Who else got their rejection letters today?

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>OP was the only who got rejected

>>85897760
What did you apply for?

Show us what you got, OP. Some of us would be interested in reading it.

>>85900539
Its write there in the text.

Basically DC had open applications for writers and artists

>>85897760
Good on you for trying, hope you have more success in future. Don't give up!

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>tfw you can't write
>tfw you can't draw

I thought one of the requirements was having already published work. So what have you written before, OP?

I bet Wil Wheaton got in before you

>>85897760
DC's development workshop required writers with pre-published work. Have you had any published work before?

>>85901364
>>tfw you can't write

anyone can write, just make a list of things that you like in stories, find out why you like them, then learn about writting structure and all that shit and then just try to write a story that you think you would like while also not making the whole thing wankfest

>>85901689
I just reread the thing and it doesn't say published work is required, but that you may include up to two published samples. You still need to submit your resume though and if you don't have at least one published thing on there I highly doubt they'd bother reading the rest of the application.

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>>85901364
>tfw you can write
>tfw you can't draw
I've got stories upon stories with no real way to put them out there.

>>85901319
>write there in the text.
No wonder you got rejected.

>>85901426
Not OP but their "published" qualification was pretty weak. Basically posting on your own blog counted.

>>85901988
They won't hire some shmuck who's never worked in the publishing industry though.

>>85902020
Yeah but he asked as if it had to be something known to even submit. Or at least that's how I read it.

Based on the first spotlight on the new creators it definitely seems like they mostly skew with already famous people:

NEW TALENT SHOWCASE #1
Written by VITA AYALA, EMMA BEEBY, JOELLE JONES, HENA KHAN, MICHAL MCMILLIAN, MICHAEL MORECI, ERICA SCHULTZ, CHRIS SEBELA and ADAM SMITH
Art by BARNABY BAGENDA, JUAN FERREYRA, SONNY LIEW, DAVID MESSINA, KHARY RANDOLPH and more

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I had a letter of recommendation from a person who's worked on DC books for decades, and I still got rejected. Bummer. I wish it hadn't been a form letter so I could know what to do better next time.

... well, only he who does not try is exempt from failure. Back to work on the webcomic and stuff. Good luck out there, anons!

>>85902096
I don't know who any of those people are. Except for Randolph I guess.

>>85902096
The thing hasn't even happened yet, I don't think those are people who were accepted.

>>85901938
I'm halfway decent at art and I can't write worth a shit so I'm stuck worrying about putting stories together and never actually finish anything and I want to kill myself for being a shit failure so iktf

>>85902020
How do you think new people get a start in the industry?

>>85902129
Not even Bagenda, Ferreyra, and Liew?

>>85902176
>How do you think new people get a start in the industry?

Nepotism and cronyism.

>>85902282
...ya got me.

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>>85902101
Glad to know you're still goin! Good luck my friend!

>>85902282
But this anon >>85902101 should've gotten in based on those criteria

>>85902148
earlier wave, the solicit says they're graduates

>>85901949

In the text of *the image*, dumb fuck, learn to fucking read before you try insulting someone and looking like a bigger idiot.

>>85902339
"A letter of recommendation from a person who's worked on DC books for decades" could refer to the guy who presses print for all we know.

If it were truly a big name trying to get anon a job, they would bypass this application bullshit altogether.

>>85902339
The thing is, if there's even one schlub in the industry who has more of an "in" than Anon, that's out of his control.

>>85902101
Ah, care to shill your webcomic and tell us who that person is?

/co/ finally had a chance to make comics that weren't "trash"

>>85897760

I didn't know about it until it was already too late. Or else I would of gone balls to the wall and probably killed myself today after being rejected.

Sorry you got rejected OP. It's the worst feeling on earth and we're expected to feel it all the time.

>>85902468
Yeesh man, it's just a workshop. You've gotta learn to take a littlerejection.

>>85902176
By getting in 20-30 years ago before everyone and their brother had a shitty webcomic or story blog or >>85902282

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>>85902413
oh my god this guy.

