Here is the final part of my Comic Con writing seminar recap. Three acts, what are they? The structure that best serves the average story is the so called “three act structure”. What is that? The simplest definition is a beginning, middle and end. The first act introduces the main characters, the scenario and gets [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I will be teaching a one hour writing workshop at the Comic Con this year. Something I used to do back in the early 90s and I missed doing. Here is the info. Thursday, July 22 4:30-5:30 Writing Workshop Room 30CDE James D Hudnall, (Espers, The Psycho) explains the fundamentals of writing effective fiction and [...]
You can find my writing essays under the essays link about. I just added the rules of writing. I will keep adding new ones so keep checking back.
A new book claims that writer Ernest Hemingway was a wanna be communist spy for the Soviets. Those people in the arts sure can be foolish. Last week, however, saw the publication of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press), which reveals the Nobel prize-winning novelist was for a [...]
Today was my birthday. And I decided several weeks ago that if I want to write novels, I better get off my butt. I have always wanted to be a novelist. I got into comics because I love the medium and I knew people. But novels were really where I wanted to be. But I [...]
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