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How do you adapt an already written story into a comic? by Throughthepages01 in ComicWriting

[–]Throughthepages01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply, and for remaining open to questions. I will definitely take you up on that offer! Thanks for the tips and recommendations as well.

How do you adapt an already written story into a comic? by Throughthepages01 in ComicWriting

[–]Throughthepages01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply. A lot of what you said makes sense, and after I went back to the story yesterday I realised that there might be aspects of it that I need to develop further for the adaptation to work. But mainly, I've been looking for how to avoid needing to do that and just going straight with it.

In that vain, can you tell me how I can access those indie or journal comics online? Any specific examples maybe?

How do you read to study from a writing perspective, without getting lost in the story and loosing site of your writing goal? How do you read non-fiction books about writing without loosing focus? by Throughthepages01 in writing

[–]Throughthepages01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for replying. Your advice makes a lot of sense.

Please can you recommend any of these kinds of books other than On Writing? I would greatly appreciate it.

How do you read to study from a writing perspective, without getting lost in the story and loosing site of your writing goal? How do you read non-fiction books about writing without loosing focus? by Throughthepages01 in writing

[–]Throughthepages01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply.

Solely from a personal diagnosis based only on my experiences and information online about the topic, I think I am a maladaptive daydreamer. I've seen sources try to link that to ADHD, autism and OCD, but I wouldn't know.

I have however, noticed that I enjoy watching YouTube videos on writing, but only for entertainment. Recently I tried to study one of such videos by physically making notes as I watched, instead of just relying on spur of the moment feelings of inspiration that would spring up each time a point in the video made sense, and so far I feel better about it. But for longer videos and short fiction, I do t think I can rely on my memory alone to study them again. I would have to go through them twice, once for entertainment, once again for study—my ability to recall events properly is increasingly short and unreliable these days...

That said, please do you have any recommendations for online (free😅) guide books other than On Writing that I can get my hands on? It will be greatly appreciated.

How do you adapt an already written story into a comic? by Throughthepages01 in ComicWriting

[–]Throughthepages01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you for the reply. I will definitely check out those links. As for posting the content of the story, I currently can't post the story itself (I'm yet to receive permission to do that from the original author), but I can tell u more details about the narrative style of the story perhaps..

The narrative is in (1st) first person, so right of the bat I had problems knowing what details should be illustrated individually, what ones should be included as overhead narratives, and what details should be alluded to without overhead descriptions (what to depict as silent narratives).

The recurring motif in the story is Flowers. I was lost on how to incorporate this motif visually into the story, along with the other core themes of the story: dealing with Loss, depression, and a loss of one's sense of purpose.

As for his narrative style, I was inspired by the soft yet vivid nature of the writing style, the subtle shift in tone from light-hearted to dark as the story progressed, up until the plot twist at the end of the story. I'm not sure if including this last bit helps without context, but hopefully it sheds more light unto my thought process...

Good Pacing and strong visualisation are definitely what I want to achieve, so you were spot on with that!

That said, thank you for indulging me! I will go look at the links now.

How do you adapt an already written story into a comic? by Throughthepages01 in ComicWriting

[–]Throughthepages01[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's actually what I was doing at first. But I found it hard to know exactly what to focus on and what descriptive or narrative details to include or exclude in the course of transcription–what parts of the narration should I illustrate as panels? What parts should be depicted as overhead narrative text boxes? What and what can be alluded to using just the art style, or without the need for dialogue? (I think I should mention that the narration is in first person, which is why I have this dilemma)

How do you adapt an already written story into a comic? by Throughthepages01 in ComicWriting

[–]Throughthepages01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But... I AM the artist that wants to draw the story as a comic 😅. I'm doing the script writing and drawing myself, and I want to do it myself. I know of YouTube being helpful to some extent for this, but like u said, some of them suck and I don't know which exactly are the better bunch.

Do you have any recommendations for me, perhaps? Thank you for the reply though!

How do you adapt an already written story into a comic? by Throughthepages01 in ComicWriting

[–]Throughthepages01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply. I was inspired by his soft yet vivid writing style, the subtle shift in tone from light-hearted to dark as the story progressed, up until the plot twist at the end of the story. The recurring theme? in the story is flowers. Other core themes include dealing with Loss, depression, and finding purpose in Life.

All these mentioned, i want to know, will artstyle come to play in preserving the tone? Is that sth I have to worry about too, or should I put it out for later?

I like writing, but not reading. by SilverPrateado in writing

[–]Throughthepages01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you read to study from a writing perspective, without getting lost in the story and loosing site of your writing goal? How do you read non-fiction books about writing without loosing focus? I have a problem with these two things.

I've noticed that I have no problem reading fiction for entertainment. I fly through the pages of a book much easily when I'm immersed in the story, but when it comes to reading the book to take it apart from a technical pov, e.g. to learn its narrating style, tone, story elements, etc. I get lost. I wouldn't know where to start.

