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Xavier
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Post by Xavier »

Over the past few months i've been trying to produce a strip of my own....

Still no success *sigh*

But i do have characters! Three in fact. 2 guys and a girl (And a pizza place????) (Not likely!) but anyway: 1 puk rocker, 1 guy who's just trying to be normal, and a goth Flamenco Dancer (That's the girl)

Does anyone have a plotline that they want to contribute?? Ill bake you a cake!

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Take something from your own life. Have them meet randomly. Have the flamenco dancer run over the punk rocker's guitar... Make it up out of fortune cookie predictions... Play mad libs! Rabid ferrets! Eek!
And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
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For I just threw out the love of my dreams"
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Post by Ravenine »

all great suggestions. i think when you have a lot of ideas that you can't figure out you could put them all in a hat and draw one out. and when you do it yourself, you can always cheat! woohoo! madlibs rock my socks.

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Well, I would say....
Once you truly know the characters, you don't have to try to force them into any shenanigans. They will do stuff.... It will flow.... They will be who they are, in their world, and stuff will happen.
Of course, this will often be disjointed stuff, like real life, with all loose ends and wonkiness. If you want a tighter plot, that takes more work.
Or at least, that's how it is for me.
So I say, get to know everything about these people, and then you will know about their lives, and then, there will be stuff for you to describe and explain to the audience, and voila! Instant story. Just add water.
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