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What is the worth of human life in your stories?
This isn't something people often consider, we just tend to have a fairly accurate guess based ...
QUACKCAST 499 - Life's worth?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 6, 2020Insert title here (tips for titling your comic)
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Sept. 11, 2020
You have your story, your characters, your outline is looking schmick and you have a good buffer under your belt. Now what do you call all of it? Today I have some tips on how you can come up with the perfect name!
Know your genre
If you’re mentioning ...
Expies, Fandoms, Disappointment, and Hope
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 20, 2020
don't i know you people from somewhere?
oh yeah!
I realize it's not true of everyone, but there is a good chunk of various fandoms who are not happy with the condition of their favorite franchises these days. We've talked about the Star Wars of it all ...
QUACKCAST 478 - Pity da fool!
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Fools are an iconic character trope and I wanted to explore them. They're a lot more varied and interesting than is readily apparent. There's a ...
All is Lost
Banes at 12:00AM, April 30, 2020
I've talked many times about story structure. Even with a structural approach, there are a lot of questions to be answered, struggles to be had, and hard thinking to be done to make a story work.
One big moment that I like thinking about early in the writing is ...
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 ...
The Icons - Jughead
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2020
I'm not sure who the first fictional character was that I became attached to. The Cat in the Hat? Superman or Batman? Animal from the Muppets? Oscar the Grouch?
In any case, Jughead Jones was somewhere in that very early group of beloved characters. I liked Archie, and envied ...
A Phoenix Reborn as The Joker
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 16, 2019
Here is the scene:
It is pitch black, sitting in a movie theater, the lights go out and the feature film is only minutes away from beginning. The trailers begin playing and the first one is half way memorable. Then the next trailer comes on and I see a man ...
The Importance of Comedy in Horror
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 9, 2019
There is a very important relationship between humor and horror.
Bill Hader credits sixteen-year-old, Finn Wolfhard, for his meeting with the casting director in the latest installment of the Killer Clown franchise featuring Pennywise, It: Chapter Two. If that was not enough, he has joked in several interviews how he ...