Amazing Micro-Fiction

Short explanation of micro fiction.

4 Tips For Making Your Script Move

For the tips, read the Celtx blog post.

Celtx is a script writing software. View pricing. 

One Act Play Tutorial

Free Zine Templates

Template dot net website offers free Zine templates. Can edit online or download and edit in Microsoft Word.

https://www.template.net/editable/zines-word

What I Like

Comic-O-Matic: Talk And Thought

3 Paid To Write Websites

https://beginnersblog.org/make-money-as-a-writer/

Comic-O-Matic Emoti-thingees

How To Write A Script For Your Comic

March 8, 2014 — Made by Todd Tevlin

Intimidated by the writing process? Having a hard time getting what’s in your head down on paper? (Do you even use paper? If so, does it have “From the desk of…” printed at the top or is it 23 napkins that you snatched from the coffee shop?) In any event, I want to teach you the “quick and dirty” way of making a script for your comic. It’s not as complicated as you might think, and you don’t need any fancy software to do it either!

The Basics of Writing a Script

Before diving into writing a script, you really should write an outline first. Outlines are a way of organizing your thoughts so that you can write your script. List each idea as a bullet point, then revise it to find a logical flow for the story. Once that’s done, you’ll be able to approximate the number of panels needed to pull off each bullet point. This will give you an idea of how much you can do within each issue of your comic.

The principle is the same regardless of whether you’re creating a webcomic or a 22-page comic book. For my comic, Frik’in Hell, I only had to plan out 8-11 panels per episode, so my scripts tended to be half a page at most. If you’re working on a 22-page comic you might have around 132 panels per issue, which is why it’s a good idea to create an outline first so you know where you’re going with the story.

Once you have an idea for the length of time each bullet point represents, use your favorite writing implement (pen and paper, computer, telepathic goat) and write down the action and dialogue, including key elements that need to be in each panel. Let me emphasize that you do not need to buy fancy scriptwriting software for this! An example script could look like:

Notice how the dialogue is separated into its own line? That makes it clearer to read, especially if there’s more than one character talking. Notice how some panels describe shot composition (close-ups, wide shots, down-angles, etc.)? This will help to explain what you’ve pictured in your head, even if the only person that will read this is you. Every detail matters; the more information that you put in the script, the better equipped you will be to visualize this world when you later draw it.

The photo up top is from my notebook for Frik’in Hell (not pictured: legible handwriting). I use a very stripped-down scriptwriting approach since I’m both the writer and artist. I don’t use panel numbers and such — I bracket-off each panel and put the descriptions inside parentheses to separate them from dialogue. As I said, there’s more than one way to do this. If I were tackling a 22-page comic, I would probably not use this technique at all.

Are You Handing the Script Over to an Artist?

If you are the writer and plan to pass the script off to an artist, you will need to be meticulous in the details. Don’t assume that the artist will figure out what you want. Make sure that the script has everything that is important to you so that the artist can include it. The example script (above) may be fine if you’re also the artist, but if not, you will probably need to explain what the hallway looks like, or the furnishings, lighting, and facial expressions, just to name a few.

Also, consider incorporating screenplay terminology in your script. Use keywords like Exterior or Interior, Day or Night, and reference the scene’s location. In the example, I would include in my description: INT. HOUSE HALLWAY – NIGHT. Doing this will help the artist figure out where each shot is located, as there will be times when multiple locations are shown in the same page.

Of course there’s a fine line between “detailed-oriented” and “dictator.” Your artist needs some degree of creative control and should not be treated as a robot to your whims. (“Robot to Your Whims” sounds like a band name… if anyone uses that, I would like credit please.) Your script should tell the story, not micromanage the look of every pen stroke. That’s the artist’s job!

For more information about this process, check out Gene Kelly’s article on Rocketbot called Writing a Comic Script: From Plot to Outline to Final Draft.

Thanks for reading!

How To Write A Script For Your Comic by Todd Tevlin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Wikibooks

 

“Simply, Wikibooks is a collection of open-content textbooks.

Because the word textbook is open to interpretation, this document exists to help clarify which types of content are acceptable for Wikibooks. For example, The Complete Works of Shakespeare might be considered a textbook in an English Literature course, but such a text would be inappropriate for this site.

What Wikibooks includes

Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. These materials can be used in a traditional classroom, an accredited or respected institution, a home-school environment, as part of a Wikiversity course, or for self-learning. As a general rule, only instructional books are suitable for inclusion. Non-fictional books (as well as fictional ones) that aren't instructional aren't allowed on Wikibooks. Literary elements, such as allegory or fables, that are used as instructional tools can be permitted in some situations.

Wikibooks includes both minor and major book-like projects.

Materials which may not be appropriate for Wikibooks should only be removed in accordance with the deletion policy.”*

*https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:What_is_Wikibooks

Passion

From Twitter.

Escape Pod 853: 2022 Flash Fiction Contest Winners

Start And Publish A Magazine

 

James Patterson Writing

Article.

