Category: Writing Lessons From a Comic Strip

• Lessons From the Comics – Do You Have a Story?

  

  Helpful, that’s what people like to be when you tell them you’re writing a novel. Help is good, no doubt but writing is a solitary endeavor most of the time. Though really, success is found in embracing a community of editors, beta-readers and dogs…no not dogs, unless you’re thinking of Snoopy who has a lot […]

  CGraith

  June 7, 2021

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  back seat driver, becoming an author, feeling in writing, fiction novel, Lucy, Peanuts, simple plotting, unsolicited advice, writing critic

• Who is Ed? – Lessons from the Comics

  

  It matters how something is said. We all know that. But it also matters how something is thought to be said. Our lesson from the Comics today is from “Pickles”by Brian Crane. The cartoon is of retired couple Opal and Earl. A recent episode featured Earl jealous of a text he sees on her phone […]

  CGraith

  May 5, 2021

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  #fiction writer, #writing better, comma placement, commas, Pickles, word choice, writing

• Writing Tips from the Funnies- Authenticity

  

  It’s a hot debate in writer’s circles with the old adage ‘write what you know’ against ‘create your own world’. I personally think writing is one of the last frontiers for the mind, that and scientific research (ha ha). The subject, the setting, the fiction needs to have the freedom to expand to fill whatever […]

  CGraith

  March 15, 2021

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  #authenticity, AIDS, improve writing, knowing your subject, Peanuts, research, writing