5 Tips on Writing Comic Books

Before I start any serious comic book writing, I usually have a feeling for the arc as I begin, which tends to drive my story. The placement of people and places follow close behind. Sometimes the event can be part of the character but never replace the character. The reader cannot relate to a buildings or planets, you need characters.

Any angst that can be wrung from the turmoil, after finding my way through a cohesion of seemingly random events, will be drawn out after the first 2 or 3 drafts culminating in a new understanding for the principal characters or the plot.

1. I get there by giving the characters background that brings them to life. That includes the city, forest, jungle ocean or planet they live in.
2. Research; If you do not it will show in the work. Your readers are just as smart, if not smarter, than you.
3. Most of it is filed in my head when I start, my notes and structure lineage make the story more believable, to me and the reader.
4. Make notes: Keep track of evolving and branching embryos of thought. Then make more notes!
5. Map out a time line! This is one of the major causes of road block. When you cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel.

There is something to be said about the reader picking up on the clarity in which you write and that comes from a core understanding of the world, people and purpose you have created.

Keeping track becomes more difficult as you progress, this isn't a slight to the intellect of any writer, it goes without saying that he or she needs structure to avoid frustration.

• Good story structure shows a writer care about the world being created
• Keeping notes helps to overcome that nagging voice of perfectionism
• Preconceiving your characters will fuel your story when you run into questions
• Note, notes, notes. Make them, keep them, use them!

Good luck.
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