Title:  James Patterson – the best seller who doesn't write his own books

Quote:

“The reason his literary output is so massive, at a rate of about one book a month, is that in most of his novels he doesn’t do the line-byline writing himself. He produces a treatment of 60 to 80 pages, establishing the plot and characters in detail, then hires a writer to turn it into a full-length book.”

Quote:

“Gilbert and Sullivan. Woodward and Bernstein. Stephen King and Peter Straub. Virtually any TV show there is. I’ll sometimes get on a TV show to be asked a question and they’ll be reading off a teleprompter from something they didn’t write. In my case I’ve always been a good storyteller. I’m very good at plot and characterisation but there are better stylists.”

www.express.co.uk

Write A Fractured Fairy Tale

How To Outline A Book

 

An interesting article explains how to, and why one should, outline a book. The article also has links to book outline templates for downloading.

https://selfpublishing.com/book-outline/

100 Quick Writing Tips

9 Letters We No Longer Use

Flash Fiction Magazine

Twitter account

Flash Fiction Magazine publishes one flash fiction story per day. 

You can also download their free book.

Create Comics With Comicgen

https://gramener.com/comicgen/v1/

39 Literary Devices

https://www.grammarcheck.net/literary-devices/

Read Magazines Online For Free

The article headline promises 10 places online where you can read magazines for free. Of course, you have to read the article.

Caution, some of the websites might not offer free magazines since the published date of the article. 

Proofreading Tips

by PaulaAnnMurphy.

From Visually.

How to Write With James Scott Bell

12 Poetic Forms

For details about the video, and timestamps, go to https://youtu.be/jRaLNwP82Mw.

An Introduction To Zines

https://thepublicstudio.ca/files/DIY-No2-Zines.pdf

Newspaper Club Canva Templates

-from tweet

Minis - 

https://www.canva.com/design/DAE7mxDmzoE/tQeLfiHaBOaL0PAQXOxzGA/view?mode=preview

All tabloids -
https://www.canva.com/design/DAE4DkddND8/Zklj8iRbFbjDzp9P4IjJxQ/view?mode=preview

Digital broadsheet -
https://www.canva.com/design/DAElftg3_u8/d7GVX2tiBiDroQa292WJfw/view?mode=preview

Traditional broadsheet -
https://www.canva.com/design/DAElflbuvf4/w1h8Qk-MYLQld61Q8zI7RQ/view?mode=preview

Website:
https://www.newspaperclub.com/

Free Sample Pack:
https://www.newspaperclub.com/choose/orders-and-delivery/free-sample

200+ Pulp Fiction Writers

https://issuu.com/rodrigoborgesdefaveri/docs/encyclopedia_of_pulp_fiction

Amazon Author Page

http://karenwilliamsmarketing.blogspot.com

Free Comic Strip Templates

By: John Edson

Canva offers free, customizable, comic strip templates. 

There are several blank panels available:

    —a one panel,

    —a four panel,

    —a five panel, 

    —a six panel.

Also, you can choose from various completed panels to edit. 

Two panels that standout to me are:

   -Pink and Blue Boy 3 Panel Comic Strip,

   -Purple and White People Office 4 Panel Comic Strip.

 https://www.canva.com/create/comic-strips/

TikTok Sells Books?

Eric Coble

Free scripts. 

That’s what it says on the website.

Thanks to Eric Coble.

http://ericcoble.com/free-scripts/

Adobe Free Newsletter Templates

 

Remember Spark?

 “Choose … newsletter templates to create your newsletter in minutes”

https://www.adobe.com/express/discover/templates/newsletter

Tips For Creating Infographics

 

World Autism Day April 2

Help amplify voices in the #Autistic community: buy & read books by #ActuallyAutistic authors 📚❤️📚🧡📚💛📚💚📚💙📚💜📚#WorldAutismDay #redinstead #autism #autismawareness #waad #worldautismawarenessday pic.twitter.com/IgzQmM9ZMe

— Palm Health Foundation (@PalmHealthFdn) April 2, 2022

 

Churnalism

Turn Your Book Into A NFT

1997 vs 2022

Create Ebook Cover

Software: https://laughingbirdsoftware.com/

Issuu Magazine Template

“Personalize your template Issuu works by uploading content which is then converted into a ready-to-publish flipbook. Use this easy-to-edit magazine template to get you started. To make it your own, just do the following: Edit the text, colors, fonts, images and more. Download this file as a PDF. Your PDF will then be converted into a flipbook :)“

https://issuu.com/issuu/docs/magazine...

Handwriting Without Tears

https://issuu.com/handwritingwithouttears/docs/bw-c_2nd_sample_pages

Free English Grammar Lessons

Grammar Monster offers:

• Resources
• YouTube explainer videos
• Lessons with tests
• Interactive quizzes

https://www.grammar-monster.com/

Why People Cannot Write

Visit the website to read details.

Poems As NFTs

A Book As An NFT?

Smart Phone Podcasting?