Monday, February 18, 2008
NEW @ SCRYPTIC STUDIOS: Shortest. Column. Ever.
This week in Running Up That Hill, Elton Pruitt comes clean on why you should stop listening to him and start trusting your own instincts.

Sound like a farewell column? It's not.

But it is the Shortest. Column. Ever.

And it's only available at Scryptic Studios, the #1 site for aspiring comic book writers!

Running Up That Hill | Scryptic Studios
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 Sunday, February 10, 2008
NEW @ SCRYPTIC STUDIOS: Agony, Ecstasy, Deadlines & Super-Heroines!
This week at Scryptic Studios (the #1 site for aspiring comic book writers):

Making Good
We've all faced them before and most of us will face them again. Some of us love them, some of us hate them, and some of us are eternally torn. But one thing's for certain: anyone planning on being a writer (especially a comics writer) is going to face a career full of them.

They're DEADLINES. As in, "Cross this line and you're dead."

Discover "The Agony and Ecstasy of Deadlines" in this all-new, all-different installment of Caleb Monroe's Making Good!

Running Up That Hill
Are you one of the 5,000+ people who entered the Shadowline Who Wants to Create a Super-Heroine Contest and didn't make the Top 10?

Elton Pruitt (aka the Ecto) is, and he's here with the perfect cure for what ails you: a completely sincere little pep talk.

Delight in his failure to crack the Top 10 – and hopefully even get a little inspired yourself – by reading “Shiny Happy Column,” this week in Running Up That Hill.
Running Up That Hill | Scryptic Studios
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 Friday, February 01, 2008
NEW @ SCRYPTIC STUDIOS: The Courtship of an Artist
Artists: without them, we’re merely delusional dreamers.

If you want to write comic books, you’ve got to find artists to bring your words to visual life. But where do you find them? And how?

Learn all the Ecto has learned – and hopefully a lot more – in “The Courtship of an Artist,” this week in Running Up That Hill.

Brought to you by Scryptic Studios, the #1 site for aspiring comic book writers !

Running Up That Hill | Scryptic Studios
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 Thursday, January 24, 2008
NEW @ SCRYPTIC STUDIOS: Defeating Blank Pages, part 1

Our primary goal as writers is to defeat that mythological, multi-headed beast: the dreaded blank page. This week in Running Up That Hill, Elton Pruitt (aka the Ecto, aka recent accomplisher of the fabled NEGATIVE BURN Hat Trick) shares a couple of tips and stategies that work for him.

Read Defeating Blank Pages, part 1: Outflank Your Enemy today!

Brought to you by Scryptic Studios, the #1 site for aspiring comic book writers.

Running Up That Hill | Scryptic Studios
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 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
First Look at Quentin and Amy
Mario sent me this today for "By the Southern Grace of God."



Nice!

Projects | By the Southern Grace of God
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 Monday, January 21, 2008
Fantabulous Weekend Fun
Saturday night: bridge with the Robertsons for the first time in months. How I wish we could play bridge every weekend or at least more than once every few months. Anyway, Shawn and I lost (keeping our perfect record intact) to the wives, but a good time was had by all. And our newly established quota of one bottle of bubbly per person worked out swimmingly!

Sunday day: spent the early part of the day hanging with my son. Which is always fun, but today was especially so. The highlight for me was holding hands with him, dancing to Pink (and hoping he wouldn't notice and/or repeat and/or be scarred for life by her occasional F-Bombs) for like 15 minutes straight!

What's Going On
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 Thursday, January 17, 2008
What's Going On
Just heard tonight from another one-time Scryptic Studios columnist who wants to come in from the cold. So my efforts to revive and rejuvenate that site appear to be paying off.

And speaking of former Scryptic Studios columnists, Elizabeth Genco today suggested we be each other's Accountability Partners: someone you know you're gonna hear from every week, finding out what you've done that week and what you're planning to do next week.

That's a good, good thing right there.

Thanks, Elizabeth.

What's Going On | Scryptic Studios
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 Tuesday, January 15, 2008
NEW @ SCRYPTIC STUDIOS: Shadowline Super-Heroine Contest Ultimate FAQ
Is Elton Pruitt, aka the Ecto, aka recent accomplisher of the fabled NEGATIVE BURN Hat Trick:

A. An idiot with way too much time on his hands?

B. So confident in his own pitches that he welcomes all competition? Or perhaps...

C. A straight-up guy who actually wants to do something constructive and helpful for the aspiring writers out there who may come across the contest late in the game?

You decide -- but only after reading The Shadowline Who Wants to Create a Super-Heroine Contest Ultimate FAQ!

 Brought to you by Scryptic Studios, the #1 site for aspiring comic book writers!

Running Up That Hill
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