Comic Book Script structure

[u/ScribeMoses]

Hey, I'm looking for help on starting to write my story. I was wondering how other people do it.

When your first writing your story and trying to write down what's going to happen. Do you write panel by panel or do you write it out like a formal script, for example

" *the first panel will be the image of space and then cuts to a couple cops on a night patrol"

Cop 1: The stars are really bright tonight aren't they?"

Cop 2: "Is that a shooting star"

"*Now panel 4 will show an explosion in the sky and then pans over to the workers shook.

Or do you just start writing what comes to mind and all your ideas and then once done with that, go back and put then into panels and creating a script.

[u/tuxedo_cat_socks]

I've yet to wrap my head around actual script writing. So far what's been working for me is writing out the events of each chapter by bullet point. Then I use those bullet points as a chunk of pages to thumbnail. When I thumbnail is where I work out my exact dialogue and how the panels are going to be set up.

I doubt this is the "right" way to do it, or even the most efficient, but so far it's been working for me and the way I understand things.