How to Pick, Research and Implement Mental Disorder in a Character

So last time I talked in general about some basic concepts and principles about what constitutes mental illness, or, more accurately, mental disorder. The important thing to remember and keep from all of that is this set of truths ...

Writing a character with mental illness can be a very tricky thing. Writers usually go for the extremely rare, exotic and spectacular: multiple personality disorders, extreme manifestations of psychopathy or sociopathy, high functioning autism with that ever alluring ‘savant’ magic going for the character, bombastically spectacular schizophrenia… in many ways ...

For this week, I wanted to begin a new series of articles inspired by the most recent podcast “JUST DO IT!”. Part way through our discussion, the topic of creating stories came up and I, quite clumsily, tried to explain the theory of narrative circles and arcs as told by ...

Hi Drunk Duck,

In 2015, the Drunk Duck Fashion Forum had their first fashion and interview competition called #Pageant 1.

In January 2018, we began promoting #Pageant 2, and we'd love you to be a part of it! However, if a character of yours can't participate as a ...

The site had a backend fix yesterday to give us a little more help combating spam accounts signing up, but we've had a couple of reports that people couldn't logo in now.

I've tested the issue on an account and the account had no problems. The issue ...

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This Quackcast topic was inspired by a newspost by Kawaiidaigakusei who described a short autobiographical account of her own experiences managing the difficult work/life balance of doing webcomics online and at the same time having a normal life otherwise. How do you balance those ...

See our full preview here: - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/WILDFIRE/

This is the final part of a six page preview of a new comic from Top Cow and Carthay Circle Publishing that we've been showing this week. Click the image to see a full sized version on our Facebook ...

This time Skool and Oz talk about the fine art of character creation- With lots and lots of input from the words of other DD creators!
Listen to QUACKCAST Episode 23 - And Then He Said, Let There Be Characters!



Featured Comic:
Hocusha

Organized around Scott McCloud's criteria of Inner ...

You can check out the previous newspost about this for more details, but Drunk Duck has undergone a server move (they have tried doing this several times and always met with problems and had to revert it). Most things have transferred over, but:

- there is general slowness which Wowio's ...

Guess what! Nergal has interviewed Pieguy259 of Stickman and Cube, and I gotta say it's a bunch of fun questions and answers. Here, have a look!

Well the first thing I noticed is the awesome banner you have for your comic. You must get a lot of comments about ...