Writer's Block Daily

Just remember, the perfect is the enemy of the good.

whelp, here's my comic

see what i mean◊

Hi, I'm Jeigh. I'm new to the forums and have been lurking for a bit and wanted to jump on in.

I'm an aspiring webcomic maker too, I definitely get where you're coming from about your art style. But seriously, your page looks good. Keep going!

keep in mind, ravenheart is much bigger in scope than just this measly comic.

I am fairly certain no one thinks the scope of a comic is as small as "look I made a comic"

Also if you don't think you're ready, then don't do it. Not much can really change that.

edited 2nd Apr '17 7:17:03 PM by MrAHR

That's actually pretty solid, art-wise. Colouring is a little basic but I like what you're going for overall.

Just an aside about race and diversity: I actually realised a character was mixed-race long after writing her, because it just made sense to me. While I've certainly made a small effort to create more diversity in the ethnic backgrounds and genders of my characters—because, well, the world has a lot of women and non-Caucasian people in it and writing different sorts of people is more interesting than writing from the same template—sometimes it just occurs to me that a character is a certain way and that's that, without any effort whatsoever. Because sometimes your awkward teenage lesbian's mom is Dutch-Indonesian and her father is a half-African former officer in the colonial English Navy and her classmates are kinda low-key racist about it because... she is.

i don't know how I'm suppose to approach a comic script.

Is it just for you or for someone else to draw?

However when I was writing scripts, there was a sample one used for submitting works to Dark Horse, so if you search around there you might find it.

If I remember...

ISSUE ONE

PAGE 3 (2 Panels)

Panel 1. We zoom in on the tv tropes web page, where we see the forum

CAP: On this website, many things can happen

CAP(2): But on this forum specifically, we deal with writing

Panel 2. The forum has a white background, where we see several tropers talking

AHR: Let me make a sample comic to show you what it looks like

EWOLF: sure!

that is how they do it, but there is no golden standard, obviously.

I should warn you, most tropers on this writing forumed are not really trained in knowing how to handle a visual medium as they are a prose medium, so it might be hard to get feedback on it.

edited 7th Apr '17 9:39:47 AM by MrAHR

that's alright ( i might even draw it if you like)

also, to answer your question, i do most of the art.

Uh, I have no desire one way or another what you do. I was just passing along the common way people will approach writing comics before drawing.

Thinking of how I can make sense of my utopian post-need scifi/fantasy space setting when it also contains a robust consumer product marketing and naming culture and I want to put a Sky Mall-like magazine at the end of my book. Like the most capitalist glossary ever.

It's just funny to me! Because I really can't write a Future in Space novel without giving everyone access to food, water, shelter, healthcare and human rights and also have one of the main supporting characters be waffling over the name of his new anti-technology personal and business security system.

after i get my webcomic done (20-40 pages), i might as well do a tvtropes page about it. or, one of my fans since i don't know all the tropes.

The nice thing about pages on this site is that they're not limited to just one editor. Nobody knows every single trope under the sun, that's why we collaborate.

Posts like that are super redundant and pointless. Probably better to avoid them.

edited 8th Apr '17 8:57:13 PM by AwSamWeston

Actually....nevermind.

Hey, I'm Matt Hodge. I'm writing a story called Between Angels and Demons, which is probably the most cliche thing I've ever called a book about Gray and Gray Morality. It's about a teen named Will who has essentially a Demonic Possession/Chaotic Neutral esc creature named Libra, who looks exactly like his older brother, because tragedy. It's a long, long Break the Cutie arc, that I've spent the past two and a half years changing Act 2, characters, places, plots, and the general motives of one of the two protagonists, and only now have I nailed down this semi-concrete summary that will most definitely change in the near future.

Why did I get so annoyed at a manga's twist being the villains being robots who dislike humans for having emotions and trying to write an entire AU discussing this and What Measure Is a Non-Human?? Or at least the robots being hacked by an Evil Prince trying to usurp the throne.

edited 10th Apr '17 3:39:45 PM by eital

Because that idea is so cliche, and totally unrealistic to boot?

Story idea based around the medieval grimoire the Ars Notoria (Notary Art). As a disclaimer I'm not anything like the protagonist of this story, and I'm sorry if it seems to be a little cliche, but after reading the basic premise of the Ars and what it claimed to do, the story pretty much wrote itself.

It's some time in the Middle Ages, and this university student realises that he's spent most of his time engaging in various Wacky Fratboy Hijinx^note which they did and he's in serious danger of being expelled from the university as a result. After he fails an exam (having went to the tavern, getting drunk and participating in a bar brawl/riot the previous night), he asks his acquaintance what to do, and he gives him the Ars Notoria, a Spell Book that will give him all the rituals to invoke the help of the angels acquire supernatural levels of knowledge. So he spends the next few days/months fasting, praying, doing spells... and he fails the next examination, having completely neglected his studies. Panicking, he goes to the headmaster (or whoever), and talks about his predicament, asking what could have possibly gone wrong. The headmaster laughs and tells him he did the exact same thing when he was his age, but eventually he learned that angels aren't his personal servants, and frankly that there's no substitution for just going out and studying the texts needed; but if anything, the Ars Notoria gives students discipline and willpower needed to succeed in academia. At the end, the student meets his friends at the tavern again, but resists the temptation to get drunk and gamble.

edited 11th Apr '17 1:47:05 PM by SantosLHalper

Sounds cool. Write it.

Say guys, what do you think of this upcoming idea for a story I may write called: Swipe Out! Which is basically a pastiche of Japanese music industry and Entertainment.

It's set in the near future Japan of 2029, where in an attempt to increase the entertainment industry and public view of education to both Japan and the world, the government enacted an act called: "Festival Act." In which all institutions in Japan like schools, factories, stadiums and even sports events are encouraged in teaching dancing moves and music of any type depending on personality and status and compete to see which of the following individuals can be become the Master of Festival in Japan in either organization in a yearly tournament, whether they belong to a legal or illegal form music covered in the act. This act led the formation of Criminal "Musicians" gangs and groups against lawful music groups.

It focuses on two characters in the city of Tokyo. Suki Sawashiro, secret J-Pop Idol who "studies" at Keio University who wants to become a master to impress her family and friends in the tournament at school and Masato Sakurai, a young rapper who also takes part in the Keio University tournament, seeking to reform the public view of "Illegal" music.

I wrote. It's kind of a crappy Sailor Moon fanfic with someone who's probably a Mary Sue but I did.

YAY! You have gone way further than most if you wrote a story from begining to end

It was a drabble but considering I wrote absolutely nothing in months...

Breath of the W Ild is the reason why I haven't written anything in over a month. I haven't felt this way about a game in years...

Today I submitted my first feature-length screenplay, Our Wizard, for registration at the US Copyright Office. I'm really happy/excited.

In other news, I finally got a clear roadmap for a new script using one of the ideas I posted about over here.