A Few Writing Tips
The most important thing of writing is course...the writing! Get in the habit of writing. Write whatever that comes off your head. Pen them down! It is no use visualising and thinking about it in your head but not penning it down
Once you've written it down, you can look at it. You have some thing. If you are serious about carving a career out of writing(be it comics or novels) you have to practise! I read somewhere, that some of the best writers (Eg: Joe Vitae) force themselves to write something everday. It can be anything but the thing is you MUST WRITE! This way, you accustom your mind to writing and subconciously 'fine tune' your brain to writing. I did not have the discipline to do it BUT I try to write something at least once a week.
A journal would be of some help if you really can't sit down and write about random topics. Journals are a great form of pratice also as it is very personal and when you look back and read some of the past entries, you will sometimes get hit by what you wrote and up pops an idea.
Your first impulses are not always fantastic. We tend to repeat ideas before realizing they were also carbon copy of last year's best seller. The first draft is often rarely great. Your different characters should sound like individuals. In the course of doing up a first draft characters often sound more like the writers themselves. So you need to tweak things and fix the loopholes and oddities. It is essential to write but it is more so to re-write and re-write and re-write. Never fear rewriting nor see it as a chore. See it as an event for your to hone and perfect your writing skills and sharpen your storyline. Actively seek out to edit your text.
Where can you get ideas from? Very simple! Watch movies! They have the best dialogue,plot and storyline. If you noticed there are always the standard formula for horror,comedy and /or romance. Why reinvent the wheel? Increasingly, we are seeing graphic novels being adapted to movies. How about that? Imagine your creation turning into a major motion picture! Sounds pretty good eh? Not unless your name is Alan Moore that its...
-Comments? dylan@topgraphicnovelreviews.com
PS: You are free to use ALL the articles here, just be ethical and place a link back to this site.
Once you've written it down, you can look at it. You have some thing. If you are serious about carving a career out of writing(be it comics or novels) you have to practise! I read somewhere, that some of the best writers (Eg: Joe Vitae) force themselves to write something everday. It can be anything but the thing is you MUST WRITE! This way, you accustom your mind to writing and subconciously 'fine tune' your brain to writing. I did not have the discipline to do it BUT I try to write something at least once a week.
A journal would be of some help if you really can't sit down and write about random topics. Journals are a great form of pratice also as it is very personal and when you look back and read some of the past entries, you will sometimes get hit by what you wrote and up pops an idea.
Your first impulses are not always fantastic. We tend to repeat ideas before realizing they were also carbon copy of last year's best seller. The first draft is often rarely great. Your different characters should sound like individuals. In the course of doing up a first draft characters often sound more like the writers themselves. So you need to tweak things and fix the loopholes and oddities. It is essential to write but it is more so to re-write and re-write and re-write. Never fear rewriting nor see it as a chore. See it as an event for your to hone and perfect your writing skills and sharpen your storyline. Actively seek out to edit your text.
Where can you get ideas from? Very simple! Watch movies! They have the best dialogue,plot and storyline. If you noticed there are always the standard formula for horror,comedy and /or romance. Why reinvent the wheel? Increasingly, we are seeing graphic novels being adapted to movies. How about that? Imagine your creation turning into a major motion picture! Sounds pretty good eh? Not unless your name is Alan Moore that its...
-Comments? dylan@topgraphicnovelreviews.com
PS: You are free to use ALL the articles here, just be ethical and place a link back to this site.
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