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Kura
Jun '16

Enjoyable dialog/ banter and general chemistry between characters. Generally it's a good thing to have, but I also have to be careful not to have it overshadow or deviate from the plot. I have a habit of doing that when scripting, though I was a lot worse at it before than I am now. >< (this is more important for some stories than others, depending on what the story plot/focus is)

I also like to write stories that start out fun, and then get dark and serious and just crush your soul... I apologize to my readers... (I also really reading series like that)

Bittersweet stuff. Good stuff happens, but not everything that happened is good or it came at a cost.

NickRowler
Jun '16

I haven't written a lot but a topic I a sort of drawn to is the interaction between children and adults as well as the interaction between parents and their children. I also like having characters from the lower class, I dunno, I just find them more interesting then the typical suburban types.

AnnaLandin
Jun '16

I write a lot of adventure stories with a bunch of action sequences and conflicts and exploration of cool places - and those are all a lot of fun to write/draw - but I also really love writing the quiet moments.

The scenes where the characters slow down a bit, get to know each other, reveal some long-held secret or are vulnerable to one another. Moments when the big, strong people admit that maybe they're a little bit scared, or when the small, weak people uncover depths of determination in themselves that keep them going, etc.

Right now, that's best exemplified in Grassblades by the moments in which Masahiro lets down his very, very grumpy guard and Akane chips away a bit at that wall he's built around himself.

mariusthered
Jun '16
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arguments! I really enjoy writing a good verbal battle, and for some reason mother vs daughter arguments are more fun to write than anything else. I have observe that mother and daughter relationships are very strange. no two people can be more loyal to one another yet when they get upset with one another it can be one of the most vicious conversations in nature, fascinating in its own way of studying human dynamics.

and lucky for me Talesfromswipe city has three mother/ daughter relationships to write about

shaneoid77
Jun '16

I guess at face value HOTWAB1 looks like typical American superhero tripe but I'm actually going at this from a very British perspective and hopefully readers will pick up on the British humour and find the characters not so morally black-and-white. My mind opens up when I write superhero tales, not just because of the genre in itself, but because of the open ended-ness I get from it. It literally incorporates all other genres effortlessly, so one week you could be fighting dragons in medieval castles, the next you're off in to space for an alien invasion. A bleak adventure on the grim streets or 4 colour hijinks with an evil criminal mastermind! I guess there's a big kid aspect to all this, and it's likely I'll not say anything profound, but then I've studied philosophy and there are many who have said the most profound things in our history and nobody has listened. There's never truly an end to Superhero stories and I think that keeps my creative juices going.

noctuidae
Jun '16

i like writing science fiction, as a genre. for specific scenes i like arguments, whether heated or just an exchange of opposing ideas.

... i also like writing torture scenes, and characters suffering grievous bodily harm, and.....

phen
Jun '16

Fervid, frothing, foaming-at-the-mouth arguments! And metaphysical pain. The quiet, poetic side of uncomfortable sentimentality, bittersweet memories, general helpless/hopeless/existentialism is endlessly fun to try and word. Anything mopey and self-examining is like textual candy for me, haha^^ I know a lot of people enjoy writing out arguments, though. Perhaps a way to vent?

The whole thing gives me the impression more and more that comedy is truly the most difficult thing to write. I cannot for the life of me string together a silly joke or a quirky arc, it's... it gives me A LOT of respect for slice-of-life and comedy writers! That is HARD.

SirHellsir
Jun '16

I have noticed that I do enjoy way too much writing tragedy
from bitter sweet moments to characters deaths (been kills, sacrifices or accidents)
I also write a lot characters going through a lot of shit and finally snaping/breaking

Sanz
Jun '16

Tbh. My favorite thing about writing...is when And i get to drawing but my favorite thing to write is deep scenes between characters and suoer dramatic and heart filled or heart breaking moments.

4threset
Jun '16

Aaaaa i'm a sucker for cheesy romance or super angsty/heartbreaking climax scenes. Like when I'm drawing them and my face scrunches up like HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME EDWARD WE HAD SOMETHING SPECI- but it usually results in the person sitting next to me pointing out i'm making weird whimpering sounds.

maxzaguishi
Jun '16

Always try to vary my genre and for each use a different style, the stories of action and train are my style but e tried to do more things... mystery, romance, and comedy. my brother says that comedy is given me very well but I have an addiction with the characters with powers over natural, is what I do in my stories I believe that my gender is the Fantasia, here I leave you my best work https://tapastic.com/series/WHITE-PALADIN-

ERossUra
Jun '16

I love deadpan reactions to discomforting situations. I probably picked that up from Calvin and Hobbes.

Rasen
Jun '16

I really love write horror/mistery stories. I enjoy how the characters have to confront some creepy events. I love to create original stories to surprise the reader, and add some plot twist too. I think that my favorite point creating a new story is to put something different on it, something original.

Now I'm publishing Phasmatodea here, it's a very short horror comic, but I think it's a fresh story.

I love drawing comics because I'm a storyteller.

shaylafarley5
Jun '16

I'm more futuristic and supernatural stories. I love things involving actually history or research that make them seem possible (like full Metal alchemist ). My main comic now has to deal with a few weapons but that's later on down the line. The other two comics I'm working on have to deal with robotics and technological advancments. (Good and bad)

antibenz
Jun '16

I like comedy writing, but more subtle humor than jokes. I like to see what genres you can combine with it. Or really stories that combine a handful of seemingly conflicting genres. But for work I show to people I usually narrow it down for polish. It is a goal to be able to handle a wide variety of genres in the future.

TheKawaiiGarden
Jun '16

There are a few genres I like writing about but the one I love far most is fantasy, High-Fantasy preferably.
There is just something about high-fantasy that draws me to it, the world, the creatures/monsters, the towns, cities and villages, all of it.

Aaannd that's pretty much what I'm doing with my comic, hell I spent a year just building the world before I started making it blush

VermillionWorks
Jun '16
1

PAIN.

GIVE ME YOUR TEAAARRSSSS

Okay seriously, I do find myself having the most fun writing high drama with characters, scary/disturbing scenes, and various forms of insanity. In spite of this though I do also have a fondness for a well placed joke and sentimental/cute moments as well.

indagold
Jun '16

I tend to end up with my work being very avante garde... so basically that's all I can say. Weird, bizarre, surreal, horrifying. That's my style.

shazzbaa
Jun '16

I think I'm gonna have to go with banter as my favourite, too! (why I then made a comic where half the characters have difficulties communicating is anyone's guess). Actual arguments are a fun challenge, but I think my favourite is when characters begin to get comfortable enough to tease and pick on each other or get on each other's case a little more. ~FRIENDSHIP!!~

As for genre, my favourite is some kind of fantasy. The part of storytelling that's interesting to me is exploring people, and I think that sometimes reality can get in the way of that, in a way? To me fantasy means you don't have to be distracted by recognising the place or the time or the society that these characters are supposed to be in... and can hopefully just see them as people.