Author: Marc Bernardin
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Devourer of Words 021: Choosing What’s Next
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 021: Choosing What’s Next There comes a time for every writer when she or he is done with whatever it is they’re writing. When you’ve tweaked your last sentence, when you’ve addressed your last note, when it’s off to your editor and out of your hands. You’ve…
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Devourer of Words 020: When the Real World Intrudes
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 020: When the Real World Intrudes If you’re anything like me, when you’re writing a book, the book itself lives in a sort of hermetically sealed environment. The real world rarely has any impact. Oh, it might impact you as the writer: illness, financial woes, political fallout,…
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Devourer of Words 019: Judge and Jury
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 019: Judge and Jury I have been going to comic book stores for about as long as I can remember. Good ones, bad ones, ones that smelled of Cheetos and sweat and others that were wall-to-wall with long boxes and pewter figurines. I had never really given…
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Devourer of Words 018: They Just Said No
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 018: They Just Said No If you’re a writer who doesn’t publish her or his own work—and your last name won’t guarantee sales in the hundreds of thousands—there is a very good chance that, at some point, your ideas will fall of deaf ears. Rejection is a…
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Devourer of Words 017: A Non-Compete Agreement
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 017: A Non-Compete Agreement As one can readily tell, walking the halls of any moderate-sized convention, or reading Twitter, or looking at any one of a hundred websites devoted to covering comics, there are a lot of people trying to make a living writing comics. Some are…
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Devourer of Words 016: Revisionary Thinking
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 016: Revisionary Thinking It is going to happen and it is going to happen often. Fighting it won’t make it go away, it will only make things worse, especially if you’re doing work-for-hire comics. You will get notes on a script from your editor. How you deal…