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What's best? One big climax, multiple small ones, early, or delayed? How much should you work UP to a climax? What about anticlmactic events, how important are they?
Climaxes are really important in stories. Often you work up to them over the course of a whole series, but ...

Quackcast 234 - Climactic Climaxes!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 1, 2015Quackcast 188 - Shoot'n the Breeze
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 14, 2014 LISTEN!
- Art, clockwise from top: Ozone-hussar, War-Pit, Banes-Marx, Tantz-Pantz
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Hellooooo people! I'd like to welcome you to the release of our début album! We got Banze on vibes, Tantz on bouzouki, Ozone on the fart flute, and Pit on the butt-bongos! Seriously though, this is another in our ...
Quackcast 176 - Endings, part 3
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 22, 2014 LISTEN!
- Pic by Genejoke
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For our FINAL part of our discussion of story endings we talk about yet MORE ending tropes, methods and styles. In a fit of towering arrogance and indefensible pomposity we even trash the mighty Shakespeare for his ending of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet! Our ...
Quackcast 175 - Endings, part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 15, 2014 LISTEN!
- Pic by Genejoke
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Arrrr, this be the second part of our discussion on writing ENDINGS in stories of all kinds, particularly for webcomics! But we discuss a few movie and TV endings here, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, No Country For Old Men, True Detective, and Dexter ...
Quackcast 174 - Endings, part 1
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 8, 2014 LISTEN!
- Pic by Genejoke
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This is the end, Beautiful friend, This is the end, My only friend, the end… so drones Jim Morrison in the classic Doors song, but this isn't the end, rather it's a Quackcast ABOUT endings! Today we talk about the ends of stories ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Chevalier available on Kindle!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 27, 2014
“Chevalier” creators Darryl Hughes (aka “TheDeeMan”) and Monique MacNaughton (aka “Coydog”) have released the Kindle version of their new book “Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: For Queen and Country” out now on Amazon.
Synopsis:
“Pledging himself before the High Queen of the Far, Far Away to the task of finding ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Beginnings, endings, and continuations
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Nov. 29, 2013
In milestones this week, awsome owl 98's Powell and Derry is ending soon after over two years and almost 350 pages.
Cheer up, though! He is starting up a new request-based comic called Vie Das Batteries where you give him a title, and he will draw a comic page ...
QUACKCAST Episode 76 - Gunwallace on short story writing
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 8, 2012LISTEN!
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Short story webcomics, flash fiction, O'Henry stories, circular endings… what ARE these things? Well our resident writing expert extraordinaire from the land of the long white cloud fills us in with some new insights into the art of short fiction. How many panels, how many pages, what ...
MaxAxil interview, and Divine Leap conclusion
skoolmunkee at 11:04AM, March 6, 2011
Today we've got another new DD Member Interview! This time around, it's BffSatan interviewing MaxAxil of The Adventures of Random Epic! Here's a quick preview:
And of course your last comic is ‘Living with Dan and Stacey in Drunk Duck,’ a project that is sort of community-esque ...