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Thanks to RainWhitehart (https://www.deviantart.com/rainwhitehart) for inspiring this rant with a question about the early stages of developing a comic. ------ The most difficult stage of drawing a comic comes before the drawing starts. Drawing takes the most time, but figuring out /what/ you're going to draw is the real brain-drainer. Success at this stage can make even a badly-drawn comic wildly popular; failure at this stage can make even the most beautiful comic a yawner. I don't pretend to be the master or anything, but I do get props for my writing. So I'm just going to core-dump about the subject here, in the hope that it'll be helpful. The beginning: Movement is impo

Update July 8, 2013: Added Fears 5-9. Update July 9, 2013: Added Fears 10-12 With all of these guides regarding how not to write an OC, some of which even I've written, there's a lot of people complaining that they're too scared of messing up and being dubbed a Sue/Stu or people thinking their stories are terrible. Here's a post that ought to make you feel better about the writing proccess. Yes, you CAN write Original Characters! Below are a list of common complaints people have in the writing process that leads them to either never releasing their stories or feel too scared to work on them. Fear #1: My story must be perfect before I rele

This is a copy-paste (with some additions) from my Tumblr blog (http://spaztique.tumblr.com/), but it must be reposted. Twilight of the Hakurei, the club-wide comic tennis/RP (http://walfasstationwagon.deviantart.com/gallery/41877816), is turning out just as I suspected: AMAZINGLY. However, one thing that really astounds me is how well the character system is working. If you're not familiar, it's simply this: 1. Pick the character's biggest strength that affects other people. Note the key phrase, "that affects other people." For example, "He's really good at cooking," is not a strength: that's just a regular skill that only applies to one a