Emotional Charges and Diminishing Returns

Many writing methodologies suggest mapping out the emotional change of each scene. The scene either starts positive, and goes to either negative or “extra positive”, or starts negative and goes to positive or “extra negative” by the end of the scene.

So if a lovelorn ...

Du’an Stahl has HAD it! The historical magazine that he's worked a for 10 years has turned into the History Channel. Now is finally time to quit and use his skills and intelligence on something worthwhile… it's finally time to write that book he always planned on ...

A well written protagonist will generally have some flaws, starting out as an underdog of some kind, with lessons to learn and improvements to make over the course of the story.

Granted, some heroes are, well, just heroes, who are pretty much who they need to be from the beginning ...

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Art by Barb Myers

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Way back in 2012 Ozone interviewed the marvellously talented and professional Barb Myers about her art and her fantastic comics. Well it's 2015 now and Barb has finally been able to put out the whole of her comic “Talisman: Return of the Exile ...

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Banes returns to the Quackcast to join me on another interview with Jake Richmond of the very popular Modest Medusa! This time we get to find out more about Jake's comic making technique, his writing style, character creation, colour technique, drawing materials, programs and his whole work ...

Genejoke is bringing back Lite Bites, and he's looking for contributions!

Lite Bites is a community comic which features short stories from various DDers. If you want to contribute a script, a completed short comic, a single page comic, or if you're interested in doing some writing or ...

THE RETURN OF DRUNKDUCK.COM
As of last weekend, The Duck Webcomics has finally reacquired the URL for DrunkDuck.com. What this means is that any broken links leading to DrunkDuck.com will automatically redirect to TheDuckWebcomics.com.

This is beneficial for any users that have been unaware the site ...

Glass Hearts is a true soap opera comic of huge scope. The author, Star_samurai, describes the genre and theme more knowledgeably than I possibly could:
“Shounen-ai & soft yaoi / angst / romance / comedy/humor After two years, a 16-year-old Charlie McDermott returns to his hometown and to his previous friends. Many things ...

Here we are, ready for round two of the 2011 Drunk Duck Awards Quackcast! Niccea returns to preside over the announcing of the rest of the DD awards, including the most important ones like Best comic!

Listen to QUACKCAST Episode 52 - The DD 2011 Awards part 2

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TKTC by Rival Comics has been receiving some attention! It was the weekly featured comic at Comic Domination 2 weeks ago, and Rival Comics will do an interview on Yes FM radio on Monday, 8am!


Peipei has reached a big 600 pages with her comic Deadfingers!


Negligence by elektro turns ...