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What are the different expectations for female and male audiences? This almost entirely a culture based thing, it changes depending on where and WHEN you are from ...
QUACKCAST 428 - Expectations of Male and female audiences
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 28, 2019QUACKCAST 427 - Betrayal
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 21, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Betrayal is an interesting thing to use in fiction. You can have betrayal of your nation, your organisation, friends, lovers, religion, beliefs, self. In stories it can ...
Realistic Escalation
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 11, 2019
There comes the time when you may have a scene that starts off quite innocuously. It might even start all fun and games. But sometime during it, the atmosphere changes drastically, and things escalate, seemingly out of nowhere.
What used to be a chill scene, now is suddenly a strife ...
Unanswered
Banes at 12:00AM, May 9, 2019
What's in the Box?
An iconic part of the movie Pulp Fiction is the McGuffin that Jules and Vincent deliver to their boss, Marcallus Wallace. It's a briefcase that, when you open it, glows on the face of the person looking at it and absolutely astonishes them. Is ...
QUACKCAST 425 - Pay-off or rip-off?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 7, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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In this Quackcast we chat about set-ups. pay-offs, and rip-offs. To make your climaxes and endings more satisfying you have pay-offs for audience expectations: set them up ...
A Proposed Counterargument
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 4, 2019
THERE WILL BE SPOILERS, ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK
I was amazed and surprised to see that I wasn't the only one that had an idea to talk about setup and payoff and Game of Thrones this week! The lovely Emma Clare did it ahead of me, and she ...
Quackcast 424 - Selling your creative dish
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 30, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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On one side we have creators of content and on the other we have the consumers. The consumers number in their billions and they're voraciously hungry ...
Making Heads Of Thumbnails
Amelius at 12:04PM, April 28, 2019
Here on DD, your thumbnail is your first impression and as such you should take care with your thumbnail, as it is your first chance to make an impression with a reader. Full disclosure, I don't really like our thumbnails here on DD. These stamp style thumbnails are too ...
80 Years of Batman
Banes at 12:00AM, April 25, 2019
May 2019 is right around the corner, and it marks a massive milestone in superhero comics - the 80th birthday of Batman.
His looooong running comic, Detective Comics, releases issue #1000! This is the second superhero comic to reach this impressive place - last year was Superman's 80th, and Action Comics ...