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Writing Help!
Hi everyone! I’m working on writing a story that I hope to one day turn into a comic. The only problem is that I am not that great of a writer and really am not sure how to even really start… Anyone out there willing to work with me ? I’ll give more information about it if anyone shows any interest.
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There’s a ton of writer’s among us! Is there anything specific you’re looking for or just general help?
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@Timidity has a few comics under her belt. Maybe she’ll help?
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@Sellalellen @Mr5yy Wow, that was fast! I’m not sure, but the story is about a mob-boss supervillain named Frankie. I have a lot of ideas about what I want to do with the story, but I just don’t know how to get it down on paper.
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One of my NaNoWriMo projects very much wanted to be in a visual medium, so I started translating it from regular prose to script format
before that computer’s harddrive diedso it could someday be a comic/graphic novel thing.It’s been more than a few years, but maybe I can help?
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@Ashburn fantastic! That’s exactly the direction I’m planning on going!
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Hi! I write a good bit but I don’t know much about Comic writing but I’ll help in anyway I can!
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Awesome! Give me a min and I’ll try to post the general file with info about Frankie.
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The free program I was using changed drastically between when I started it and when I last tried accessing any of my scripts, so I’ll have to see how much of the formatting I can still see when I get to the computer it’s on.
But short version was a combination of stuff from my play/screenwriting classes and looking at graphic novels for guidance re: how much can actually fit per page.
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It would probably be good to figure out an outline, story arcs, the general direction of where you want the story to go. Comic writing is quite a bit different from novel writing and is maybe more akin to writing a movie script (though not quite).
It’s really up to you, though. What’s gonna make you feel more motivated as a creator. One webcomic artist I follow mentioned that she wrote out little short stories of certain scenes before committing to the comic. Another wrote out the story on pen and paper, in illustrated story style. And I heard of one artist who did test pages of certain scenes just to see if they liked the story enough. What calls to you about this story?
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Well, it’s kind of complicated, but I just have the character Frankie really being how I feel on the inside. They struggle with the idea of sexuality and gender, and I really feel like it’s just something I want to write about.
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Well, I might as well put out a little fact sheet about my story!
Frankie is the leader of the Punturo mob branch, after their father was killed at the hands of a police informant. They were born female, but normally feels more comfortable dressing as a man. This also helps with staying incognito.
After their father’s death, they became furious and decided to take revenge on the corrupt police officers as The Hornet. A deadly Robinhood type villain with mechanical wings.
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Oh, The Hornet is such a cool concept XD I did a comic-writing module at uni and the best advice I found was story boarding i.e telling the story solely through images given comics are a visual medium. It might also hep to read comic scripts of your favorite comics if you can find any. If Frankie is the main focus, maybe figuring out how you’d introduce all the main points you mentioned about Frankie, backstory and hero-suit through images? I’m definitely not an expert but I hope this helps you in getting it down
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Thank you! Would anyone be interested in me doing a drawing of Frankie?
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I could edit or help with panelling, writing, etc. Super busy so maybe just edits/critique?
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I promise I didn’t forget!
it was murder trying to find all the components to get the old computer to functionOkay, so, good news and bad news.
Bad news is the file I wanted to reference is either A) on the other mostly-dead computer, or 2) was on this computer and was eaten. I forget exactly why I have this memory of despair attached to it.
Good news: this computer did have a different comic script project! More the small episodic type than graphic novel, but I was using the same basic format.
Here are a couple pics of my computer screen (sorry if it’s hard to read through the wavy thing that happened):
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Thanks!!
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What do you mean by mostly dead? If you only need access to a specific file could you not just remove the hard drive and plug it into a different computer to extract the files?
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I can kind of get to things on it, a coworker helped me install Ubuntu a couple years ago. I think I got everything off there though. If I was able to salvage it, it’s probably on my external harddrive (didn’t check what year it was from until just now, looks like it was on that one).
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Oh, that reminds me – you should check out Kieron Gillen’s comic masterpost. Some of the links are down, but are thankfully available through the wayback machine.
