Types of comics that you CAN'T write?

EvilChihuahua · Post by **EvilChihuahua** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:04 pm

I've never tried, but I probably couldn't write surreal stuff, 'cause I it so much. I'd maybe get halfway through a chapter before my hands would revolt and start throttling me to save my readers.

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:39 pm

In addition to the things I obviously can't write sex and romance, all related topics , I can't write realistic fiction. Just doesn't work. I also have trouble with cliches because they're so fun to stand on their ear.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:42 pm

Vorticus wrote:In addition to the things I obviously can't write sex and romance, all related topics , I can't write realistic fiction. Just doesn't work. I also have trouble with cliches because they're so fun to stand on their ear.

I love you shrunk down "sex and romance," there.

Actually, I like cliches exactly for that reason: I like to play with them. Give me an RPG cliche, and I'll run circles around it. For example, point-of-view. I wrote a story once solely from the sidekick's point of view, and another from an evil henchman's.

Thereforeiam · Post by **Thereforeiam** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:55 pm

Anything. I can't write anything. Well, I sort-of wrote the filler, but the only good one was the M or F one, and that was purely stolen...from real life.

However, when it comes to cartoon styles, I can produce a pretty wide range. Some are just slower than the others.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:18 pm

There's nothing I can't write!

As for write well...that's another story.

Stinkywigfiddle · Post by **Stinkywigfiddle** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:33 pm

Manga

Taiwanimation · Post by **Taiwanimation** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:55 pm

Jackhass wrote:There's nothing I can't write!

As for write well...that's another story.

sometimes I think the same way...

now as for things that I can't draw...

Guildmaster Van · Post by **Guildmaster Van** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:08 am

Fantasy, apparently.

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:46 am

I can't write small stories. I'd love to. I keep coming up with fantastic ideas about little people going about their daily lives without the world giving a damn, and by the time I'm twenty pages in it's an sf/f epic in seven volumes, not counting the appendix and two spin-off series... >_<

I have trouble writing the truly original; I enjoy middle-of-the-road stuff (I don't bore easily) provided it's well done, and I believe in writing stuff that I myself would enjoy, so I wind up aiming for the middle of the road more often than not (I bet that put everyone on these forums off ever reading my comic.... sorry!).

And, of course, tied in with the first point is that my stories rarely stay out of the fantasy genre; it's much harder to save the real world than a made-up one.

Tink

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:16 pm

mcDuffies wrote:
rkolter wrote:Sex.

I have a difficult time writing sex into stories when it's called for, without it either being too weak a scene or too graphic a scene. So I end up doing the "the following morning the characters are sharing a bed and have to get dressed so obviously they were naked, and probably had sex" thing.
"Promise me that next time we'll have sex instead of just lying next to each other in bed and smoking cigarettes"

I am using that.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:15 pm

It's from National Lampoon's "Loaded Weapon."

CSchaefer · Post by **CSchaefer** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:36 pm

I can't do gag-a-day. Occasionally I'll come up with (something I think is) funny, but I'm really interested in telling long-form stories and building characters.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:35 pm

Nanda wrote:It's from National Lampoon's "Loaded Weapon."

Yeah.

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:04 pm

It seems that the only thing I can write really well are poems. That's one reason I'm writing my comic; I'm trying to do an actual story. I'm also trying to work in humor wherever I can, although I don't think I could ever come up with enough humor to do a gag-a-day comic. (Which is why Jim still wrote RotD while I was drawing it; I couldn't come up with a single good joke)

Dragonkingdoms · Post by **Dragonkingdoms** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:03 pm

I don't think I could write a violent comic, at least, not without some moments to lighten it up. This also holds true for overly sad comics. They just end up making me feel worse. Generally, I read comics to help feel BETTER, not worse!

Toreador · Post by **Toreador** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:44 am

i cant do a seriouse comic to save my life (im trying with my current comic HOWL) its just not my preferd style of comics

NotQuiteInsane · Post by **NotQuiteInsane** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:39 am

Anything worth reading basically...
Convincing fights (both scripting and writing), anything remotely funny (sarcasm I can do, hell I'm British - if I couldn't do sarcasm, I wouldn't be much of a Brit).

My big problem is I'll write a load of little chunks of story, then never find a good way to tie them together convincingly. I find scripting easier than writing (to a certain degree), but I still haven't managed to think of a single story worth comicking. Not to mention the fact that the last four times I've written something (mostly sci-fi), I've put it to one side for a bit and found a story written by someone else that matches mine worryingly closely...

Oh well, back to the drawing board!

Elegant Gremlin · Post by **Elegant Gremlin** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:44 am

I cannot write anything of length. I will get to a certain point in writing, and I will just stop. Thats why my comic is gag-a-day, so that anything considered a "story", is just similar jokes strung together.

The only time I can actually write something of length, is if I'm given a deadline that it has to be done for. Otherwise I will nitpick on everything I've written and never actually finish it.

Legendary · Post by **Legendary** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:44 am

I have trouble with pacing. I don't think I've ever been very satisfied with more than maybe five of my comic's layout.

Post by **Kisai** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:22 pm

cjburgandy wrote:I can't seem to write anything that's G rated. :( I try, but I fail!

Then there's me who can't quite push something beyond PG.

Most anything I write starts to get distracted with philisophical or technical details instead of moving the character development along. (So the idea with the naked thread's pages is "it doesn't need to make perfect sense")

Having said that. I thought up at least two directions for each part to go. I pick which ever direction that I think I can draw. So far at least...

(at work)