>>85901780
>anyone can write
yeah anyone can sing twinkle twinkle little star too. there's more to real writing than "lol things happen."

>wanting to get into DC
>not wanting to get into Image with Creators for Creators

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>>85902431
Won't tell you the person, that's their business. But I will plug the webcomic.

cassiopeiaquinn.com

>>85902810
Why would you want to work for a company that constantly delays shit?

>>85901364
There's an episode of Ren and Stimpy which makes fun of this very thing

>>85902810
Maybe they should advertise whatever the hell that thing you said is.

>>85901364
That's how you become a producer.

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>>85902413

>>85902810
>falling for the Image meme

you basically can't make money there unless you already have fans from a big 2 run

>>85902817
Hot damn

>>85902872
But you get a big 2 run by releasing indie comics... right?

>>85902817
>Won't tell you the person, that's their business

So you made it up?

>>85902885
No, you have to know someone

>>85902885
:^)

>>85902892
You can't imagine how that might be embarrassing for a pro? To have it out there that a letter of recommendation they wrote didn't carry enough weight to get someone into a program run by the company they work for?

>>85902885
by having a webcomic that reaches widespread meme status.

>>85902955
You realise that this is an irrelevant thread on a Japanese image board, don't you?

All we're going to do is point out why whatever name you make up wasn't big enough.

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>>85901938
>lay myself to sleep at night
>listen to music, spend an hour and a half coming up with a story
>wake up
>the idea's gone
>rimse and repeat
It's like a Greek tragedy.

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>>85901364
>you can't write
>you can't draw
>you aren't even that creative
>any ideas you do come up with are incredibly derivative
I've just resigned myself to just enjoying things since I'll never create anything good

>>85903298
What about doing funny voices?

>>85902838
I don't think you understand how the adult world works, anon.

>>85902973
you could also shitpost a lot about comics on twitter and call one of the big two misogynists while shilling the other until one of them hires you

>>85903298
>have ideas for horror stories and imagery in your head that you personally find extremely unsettling and gorgeous
>realize that you will never be able to draw anywhere near as good as whatever you're imagining in your head
Oh how I wish I was Mike Mignola.

>>85903331
The best I can do is a poor Mickey Mouse imitation. Also, I've never been interested in voicework.

>>85903073
You're a moron if you don't think that some nerd in this thread wouldn't go all-out and email/tweet/etc the pro/the pro's friends/etc about it as soon as a name comes out

God some of you are so fucking retarded

>>85903298
>are incredibly derivative
Nigga, everything is derivative. Yet there are as many interpretations of something as there are people to see it. You know the path to creativity? Doing shit nobody's put together before.

Take your favorite genre, or plot. Now: what is a story element/direction you've always wanted to see from those stories, yet never gotten?

Write that. Write specifically to entertain you. If you enjoy derivative shit, then tons of people will enjoy your shit.

>>85903429
He's just a little naive, I don't blame him for asking.

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>>85901364

http://apophenia357.tumblr.com

>tfw so late that I'm only just now hearing about this
>tfw know that I would've ended up rejected anyway even though it's my dream job to work at DC as a writer
I hate myself.

>>85903466
I hate myself sometimes too, chief. But that's all the more reason to improve yourself. So you don't have to spend all your time with someone you hate.

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>Anyone on 4chan going big
>Even more as a writer

Just publish your own book instead.

>>85903485
I've been working on creating amateur comic books, maybe eventually getting something published on my own and then working my way up to working at DC and getting to do my dream projects, among other things.

But becoming a comic book writer, a well-known one even, just seems so ludicrously unlikely, to the extent that it's utterly impossible. Dreams only hurt you and crush you with disappointment when they don't happen in the end. Why hope and try to get my spirits up when I know it's not going to be something that will happen?

>>85903544
Honestly I think it's because we are so lazy that we spend so much time on this site instead of working.
When I wasn't browsing so often I was working harder.

>>85903553
All I'll say is that if you're doing this hoping to get rich and famous, you're in the wrong line of work.

Success in this field is measured in creating good work and finding artistic fulfillment. That's what you've gotta hope for. Plans, not dreams.

