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We Need To Stop Being Weird About Theme in Stories
What your story is really saying and why you need to stop saying it
Nov 5
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Alec Worley
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Telling a Superhero Story the DC Way
Choosing myth over Marvel in James Gunn's Superman (2025)
Jul 16
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Alec Worley
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How to Build a Haunted House
Constructing chills and building liminal beauty in House (2007), a wordless graphic novel by Josh Simmons
Apr 24
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Alec Worley
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What Hawk the Slayer Got Right
Defending a sword and sorcery kinda-classic
Oct 25, 2024
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Alec Worley
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The Crow: When Fantasy Manages Trauma
How the 1989 comic book by James O’Barr expressed real-life tragedy through gothic fantasy and what happened when it met the Hollywood machine
Sep 18, 2024
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Alec Worley
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A No-Mucking-About Beginner's Guide to Starting Out as a Writer
Mapping the labyrinth
Jun 14, 2024
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Alec Worley
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How We Built Black Beth
Resurrecting a British sword and sorcery heroine and what it takes to write a character 'well'
Nov 6, 2023
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Alec Worley
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My Future Shock Hell! (Chapter 4 of 4)
Why your best shot is all that will ever matter
Oct 13, 2023
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Alec Worley
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My Future Shock Hell! (Chapter 3 of 4)
Why on Earth do you want to write comic books?
Oct 6, 2023
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Alec Worley
18
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My Future Shock Hell! (Chapter 2 of 4)
How to survive the submissions process (whether that's comics, novels, shorts, or screenplays) by rejection-proofing your soul
Sep 29, 2023
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Alec Worley
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Beyond the Veil: Q&A with Man o' Ghosts
Multimedia ghost story creator Thom Burgess explains the techniques behind his latest horror project 'Mister Howl', as well as lessons learned piloting…
Sep 25, 2023
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Alec Worley
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My Future Shock Hell! (Chapter 1 of 4)
How I broke into comics and why there's no such thing
Sep 22, 2023
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Alec Worley
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