Writing Romantic Comedy Light Novels (For Men)
If you want to understand writing Romantic Comedy Light Novels (RCLN) you just need to picture a dance party in your head – a high school gym...
Telling Stories
If you want to understand writing Romantic Comedy Light Novels (RCLN) you just need to picture a dance party in your head – a high school gym...
American comic book artist legend Wally Wood created a set of 22 panel layouts that he used as his go-to when he needed inspiration while drawing his...
Today, one of the manga greats, Takao Saito (creator of Golgo-13) sadly passed away, and while reading the outpouring of comments about his death on social media,...
I’ve just released a new revised edition of my How to Write Manga book. If anyone hasn’t had a chance to check it out, it’s a new...
There are a few less common manga genres that probably deserve more attention than they get, and one of these is the Exploratory Manga. Now, when I...
Reimena Yee’s Onion Method For Outlining Graphic Novels is one of the more interesting approaches I’ve seen to planning a story in a while. At first I...
My new book is up! What started as a revision of Write! Shonen Manga turned into an almost complete re-write with lots of new material and approaches....
Last summer, I began revising my book Write! Shonen Manga towards a second edition, however the more I wrote the more it turned from being a second...
Japanese comics, or manga, are written as episodic serials- which means they’re broken down into a series of semi-self contained chapters where each episode represents a piece...
The following formula, found on Reddit and submitted by user TeraVonen, is a near perfect summary of the typical 2-part story pattern you find in the mystery...