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Post by chris on Aug 5, 2015 17:00:29 GMT -5
Hey my name is Christian and I am a huge dc fan. It's actually my dream to one day become a writer at dc comics.
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Post by David on Aug 5, 2015 20:00:12 GMT -5
Hey my name is Christian and I am a huge dc fan. It's actually my dream to one day become a writer at dc comics. Welcome, Christian! And good luck with your dream. Some DC2 alumni have successfully broken into the comics industry, so it's possible! In the meantime, enjoy the DC2. Maybe we'll be reading your stuff here.
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Post by chris on Aug 5, 2015 20:16:11 GMT -5
How can someone become a writer here.
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Post by HoM on Aug 7, 2015 12:46:09 GMT -5
Hey yo. Welcome to the site! I know you're already speaking to Mark about contributing to the site so I look forward to seeing your stuff.
There's loads of content on the site and plenty more coming. Let us know what you think of whatever you read!
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Post by chris on Aug 10, 2015 20:27:20 GMT -5
Hey I got a question for you guys. Where do you guys get insperation for writing
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Post by HoM on Aug 11, 2015 14:45:51 GMT -5
I think it really depends on you, and what gets YOUR inspiration revved up. I know that for me, I read everything I can around characters I love, or I revisit an old favourite and see what sparks from reading stuff I haven't for a while. I just recently binged on Greg Rucka's Wonder Woman run (again) and it's shaped my Justice League run for 2016 (I write way ahead of schedule!). I can always go back to the work of Warren Ellis or Grant Morrison for concepts that generate ideas, while also being aware I need to be different in my approach, so it's important to just keep reading and reading and seeing what I can store in my brain for future reference. Warren Ellis (writer of classics such as Transmetropolitan and Planetary as well as the recent Black Cross and Injection, both books I really enjoy) once said, on the topic of ' Where My Ideas Come From': Which I think is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. I read books about ghosts, about monsters, about weird events in history (Tunguska! Oh, man Tunguska) and anything else that takes my fancy. I watch loads of interesting television and documentaries on stuff I didn't know about before, and I just write and I write and I write and eventually something good comes out. The net result is high word count and stories I'd read, and I hope other people would want to read too. It helps that I work closely with someone I trust to keep me in line and smack me on the upside of my head if I get complacent or lazy (thanks, Don!) but it's just... writing. If something isn't clicking, move on to something else. If that doesn't work move onto something else. Write something you love and then it'll show. Write for other people? Eh, been there, done that, and there are better things to do with my time. The question is, "what do you enjoy?" and "what inspires you?" and seeing where that rabbit hole leads you. Then you need to commit time to writing, else what's the point?
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Post by chris on Aug 12, 2015 13:00:01 GMT -5
Wow thanks...I remember reading this one book last year in sophomore year about this girl who moved to New York with her mother because of her job as a lawyer. She miss her boyfriend back in her home town and through out the book she has day dream episodes which lead her to do things unconsciously like walking from one point to another point without her knowing and starts to lose touch of reality. It's then shown that he wasn't real and was just a imagination created when she was alone and scared around a basketball court waiting for a ride.
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Post by HoM on Aug 13, 2015 15:23:22 GMT -5
Yeah, it's really about finding that something that clicks with you, and mainlining it until you can come up with something that instils in you the same feeling as a writer as it would as a reader. I'm a fan of falling in love with a concept and trying to break it down and reassemble it into something else, with all the same parts as the concept I loved, but going in a different direction. My work on DC2 writing Green Lantern and Justice League have been all about that, and the work we're doing on Ten Years Later is another great opportunity to do stuff along those lines. Taking characters you know and rearranging the gears inside their characters to drive new stories forward.
Who are your favourite heroes? What's your favourite comic book? What do you read when you head to your local comic book shop?
We've got loads and loads and loads of content available on the DC2 for readers of every walk, and I know I speak for a lot of people who'd like to hear your thoughts on the stuff we've put out!
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