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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 233 - Formulas Forever!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 25, 2015 LISTEN!
Here we go again, back to formulas! This time we got some external input. Fellow DDers had a say about their idea about the utility of formulas and how they use them in their writing and comics. It's important to understand formulas in writing so you know what ...
Wield ultimate power - become a judge for the DD Awards!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 21, 2015
It's time to determine this year's winners, but there are still plenty of categories that need more judges!
Do you enjoy webcomics? Do you have opinions? You will be an ideal judge! It's really easy. All you have to do is:
1. Volunteer and then make an ...
Quackcast 232 - Creating a Rounded World
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 18, 2015 LISTEN!
Hello, hello, hello! This is the second part of our hugely long expose on the tricky art of WORLD BUILDING! And it really IS extra loooooooooooog… that's because we take so much time crafting the Quackcast world for you. To recap: world-building is a big part of ALL ...
Quackcast 231 - The importance of world building
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 11, 2015 LISTEN!
You always do a bit of world building in fiction, in some types of stories like alternative histories, fantasy and Sci-Fi you have to do a bit more, in things set in the real world you don't have to do nearly as much - maybe only limited to a ...
VOTE NOW for the 2015 Drunk Duck Award Tiebreakers!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 3, 2015
Tie Breaker Voting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1i9emB-m5VC3lQ4i6o2slsL_W4pdHfg3qHCxvsQUFimk/viewform?edit_requested=true
Hellllllllllllllllo Ducks!
First, I would like to thank everyone who made it to the polls and nominate their favourite webcomics for this year's award show. It turns out that several of the comics are very ...
LAST CHANCE - Submit your votes for the 2015 DD Awards!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 31, 2015
If you haven't voted yet in the 2015 Drunk Duck Awards, do it now! No really, right now. Click this link and fill out the form! Quick!
For real though - ballots close in two days at 6pm CDT on August 2nd.
We would also like to officially recognize bravo1102 ...
Tools of the Webcomic Trade
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 27, 2015
I began creating webcomics because it was an affordable hobby. All I needed to create a page was some bristol paper, some black ink pens, a scanner and a computer. Having a digitally-formatted final product cut out the additional printing costs of traditional comics.
Eventually, I started learning new drawing ...
Quackcast 228 - Conflicting conflicts conflict
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 21, 2015 LISTEN!
Pic by Ozoneocean
This time we're talking about conflict in webcomic writing, and any writing in general really. Conflict is one of the main drivers of a story, so you pretty much have to have it in there somewhere! But how do you approach it? Do you set ...