On Writing Graphic Novels Writing the Story First

When I was participating in Script Frenzy I joined a group on Zhura for people like me who were participating and asked everyone there didn’t they think writing a graphic novel was easier than writing a film script. One person replied with “No! I’m still stuck on the pictures,” (disclaimer: this may not be verbatum). [...]

Getting Back Into Short Stories

It has been so long since I have written a short story of any kind that I found myself getting back to it almost by accident. I had planned to go back to it after I finished my first three graphic novel scripts by writing short stories about the characters from those stories. But I [...]

On Writing Graphic Novels Pt. 2: Writing Graphic Novel Action Sequences

One surprising thing I have found since starting to write this graphic novel series is that I really like writing action sequences. The reason this is surprising is that when I was writing in other genres (i.e. non-sci-fi) I didn’t think I could write action sequences. I thought they were intimidating and what did I [...]

On Writing Graphic Novels

Of all the categories of people you would think would be easy to find online wouldn’t you think it would be graphic novel writers? I mean come on, people!
Maybe I should explain. I am a member of a website called Zhura.com (I wrote about them here if you want an overview) and this website is [...]

Books by Pop People

Today I went to buy one book. I came home with four. I justify this in two ways: One actually is the book I intended to get also I found An Abundance of Katherines and The Gun Seller are two books I’ve been looking for for a long time.
The one I went to buy in [...]

Asteroid

I finished Asteroid! I meant this one to be based on the old Asteroid video game. The majority of the elements were painted and for the controls I used some photographic elements because I wanted the actual spaceship to have some realism about it. I thought it would be fun to see what it would look [...]

Design Inspiration

I just found one of the best sites for design inspiration I’ve ever found (the other favorite being Renderosity). K10000 (K10K) has a ton of things to read and look at and new ideas floating around in it. I have been on it for thirty minutes or so and not even scratched the surface. Be [...]

Tyler Durden Says…

Yes that was a Fight Club reference you just read. Yes I am about to admit to you that I have been watching Fight Club for the second time in three days. Indeed, I have just watched it for the fourth time in five days and sixth time in two weeks. I have also just [...]

Nothing to do? What’s that?

Yesterday a phenomena (or phenomenon?) happened to me. I had nothing to do! Nothing to do, nothing to think about and nothing to worry about. This worried me. I always have something to worry about so this made me feel lost which made me worry about not being worried.
This is a problem.
So I took charge [...]

New Story Published Online (soon)!

I’m working on a story which I will release online chapter by chapter soon. I will start posting it later today at http://letters2clarissa.blogspot.com and I will be doing commentary about it at http://fictionnet.blogspot.com
Both of the sites have just started but visit them anyway and save them to your favorites so you can read chapters as [...]