>>85903704
>All I'll say is that if you're doing this hoping to get rich and famous, you're in the wrong line of work.
It's not like it's all I've ever wanted. I've had stories in my head that I've been tossing around since I was in high school. It's something that I really want to do.

I mean, just because you want something doesn't mean you'll get it. I have to laugh at the narrative that says that if you really wanted something, it would be yours. Because that's not true. There's always going to be a loser. For anyone whose application DC actually accepts, there's going to be hundreds, if not thousands more that they'll reject. That's just the way the cookie crumbles and that's how it is anywhere you go. Some people just never 'win' is all.

>>85902096
>MICHAEL MORECI
Well, he's already done some Image stuff - https://imagecomics.com/creators/view/michael-moreci

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>>85902817

>no Batgirl by Psuedo

>>/r9k/

>>85902817
Don't you draw porn?

>>85905185
I only draw blacked porn of you're mum

>>85905263
You draw porn of him being a mum?

>>85905263
well that's why you didn't get accepted.

>>85902096
Book that exists to trigger me.

>>85901364
>you can write
>you can't draw, so you can't into comics
>you can't program, so you can't into video games
>you can't produce, so you can't into stage
>you can't get a writing gig for anything, so you can't into TV or movies

>>85897760
Im gonna be a writer or die trying. You dont have to work at dc first OP.

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>>85897760
>not turning the tables and writing a rejection letter to THEM instead
Weak.

Did nobody from here or Reddit get approved?

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>>85901364
>tfw you can draw but can't write for shit
>tfw your creative ideas are extremely rare occurrence in your life
>tfw destined to be some lower-paid schmuck bringing everyone else's ideas to life

>>85901364
>tfw you can write and draw well enough
>tfw you decide to waste all your time fapping
Please tell me I'm not the only one.

>>85901364
That's okay, half the people in the industry can't either.

>>85902817

Sorry to hear that, GW. Better luck next time.

>>85901364
I know that feel, which is exactly why I said fuck it and just started constantly drawing and working on improving these past few weeks. I have way too many ideas and things I want to see happen only for it to go to waste because I feel sorry for myself.

>>85906365
...
you're not

>>85906637
Yeah, nepotism and luck. I got neither.

>>85897760
I got mine, too! I have published work, but I couldn't secure a recommendation letter in time. Oh well. I suppose they had a ton of experienced applicants. I'm glad I tried, though, May try again.

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>>85901364
>tfw you can draw but you lack any creativity so it's just same shit different day
>tfw you can draw but have no will or desire to and it's become almost a phobia to do so

>>85902101
Yeah, generic rejection letters are rough.

ITT: People who can't draw but think they can write.
>muh writers
You're worthless and it's time the real world told you so. A mediocre drawer can gain 10 times as much followers as you with 1/10 of the effort.

>>85905659
Anyone who did may not have been finally selected yet. They will probably do rounds of cuts

>>85907396

Why would I care about followers? I just like writing.

>>85902892
Why would he even make it up?

What are the odds of DC doing something like this again?

>>85902778
True, writing is more than just stuff happens. but at the same time if you never even make an attempt, then you're worse than a failure. because atleast the person who failed made an attempt.

>>85907500
Writing only for yourself? Take your masturbation somewhere else, it's disgusting.

>>85907340
>>85906314
Guys creativity is not a innate talent, it's a skill you can learn and practice to get better. Look up some creativity excercices and tips, and actually sit the fuck down to do something. Start small, not every story you come up with has to be your ultimate epic, but actually finish it, even if it sucks, you'll be becoming better just by doing it. I'd say also try different genres and keep in mind what your target demo is, you'll be fine.

>>85903466
Better start preparing for next year!

Props for trying. Keep your chin up mate. And persevere.

