Category Archives: Article

Color Scheming

As a kid, nothing was more wonderful than new boxes of crayons: all the colors lined up in rows, each of equal size and potential. I loved dividing my stash into different palettes. I’d move the greens from the pinks … Continue reading

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Announcing RPG Write!

I recently did a post on some ways to avoid writer’s block, specifically several types of writer’s block caused by wishing you were playing video games instead. Well, I was inspired and I came up with an idea to combat … Continue reading

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Where Do Ideas Come From – The Absent Cell Phone

It’s a question writers get all the time: “Where do you get your ideas?” Its an impossible question to answer. The question-asker is looking for something out of the ordinary, some magic vault of ideas that writers have access to, … Continue reading

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The Creep of Epicness.

Epic stories, big earth shattering events, heroes that slay gods, villians that are attempting to undo space and time.  All of us have read and probably enjoyed these stories.  Epic stories can harpoon our attention like a great white whale … Continue reading

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YDIW!: Updating

Now that The End is over a year old and is getting fair traffic, I’ve been getting an utterly baffling amount of emails from new cartoonists wanting to know which well-known webcomic creator bestowed unto me the secrets of success, … Continue reading

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Four Tips For Editing

After getting past the Writer’s Block you were feeling, you have a first draft! But what now? You have to edit! Unfortunately, editing can be just as hard as writing, for different reasons. See, you have this awesome idea in … Continue reading

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