#drgn

A lil WIP that I started hehehe

I kind of touched on this when you asked me for help with your script eight months ago, but here we go again.

Hot take: There’s nothing wrong with a formula or following genre conventions, as long as you understand that’s what you’re doing and lean into it properly.

A good example of this is the movie Fright Night (The 2011 remake, and maybe the original too I haven’t seen it). The bad guy of the movie is a vampire. The movie spends exactly zero seconds explaining what a vampire is or their weaknesses. Not only that, but the protagonist doesn’t have to learn any of that either, because it’s assumed everyone knows sunlight, crosses, etc., and there’s a joke about someone trying to use silver bullets but that’s werewolves, etc. IThe movie is aware its monster is generic, and uses that to its advantage to skip a lot of the exposition a more unique monster would need.

If your script is super generic but contains good stuff, just cut it to be the good stuff and tell the generic parts in shorthand. 

But, anon, the only way you’re going to really learn how to do this is from experience. Just make the fucking comic. You’ve been working on this script for years and while I realize that life has a way of messing up your writing plans (cough, LotH v2), there comes a point where you just have to accept that what you have is good enough and go with it and make the mistakes you need to make to make yourself a better writer instead of spinning your wheels trying to get all the details exactly right from minute one.