SCRIPTWRITING TEMPLATE

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ONE - This is the “Heading 1” STYLE

Panel 1: This is the “Normal” Style. Write out the world panel and boldface to differentiate between scene description and dialogue, thereby improving readability.

1. CHARACTER NAME:	This is the Comics Dialogue Style. Choose it from the drop down menu in the toolbar.

2. CHARACTER NAME:	Don’t forget, for emphasis, bold and italic words.

3. CHARACTER NAME:	Always number everything in the lettered area.

Panel 2: I try to only write one sentence per panel description. That’s an ideal, and I rarely hit it, but ideals are good things to have.

4. CHARACTER:	More than three lines of dialogue (meaning here in the script; I will in fact simply pad out this dialogue to get three lines -- there) is too much. This is the

Panel 3: Your script will be read by the editor, artists, and letterer. Everything is bent toward ease of use. That means, even if there’s no dialogue in a panel, to avoid confusion, in Comics Dialogue, write:

NO COPY

Panel 4: And try

TWO

Panel 1: And don’t bother with page numbers of the script. It’s just confusing. Stick with the page of the comic, above.

1. CHARACTER: