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MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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#1: Apr 11th 2011 at 12:19:42 PM

So, ever have one of those places where you REALLY want to write, and you have point A and point C, but no idea how to get to point B?

Yeah, that's what I'm having issues with.

Where I am right now (for the record, this is a graphic novel script):

Panel 4. Same panel as panel 3, only now Nicky is in the middle, still at his 14 year old age, looking rather disturbed and worried, holding a sign that says “Asshole.” Older Libby should be looking at him with outright detestment, Older Hunter looking at him with irritation, their signs at their sides.

CAP 1:

Unfortunately, this is not the case.

CAP 2 (by Libby):

Libby Tremaine is not our protagonist.

CAP 3 (by Hunter):

Hunter Shicklegrüber is not our protagonist.

Panel 5. Hunter is now picking up Nicky by the scruff of his neck, grinning wickedly. Libby is cracking his knuckles.

SFX (Libby’s knuckles):

Krk—!

LIBBY:

Oh it’s payback time now.

CAP(by Nicky)

Instead, our protagonist is this…this thing.

NICKY:

Eep.

And this is the narration that happens (more or less, I will edit it a lot, I just have an outline I am working on) next, but I don't know how to start it:

Alas, I would be lying then too. Our protagonist, ladies and gentleman, is the one and only Nicholas Cuantine. He was an absolutely horrid boy, with every trait you would associate in a hero: naïve, foolish, brave, and a never ending cache of hyperactive stamina, but for some reason the wires in his brain got miscrossed and all of those seemingly quirky and enjoyable qualities became annoying and predictable traits.

Quite the tragedy, really.

Help?

edited 11th Apr '11 12:21:22 PM by MrAHR

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BetsyandtheFiveAvengers Since: Feb, 2011
#2: Apr 11th 2011 at 12:59:00 PM

Did you maybe try a panel showing Nicky's reaction to Hunter and Libby's threats? I know that is sort of typical...

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#3: Apr 11th 2011 at 1:00:00 PM

Well, that's where the page ends, and I want to...

actually that could work.

Show Nicky whining and flailing about, and have the narration muse on his traits.

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BetsyandtheFiveAvengers Since: Feb, 2011
#4: Apr 11th 2011 at 1:13:38 PM

That feels like the most natural place to take it, considering that the other two characters there are set up to be sort of tough...the people that the reader would be the most interested in, even though the narrator tells us they are focus should be elsewhere.

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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