Jocelyn is about to start the school year as a new student at NRM High School. Thankfully, the school’s computer lab is home to epic fanfic writer, Shannon, who embraces the word “nerd”. This unforgettable friendship is preserved in a slice of life comic that takes place in the ...

Young Leoard inherits a giftshop from his grandmother, but it's not an ordinary giftshop… Leonard's granny was a bit of a strange lady in her day, even being known to play a game of poker with the occasional god, she collected many vaulable and interesting treasures. A lot ...

Photo: “Fishing (Page Eight)” by Genejoke from Lite Bites 2021

In the Networking and Community Projects part of the forums, Genejoke has been getting ready for a Comic Jam since September 13th.


Genejoke writes:

Hey folks, Genejoke here. Hopefully many of you have noticed that the community project Lite Bites ...

Hi! So Spooky Season has begun and my brain has gone into fart mode and it's currently slow on bringing up topics right now!

But I thought something interesting would be to do a review on movies, pick them apart, talk about what's good and what's bad ...

When I was growing up in the 80s, stories that were marketed as ‘children’s' were occasionally brutal.

Characters got maimed or killed, tortured or traumatized, met with horrid ends in worlds that were anything but rosy. And this was a pattern that wasn't limited to, say, English literature ...

I was fishing for smelts the other day and scooped up an old bottle, with a rolled-up paper inside. It contained the following:

In older literature I think it was common to have a story told by a narrator who was never a part of the action. Someone who may ...

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We've done a few Quackcasts about how terrible Mary Sues are… well this is the opposite! Tantz postulated that they can be likable and GOOD for ...

The moment of change in a character is not always crystal clear in a story. Very often the secret to good storytelling I think, is to understand all the structural elements in a story, and a character arc, and then to HIDE those elements so they feel realistic while they ...

Mari has a pretty sad routine life in Toronto. Things are slowly getting worse for her, not least of which is that her old video rental business is slowly failing. But beginning with an earthquake that utterly destroys her flat things are about to change drastically! Dreams come to life ...

In the beginning, we set up our character
Iin the middle, we get them into trouble
In the end, we get them out of trouble.

Sounds so simple! It's tougher than that to pull off.

The middle of a story in particular, as people have talked about, is often ...