# Writing your script

Writing a comic script means keeping your mind focused on two things at once: The visuals and the words. Your readers are going to want to see pictures that tell part of the story and read words that flesh out the visuals.

A good way to approach this is to visualize your story in your head like it's a movie. As you approach each plot point in your story think of what you're seeing as well as what is being said.

- What you're seeing becomes the description for a panel.
- What's being said becomes the speech associated with each character.
- Captions can be location identifiers or other explanatory text that helps keep the reader situated in the story.

While there is no standard script writing template that is used by all comic script writers (unlike screenplays), comic scripts are mostly conventional. Each comic page is identified, so that the artist knows when to start a new page of artwork, and the panels on each page are enumerated.

Each panel is accompanied by text that describes what the reader will see. This text can be as detailed as you like but should at least be clear enough that the photographer (or artist) can accurately capture it when the time comes.

For example:
`Panel 1: Mary is anxiously looking out of the window.`

If a character speaks (or thinks) in a panel, the character's name is used to identify them and the speech follows (typically after a colon ":" ).

For example: `Mary (thinking): Where can they be?`

Continue adding pages, panels and dialog until you've completed your story.