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Writing Chapters -edit-For a for updated version of this tutorial, please take a look at the link below in the Artist's Comments. Thanks!

Step 1:  Plan-
Plan out all of the important events in the chapter, so that you don’t forget.

Step 2:  Write (poorly)-
Write your chapter based off of your plan.  It’s okay if you mess up.

Step 3:  Draw-
Sketch out your comic page(s) that go with the chapter.  As you write down important dialogue and narration, change them a bit with better word choice, etc.

Step 4:  Copy (anti-poorly)-
Copy down the story from your comic page(s) and change it as it goe

Writing a Novel

Writing a novel is different for everyone. However, here are some things to think about during the journey of writing your novel.

STEP ONE - Prewriting
What message do you want to send the world?
It may sound like an obvious question, but the message of any literature can be very abstract or become lost in the literature. Keep the "message" or theme specific. Every event that occurs, every character added to the story, ask yourself whether or not it helps delivering the message you want to your readers.

Characters
Characters are vital to the book. You cannot have too many, nor too few. Choose characters that people can easily relate to.

Tips for Writing Writers 1

1. How to Make Great Characters
How do you create great characters? Well you have to make us sympathize with them; give us a reason to care when they are in danger. There are many ways of doing this, but here is just a few:

Help them stand out:
No they do not need to be a super hero or have the weirdest clothes, but it is good to have something that makes them...well...them! For an example you could have a cheerleader who practises kickboxing, a guy bad tough cop with poor people skills who has a kitten, or maybe the girl who is forced to be perfect by her parents has a secret comic book collection under her floorboards.

Habits are anothe

Writing Tips - Dialogue

If you’re writing fiction, the dialogue is arguably one of the most important parts. And it’s the bit that’s the easiest to mess up, if we’re strictly honest. And why not? There’s so much going on in that single sentence that any number of them can go wrong; voice, character, tone, point of view, punctuation. We’ll start with punctuation, because I’ve already written that bit.

Punctuating Dialogue

Go here. I was originally going to copy and paste that part of the lesson into this lesson, but then the thing wound up being ten pages long. So, read that, and then come back to this if you feel you might need h

Punctuation Basics

Writing is like math. If you don’t follow the right formula, you end up in a state of mass confusion. Synonymously, punctuation is like following a map. If you miss the street signs, you’ll end up completely lost. The following is a list of common English punctuation marks and their most basic functions. Contrary to popular belief, there are no exceptions to these rules. Breaking them has never been in style.

The most common English punctuation marks include the following:

. = period
? = question mark
! = exclamation point
, = comma
“” = quotation mark

Character Design Help GuideCharacter Creator Help

Right, I know that sometimes creating good characters can be a little hard. So, I’ve designed this little writer’s resource in order to make it a touch easier. I’ll give you a list of details to fill in, and then some tips on how to fill ’um. * means that if this is your first time reading the Character Creator, you should DEFINITELY check out the tips for that heading before filling it out. ^ means that this heading is optional. @ means that this information doesn’t have to be entirely accurate. I hope this’ll help people who’re having a little trouble with character making.

NOTE: T

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Yes~ there is a third one, now. It's just to elaborate on some things (there's going to be a fourth one because this didn't cover everything).
These are mainly about creation and getting individuality into your pieces, understanding characters psychology, and learning to get innovative and different ideas about many things.

So, yeah.
=B Hopefully this will help even more people. I'm glad my ideas have been embraced so much.

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~xXSweeneyLovettXx May 16, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

'In fact, if you ONLY excel at English, I think that makes you a terrible writer'...I'm screwed then

~avaunt May 16, 2010

Personal opinion. But I think the key to being a good writer lies in broadening your horizons and doing research, which perhaps isn't so much of a think to excel at but a skill to develop that will lead to higher creativity.

~xXSweeneyLovettXx May 17, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

What do you mean by broadening your horizons and doing research? Does that mean do research on your stories?

~avaunt May 17, 2010

Researching topics on which to write about, doing MORE research on those, making sure the facts in your stories line up, doing research in order to get inspired. Generally, if you want to write about something like 14th century life in Russia, you wouldn't go into it completely ignorant of the customs, social interactions, and technology of the time.
I find that most of my inspiration comes from reading academic articles, whether those be focused on science, philosophy, psychology, or something else, rather than from any novels I'm reading at the time. I do derive some inspiration from that, but, depending on the type of writer you want to be (especially with most of science fiction and some of fantasy), you need to be up to date on current breakthroughs in science in order to see the impact of those and be able to write on them. Either that or you need to make the reader just go along with it (think Iron Man), which is pretty hard to accomplish as they'll probably point out the flaws no matter how charming you make them. Granted, not all fiction is like that, but there's research necessary to basically every story.

~xXSweeneyLovettXx May 17, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Ahhhh, great, thanks for the help

~lexa16 Mar 13, 2010

*shivers* Oh yeah. Americans and Iranians are definitely different.

Sorry. I just had to say that. Anyways, yeah, I agree with a lot of the stuff here.

~avaunt Mar 14, 2010

Oh my God, having not read my tutorials since I wrote them that comment lead to major confusion. Wow. hahaha I didn't even realize I'd made a comparison.
Iranians are actually pretty cool. Apparently their 'in-trend' is plastic surgery. Maybe not so different.

Thanks.

~lexa16 Mar 22, 2010

I kinda know why they like plastic surgery. They usually only do it on their face, I think.

And no problem.

~avaunt Mar 30, 2010

Hmmm. Well, I think there are things everyone wants to fix, but I know I'm comfortable enough with myself that it doesn't appeal to me. Different things for different people, though.

~gabbyv23 Aug 8, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks for the inspiration!^^ *faves all 3*

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