I'm in the process of writing a wordless graphic novel using Shaun Tan's The Arrival as my role-model example. Its a beautiful narrative that tells a sophisticated and complex story without any words, just pictures.

Is anybody into wordless narratives?

I'm having trouble with my dummy and manuscript. I've watched a bunch of tutorials that all say you've got to get your dialogue shaped and shiny before you do any drawing. Well the problem is I dont have any dialogue so how do I go about that?

So far I've made some dummy pages with very basic sketches and notes like " this page: corridor. He opens the door, goes inside the room" etc. Is this how to do it? Is there another/better way? Should I write up the manuscript in the same way?

I'm nearly through Ann Whitford Paul's course on writing picture books and I've learned a lot of great and useful things there but that didnt help with my wordless dummy problem as I'm not writing a childrens book

If anyone can suggest any tips for the process or even other examples of wordless narratives to look at it would help me a lot!

Ok thank you all for clarifying this!

I'm in! How to sign up for this?

Question is: if you re-write part of a well known fairytale such as little Red Riding Hood or any other popular fairytale or borrow and slighly change a character, clearly referring to the original tale, are there any copyright or other legal restictions about doing this? Can you play with it as you want? Does it fall into the same legal catogory with fan art?

I'm in the process of writing a wordless graphic novel using Shaun Tan's The Arrival as my role-model example. Its a beautiful narrative that tells a sophisticated and complex story without any words, just pictures.

Is anybody into wordless narratives?

I'm having trouble with my dummy and manuscript. I've watched a bunch of tutorials that all say you've got to get your dialogue shaped and shiny before you do any drawing. Well the problem is I dont have any dialogue so how do I go about that?

So far I've made some dummy pages with very basic sketches and notes like " this page: corridor. He opens the door, goes inside the room" etc. Is this how to do it? Is there another/better way? Should I write up the manuscript in the same way?

I'm nearly through Ann Whitford Paul's course on writing picture books and I've learned a lot of great and useful things there but that didnt help with my wordless dummy problem as I'm not writing a childrens book

If anyone can suggest any tips for the process or even other examples of wordless narratives to look at it would help me a lot!