I send a commissioned script to the publisher with a text description of the image (x runs, y fires a machine gun or whatever but in somewhat more detail) and dialogue as well, for each image laid out in the page. (Image 1, top panel split into 3 - so three images at the top of the page)
They hire an artist for the cover and one for the interiors If you self publish (assuming you don’t find a publisher) then you need to find an artist and colorist, then do the editing, composing etc - though there are agencies that help with this. --srs ________________________________ From: Silklist <[email protected]> on behalf of Yeddanapudi Radhika via Silklist <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2024 7:06:23 AM To: Intelligent conversation <[email protected]> Cc: Yeddanapudi Radhika <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Silk] How to write Hi Suresh. I wanted to know how you go about writing these war comics. Do you work with an illustrator or do you illustrate them as well? I have a story for 9-12 yr-olds that I want to market to publishers but I don't know how to go about it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Radhika El jue., 4 abr. 2024 7:34 a. m., Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> escribió: All I write are “war comics”, a more or less uniquely British genre. I do agree with what you say but would also add is that the ultimate goal of writing is to make your audience interested in your ideas, to care for your characters and share their joys, feel their pain etc. Far easier said than done though, especially when writing pulp comic strips that are a standard 64 a5 sized pages in length. Or maybe the grass is greener on the other side and it is far easier in a long form article or full length novel where you can elaborate your ideas and have more scope to build your characters. --srs ________________________________ From: Silklist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Bruce Metcalf via Silklist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2024 7:06:15 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Bruce Metcalf <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [Silk] How to write On 4/4/24 17:06, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote: > I found this perspective (from a newsletter on, of all things, Brit > politics) fasinating. Basically, "everything is interesting." > > What are the group's thoughts on both the process of writing, and the > specific hypothesis that "everything is interesting"? It reminds me a bit of a lesson I learned at the knee of the late Ray Bradbury, "Writers write! That's how we know we're writers. I sit down at the typewriter every morning, put in a sheet of paper, and put down words. Some days they're great and I keep them; some days they're shit and I toss them. It doesn't matter, I keep writing, because if I don't write, then I'm not a writer, and then what am I?" He was talking about fiction of course, but I don't think non-fiction is much different. I've been writing professionally for nearly half a century, and I can't say I've had any trouble from "writer's block." Yes, some days what I write is junk, but I can generally come up with something better the next day ... and the next if needed. As for the argument that "everything is interesting," I call BS. Bad writing (or bad teaching) can make any topic the most boring and off-putting subject imaginable. Good writing (and good teaching) can often do just the opposite. This is how you test for good writing -- is it interesting? I think people romanticize writing. It's a task just like building a house. You can build a beautiful or ugly building, a sound or rickety building, a building that suits it's purpose or one that frustrates those who use it. Writing is the same. To those who claim the existence of plans and building inspectors makes carpentry different, permit me to introduce them to the concept of task definitions and editors. Is writing easy? Is carpentry? You can learn skills to make both easier, you can use what techniques help produce good product, and some people just aren't good at one or the other. Is everything interesting? Better to ask if writing on a given topic -- and reading the results -- is interesting, or fun, or informative, or inspiring, or whatever end you're going for. "Interesting" isn't an inherent quality of the topic. Cheers, / Bruce / -- Silklist mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist -- Silklist mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist
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