So I slacked a lot in getting interviews prepared for our awesome webcomic artists here on the Duck, but that is going to be remedied!

I'm trying to find a way to establish regularity for all the features for showcasing DDers and their webcomics that I've been handling ...

One of the main drivers of story is the principle of CONTRAST.

A character in a traditional story arc begins one way and ends up in a very different state of being - the underdog to the victorious hero, or the innocent, unaware victim to the final survivor, or the selfish ...

There's nothing more frustrating when a character dies from a situation that had no reason occuring except perhaps that the writers wanted to be edgy and make the story have more gravitas with a random death that's forced into the plot.

I've talked often over the years ...

Last Week we looked at the “Break Into 2”, the transition between the beginning of a story: The “Before” picture of the Protagonist and their world, and the “Upside Down World” of Act 2.

So, a little later in your average story will come the “Break Into 3”. This leaves ...

Photo: “HawkandFloAdventures Twistverse Has Official Discord”. HawkandFloAdventures creator of Hawk and Flo Adventures.

HawkandFloAdventures writes:

“Hi! 

I've just made an official discord server for my comics!



Twistverse Discord: https://discord.gg/FXCh92J9


Twistverse Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/FXCh92J9


I'm still new to it all and figuring ...

So this is just a purely rant article on my part.

I'm generally not a huge fan of romance… BUT, if it's done well, I am not a (complete) snow queen. I can melt accordingly and love it in a story. I even have some romance in my ...

always someone breakinnn' into twooooo…

AN important part of a story is the good old “Break into Act 2”.

It's not the easiest story structure moment to recognize, but it's one of the early ones I thought about and tried to notice in movies I watched.

Many people ...

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A standard thing in stories is to have multiple plot lines. In short stories or when you're just starting out as a writer you tend to have a single line, the A plot, but as soon ...

It’s that time of year again. It’s become a bit of an annual tradition. I started setting goals for myself a few years ago. And whilst I have not hit all of them, I have achieved more than I feel I would have had I not set any ...

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It's not the new year yet but this is the final Quackcast of 2024 and it's coming out on New Year's Eve!
In this Quackcast we do a bit of a year in review ...