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Just listening to Mary Robinette Kowal's excellent Writing Short Stories part of Brandon Sanderson's writing Fantasy/Sci-fi series and thinking about how when we do writing for comics its how rare we actually do it like this.
As in, this is very much "how do you structure a short story, how long how it takes, how it works." The vast majority of comic writing advice is more akin "What is a sentence? How you can you make one?"
There's obvious reasons for this.
There's obvious reasons for this.
Part of it is writing for comics is learning to write a language. With prose you can talk prose style, but the basic concept of What Is A Sentence, What Is A Paragraph is prior knowledge. That's simply not true in comics, so we have to do that.
And equally that a huge chunk of writing concepts and theory are transferable into comics ("the What to write" rather than "How to write advice") means that you don't need to. Comics is a bastard media, and we can lift stuff from everywhere. And do.
But still. There's something that nags a little there, right?
In comics, we spend so much time teaching people grammar and so little time teaching people how to write, just trusting the latter will sort itself out, and knowing you can't start on the latter without the former.
In comics, we spend so much time teaching people grammar and so little time teaching people how to write, just trusting the latter will sort itself out, and knowing you can't start on the latter without the former.
Thread ends without a conclusion, but a shrug.
