We've all been told how in story telling, showing is a lot better than telling.

Showing gets hard if your main character is a loner that interacts with nobody. Even harder if he/she is a stoic that emotes very little. The audience will have no way of knowing ...

Photo: Mary Jane “MJ” Watson (played by Kirsten Dunst) and Harry Osborn (played by James Franco) in Spiderman 3 (2007).

Traveling down the memory lane archives has taken me back to watching the Tobey Maguire Spiderman trilogy that was released during the early-2000s.

Tobey Maguire’s Spiderman was my masked ...

Usually when building a character, we go for their general personality in terms of traits, the routine/general behavior they would display, the routine/general things that would interest them and so on.

If you are writing a slice of life story, or a sitcom style series, or anything that ...

Area 5 Point 1 is a comic featuring two bright green creatures (not of this world) that reside in a restricted area to participate in their daily antics. Xim Pultan (one of the green creatures) and its friend may have arrived on the planet around the Roswell Incident. Watch how ...

It’s Christmas.

As we wind down from this exhausting year, take the time to relax and count all the rays of sunshine amongst the gloom. In spite of the upheaval in work structures, I have found more time for my hobbies and art. In spite of the lockdowns I ...

When a character the story's cast and audience identify and are familiar with dies, the effect is, or should be, monumental.

Not only because that effectively ends that character's journey (and arc), but also because as an event it has immediate ramifications for all the surviving characters.

First ...

HEAR YE, HEAR YE….Anthology Deadline Extension and Discord Updates

Hey all!
Your friendly neighborhood Pit-Face here! This is an announcement for those that are working on the Anthology project (short story submissions, one off illustrations, cover submissions):

The new due date for all work is on Feb. 1st, 2021 ...

Picking a name for your character is a pivotal moment. Almost like breathing life into them, the name you pick for them will give their identity a hue, a flavor that wouldn't be the same with any other name. Yes, a Rose by any other name would smell as ...

I've never seen this movie, but does he have a bevy of dead girlfriends?
always seemed like an odd concept for a lighthearted romantic comedy. “Matthew
and Jennifer! Learning the power of love! Piles of dead bodies!”


Talking to the Dead - Sort of

How many times have you had ...

Growing up is hard. It's funny when you don't realise that's what you are though. Suddenly you're like… “Oh, I'm not a kid anymore! WTF?! When did this happen?”. That's sort of what Amy is going though. This is a slice of life comic ...