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Your writing process - Penciljack Forum
What is your typical writing process when creating a comic script?
Are you plotting the beats of the story out, then creating each panel on the fly as you try to hit those beats?
Are you first drawing a storyboard?
Are you revising, and re-revising?
I'm relatively new to the medium, and have developed a process that works for me (for now), and I'm interested to hear how the PJ writing community makes it happen.
Thx-
RK
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Lately, I've been starting the paper with key sentences that make sence to the story.
Almost an undetailed blueprint of what I'm going to write about later.
Then I turn those sentences into panels.
I try to have a lot of those "key" sentences so that I will have a lot to work with down the road.
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I'm probably the most disorganized writer.
I come up with a catch like "Psychic sees car accident before it happens and doesn't stop it."
Then I try to guess how many pages I want to do it in (4, 8, 16, whatever).
Then I see it as a movie in my head.
Then I pick the best frames from that movie and draw them.
It's more of an intuitive process and it's not the most efficient.
I actually think I'll write that story out.
Hehe.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Sorry if I wasn't more helpful, I'm almost totally visual using the words for things I can't show or to contrast things I've shown.
Like "guy picks up a knife" and his cap says "back when I was happy." That sort of thing.
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I'm probably worser than the guy above.
I have a bound notebook I carry around where I jot down ideas during the day, with no relation to any particular story.
Then these little bits and pieces make their way into whatever I happen to be working on.
For example, I've been working on a sci-fi script and was reading a book to my little boy about how some people could be born and die on the same boat, so I made a little note.
Nothing may come of it, but little details often make a script more real and compelling.
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I usually have a plot.
I think of what I want to accomplish at the beginning and end.
The middle is where I write down the story.
Then I revise.
Best way to tell a story is to work with a plot in my opinion.
A strong plot can reveal character.
A weak plot is just a bunch of events.
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As Vivat_Rex said, plot is key.
Many go without one, but their work is IMO.
The Cheshire Cat actually said it best: "Knowing where you're going is preferable to being lost."
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I'll have to disagree in some ways.
I sometimes have an ending in mind (or at least a climax) but I like to come from the character.
I know it's cliche but I like to make really rich character descriptions like "Bob used to drink a lot, now he still has shakes.
Almost killed a guy one time when he was drunk, now he's scared of himself."
A lot of that doesn't make it onto the page but when "Bob" is put in a scenario he chooses for himself what he'll do based on that.
For example, what if we put him in a situation where he sees a girl being mugged.
Will he run away, will he give in to his violence, will he save the girl and come to terms with himself?
Characters interest me.
Plot can feel like you're dragging the characters by the nose, or worse, you put speeches or exposition in their mouths and they sound like the exposition guy or they see the writer preaching to them through the character and they get pulled out of the moment.
I guess I write characters and then design situations where they have to make decisions and that's where the drama comes in.
My, that was wordy...
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Quote: : I'm probably worser than the guy above.
I have a bound notebook I carry around where I jot down ideas during the day, with no relation to any particular story.
Then these little bits and pieces make their way into whatever I happen to be working on.
For example, I've been working on a sci-fi script and was reading a book to my little boy about how some people could be born and die on the same boat, so I made a little note.
Nothing may come of it, but little details often make a script more real and compelling.
The fact that you used the word "worser" makes me worry about your writing altogether!
Lol
As for me, I do write a brief synopsis before I get to panel by panel, and on some scripts I even write a page by page synopsis.
Also you have to take your artist into consideration, depending on how they work, you may need to do more or less!
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I'm a control freak so I'm always my own artist, lol.
So I write down things I need to remember for when I do the drawing.
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I find myself in the same problem more times than not, and it sounds a lot like the way you guys work.
I'll be able to see the forest, and the really tall trees, but not most of the trees.
I know the beginning and end, and most of the characters and highlights of a story, but I always have trouble linking the highlights together and filling in the 'flesh' of a story.
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