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The Murky Middle

Banes at July 27, 2017, midnight
tags: banes, middle, murky, thursday, writing

Thursdays with Banes - The Murky Middle

A good way to put together a story is to figure out some essentials, first - Elements of Character, Plot and Theme, and Building some World and all that. We've talked about these things around here a lot, and we'll prolly continue to …

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FEATURED COMIC --> Sword of Kings

Ozoneocean at July 26, 2017, midnight
tags: FEATURED COMIC, Sword of Kings



Fierce battles with sword, spear, bow and hammer, vicious Norsemen, hungry ghouls, scheming sorceresses and nobles … Sword of Kings is an epic saga of ambition, conquest, and love. Written, constructed and directed by Bravo1102, this is a whole new take on his original story "Go a Viking". It's still …

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Quackcast 333 - Retcon the retcon

Ozoneocean at July 25, 2017, midnight
tags: Banes, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Lego Space, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 333, Retcon the retcon, Una Garza Negra, Webcomics community

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The thing with retcons is that the author tends to get an idea which makes them want to go back over their story and redo or tweak the whole thing again, that's what's happened here… well sort off. Banes had some more ideas on the subject that he wanted …

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Constructing Your Fantasy World Rigging

Tantz_Aerine at July 22, 2017, midnight



Every building needs a skeleton in place before building begins, so that the end product will be sound. It’s no different with fantasy world building: before you begin gathering and using your story’s bricks and mortar (= the research) you need to have the world’s skeleton, or rigging, firmly in …

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Quackcast 332 - The trouble with immortality

Ozoneocean at July 18, 2017, midnight
tags: Banes, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, Pit face, podcast, Quackcast 332, The Beard, The Cherub Brothers, The trouble with immortality, Webcomics community

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In this Quast we talk about immortality, which is a common trope in literature. Who seeks immortality in stories? It's usually bad guys, and it usually has some sort of extreme price,catch or dark side, so much so that people actually believe that if immortality WAS real that it …

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Awards Business and Quackup #2 Alternate Ending

kawaiidaigakusei at July 17, 2017, midnight



Niccea would like to get this news cycled around:

From the desk of Niccea:

This year's Drunk Duck Awards needs some help. With a newborn in the house, I don't have the time for a full commitment. At the minimum, I would like someone to manage volunteer recruitment and the …

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Creating the Fantasy World you Need

Tantz_Aerine at July 15, 2017, midnight


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There are many ways to create a fantasy world. Sometimes you need something very elaborate and thought out in the minutest detail and sometimes you need just enough to sketch out a minimal stage for your story to work.

So the first thing to do when deciding …

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Drawing Attention #2

Ozoneocean at July 14, 2017, midnight
tags: Nepath, newspost



Continuing to expand my knowledge and discover comics on The Duck that I had previously let slip by me, last week I found something amazing. A comic that seems low down in the ranking of it's genre. A comic that has only 10 Likes (including me) at time of writing. …

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FEATURED COMIC --> The Cherub brothers

PIT_FACE at July 12, 2017, midnight



The Cherub Brothers is a panel-a-day comic about two supposed angels- Sun and Zel– told from the perspective of Corey; an everyday kid who observes the kind things the “brothers” do for others, despite their…quirks. Corey’s perspective as he talks to his friends gives the insight an urban legend like …

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Quackcast 331 - Retconning your work

Ozoneocean at July 11, 2017, midnight
tags: Banes, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Lostandfound, Optimum, Ozoneocean, Pit face, podcast, Quackcast 331, Retconning your work, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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Starwars, Ender's game, Captain America… All these are great examples (or bad ones) of "retcons". But what IS a "retcon"?
What it means is that you go back and change an established work by adding new information that has the effect of changing it in a small or significant …

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