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TPG Week 125: A Lack of Research Is Easily Seen

| May 17, 2013
TPG Week 125: A Lack of Research Is Easily Seen

Welcome, one and all, to another installment of The Proving Grounds! This week, we have Brave One Dan Watters submitting his work, and we also have a new addition to the ComixTribe family: Samantha LeBas. Sam is learning the ropes of an editor, and this is a great place for it. Don’t worry about good [...]

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TPG Week 124: When Scary…Isn’t

| May 10, 2013
TPG Week 124: When Scary…Isn’t

Hello all, and welcome back to another installment of The Proving Grounds. This week, we have a new Brave One in Greg Matiasevich. But again, a little housekeeping first. We’re still needing your scripts. Currently, there are only two more scripts left in the queue, and then we run dry. We’re here for you, and [...]

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TPG Week 123: Dialogue Is Necessary To Keep Readers

| May 3, 2013
TPG Week 123: Dialogue Is Necessary To Keep Readers

Welcome, one and all, to another installment of The Proving Grounds!   Related Posts:Review: Doc Unknown #1B&N Week 126: Excuses? Not If You Can Help ItTPG Week 125: A Lack of Research Is Easily SeenReview: Sabotage! #1ComixTribe at MeCAF May 19

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TPG Week 122: Dialogue & Stereotypes

| April 26, 2013
TPG Week 122: Dialogue & Stereotypes

Welcome back to another installment of The Proving Grounds! This week, we have Brave One LJ Wright, who hails from Bowling Gigante, TX! (I have no idea, but I liked working “gigante” in there. Color me clever. Sometimes.) Related Posts:Review: Doc Unknown #1B&N Week 126: Excuses? Not If You Can Help ItTPG Week 125: A [...]

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TPG Week 121: Reworking the Redraft

| April 19, 2013
TPG Week 121: Reworking the Redraft

Welcome back to The Proving Grounds! This week, we have a double-treat: we have Steve Colle returning with a revamped draft of his Captain America script, which isn’t something we get around here too often. This means the second treat is that we have Yannick Morin returning to take over the duties in blue. Today [...]

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TPG Week 120: Writing is Rewriting

| April 12, 2013
TPG Week 120: Writing is Rewriting

Hello, and welcome to another installment of The Proving Grounds! This week, we have someone who’s definitely no stranger to these parts: Liam Hayes, who actually does hail from the UK. We’ve got Steve Colle in blue, I’m in red, and let’s see if we can catch Liam in Related Posts:Review: Doc Unknown #1B&N Week [...]

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TPG Week 119: Pacing Is The Biggest Problem…

| April 5, 2013
TPG Week 119: Pacing Is The Biggest Problem…

It’s another instalment of The Proving Grounds! Today, we have a new Brave One in the form of Aaron Richmond, who hails from Thingplus, New Mexico. (I have no idea if there’s a Thingplus in NM, but it wouldn’t surprise me.) As always, we have Steve Colle in blue, I’m in red, and we’re going [...]

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TPG Week 118: Cocoa Fluffs…

| March 29, 2013
TPG Week 118: Cocoa Fluffs…

Welcome, one and all, to another installment of The Proving Grounds. This week, we have a new Brave One in Dan “Bridge Over Troubled” Watters. Dan hails from East Northforkshireham, in the UK. (I just totally made that up.) As usual, we have Steve Colle in blue, I’m in red, and we all get to [...]

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TPG Week 117: Something Unexpected!

| March 22, 2013
TPG Week 117: Something Unexpected!

Welcome back to The Proving Grounds! This week, we have a returning Brave One in Jon Parrish, who hails from Stumpbottom, Kansas. As always, we have Steve Colle in blue, I’m in red, and we’re going to see all about Life in the FZ Related Posts:Review: Doc Unknown #1B&N Week 126: Excuses? Not If You [...]

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TPG Week 116: Uneven Dialogue Hurts You

| March 15, 2013
TPG Week 116: Uneven Dialogue Hurts You

It’s another installment of The Proving Grounds! This week, we have Matt Cartmell, who hails from somewhere in the UK. Let’s make it Stonehengeshire. Why not? As always, we have Steve Colle in blue, I’m in red, and Matt brings us a story of   Related Posts:No Related Posts

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TPG Week 115: Slow Pace…Interesting?

| March 8, 2013
TPG Week 115: Slow Pace…Interesting?

Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends… It’s another installment of The Proving Grounds! This week, we continue with the treats. Something very special: we have our own Yannick Morin, doing writing work for our own Eli Ivory. Eli had a concept that he wanted worked, and I was able to put [...]

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TPG Week 114: Letting Go

| March 1, 2013
TPG Week 114: Letting Go

Welcome once again, one and all, to The Proving Grounds! This week is something of a treat, as we have our own Steve Colle coming back through for another turn. He’s from the Great White North (Canada to him, Canadia to the rest of us, eh?) and he’s bringing us a tale of America’s super-soldier! [...]

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TPG Week 113: Elderberries At 100 Paces

| February 22, 2013
TPG Week 113: Elderberries At 100 Paces

Welcome back, one and all, to another installment of The Proving Grounds! This week, we have a new Brave One in Michael Arlain, who hales from Ringbottom, MN. (I happen to love Minnesota. It’s the land of Prince. And is Michael really from Ringbottom? Nope. Don’t even know if he’s from MN. Sounds good, though.) [...]

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TPG Week 112: Wrong Start

| February 15, 2013
TPG Week 112: Wrong Start

Hello and welcome again to The Proving Grounds! This week, we have a new Brave One in JP Redding, who hails all the way from I-Have-No-Idea, Ohio! (I may make up place-names and locations for everyone from now on. You have been warned.) As always, we have Steve Colle in blue, I’m killing it in [...]

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TPG Week 111: You Only Have 3 Pages…

| February 8, 2013
TPG Week 111: You Only Have 3 Pages…

Welcome back to The Proving Grounds, one and all! This week, we have the return of Brave One Ronnie Massey, novelist. She comes once again to pit her writing against The Steves! As always, Steve Colle is in blue, I’m in red, and Ronnie busts out in Unbound Related Posts:Review: Doc Unknown #1B&N Week 126: [...]

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TPG Week 110: Pacing Is The Crux

| February 1, 2013
TPG Week 110: Pacing Is The Crux

Hello, one and all! Welcome back to The Proving Grounds! This week, we have no stranger to us: Brave One John Lees returns! As always, we have Steve Colle in blue, I’m in red, and we’ll see what John brings us in   Related Posts:No Related Posts

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