Month: January 2017

The Return of ‘Morgan’s Organs’

A little under a year ago, right here on this very site, writer Daniel Brodie wrote about his Kickstarter campaign for Morgan’s Organs, a comic book that he had originally intended as a TV series.

And now, 11 months later, MO has re-emerged, alive, well, and funny as all hell as a prime example of that wonderful crossover genre – a web comic, making it simultaneously a comic book and a web TVish series as well.

We’ve read the first issue, and it’s My-T-Fine. Here’s the scoop about how it happened from the writer-creator himself: read article

Peggy Bechko’s World of Backstory

by Peggy Bechko

Backstory can be a very important part of your novel or script, or it might not be needed at all at times. It depends on the scene and the characters involved. It’s something the writer needs to give attention to and think about.

If the backstory ties directly into the scene then it’s needed and will give the reader or watcher even more to chew on than the action directly in front of them. Or perhaps your story contains backstory that provides the reader information that will result in the reader gaining a deeper understanding as to what is at stake in the story you’re creating. Or, maybe the information in the backstory that’s being provided adds such punch, such power that the scene in question will be greatly diminished by the simple leaving out of that backstory information. You don’t want to leave out important information any more than you want to put in what isn’t important. read article

Cartoon: ‘A New Year’

Grant Snider and his Incidental Comics website take us galloping into 2017. (And they have been since Day 1!)

Posters of this sensational cartoon and many others its equal are available HERE

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of 2016

It’s the second day of 2017, and Team TVWriter™ is “back on the air” after the holiday break and working our way back up to our usual schedule of daily posts.

We also have a couple of new features. read article