In my dream the other night, I half-turned into a monster made of metal. I can remember a bright silvery mask on one side of my face, and other parts of my body being replaced with machinery. It was terrifying. Two of my friends had undergone the same transformation. We …
PAGE ONE PANEL 1. TRANSITION… overwritten tome sliced ruthlessly down to sleekly plotted 100-page graphic novel. (SFX: Sssssnik!) I may regret this, but I have committed to writing a comic book/graphic novel script in 30 days. In the past 48 hours, I have read up on formatting, time shifts, thought bubbles, …
In April, I will write my very first graphic novel (or screenplay; I haven’t decided). Or more precisely, I will take my second completed novel, Blue Loco, and turn it into a comic or a movie script. The challenge is to write 100 script pages, using a standard format, in …
“She sometimes imagined that she could hear the corpuscles knock on the valves, polite as old nuns, before sweeping in with their sacred bath of life.” This is a line I wrote for my short story, called Breathless. It is the post-apocalyptic tale of a woman, a mechanical egg, and …
A big mouth with a pulpit says that Haiti was cursed because they made a pact with the devil. In fact, they prayed to their deity, who was most certainly not the devil, and they did achieve liberation with blood and courage. A curse is a wish that harm or …
Select two characters from your story, or create two characters.Describe each character in terms of what they want, their worst flaw, and their best feature.Write a scene in which these two characters duel each other–physically, verbally or otherwise.
