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I'll confess, I'm one of those bloggers who checks her stats.  Yeah.  I don't get competitive about it.  There's no doubt that Friskbiskit is, at this point in time, a tiny little backwater station on the Internet.  Nevertheless, I enjoy watching my page views increase month by month.  It's very gratifying to know that something you are doing appeals to other people enough for them to stop by more than once.
Anyway, probably the coolest feature of Typepad's admittedly simplistic stats page is that it tells you where people came to your blog from.  And sometimes it's from the results of a search.  And then you can find out what words people searched on to find you.  It's been fascinating. 
It's exciting to know that people from around the world are visiting Friskbiskit.  Welcome!  (Big wave to the person in the Netherlands who gets here by searching on images of frottage.  You ROCK!)  
And it has come to my attention that many people from around the world land at Friskbiskit in search of information about manga script format.  In a world where Friskbiskit comes up in the top five on such a search, there is clearly a dearth of information on the subject.  So let me do my little bit by offering a brief rundown on the matter.
The most important thing a manga script must do is communicate effectively to the artist what the writer wishes them to draw.  Probably one of the reasons there's not a lot of information out there about manga script format is that there is no set format.  Most writers have their own variations, but they all generally include panel descriptions and dialog, with some sort of typographical convention to distinguish the two from one another, such as showing dialog in all caps.  And each page of your script should correspond to a page of the manga, and be numbered accordingly.  And label your panels clearly so the artist can tell which descriptions and dialog go in panel 1, which go in panel 2, and so on.
Probably the easiest thing is just to look at a sample.  You can download one here:
Bear in mind that I'm no expert.  I have submitted some scripts to some pro editors and none of them had a beef about my script format, so I feel confident enough on the topic.  All the same, you might want to check out these books for more in-depth information:
Manga Artist Academy
That's it.  Good luck would-be manga authors!
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