Writing Supplies
The processes of drafting, revising, and outlining can all best be carried out in this colloquial condition marked by an absence of sound
What is quiet?
The flagship title released by Glasgow Comics, Cartoon Cavalcade was inspired by this long-running franchise featuring characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
What is Looney Tunes?
The play's the thing! One of Francis' first largescale projects was a complete rewrite of this famous Shakespearian tragedy about doomed lovers born to feuding royal families
What is Romeo & Juliet?
One of these items that matches pictures of characters to their descriptions was Francis' first key to unlocking his imagination, drawing him to think up stories with characters from Batman to Indiana Jones
What is a sticker book?
Because outlines capture granular details about how characters advance the plot, they're instrumental in helping authors implement this literary device which suggests or warns about events to come
What is foreshadowing?
Though BIC also manufactures butane lighters, single-blade razors, and semi-permanent tattoos, it's most well known for these writing implements that come in red, black, and blue
What are pens?
The Walking Dead inspired this comic book series of Francis' which sees a ragtag group of survivors fighting Crieps, zombie-like creatures who can evolve to be more difficult to kill
What is Grim Prospects?
A persistent stumbling block in finishing creative projects is the lack of this, a period when one does not have to worry about work or other obligations
What is free time?
Writing classes Francis has taken at Susquehanna have given him new inspiration for creative pieces and strengthened his understanding of the craft. The most helpful were Intro to Fiction and Intermediate Fiction, taught by this duo of married professors.
Who are Catherine Zobal Dent and Silas Dent Zobal?
When faced with this condition, which afflicted authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, and Joseph Conrad, Francis handwrites his stories in copybooks or on loose paper for retyping at a later date
What is writer's block?
Truly uninhibited creativity often results from a deep feeling of relaxation. Want to create a relaxing environment in your own home? Look no further than this indoor fixture, first patented in 1767 by William Feetham
What is a shower?
This ten-book series chronicling the adventures of for-hire superheroes like Lux, Heartthrob, and the Farthing Five, was the focus of Francis' personal statement that got him admitted to Susquehanna University
What is The Amateurs?
In his last semester of high school, Francis participated in an independent study that refined his skills in this longer literary form, which boasts connections to such diverse traditions as Greco-Roman writing and Medieval chivalric romance
What is the novel?
Francis' first forays into the world of writing can be classified as this genre, a creative work meant to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject using a blend of satire and irony
What is parody?
What is fate?
The best stories use something unusual about the world or human behavior. This two word question is an instrumental tool in getting past that starting point and molding it into a well-formed speculative world.
What is "what if?"
Sterling Beauregard, Jack Faustus, and Constance Mourning are three characters in this Rogai novel, which sends up stereotyped detectives by borrowing the setup of And Then There Were None.
What is Who Did It?
Though Francis first got into writing through creating his own comic book series, he realized that he might be better off switching to prose when these individual frames began to be filled with dialogue alone rather than characters or scenery
What are panels?
Some of Francis' early prose ventures--such as an alteration of The Masque of the Red Death and a Greek myth uniting some of antiquity's more obscure characters--came from these in-class "records" designed to track student engagement with a text
What are reading logs?
Francis writes his highest quality work after this time of day, when businesses typically break for lunch
What is noon?
Looking for the "write" choice of word processor? You can't go wrong with this cloud-based service originally developed for Upstartle by programmers Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter
What is Google Docs?
Darien Tomas, Galvin Martrom, and the widow Mouen--the main characters of Francis' first short story--all reside in this fictitious, vampire-plagued country based on pre-Revolution France
Where is Elyse?
While in high school, Francis submitted his earliest short stories to this literary magazine, which collects works of poetry, fiction, and visual art made by Malvern Prep students
What is Impressions?
Francis might never have started writing prose if it weren't for his great-uncle Donald Walheim, who worked with him to create collaborative serial narratives in letters written under this "fowl" pen name
What is Ducky Day?
Francis' revision process centers on a complete retyping of the piece which corrects grammatical errors missed in earlier drafts and issues with this, the primary tool through which a narrator delivers their perspective on a story
What is the voice?