Chinese extraction. read more

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The Creative Process

by on April 20, 2012 at 6:00 am
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I’m working on the scene-by-scene plan for the next Elf Blood story arc, in preparation for writing it in advance so that I can edit it to bring you a more coherent storyline. This is pretty much how I write all my long scripts; On paper, I’ll work things out as a general plot, then onto a scene-by-scene basis, then all the way down to a page-by-page level. Only once I’m done with that and am sure that the flow is correct, will I progress on to the next stage which is to write the script itself on computer. read more

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