>>85901364
>tfw you can write and can draw and it's pretty good but it's been 5 years since stopped and you have a panic attack the moment the pencil touches paper and you spent years thinking of this awsome story in your head slowly building this lore around it but you're such a coward that you rather leave it in your head because you're so used to the comfort of doing nothing but deep down you know it's eating you away

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>>85908018
it hurts /co/ all this wasted potential

>>85903638
I don't know dude. I never really bothered doing anything creative until i stumbled upon this shithole. All the fuckers on here made me want to write and draw.

>>85902861
This is what I want to be, I just can't find anyone gullible enough to work my shit

>>85903243
just get yourself a little note pad and a pencil. when something good pops up then write it down.

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>>85908018
>tfw you have a whole multiverse of characters but no real plot to move along and hands go full retard from lack of practice and you instinctively regress to "how to draw manga for dummies" mode

>>85903429
You're just exaggerating because you want to pretend that you got a letter of recommendation from Denny O'Neil instead of some nobody letterer.

>>85907527
To impress people on the internet.

>>85908406
Not the same person, wiseass.

>>85902778
why do you need to excuse not trying to better your writing?

>>85902817
Well that makes sense, the writing in CQ is pretty terrible.

>>85903544
There are pro writers and artists who lurk/post anonymously here.

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THEY MADE A MISTAKE

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>>85902101
I had a letter of rec from someone working on ASB and didn't get into the Artist's Workshop either. No biggie though, gotta keep making dem comics

The only person I know that did get in is someone that works in a very traditional house style so I'd guess that's what they were veering towards

>>85901364
That's what Marvel is for.

>>85909197
>>85909211
>>85909224
Ew.

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>>85901364
You don't either

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>>85903544

>Anyone on 4chan going big
>Even more as a writer

I sincerely from the bottom of my hear, hope and pray that never happens

heart*

>>85909926
>what is Four Leaf Studios

>>85909984

you mean Katawa Shoujo, cause four leaf """"""""""""""""""""""""""""studios"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" is nothing more than that

>>85910042
And?

>>85910109

that there's nobody going big on that situation

the "studio" part is merely nominal and the game is made by the collective efforts of anonymous people, nobody in particular is receiving credit for that dating sim

>>85910186
Stop fucking putting studio in quotation marks like a faggot, you're triggering me.

>>85910245

"studio"


faggot.

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Got rejected from the artist workshop as well. Wasn't that confident in the first place but it was good motivation bump to try it out. Hopefully they'll have it again.

>>85910315
Care to share famalam? Which characters you do?

>>85902416
And they'd get anon's work on fuck I don't know Dan DiDio's desk and it would be good, or as good as DC ever is, and they'd use anon.

Or

Anon would be so terrible that his friend would refuse to pass along anon's terrible work, because anon's friend doesn't want to fuck himself and have Dan DiDio or whoever stop taking him seriously.

I know the "everything is who you know" thing sounds like it must be the case - the writers you see "getting their start" haven't really just started, they've been around five, ten years getting published in shitter things, they've done competitions and placed first, they've blah blah whatever.

But it's simply not the case that most people get their jobs regardless of the quality of their work. You can't run a business that way. People have to want to buy what you're selling - that means you have to hire people who can write, who can hit deadlines, who can take criticism of their work and so on. Your buddy's buddy doesn't fill those criteria if he's really just looking to make some easy money.

Or to put it another way: DC Comics is part of DC Entertainment. DC Entertainment co-produces movies with Warner Bros. based on DC Comics characters. If nepotism and cronyism were all it took to get a writing gig, all DC movies would be written by DC writers, because the same figures are involved at all levels there. But what we're seeing is that in the majority of cases they're using people who've never written a comic book in their lives, because the studio doesn't want comic book writers - they want people who understand how to write for the screen, which is a different set of skills.

There may very well be a networking element to a lot of high-end jobs, but at that stage the candidate field is so small and the stakes so high that it's not really screwing anybody if they hire someone they know they can work with. The truth is, 99% of people who think they can write and enter these open sub things are just terrible.

>>85901364
>p. good at drawing
>have promising story in mind

There's literally nothing stopping me but I simply can't get started FUCK

I dunno if it means anything but I haven't been rejected yet. I honestly think that's more likely because something went wrong with the submission than I got in. But at this point, I'm just not sure.