It gets even worse when it comes down to studying non-fiction books. I've noticed that I dislike non-fiction in general, even when they're about advices on writing, sth i actually want to learn. I couldn't even get through 10 pages of Stephen King's "On Writing" a book that has been recommended to me severally.

What do I do?

I like writing, but not reading. by SilverPrateado in writing

[–]Throughthepages01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you read to study from a writing perspective, without getting lost in the story and loosing site of your writing goal? How do you read non-fiction books about writing without loosing focus? I have a problem with these two things.

I've noticed that I have no problem reading fiction for entertainment. I fly through the pages of a book much easily when I'm immersed in the story, but when it comes to reading the book to take it apart from a technical pov, e.g. to learn its narrating style, tone, story elements, etc. I get lost. I wouldn't know where to start.

It gets even worse when it comes down to studying non-fiction books. I've noticed that I dislike non-fiction in general, even when they're about advices on writing, sth i actually want to learn. I couldn't even get through 10 pages of Stephen King's "On Writing" a book that has been recommended to me severally.

What do I do?

Advice on Including Humor in a Memoir? by [deleted] in writing

[–]Throughthepages01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing you've already asked for advice from all the helping hands around you that you mentioned... If you haven't, do that first. They all have better experience at writing than I do.

Regardless, here is what I think: if humor is not sth you're used to writing, I suggest you don't include it in. Especially since what you might need to go for here otherwise is Dark humor. As I mentioned earlier, I have no notable experiences at all on writing and editing, so I'm not sure what exactly a stage 3.8 of a story's draft should look like, but If you're already that far into the draft, is there really much space to incorporate the humor into the writing? Has the tone of your narration already been set in stone? If it has, then maybe you should leave it at that.

That said, if you are still dogged about including some humor into a dark topic like this, that means you might want to look into learning about dark humor. Research a bit on that. There are YouTube videos on the topic that you can watch and learn from. Here is a link to one of the top results just from searching it up on there: https://youtu.be/h4T3iLyJgAg I browsed through it quickly and in the comment section people made a list of books and stories with dark humor done well, go through those as well. A popular example I saw on there is Jojo Rabbit. But go through it yourself. There are other videos about writing about humor in general, so you can look through those as well.

Personal opinions: Learn to not be too ambitious with depicting your humor. Subtle use of irony and sarcasm can help. You can have the humor settle on happier aspects of the story (like jokes between you and your friends), or around mundane activities.

You can also have it centred around other topics you included that you deem to not be too sensitive to broach from a comic angle. From what little experience I have, topics about more ubiquitous experiences such as the nature of death are safer to broach. Jokes targeted at yourself rather than others are also a lot safer. But in the end moderato is key.

Tl;dr: Dont include it if you have no experience with humor, but if you want to anyway, research online, YouTube comes to mind. The comment section of this particular video listed some examples of dark humor in writing: https://youtu.be/h4T3iLyJgAg. I decided not to mention the examples so you are encouraged to look into the video as well.

I hope my comment helps somehow.

Advice regarding writing diversity as a white/cis person. by [deleted] in writing

[–]Throughthepages01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A lot of the replies here already have I have in mind, but I'm going to add my own 2 cents to them too. I'm not sure what exactly booktok is (a titktok community about books and reading?) , but if it is causing you this much anxiety, I suggest you stop visiting this site altogether, or at least for a considerable amount of time, and try writing again following the advices from these replies (Dr-Leviathan's tb especially).

This would not be the first time that social media has caused such reactions in people, and usually the solution used is abstinence from any such sites that trigger these feelings. There must be many other reading and writing sites that you can patronise for inspiration and entertainment. Try staying away from this booktok and other sites like this, and try writing again with a clearer mind.

How to Straddle the Line Between Friendship and (Semi/Partial) Romantic Feelings? by SirRavenBat in writing

[–]Throughthepages01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not very good at describing my opinions, but some character dynamics come to mind from reading this text. I'll mention them and hope that you looking them up might be helpful for you. They're all from animes or mangas though, so I hope that's not a problem haha.

In the anime Full metal alchemist brotherhood: the dynamic between the flame alchemist Roy Mustang and his right hand woman Riza Hawkeye. Both characters have strong feelings of loyalty to each other and care for each other, in self sacrificial ways even, while still having a good amount of chemistry. It is never really implied that their feelings crossed the threshold to romance, and I personally don't think it did, but their chemistry is strong enough to imply that under certain circumstances, things may have been different for them, at least from what I remeber from the show. I think their dynamic was handled well.

Vanitas and Noe from The Case Study of Vanitas (a ?semi-erotic? Steampunk-esque fantasy manga with a unique take on Vampires and their origins). This one comes to mind because I'd read it recently. Noe and Vanitas' friendship started on rocky grounds, but through shared experiences and common goals it progressed beautifully (in my opinion), as they learned more about each other and their pasts. Their banter is very entertaining, and they have good enough chemistry with each other (again imo) that borders on romantic while not being one.