Month: January 2014

dawnchapel:

Panel from yesterday’s comic.

For those of you that only follow me here on Tumblr, I’ve set up a Patreon page for The Dawn Chapel, so that I can get back to work on it in a regular fashion.  Doing fully-watercolored pages like these is pretty time-consuming, and the short short version of the pitch is that it would be much easier for me to keep the comic going if it earned me an income proportional to the time spent on it.

So if you derive value from the comic and you feel that it’s worth patronizing, maybe consider pledging your support.  You’ll be supporting a creator-owned comic, and helping us live in a world where our entertainment isn’t the sole province of massmarket media properties, but that there’s also room for stories crafted by artists who care about what they’re making, and care about the people reading them.

And if you aren’t able to at this time, I’m glad you’re reading anyway.  Knowing that people enjoy the stories I tell is very gratifying to me on its own, and I hope to be able to keep doing it for a long time.

guys read his comic + pledge

I love him and said comic and he is one of the best peeps k just do it <3

donna-remembers:

lumos5000:

dangerhamster:

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS SCENE

OK, so this scene wasn’t originally scripted. RTD added it into the script based on Bernard Cribbins’ experience of the war.

Bernard Cribbins fought in World War Two

Bernard Cribbins never killed a man

And Bernard Cribbins is incredibly proud of that. 

AND IN THAT MOMENT I LOVED WILFRED MOTT’S CHARACTER EVEN MORE!!

REBLOG FOREVER

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation

Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. — “The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog”  (via thirdw0rld)

Writing Child Characters

thewritershelpers:

thewritershelpers:

A couple of weeks ago I made a post on writing teenagers, I don’t believe we’ve made a post on child characters recently. So here we go!

Child characters are different to adult characters for several reasons that are stated below. However these differences should make no difference to how you develop your character. A child character has likes and dislikes and both positive and negative traits. 

Innocence

Depending on the age of your child character and the life they have led, they will be more innocent to your adult characters. This does not mean they think that everything is nice and fuzzy but that they aren’t aware of a lot of the evils of the world. You have to be careful how you play innocence, for example I bet most 9/10 year old know exactly what sex is. So think carefully about how you portray this!

Naivety 

Children are naive, this does NOT mean stupid. They have less world experience and have no independence so they haven’t really seen everything in the world. This makes them naive to other cultures other people. How naive they are depends on their age, personality and background.

Impulsive

Children are more impulsive than adults. We learn through making mistakes and children are still learning (aren’t we all). So children are more likely to display impulsive behaviour. This involves saying exactly what they think. Small children of 5/6 don’t really have a dam, they just say what pops into their head.

Intelligence

Children aren’t stupid. In fact you can have a pretty good conversation with a small child and be surprised by what they say. But children haven’t learnt as much as adults and their knowledge grows as they do. Intelligence however isn’t just what they know but how they apply it. 

Dialogue

Dialogue is where you are going to slip up with your child characters. This could be by making the language too mature or not mature enough. You need to know before you start writing how a child would talk, you may have to do research for this. 

It’s hard to remember what we talked like when we were that age so you may need to talk to others, watch some movies with children and read books to see how other authors have portrayed characters of a similar age.

So how do I make my child character realistic?

Research!!! If you know friends or family with young children spend some time with them, see how they interact with others and take special notice to how they speak and what words they use. The wording in dialogue is the kicker in making children realistic. 

Think back to when you were a child or look at family videos, how did you act around family? How did you play? 

Mibba: Writing Realistic Children

Writing Child Characters for Adults

Writing Realistic Children

Writing from a childs perspective (forum)

Writing from a unique perspective

The voice is the most difficult part of any character development and finding a voice for your child character is even harder. But if you can find the right voice that suits the age of your character then that’s fantastic. Don’t be put off if you don’t get it right in the first few tries, keep trying.I look forward to seeing more children characters in your works 🙂

Hope this has been useful to some of you!!!

-S

We still get questions on child characters and I don’t know if our new followers have seen this. So if you are writing a child character this might be useful to you!