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DiegoPalacios
May '18

Hi A-weird-girler !

It depends of your comic if you need to quicken or slow down the pacing.

Here is a trick to know if your pacing is being too slow:

Ask this question about your updates:

1-It is relevant?

2-It is entertaining?(you can be entertaining in different ways, for example a page can be hillarious, have an intense moment, it could be emotional, etc...)

If the answer to both questions is yes, then the update is good. (a comic with good pacing answer yes to both questions most of the time, if not all the time)

If the answer to only one of this questions is yes, then the update is tolerable (a comic with medium level pacing answer yes to at least one question most of the time. If most pages are not relevant, but entertaining, then is just good filler)

If the answer to both questions is no, then that page could be taken away. (a comic with very bad pacing answer no to both questions most of the time)

Hope this helps!

amortelito
May '18

I think your pacing is okay. I mean you are setting up the story. I don't feel like you are "wasting" dialogue or scenes, they all seem important to the background story. But given the short period of attention readers seem to have (because of the saturation of the platform XD) Yes, If you can go the juicy parts sooner people would probably be more interested. Maybe you don't need to tell everything in this first chapter, maybe they can discover some other facts in later chapters. It would be a healthy goal to make every page meaningful.

PervertOldMan
May '18

People only feel it's long when it's not interesting. If you can make every moment in the comic enjoyable, then it's fine with any kind of pacing, even if you take 400 chapters to flirting around but the 2 main characters didn't even kiss yet, the readers still wont complain.
Most of the new creators fall into this pit, focus too much on telling their story, rushing too fast on big events, but forget to build up the characters and make it fun to read, what actually keep the readers stay is the small talks, expressions and interactions between the characters, if you want it slow, keep it slow, but make it fun, to me, it's also the hardest part of writing.

punkarsenic
May '18

i think everyone feels this. its to do with the average timeframe in comics being like, a day passes in maybe a year of uploading.. its dripfeed media, the pace is crazy slow

my pacing is alright for me, but i have a habit of writing whopping 20 page dialogue scenes that i NEED to break, because its breaking me, and i dont think the monotony is fun for my readers

Rhonder
May '18

I think generally speaking, unless your comic is moving at an excruciatingly slow pace (where you go several updates with nothing of note happening, or maybe you get stuck dragging a scene out for too long) most readers who are interested in your story in general won't mind (too much) if the pace is a little slow.

It's kind of more important, mentally, for the creator I think: Are you okay with the pacing?

It's something I ran into last year, I started rebooting a series I had worked on like 9 years ago. I was going to finally buckle down and draw that comic that I've loved for so long. However, as I got into it, around page 8, I came to the realization that the pace that i could put out the story was way way too slow for me to accept. I was talking to a friend about how the first fight scene wouldn't be stated/completed until like a full year into drawing the comic at my current drawing pace/style. It made me kind of freak out because I realized I was marching into a ridiculously long story that I would never be able to finish in a reasonable amount of time. Based off of those long running Shonen manga series that run for years and years at a pace of a full chapter a week black and white, meanwhile I was struggling to push out a single full color page a week... I ultimately decided to walk away and start a one shot project that I'm completely confident i can fully finish in about a year: the same amount of time it would have taken me to get to the first main point of interest in the other series.

For some people, that kind of pace would have been fine for a story they were dying to tell, but it wasn't acceptable for me, personally. I would still like to revisit that story/world/cast someday but I'll have to find a way to really speed up my drawings and also edit the story down a lot xD

hjfsdh2222
May '18

I feel ya there brother :flushed:🤬:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Mine was supposed to be a stupid little one shot that was gonna be just for practice, but then I had to go in and start actually liking the story and building on to it until it had 3 fucking chapters!!!

....so yeah your not alone

AureliusSnow
May '18

I haven't seen your comic but I've been having the same problem. Just letting you know that updating will get easier. Do you have a set day per week or something when you update? That's important. If you have that, then the pace you're going should be fine.

Unless you're talking about something else, then ignore my comment. ^-^