No, no. I promise this is not a post that will go like this:



Nor like this:



Also nothing I say here, is to be religiously followed. (I got that out of my chest, cringing is allowed)

This post is entirely on the issue of worldbuilding religion into your webcomic ...

The sheer power of a good team is so defining that it's a trope. Some of the most iconic characters and beloved personalities have emerged from stories featuring teams of main characters.

Each of them are vital to the story, each of them contribute both in terms of the ...

Photo: “Blessed Days: Ch. 6 Trailer ‘0:44/1:08’”. Story and art created by InkyMoondrop. (July 2023)

The Super Creator behind the Blessed Days comic project, Inky Moondrop, has Milestones to celebrate and lots of exciting news this week.

InkyMoondrop writes:

“Hi!

The 5th Chapter of Blessed Days ends ...

HELLO—
It's summer in the northern hemisphere! …. So hot

Here's some stories about anthropomorphic dudes

Here are the 3:

FIRST one here is a story from 2013 called Grim Dog by Saikiyo




Grim Dog
It's a short story about a couple of cat-like creatures living in a ...

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Rumours can be damaging stories deliberately spread to harm people, they can grow organically of their own accord. Salacious rumours replace truth and stick around in history ...

It never really occurred to me how many of our heroes are orphans.

Superman was the last survivor of a planet that perished. He was adopted by loving Earth parents, but he's one of the iconic orphans in fiction.

His counterpart Batman, of course, lost his parents at an ...

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Art: Paolo Uccello, The Battle of San Romano

We're talking about WAR here! Trying to leave out politics, though that's really hard with war because ...

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What rights are people actually entitled to? That question is a lot bigger than you think!
The Quackcast today is sequel to last week's about entitled ...

Conflict!

It's the essential building block of drama. You don't have a story without the basics of “someone wants something, and something's in the way of getting it.”

Screenwriting books - books I really love and have given me a lot - will often say that amping up the ...

I'm a big fan of story structure. It can be a big help to figuring out how to put a story together in a way that works. Not that structure needs to be followed in a slavish way, or that one structure applies to every story.
But it can ...