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Help me write my comic!

Tamayyurt

15:33 / 12.09.03

Ok, I usually never have this problem, honest, I'm very virile in this department... But I can't seem to start writing. I've got this great idea it's pretty much worked out in my head but I down have a really good beginning. I've tried several times to sit down and write it but I can't get my comic writing cock up!

I think it's also the pressure I'm putting on myself cause I want to try something very special with this comic. I'm going for a combination between Ghost World and super heroics and fantasy (Or would that be Urban Fantasy?) And it's a fucking horrible tight rope to walk on.

HELP!

sleazenation

15:52 / 12.09.03

well what exactly is the problem?

Hieronymus

16:48 / 12.09.03

The tightrope's only a foot off the ground, man. What's the idea?

PatrickMM

17:09 / 12.09.03

I was in a similar situation a couple of weeks ago, trying to start up a new comics project, and just looking at a blank screen. One thing I'd suggest is to write your whole plot out in a quick prose form, just to make sure that you know where everything's going. The other thing is you might want to not think too much about panel layout and details at first, and just start putting down dialogue, and getting your story going. Once you start writing it, you'll probably start to figure out the world of the story better, and then you'll be able to go back to the beginning and fix it up.

FinderWolf

17:56 / 12.09.03

Is this the T. Boy thing you wrote me about, Imp?

grant

20:28 / 12.09.03

Page 1, Panel 1:
CU of a lizard sunning itself on a cracked city sidewalk. In the background, there's clutter -- litter, trash cans, maybe a discarded newspaper.

Panel 2:
SFX: trunkatrunkatrunkatrunka
Same view. The lizard looks up in alarm.

Panel 3:
SFX: as before, only louder.

Same view. A skateboard (with noisy wheels) enters the frame as the lizard scampers away.

Panel 4:
Medium shot of kid on skateboard, zooming down the sidewalk.

Tamayyurt

23:07 / 12.09.03

The project is (I like how Hunterwolf put it) "a promethea-like treatise in adventure comic form about chaos magick."

And I think I've pinned the problem. I've got the big ideas all thought out but I haven't gotten the more personal (human) story figured out and I don't want it to get lost in the Chaos.

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