Hi, welcome back. Make sure you catch part 1, if you haven't read it yet. Thanks to all for the feedback, I'm glad you found it useful (if you did). This part looks at the same thing, pacing, but from a different angle.
Story Pulse - alternating action and exposition

If you've got a story to tell, and you've done some general planning out of what happens, it could help to look at the scenes, events etc. in terms of action versus exposition. Action doesn't just mean fistfights and carchases. Just having two people sitting in a cafeteria talking can be action, if their discussion is a crucial turning point in the story. Exposition to a lot of people is kind of a dirty word, but almost all stories need to have at least some of it. There will be moments where you have to explain something, the nature of the demonic power, the childhood event that made your protagonist such a nice guy, maybe just a bit of motivation that's not clear from the events itself. The kind of exposition that tends to get people's hackles up is the kind that is narrated by the author without involving the characters in any way. That's not the only way to do exposition, and in my experience, it's rare in comics.

It's been a big week for Crimson Dark.

Monday saw the end of Chapter 1, Tuesday heralded the new website, Wednesday celebrated the 50th strip by showing how the design of 'Niobe' came about and Friday's Title Page for Chapter 2 came with an announcement: Crimson Dark is coming to print.

The Gigcast has a fun interview with John Daiker of The Whovian Observer. You may remember John from his comic Cinderblock.

We also have webcomic news and talk about Drunkduck 2.0 with special guest Chuck Rowles, plus Kreg Stepp stops by.

Starting today at GAAK:Â when it comes to convincing skeptical small town suburbanites of the existence of aliens from outer space - a talking dog with a human head will work like a charm every time. Trust me on that one!

They said we'd never be able to keep it up! Well, actually, it was me who said we'd never be able to keep it up but, determined as ever to prove myself wrong, today BVC posts another page of its ongoing, re-dubbed spoof of "Shades", Lighten Up!.

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