>tfw used to draw and was creative
>age has made me closed minded and disgruntled
>creativity non-existant
>friend who never draws, draws an awsome idea and has followers
>i get nothing but heartache
>now suffer anxiety attacks if I ever try to draw


kill me senpai

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>>85906365

I am with you.

I have so much shit I want to do with my life but I always end up fapping and wasting my own time.

>>85911311
This so hard.

>>85911006
check your spam filter

>>85911269
anxiety is something you can overcome

not drawing is why you're not feeling creative

sit down and draw for yourself and expect to hate 90% of it, put it away when you're finished, come back in a week and look at it objectively

slow and steady

>>85911311
try sticking a pencil up your butt to motivate yourself

works for Frank Cho

>>85908018
This guy gets it. I feel like i'm rotting.

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>>85901364
>tfw you used to be oozing with ideas and creativity
>tfw you let yourself become jaded and cynical
>tfw you're lucky if you can muster the drive to scribble for an hour now.
>tfw you're turning 25 next week
Oh well..

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>mfw I got rejected from the artist's workshop
>mfw that's fine, I'll try again next time, and keep working on my shit in the meanwhile

Gotta fail a LOT before you can succeed y'all.

>>85902413
Don't know if bait, but god, I'm glad we're not going to get anything written by you.

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>>85901364
It's the Artist's Gap, man. Just like when we were little kids learning to walk, we all start out sucking dick at it. You've gotta practice, which is why 99% of people sit around complaining about not being able to do either instead. Your stuff sucks at first, and it's really discouraging, but the more you do it, the better and better it starts to look.

I was FUCKING HOPELESS until I found drawabox.com! I still suck, but not as much!

I just wanna get good so I can draw porn of my favorite characters

>>85912328
Fuck off Cucka

>>85912740
L O O M I S
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>>85903243
>not writing it down or recording it on your phone
If you reply to this with a bunch of excuses, it'll make me even sadder. It all comes down to pushing yourself to do something in the moment, in the present. Start doing it even if you hate it, and those habits will build up.

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>>85905470

>>85902523

I've already had over my fair share of rejection, it's just too much to have it happen anymore. My strength is gone enduring the other 28 years of rejection.

>>85897760
Keep your head up OP plenty of opportunity for good writers these days.

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>>85902413

>>85902867

>I'm a moron who doesn't know how to read.

>>85902778

>I too, am a moron who doesn't know how to read.

>>85912820

>Oh look, another moron on 4chan that can't fucking read.

According to these three morons there is no text in the image OP posted. I guess being unable to fucking read they can't identify those symbols in that picture as letters or words. Huh. Every day, 4chan gets dumber.

>>85913419
Your being way too obvious witb your shitposting. It is all about subtlety.

>>85902176
First you need to make comics to show that you can make comics. Not pinups or even samples but actual finished comics.

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>>85901364
>tfw you can do both but you're too lazy to do anything
I've tried and I'll have ideas that I'm pleased with and people think are cool and I'll even make character sheets but then I just start playing video games or watch movies rip me

>>85910974
It's cliche but you just have to do it. Yes it will suck at the start, but you'll never get good if you don't do it through the suck.

>>85913521
Financial motivation helps, do you take commissions or anything?

>>85913839
Not even that, unfortunately. My friends keep telling me that I should because I don't have much money but I'm too lazy. The sad part is, I used to make graphic design projects for free and my film professor told me I was too good for that and I needed to stop. I guess this is just natural selection doing its job.

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>>85910824
Sure thing.

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>>85914543

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>>85914543
>>85914558

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>>85914543
>>85914558
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>>85914543
>>85914558
>>85914584
>>85914593
Now this last one isn't so much DC but I run out of time and picked something I did before. I have to prepare and get lot better in the future.

Yeah, I entered and failed too...but I submitted my original published works, not my fan fics. I just hope the new teams are better than Tynion.

Here's an old fanfic for Batman: Tim Drake is the main character.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9242548/1/And-the-Two-Brains-Meet

>>85914593
Doomsdays face in this looks a little wonky but the Dragon/Hydra/Whatever in >>85914617 looks great.

