Your protagonists want/fear something, whether they know it or not As we discussed in part one, your characters are driven by desires or fears. The nature of their desires and fears help define the kind of people they are. There is also a simple rule that some people let their fears and desires drive them, [...]
I’ll break this article into parts over the next few days. Here is what I covered at Comic Con. Some of this will make its way into my writing book which I am editing now. What is a story? Why do they exist? 20,000 years ago, or more, human beings sat around campfires and tried [...]
Here’s a picture of me, Carol Tyler and Laurie Sandell at the Eisner Awards after party. It was great to meet them there. Both of them are excellent graphic novelists.
I came back from the con with a horrible cold. So I am kind of groggy on cold medicine. I planned on writing about my Writing Fundamentals class tonight but I think I will do it tomorrow. However, here is the bullet points of what I covered. I will expand on these tomorrow. What is [...]
As promised, after the con, I said I would do a post covering my writing fundamentals class which went over very well. I will do that tomorrow sometime. Today I am trying to catch my breath and collect my thoughts. In the meantime, you can check out my writing essays at the link above. Under [...]
I didn’t have time to post anything the last couple of days. I was at the con, then got home really late and crashed, then got up and went back again. Saturday I caught up wit more friends, had a few business talks with people. Then I went out to dinner with Greg Horn. We’ve [...]
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