Comic Creators Free Talk

[Lissa Quon]

Mink_LaLa

I-wha-a buh?!

OH WHAT THE ********, PEOPLE.

Also, FYI, Jim is never referred to as "****** Jim" as some seem to think.

And yes. I said that word. >8| But then again...

On another note, Mark Twain's autobiography is getting released now, since he left instructions for it not to be published for one hundred years. Also it's kind of...ironic?...considering what I just linked...

Seriously...what the hell? I think Twain would probably annoyed, the idea of changing his work just so folks would read it. Also changing the word around cheapens the entire thing. GAH.

The book like all media is a product of the time it was made and should not be edited to fit our contemporary sensiblities.

[Mink_LaLa]

Clearly they haven't read THIS. Oh Lovecraft, you.

And really, are we going to try to censor anything with the word '******' in it, even if it makes sense in context?

Oh look there's that word again.

...>8|

Okay, I'll stop with that now.

[Roshtal Maverick]

Censorship always wins in the end ive never read these timeless classics not my cup of tea but changing it just doesnt set well with me either before you know it they'll redo other classics confused why does everything have to be kid friendly is all i gotta say.

[Lissa Quon]

I wonder if we stopped pointing and making a big deal about the word if it would just fade out and be an artifact of history.Let it die more or less. Lots of disgusting words have become oddities or artifacts or in fact just lose their sting as its place in the language evolves.

Just accept it as is and leave it in the context of the past and let it just BE.

[Jazzbie]

Question since I don't want to make a thread...:
If i wanted someone to help me with dialog, like offer suggestions to make it flow better and be more natural, would i be asking for an editor or a writer?

[Kaeoz Crimson]

Jazzbie

Question since I don't want to make a thread...:
If i wanted someone to help me with dialog, like offer suggestions to make it flow better and be more natural, would i be asking for an editor or a writer?

Editor at least, although both would probably be best.

[Lissa Quon]

Jazzbie

Question since I don't want to make a thread...:
If i wanted someone to help me with dialog, like offer suggestions to make it flow better and be more natural, would i be asking for an editor or a writer?

Enh I typically just get second opinions from friends whose opinion I trust. I also have my stuff gone over by beta readers to pick apart and crit.

[Kyousouka]

Jazzbie

Question since I don't want to make a thread...:
If i wanted someone to help me with dialog, like offer suggestions to make it flow better and be more natural, would i be asking for an editor or a writer?

Depending on how open-ended the flow of the dialogue is and how loosely the goals of the scene are defined, you might be able to role-play the dialogue with a friend, then edit that down. It isn't always possible, but when it is, I feel that's what gives me the best results.

[Jazzbie]

Kyousouka

Jazzbie

Question since I don't want to make a thread...:
If i wanted someone to help me with dialog, like offer suggestions to make it flow better and be more natural, would i be asking for an editor or a writer?

Depending on how open-ended the flow of the dialogue is and how loosely the goals of the scene are defined, you might be able to role-play the dialogue with a friend, then edit that down. It isn't always possible, but when it is, I feel that's what gives me the best results.

Dear god that would be so embarrassing. o_o

But thanks for the tips

[Kaeoz Crimson]

Figured I'd do a new thread to advertise my impending comic (and hopefully attract a new artist for it xp ). If you want to take a look, the link's in my siggy. Feel free to put in a few comments if you like.

[Psycho Bunny Studio]

Mink_LaLa

PBS, it's kind of funny, because I'd just read a blog on being an English teacher in Japan. It kind of made me wonder why she didn't just move back to the U.S.

Well if you check out my blog

http://somewhereovertheramenbowl.blogspot.com you might pick up on some why's I stay.

The thing is I might not like teaching, but
1) I'm good at it
2) It's ******** easy so even a retarded seal could do it
3) The pay is excellent all's considering

The amount of stress I have to deal with for the amount of pay I get is comparable to any job. Whether I was working here, or at McDonalds or the Disney Store or any other job that I disliked to begin with I'd be under that same sort of stress because underneath every good day and kicking your a** on every bad one is the reminded that /this isn't what you want in life/

90% of my problems were just /me/ having standards that were too high.

I guess the thing is that there are three types of people that come to Japan. (and stay)

People that can't get work in their home countries because they're too socially dysfunctional
People that get work here due to a skill set that attunes them to the need of the market here.
People that work here because they're Japanophiles

I'm #3, I love it here, I love the trains and the people and the markets and the anime and the technology and the envy I get when I tell people I live here. In the end I may go back to Canada assuming I can't arrange work I want. Everyone's mileage here may vary depending on their attitude, where they live and their work situation, everyone bitches about their job but no matter what I always have to remind myself and others that teaching English? Is a ******** cakewalk in comparison to say A waitressing gig, or a checkout clerk or any other minimum wage job a fresh college graduate is looking at these days.

I just figure I've reached that point in my life where I'm tired of doodling pages of comic into notebooks and on scrap paper and doing ******** ALL about it because I've got some 6-6 work schedule (including train time) that leaves me so nackered because I keep CARING about it that when I get home the idea of drawing anything but piss poor goofy doodles of dicks just exhausts me further.

tl;dr

I like the amount of porn I get in Japan so I stick around.

[Psycho Bunny Studio]

Seijaku_Ishida

Welcome back, PBS! I was wondering where you were!

Things are decent on my front. Wish I could afford to quit my job and become a full-time comic artist, though.

I guess I'm lucky I've always been good at finances. I'd probably be a good bookkeeper for some small company.

I've got enough to stay unemployed until May and then I'll have to start looking or move back to Canada. Hopefully I'll have enough of SOMETHING that I can sign up for winter comiket 2011 and the voice acting jobs keep coming in that I'll have the money to stay until then.

[megrar]

Roshtal Maverick

Censorship always wins in the end ive never read these timeless classics not my cup of tea but changing it just doesnt set well with me either before you know it they'll redo other classics confused why does everything have to be kid friendly is all i gotta say.

will you do me a huge favor? punctuation. it would be so much easier to read your posts if you indulged in a few more periods.

example

Censorship always wins in the end. i've never read these timeless classics--not my cup of tea--but changing it just doesn't set well with me either. before you know it, they'll redo other classics confused why does everything have to be kid friendly is all i gotta say.

[Roshtal Maverick]

megrar

Roshtal Maverick

Censorship always wins in the end ive never read these timeless classics not my cup of tea but changing it just doesnt set well with me either before you know it they'll redo other classics confused why does everything have to be kid friendly is all i gotta say.

will you do me a huge favor? punctuation. it would be so much easier to read your posts if you indulged in a few more periods.

example

Censorship always wins in the end. i've never read these timeless classics--not my cup of tea--but changing it just doesn't set well with me either. before you know it, they'll redo other classics confused why does everything have to be kid friendly is all i gotta say.

Sorry im not that great at grammar. must be repressed in my sub-conscious becuase i hated my english teachers.: XDi really hate grammar though but ill try to be better with it.

[Kyousouka]

Roshtal Maverick

Sorry im not that great at grammar. must be repressed in my sub-conscious becuase i hated my english teachers.: XDi really hate grammar though but ill try to be better with it.

Basic grammar made easy: Once you've typed your post, read it out loud as you would say it in a real-life conversation. Wherever there is a short pause, put a comma, wherever there's a long one, put a period.
Then, if you really like us and want us to read your posts, go through and capitalize all the instances of "I" such as in "I'll".