>>85912328
Trust me I've scoured my emails and filters

>>85914839
Thanks, I'm more comfy with drawing humans but lately I've been getting more into monster stuff as well. Next time I'll be sure to nail Doomsday as well.

This just gives everyone another year to prepare. you can totally have a few 8 pagers. maybe some longer ones

>>85901364
I can write but I'd rather be able to draw. I always feel like Writing is the whore of the artistic world

>>85914082
Post some of your work.

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>>85897760
ive been waiting all day for the Rejection email
did i get in?

>>85915033
Your gay

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>>85901364
>Tfw can write relatively well.
>Tfw my artist I commissioned for my first attempt at submitting a comic isn't going as fast as I want but he's a friend and I have the nagging feeling I'm being unreasonable.
I just want to go work at a major publisher so I can try and fix things. I'm sick of watching things I love do shit I hate and not trying to do something about it.

>>85915727
Same boat, I'm kinda hovering over my email now. I'd rather just know I wasn't picked rather than something getting lost in the mail

Wish I'd known about this. I'm a halfway decent inker.

>>85901938

Become really good friends with an artist or make loads of money so that you can hire one to put your ideas into a visual medium.

Alternatively forget comics and just publish fiction

>>85917535
>>85915727
I don't want to rain on your parades, but it's IMO unlikely that 4-5 people from a single day on /co/ would all be accepted into this program.

More likely, they're going through stages until they get to the final applicants for the actual course. So you probably made it past stage 1.

http://imgur.com/a/7VaNC

>>85912558
As a 26 year old, it doesn't get any easier with time passing. A lot of the problems ITT come down to motivation.

>>85918023
Ashcan Press really working on their shill power there.

>>85917970
>I don't want to rain on your parades
And I'm no racist-

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>>85913481
I make halfway decent comics when I get paid for them. I have a few in my portfolio. I just have a fuck of a hard time making them as personal work, which I know is the stuff that matters in the big picture.

>>85918252
I didn't enter the contest, anon. See bitterness if you want to see it.

>>85918317
Nah, I'm just fuckimg around- I don't want to rain on your parade is always followed by rain. It always makes me laugh.

>>85917970
i just need a confirmation so i can stop thinking "what if I DID get in?"

itll just end in sadness

>>85917970
That's pretty plausible. There's also some pretty talented artists around here too. But without knowing how picking candidates goes, whether or not it's done in stages, is just adding to the different possibilities.

I'm still banking on "lost in the mail."

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>>85901364
>love to draw
>suck at it
>want to make cool art people will enjoy
>keep trying
>it's still shit

Sometimes I wonder if I'm just wasting my time.

Have you guys tried not making comics?

>>85915727
>>85917535
I hope I don't sound like a fucking idiot, but where did you guys apply? DC's website? I would like to know for next year.

From now on, anyone who attacks DC will be accused of being a rejected loser.

>>85918706
https://www.dccomicstalentworkshop.com/writers-workshop/

>>85918706
https://www.dccomicstalentworkshop.com/

>>85918252

Look Im no racist, i have a black friend, but...

>>85918550
You're not. It just takes a long, long time, man or grill. So long that by the time stuff starts to click you don't really having any feeling of a connection between all that practice you've done and the improvement on the page.

>>85901364
>be in school
>"I'd love to be in the comic industry"
>kinda busy with school
>"Tomorrow I'll start learning how to draw"
I'm 31 now and on a job I hate and consumes all my time/energy, is not too late for you who is reading this, if you wanna start learning how to draw, start NOW.

