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ymmv: Knights of the Round Table
Two. That’s how many Knights of the Round Table I have. The Knights are peeps I can call upon for consideration and feedback on comic stuff – anything from ideas to full scripts – and I feel like...
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ymmv: Casing the Joint
How many shitty scripts have you flushed down before bringing one to life? The first thing you write will no doubt be rubbish. It is this piece of ‘advice’ that gets me scoffed at and frowned upon...
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ymmv: Opening Panels
Your very first panel is insanely important, it’s pivotal, it’s you at your date’s door, flowers in hand, hoping to make a good impression. Or maybe an update on that is it’s your Tinder pic and you...
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ymmv: Notebooking
Breaking story is one of those things that’s ethereal and difficult and it’ll break you before the story breaks. The trick is to let the little pieces of you Voltron back up and bust that story over...
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ymmv: Starting Short
You are not good enough to write a massive story and stick the landing. Truthfully, nor am I, I suspect. But sometimes it’s refreshing to hear it, and without the kid gloves on. There aren’t enough...
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ymmv: When It’s Just Not Your Night
We all have those nights. Which is most actually probably a lie. Something we tell ourselves so we have safety in numbers. I am certain the titans don’t get this problem. I can’t see Kirby stalled,...
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ymmv: Write Something That Goddamn Matters
Before I go, I want to write something that matters. The real lasting works of this world tell a story that’s about something and that can change people. And the very best of them do it when sometimes...
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ymmv: Xmas Guide to Writing Comics
ymmv .09 – Xmas Guide to Writing Comics And so the season is upon us. If you are Shane Black, your writing boner is most likely visible from space. Godspeed, you mighty emperor. For the rest of us,...
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ymmv: Writing Resolutions
ymmv .10 – Writing Resolutions I love New Year’s Eve. Long gone are the wild nights of my youth, fuelled by Passion Pop [google it], raging on the beach, and blasting through the moment where the dawn...
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ymmv: Top 10 Writing Swipes from the Books of 2015
ymmv .11- Top 10 Writing Swipes from the Books of 2015 I’m writing this on my iPad in the past at a barber as I wait for a cut. I have to keep getting up to offer my seat to harried mothers who no...
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ymmv – #366stories
ymmv .12 – #366stories I made a New Year’s Resolution. I’m writing a story idea a day down and putting it into this notebook. It’s my #366stories notebook. The aim of the game is just to get my mind...
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ymmv – I Haven’t Written A Goddamned Thing
ymmv .13 – I Haven’t Written A Goddamned Thing It’s weeks into 2016 and I haven’t written a goddamn thing. Well, revised for clarity, I managed to get within hours of January ending before I scripted...
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ymmv – Launching a Book
ymmv .14 – Launching a Book Launching a book is no laughing matter. In fact, it’ll have you bleary eyed with lack of sleep, it’ll have you grinding your teeth down to Stonehenge nubs, and it’ll have...
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ymmv – Writing the Love of your Life
ymmv .15 – Writing the Love of your Life I love writing Deer Editor. I’ve written a small sample of comics, from 5 page shorts, to a collected trade of story that’s 100+ pages long, but pretty much...
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ymmv – Don’t Only Write Comics
ymmv .16 – Don’t Only Write Comics I want to be an amazing writer of comics. As such, I write a lot of comics [see the 10k pages of hot garbage rule], but then I also write a lot that’s not comics....
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ymmv – Exhaustion
ymmv .17 – Exhaustion I’ve seen more than one meme about not glamorising exhaustion and I’ve already had enough so I’m going to throw my hat in the ring on this topic. Open the Can o’ Rant…now. Look,...
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ymmv – Character Flaws
ymmv .18 – Character Flaws A narrative that glides on rails, containing perfect characters that are faultless, is boring on every possible level. A story full of people doing dumb things– to move the...
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ymmv – Asking Permission to Use their Toys
ymmv .19 – Asking Permission to Use their Toys Lemme share a story about pitching some licensed characters with you. The tl;dr – it’s hard. Well, it is for me. But I’m going to share the following in...
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ymmv – thoughtballoons
ymmv .20 – thoughtballoons What do you write when you’ve got nothing to write? I mean, we’ve all always got ideas. There are always things you ‘can’ write, but what do you write when there’s nothing...
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ymmv – Requiem for a Theme
ymmv .21 – Theme Theme is a tricky one. Hell, people have a hard time finding the theme of a work, they debate over it, ponder whether one exists at all, and sometimes it’s completely up to...
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