So you have a story to tell, and you are very visual, just that you fall short in the area of writing, what can you do to excel? Exercise your strengths, use your visuals to lead your writing for story-boarding.
Use no more than 15 words to describe a scene, 10 words to put in each dialogue and 10 words to link one scene to another. Use exclamation words or expressions like sounds, names and call out actions. In this way, your word are kept direct and impactful with your visuals leading the story with the words to assist the whole comic project.
Being crisp demands the attention of readers more and motivate them to keep reading the intense built up of the story and makes the whole reading experience a impulsive one and this creates appetite and interest to the audience of images and words.
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WritingComics:Guideline1: Script It simple and meaningful
Comics are targeted in different styles. Commonly, the writings or dialogues are to be planned beforehand before any drawings or writings commences. And so to begin with, the whole story line has to be scripted with detailed scenario description and dialogues described or written down. The narrative script writing and dialogue writings can be in tandem or in sequence with many iterations.
Basically, for teamwork production, keep all descriptions simple. flowing and crisp. This applies especially so for dialogues where the readers or end customers is assumed to be of the mass of varied literacy. The dialogues or any wordings need to serve the purpose of the particular scene.
So the wordings aims to connect to the end readers and support the illustrations or drawings. Make wordings that creates the impact, that captures the mood and intonation of the scene. This is certainly a specialized gifting of writing as wordings that blends in well with the images and follow the purpose of the story require creativity, imagination and the feel of how end-readers will react translated to words.
Very importantly is to have fun and be engrossed in the story line and place yourself always in the scene from all perspectives: the characters themselves, bystanders, the producers and the end readers and you will definitely have a well groomed comic in the part of the writings simple and meaningful.
Basically, for teamwork production, keep all descriptions simple. flowing and crisp. This applies especially so for dialogues where the readers or end customers is assumed to be of the mass of varied literacy. The dialogues or any wordings need to serve the purpose of the particular scene.
So the wordings aims to connect to the end readers and support the illustrations or drawings. Make wordings that creates the impact, that captures the mood and intonation of the scene. This is certainly a specialized gifting of writing as wordings that blends in well with the images and follow the purpose of the story require creativity, imagination and the feel of how end-readers will react translated to words.
Very importantly is to have fun and be engrossed in the story line and place yourself always in the scene from all perspectives: the characters themselves, bystanders, the producers and the end readers and you will definitely have a well groomed comic in the part of the writings simple and meaningful.