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>>85901364
>Tfw can draw for good
>Tfw start writing just becuase
>Turns out I'm good
>Share some of what I write to my friends
>They like it even though I think is shit
>Decide to start writing something for my OC's
>Decide to check over how I am going
>Fuck! it's mostly shit. Feels like a fanfic on steroids about my fucking life
>Start to read again in general
>Turns out I'm still good
>Restructure a lot of things so my stories aren't so shitty now, yet I am still having the problem of the same main characters being mostly assholes or fucked up somehow
>Get a lot of interesting stuff but most of my stories have a lot of plotholes
>Get stuck so I'm unable to think or draw anything new because I feel done and I haven't done fucking nothing
I am 22, nearly half the point of sutfy on College and yet haven't done anything I dreamed would've achieved at this point in my life.
The only thing I have achieved in my life were two poems I wrote were published on some college book. And I cannot feel happy about it because I almost have no friends because I am a fucking asshole so a lot of people isn't so close anymore and those who I ended in good terms ar on other careers or I am just to pussyfied to actually talk to them.
Go ahead anons, tell me to drink bleach, I deserve it.

Huh, I might try this next year. What sucks for me is that people tell me that Im a decent writer yet I always hate my work. That and after college I've lost all enthusiasm to write creatively. How do I get my mojo back anons?

>>85919549
It's not too late for you either.

So they will throw out any submissions using their characters?

>>85921152
Well, I had a brief period of creavity because
1) I started to read or get interested on new things for me like Pre Vertigo/first years of Vertigo stories (Sandman's Dream Theater and Milligan's Shade) and a lot from Morrison, but in general, to read a lot again and
2) Choose to live a happy life, to be a better person so I feel better about myself and my life in general, wich worked fine for almost half year.

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Hey, if shit like THIS can get published, who says your own shit can't?

>>85920924
Honestly, considering the entire industry is 30 and over in age, just keep going and you'll do great.

>>85921152
1 page a day every day.

>>85920924
You sound, honestly, like an unpleasant person. But you're still very young.

>>85921394
I am. I used to be an extremist and to overreact. Now I'm just cynical.

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>tfw too disgusted with your own work to ever finish it

ITT: Self-pity

You people are pathetic.

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>Tfw wanna make cartoons and can write but cant draw


what do i do

>>85921855
Hire someone who can draw and get financial support.

>>85921721
It's a writer thread. Not even /co/ respects them. What did you expect?

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>>85921658
i had this issue making a short film screenplay for my first movie writing class and just butchered it and turned it from something serious to just absolute fucking madness and i barely wrote it correctly
I was high when I wrote it and handed it in so im pretty sure that's why I went from an A to a B

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>>85902413

>>85921872
thanks

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>>85902413
Oh god my sides, you really are stupid, huh?

>>85921721
There is NOTHING wrong with a bit of self-pitying. In complete honesty.

>>85922218
A bit?? You call that a BIT??

People here are acting like the fucking world just ended, it's astonishingly pitiful.

>>85921658
FUCK same here.

I almost just want to barrel through and finish something, even if it's going to be complete shit. I mean, I'm probably going to hate my work a year or two from now anyway, might as well complete a project now, even if it's going to come out like shit, right?

>>85903298
Sounds like you would be perfect for rebooting a cherished franchise of a few decades ago. Maybe Powerpuff Girls remake remake would be a good idea.

>>85921993
>>85922278
hearing others in the same boat is acutally motivating
lets see if i can get something done tonight pray for me bros

>>85923244
Open your notebook or program of choice RIGHT NOW and draw or write something RIGHT NOW! GO, ANON! DO IT! DO IT, YOU FOOL!

>>85923293
thank you fampai

If Bendis and Henderson can make it into mainstream comics, so can you.

>>85907167
Make some damn friends anon

>>85913419
I don't think you understand how to bait...
But I'll bite, the problem isn't that I can't read, it's that I can read.

But I mean... If you right as bad as you reed your probably really stoopid. And if it's all bait, that's real sad, and I just want you to know, you made me laugh... at you, like a douche laughs at a retard kinda way.

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>sent pic related to Marvel
>now an artist on Hellcat
Living the dream, boys

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>>85913419
Hahah, this guy
can't tell if trolling or just retarded


probably both

>>85926403
Watch out, he might "correct " you're riting grammar.

>>85926403
>>85926516

Are there words in that picture OP posted, yes or no?

Of course you want answer because this is how trolling on this shit board works now. None of you dumb fucks answer basic questions to prove you're not just shitposting.

