– eyeballs are an eyeball width apart – ears align with the top of your brows to the bottom of your nose, and are the center-point of a profile view – lip corners line up to the center of each eye – hands are roughly the size of your face – feet are the same size as your forearm – elbows are aligned with your belly-button – your hands reach down mid-length of your thighs – both upper and lower legs (individually) are roughly the same size as your torso (this is all rough estimates for proportion! feel free to add more to help others)
YOU ARE A FUCKING SAINT
– the length of your legs + feet is about the same as the length of your torso + everything above it
– collar bones extend directly from the shoulders
-wrists align with crotch
The crotch is the middle point of a full body.
-elbows line up roughly with the bottom of your ribcage
Word Counter – Not only does it count the number of words you’ve written, it tells you which words are used most often and how many times they appear.
Tip Of My Tongue– Have you ever had a word on the tip of your tongue, but you just can’t figure out what it is? This site searches words by letters, length, definition, and more to alleviate that.
Readability Score – This calculates a multitude of text statistics, including character, syllable, word, and sentence count, characters and syllables per word, words per sentence, and average grade level.
Writer’s Block (Desktop Application) – This free application for your computer will block out everything on your computer until you meet a certain word count or spend a certain amount of time writing.
2. Make an update schedule that you can reliably stick to, even if it’s one page every two weeks.
3. Anticipate and accept that your story and art style will change drastically over the lifetime of the comic and that’s not a bad thing.
4. Don’t wait to start it until you think your art and the story are perfect, you’ll figure a lot out as you go and people won’t become seriously invested in your comic until you’re at least 50-100 pages in, so you have to get those out of the way in order to really get to the meat of your story and the character/plot development that will keep people interested and coming back to read it. (this is of course assuming you’re interested in a long-format webcomic, which is the type I’m doing and the only kind I can really speak to.)
5. Start posting to a communal art site like Tumblr or Smackjeeves, which have a built-in audience of webcomic readers.
6. If this is your first webcomic, approach the task like it’s practice for your next project, rather than the best and only thing you will ever create. This takes a lot of pressure off of you and allows you to try new things and become a better artist as you go.
7. Your next project will be better than this one, but you can’t get to it until this one is finished.
“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.
“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.
“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”
“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”
Things I didn’t know
“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”
You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.
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