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13 votes
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Coffee, booze, undressing, deprivation: How writers get in the mood to write
18 votes -
Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residency
19 votes -
Cutting class: On the myth of the middle class writer
9 votes -
US literary magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay amid mass resignations
25 votes -
The virtue of slow writers
10 votes -
Writer, woman, playwright, spy: Aphra Behn, author of Oroonoko was the first known woman to be paid for writing in English
8 votes -
Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?
65 votes -
Reflections on a strike as turning point - How to destroy a creative industry and how to save it
13 votes -
The lost version of Pee-wee's Big Adventure
13 votes -
Writing for Friends was no dream job
45 votes -
Donny Cates' absence is due to recovering from a severe car accident
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Comic artists and writers, what's your process for planning pages?
I'm sure there are multiple comic artists and writers on Tildes, so let's talk process for designing and planning pages! Hopefully this fits here, but if not feel free to move it. I've only drawn...
I'm sure there are multiple comic artists and writers on Tildes, so let's talk process for designing and planning pages! Hopefully this fits here, but if not feel free to move it.
I've only drawn a few comics myself, and I like to make a script first for longer projects. It can be detailed and break it down by panels, or just give an overall summary of the page. For shorter comics though where I can clearly envision it (e.g. 4 pages), I like to kind of wing it. Someone else I know likes to go right into roughs, and then figure out what to cut as he goes along.
How about everyone else? What are your preferred methods and steps?
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Any writers in here?
My absolute favorite sub even before getting defaulted was writingprompts. Basically people posted a prompt to spark an idea, and everyone would type up little stories. It's be cool to see some...
My absolute favorite sub even before getting defaulted was writingprompts. Basically people posted a prompt to spark an idea, and everyone would type up little stories. It's be cool to see some stories here so if you guys wanna try it, let's make Top Level Replies restricted to prompts, Second Level Replies the stories, and Third nested can just be the comments.
I'll post a prompt to get started, and a reply (I emailed these to myself back in 2015 so I don't have the username on hand). Don't be shy! And for any non-prompt replies just post a reply to the comment I made below for just that.
PS: Luna_Lovewell if you somehow find this please come back and write just a few more :]
15 votes -
Bad waitress
8 votes -
Why do recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?
12 votes -
Time to break up Hollywood
5 votes -
Nuns on the Run (1990) | Almost Cult Classics
3 votes -
Writers Guild calls first strike in fifteen years
23 votes -
Yep, it’s slow: How a potential strike and industry pivoting has Hollywood at a standstill
5 votes -
'Gone With the Wind': The explosive lost scenes. A never-revealed war over slavery's depiction. Rhett Butler's suicidal intentions. A rediscovered script reveals what didn't make final cut.
4 votes -
A new publishing platform for comic books will give creators a greater stake
6 votes -
Batman main writer steps away from DC to start indie comic line at Substack
5 votes -
Graham Linehan says he won’t work with Channel 4 again unless transphobic IT Crowd episode is reinstated
18 votes -
Discontents: "New collective effort by an amazing group of Substack writers and podcasters"
2 votes -
Algonquin Round Table: How the group of writers became a symbol of the roaring twenties
4 votes -
Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and thirty-five more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic
9 votes -
The hidden pro-union politics of Space Jam
10 votes -
Fan fiction writers are better than tech at organizing information online
12 votes -
What it’s like to write a finale your fans hate. (Interview with Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ronald D. Moore in the context of the controversial Game of Thrones ending.)
18 votes -
David Milch’s third act
4 votes -
Tab Murphy, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, Gorillas in the Mist, Tarzan, and more, answers your questions
9 votes -
Punctuation that failed to make its mark
18 votes -
Anthony Bourdain and the power of telling the truth
10 votes -
Want to start a writers group
I have been writing for quite some time, but always look for new ideas, new perspectives, new genres, new ways of promoting or improving or sharing my work. I'm not a professional and still have...
I have been writing for quite some time, but always look for new ideas, new perspectives, new genres, new ways of promoting or improving or sharing my work. I'm not a professional and still have lots to learn. I am open to all kinds of writing and levels of expertise, and want to open a space where there is genuine and helpful sharing, rather than snarky and dismissive barbs.
I don't think this should be a place where someone writes a quick and sloppy sub-first draft and then eagerly begs for only positive comments. Writing is hard work. It is a craft and takes serious study and time. It can also be lonely and discouraging.
I envision a virtual coffee shop where we have all gathered with our latest work, wondering what our next step is, how a good editor can be found, how to write a query letter, is self-publishing a good choice, how did you get an agent...those sorts of discussions.
How is a new group formed?
11 votes