You completely lose track of what the original argument was even about, because you ignore it on purpose just you can keep spamming "autist, retard, bait, LOLOLOL"

It's fucking stupid.

>But I mean... If you right as bad as you reed your probably really stoopid.

Soooo... am I supposed to correct these mistakes or what? I don't get the newfags form of trolling.

Yep, got mine. Didn't really think I'd make it in anyway. Still, was fun putting it all together.

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>>85927069
it just went over your head...completely

>>85927069
Anon, you can't be this dense...

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>>85912863
>That spoiler

I remember wanting to learn drawing just because there are multiple anons out there who want something done but never get it. I wanna be their hero, And draw all the porn they could ever want.

This thread is a rollercoaster, it's great, thanks.

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>>85908018
>>85908275
>>85911311

>tfw you can write and can draw and it's pretty good but it's been 5 years since stopped and you have a panic attack the moment the pencil touches paper and you spent years thinking of this awsome story in your head slowly building this lore around it but you're such a coward that you rather leave it in your head because you're so used to the comfort of doing nothing but deep down you know it's eating you away

Fuck man, literally me too. I have a cartoon in my head that's so huge, so detailed, and probably hilarious and yet I continue to sit around, eat like a land whale, and fap. End my cycle of suffering /co/.

>>85927069
>>85901319
They're laughing at your spelling mistake. It's 'right' not 'write.'

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>>85929589

>Your

That's not ME though.

Oh no, that other anon made a typo. It still doesn't change the fact that their text in that fucking post.

>>85927411
>>85927697

It's a "/co/ doesn't explain something but acts all smug like it gets something you don't even though it won't just say what the fuck it is and is doing this little shit act just to shit post" episode.

We have this episode every day.

Looks like I'm not even the person you guys even think you're replying too. Who's dense now? Who still insists there are no words in OPs fucking picture?

>>85930283
He mad and the Masters of the Universe

>>85926488
fake, it's not cutesy and bland enough

>>85901364

Neither can Rob Liefeld, but he didn't let it stop him.

>>85897760
Yeah, I got rejected from four jobs I applied to. All on the same day.

>>85907340
That is an ugly, UGLY baby.

Jesus Christ that kid's gonna grow up to be the fugliest motherfucker alive.

>>85930283
Anon, it's already been explained. We're making fun of that guy because he complained about being rejected for writing, and can't tell the difference between "write" and "right". That's all we're laughing about, good lord, man.

>>85930283
"It's write there in the text" is improper. Anon should have wrote "it's right there in the text". Were he a good writer he would know the difference. Also, I assume you mean "that *there's* text in that fucking post".

>>85903298
>>you can't write
>>you can't draw
>>you aren't even that creative
>>any ideas you do come up with are incredibly derivative
Go eat some cereal, Geoff.

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Just start and make something
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
That's what I'm doing and I think I'm making pretty OK progress

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>>85905385
>You have ideas for literally everything from vidya to comics to shows to books
>You can't decide which one is worth the investment of time
>So you do none of them

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>>85932286
Nah it's pretty shit, give up.

>>85901780
If you want to write, chances are you can. You've just gotta work at it and accept you're gonna be at it for a long time.

Seeing these threads always make me feel down.
I've been stuck in editor mode for too long helping other writers, it's been so long since I put in actual time/effort into my own writing. And now classes just started up again, so I have even less time.

Are there any other upcoming publisher submission contests out there?

>>85930283
>It's a "/co/ doesn't explain something but acts all smug like it gets something you don't even though it won't just say what the fuck it is and is doing this little shit act just to shit post" episode.
Lmao
He told you and you acted like a little bitch.
You deserve to be made fun of. A writer you are not.

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>>85901364
>tfw can't draw rule 34 of my fetishes
>remember I'm a professional writer
>start writing fapfic

We're gonna make it. Just apply your talents as you can.

did anyone who applied that "did not" get a message yesterday, get one today?

>>85907768

I suppose every hobby is a form of masturbation if you look at it from certain angles.