I am more like a writer here. In my writing experience, I have to be very patient with the words on the paper. I was told that and I quote from my English High School teacher, “Bad writing occurs when you rush words”. So when I started my writing career I was very shy. I never wanted to share my writing skills on the Internet. I wanted to keep them private until I finally found the courage to do it. It took years for me to overcome that fear and it was well worth it. Perfecting my craft was not easy, and I am still trying to hone my skills as a content creator and Comic Book creator so I can create compelling timeless stories like everyone here.

What are your stories about writing?

I have always been a bit of a performer so I shared my stories at an early age. All my creative writing classes encouraged reading works aloud, so I did and still do. It is a good way to check the flow of prose as well as the rhythm of verse. It blew my teenage mind when the judge at the teen arts festival chose my silly story to read first!

Since then I have written one novel, one novella, and started two dozen more. My massive fantasy epic series devolved into the unfinished webcomic Go a Viking: the Sword of Kings I found comic scripts to be so much easier to write than novels because being a visual thinker, I see images and hear dialogue. And I can't always describe what I see but I can create the image. And I returned to satire/parody. So now I can point to five completed comics and over a thousand pages of content. Now if I could just manage to write something marketable. (Young adult supernatural romance is huge. I have three friends writing ya series and another doing adult furry pornagraphic horror. )

That's my story. I am pretty good at washing garbage (Larry Block's term for rewrites) but not so good at getting to the point and telling the story. But forty years after reading aloud in middle school I am still working on it.

bravo1102 wrote:
I have always been a bit of a performer so I shared my stories at an early age. All my creative writing classes encouraged reading works aloud, so I did and still do. It is a good way to check the flow of prose as well as the rhythm of verse. It blew my teenage mind when the judge at the teen arts festival chose my silly story to read first!

Since then I have written one novel, one novella, and started two dozen more. My massive fantasy epic series devolved into the unfinished webcomic Go a Viking: the Sword of Kings I found comic scripts to be so much easier to write than novels because being a visual thinker, I see images and hear dialogue. And I can't always describe what I see but I can create the image. And I returned to satire/parody. So now I can point to five completed comics and over a thousand pages of content. Now if I could just manage to write something marketable. (Young adult supernatural romance is huge. I have three friends writing ya series and another doing adult furry pornagraphic horror. )

That's my story. I am pretty good at washing garbage (Larry Block's term for rewrites) but not so good at getting to the point and telling the story. But forty years after reading aloud in middle school I am still working on it.

Writers have an amazing gift of creating a universe from their imagination and craft them to reality. Be it in manuscripts or comic books scripts. In comics, we find it easier to write them than novels, so I agree with you on that.

I write when I feel the creative urge to do it. I have to be inspired… And then you bet I'll want to show it off!
But once I have I'll be happy to hide it away again.

I have a very cheeky style of writing and readers seem to like it, but I get bored with it very easily and stop after I've done a few stories. The inspiration had to be there because I have no other motivation to write.

Once the Godstrain is done, I'm considering doing an illustrated novel…

Time and Time again I put too much dialogue text in my comic pages, and it threatens to drown out the art… but I just want to say so much…! I never seem to get out everything I wanna say! So hard to edit myself…!!

On the other hand, a purely written work doesn't have the visual ‘Ooomph’ to grab your attention (you have to read several pages to even decide if you're going to invest your time in it…)… It's why so many novels have striking visual covers - without them lots of good stuff just gets overlooked…

A visual novel might be a happy medium, though. I love the illustrated stories Gerald Brom puts out, and I wonder if I could do similar (can't approach him as an artist, but still, if it's a bit of art per page, I might can do that…)

Anyway, still mulling it over… Gotta finish current story first!!

KimLuster wrote:
Once the Godstrain is done, I'm considering doing an illustrated novel…

Time and Time again I put too much dialogue text in my comic pages, and it threatens to drown out the art… but I just want to say so much…! I never seem to get out everything I wanna say! So hard to edit myself…!!

On the other hand, a purely written work doesn't have the visual ‘Ooomph’ to grab your attention (you have to read several pages to even decide if you're going to invest your time in it…)… It's why so many novels have striking visual covers - without them lots of good stuff just gets overlooked…

A visual novel might be a happy medium, though. I love the illustrated stories Gerald Brom puts out, and I wonder if I could do similar (can't approach him as an artist, but still, if it's a bit of art per page, I might can do that…)

Anyway, still mulling it over… Gotta finish current story first!!

Writing is coding for amazing stories to form.

I think my comic ‘writing’ style to be pretty unusual - I draw a gag strip so each strip is a different self-contained joke, and thinking them up can feel like a methodical grind. Every so often I'll have to just sit in silence and churn a few more out. Like bravo1102 I'm quite a visual thinker - I do a lot of silent humour - so is what I do even ‘writing’?

haaaayes wrote:
I think my comic ‘writing’ style to be pretty unusual - I draw a gag strip so each strip is a different self-contained joke, and thinking them up can feel like a methodical grind. Every so often I'll have to just sit in silence and churn a few more out. Like bravo1102 I'm quite a visual thinker - I do a lot of silent humour - so is what I do even ‘writing’?

what's silent humour?