ACT 2 - The Premise
It's about a guy who…
When we try to decide with our friends about seeing a movie, or surf Netflix for something to watch, or try to sell people on a movie/book/story we want them to experience, that's what we have to ...
What's It About?
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 16, 2017Elsewhere Reaching 350 Pages and Started Pages for Book of Obscure Holidays, Lady Unlucky Ten Year Anniversary
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 30, 2017
Elsewhere, the comic series, is hitting 350 pages on The Duck this week.
At the start of this year it also started working on pages for “Elsewhere's Calendar Girls- A Book of Obscure Holidays”. It is full of strange holiday, weird facts and humor. This will be going on ...
Chekhov's Gun
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 7, 2017
To me this is one of the most fascinating elements of storytelling. The idea behind Chekhov’s Gun is to employ parsimony in the information comprising a plot and content: If something isn’t essential to the story, just don’t include it. Little by little, it became more “if ...
The Romantic and the Cynic
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 2, 2017
The year 2016 was not as horrible as some people thought it to be. I did go through some personal changes that might not be seen as monumental in the wide scope of the world. I have always been a true romantic–a label given to me by an English ...
The Black Knight and the White Rook
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 5, 2016
It was early morning on a Thursday, and I had just prepped the classroom for the day before I headed outside to wait for the children to line up after the bell. I was knitting a scarf when a little girl named Angeline walked up to me and started up ...
S'now Time Like the Present
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 1, 2016
We had a big snowfall two weeks ago, and I was out driving the city in it (I have a part time delivery job).
My car and I held up pretty well in it, and that was satisfying. As the news warned people to stay off the roads, I was ...
Quackcast 299 - Self Insertion of Characters
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 29, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
In Quackcast 299 we expand on an idea from Tantz's Saturday newspost about inserting your personality into your characters when you write them. But not only that, we chat about how a work of fiction by a writer can be like a darkly faceted diamond ...