Attention, aspiring comics writers and weary comics artists: Sara Ryan and friends are about to make your lives much easier. On her blog, Ryan and a few of her comics-making chums are offering advice for writers on what not to do when writing comics scripts for others to draw.

Ryan -- who's currently wrapping up the script for her upcoming DC/Vertigo graphic novel Bad Houses -- kicked things off by reminding us that it's awfully hard to have a character do more than one thing per panel, even though it comes naturally to us to rattle off several actions in the course of a sentence.

Next up is Supergirl artist Ron Randall, who among other things notes that telling an artist to "impress me" with a particularly memorable scene or sequence is a roundabout way of insinuating that he or she otherwise isn't all that impressive. And finally (for now), Family Man's Dylan Meconis offers seven tips, warning against everything from the overuse of film jargon to telling rather than showing to the dreaded words "Have fun with this!"

Given Ryan's links to the seemingly ever-growing Periscope Studio, this could end up being quite a long-running recurring feature, so check back often!

(Via Hope Larson)