Constructing a story is a work of high creativity and love. Enthusiasm and personal interest in it are required if the story is to have quality and engagement, be unique and full of personality. While writing we look forward to certain scenes or sequences that we expect to have special ...
Second Guessing Yourself
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 6, 2020Using 3D Art to Create Comics by Genejoke part 1
Banes at 12:00AM, May 28, 2020
This is a tutorial by Genejoke, who agreed to share some of his knowledge for anyone who's interested in
starting a 3D comic!
He's turned his tutorials into videos, so we're reposting his tutorials for anyone who wants to check out the videos, read the written version ...
QUACKCAST 479 - Big ideas in fiction
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 19, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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My original idea for this Quackcast was: “Genre fiction is the best place to explore ideas, straight fiction doesn't do it as well”
What I meant ...
QUACKCAST 477 - Darkest before dawn
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 5, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today on this glorious date we chat about that part in stories where everything turns to crap for the protagonists, just before the run up to the ...
Nothing Wasted, Something Gained
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 18, 2020
As the Orthodox Easter approaches, I set out to make the traditional sweet bread. It's a tricky affair, because the recipes are often unreliable, or something might happen which you realise too late, and the dough won't rise, or won't pull apart as it should. I ended ...
We Three
Banes at 12:00AM, April 16, 2020
Baneset Jones' Diary
We Three: Love Triangles
On the ‘terrible writing advice’ youtube channel, one of the running jokes is the over-reliance and overemphasis on love triangles in bad fiction.
Are they automatically bad, though?
They can be. If a character's main problem, regardless of genre, is having to ...
Religion As Mythology
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 11, 2020
It's all fine and exciting when using lore and myth to create new stories. Especially when it comes to modern genres like urban fantasy, it can yield pretty alluring and impressive results! From ancient Greek mythology to all kinds of Asian myths and legends, to Norse mythology and Egyptian ...
Chris Claremont
Banes at 12:00AM, April 9, 2020
Classic X-men reprinted the Chris Claremont stories and included new Claremont stories A+
Chris Claremont is one of the all-time greats in comic book writing, and probably my favorite comics writer.
He's most famous for working on the Uncanny X-Men series from the 1970's to the early 1990 ...
SquareEnix Life is Strange Review
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 6, 2020
With more time spent at home, I have been able to dive into some of my favorite past-times that I used to do when I was middle school aged. One of them being playing video games. Growing up, Squaresoft and the Final Fantasy video game series completely shaped my identity ...