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Suddenly a White Rabbit appears! Roll initiative.If you have seen the blunt end of my editing stick, you probably know that I have made it my mission to eradicate one word from writers' vocabularies: suddenly.
The word "suddenly" has little reason to exist. Adverbs are often bad enough, but suddenly holds a very special kind of useless. Most people use the word as a way to create urgency (e.g., "I was turning a bloody pentagram into a black guitar. Suddenly the guitar turned to Draco!"), but does it really work that way?
Let me give an example: "Suddenly, his beloved wife shot him in the face" can just as easily be, "His beloved wife shot him in the face." Which sentence shows more urgency? Which one is more shocking? Both sentences show that the man's trusted spouse put a bullet in his nose, so there really isn't any difference. Except for that word... so what does it do for the sentence? Nothing. It just adds an unnecessary word to the sentence and that's all.
But then I began to wonder whether there wasn't one instance in which th

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I screen captured my blog entry on building your own mini comic. This blog entry was written to get a fire underneath people, and encourage them to make their own printed comics that look professional. So many people think it's an unattainable goal, but really it's fairly simple, and inexpensive.

If you'd like me to explain other details not covers, to expand on covered topics, let me know!

~mango-blue Nov 4, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

do you have a link you could post for that template? it would really help, but i can't find a link for the template or your blog anywhere D:

*JesseAcosta Nov 5, 2012 Professional General Artist

[link] just click the template, and it will load a larger file that you can save and load into Photoshop or whatever program use prefer to use.

~mango-blue Nov 5, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

excellent, thank you!

~mango-blue Nov 4, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

nevermind... and apparently i can't delete this comment.. sorry for the trouble

~Ellescomics Jun 6, 2012

This is really helpful! Thank you

*JesseAcosta Jun 6, 2012 Professional General Artist

Im glad it's helping!

~KCarey May 21, 2012 Professional Artisan Crafter

Not at all places, but at some... If you have the pages set up properly, you could also get them saddle stiched while being printed at UPS Stores or Kinko's. The right shop doesn't charge, if you already have it set up to be printed. [Some stores up charge on something the copier does automatically.]

*JesseAcosta May 21, 2012 Professional General Artist

I tried the UPS store the other day since Staples had their computer down. UPS charges you to stick your usb in their computer to retrieve files. I told them that is called prostitution. I paid for $1.50 in prints, and had to pay a $1.50 usb transfer fee. I don't think I'll hit them up anymore for printing services.

~KCarey May 21, 2012 Professional Artisan Crafter

Depends on which one you go to, they're owned by different people. My dad dislikes charging to look at the customer, and he manages the one up on 57th and Regal.

~piotrov May 21, 2012 Professional General Artist

Very true. I got my latest mini-sized books done at Garland Printing and assembling and stapling them all was included in the (still very low) price. I was expecting to have to do it myself, but it was part of the printing process, and ended up saving me a lot of time.

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