Lauren & Linda's Blog MP7: Writing a graphic novel

I have researched into the process of writing a graphic novel. I have searched through various websites, blogs and articles for tips, guidelines and suggestions for writing a graphic novel.

I have looked at examples of graphic novel and there scripts.

http://www.squeetus.com/stage/rap_script.html

I have also researched other interactive/animation digital graphic novels online here are some examples of what I found..

http://sarahzero.com/sz_0196.html

Sara zero is a web based digital graphic novel. The novel starts at the beginning for first time readers and they can navigate pages via left and right arrows. Or click on home for more info and links to the pages and choose from there.

There are some interactive features where the reader can choose different paths in the story.

The novel is very arty, it uses a mixture of some hand drawn graphics and photo realistic graphics. The text of the graphic novel is cleverly incorporated into the graphics, with little reading as the pictures tell the story.

http://www.amctv.com/the-prisoner-graphic-novel/

The prisoner is another online graphic novel. This one is more animated, with nice page/panel transitions, timed appearance of text, sound effects and animated/moving graphics.

http://www.americasarmy.com/graphicnovel/reader/

A more plain online graphic novel, more like an originally printed graphic novel displayed online with page transitions.

http://www.wormworldsaga.com/chapters/chapter01/EN/Index.php

worm world saga is a online graphic novel but not with one or two pages and then a transition, the novel is centered and spans down the webpage. The page only changes when moving on to the next chapter. The artwork is beautiful and the story is engaging.