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You go back to reread a chapter you wrote weeks or months ago to realize there was a typo in it.

You received several new comments on your story, only to find out they're all spam.

You just released a chapter of your story with a new character and someone unsubscribes.

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Typos. It’s always typos.

Or even worse…

“Hey Abby you missed a spot.”

🤣

Or in my case…

Inaccurate!

Because Elsie is historical but it’s also steampunk so it’s alternate history technically but I’m still scared people will point out inaccuracies. Does that make sense? No. But do I still worry about it? Yes!

well, i think it still makes sense. my story is a fantasy novel, but two of the mains were born in the 40s, so trying to make sure their lives are accurate time-line wise is still trippy for me

Finding something in your story that contradicts something else in your story. Six months after publishing it.

It's time to rewrite the head-canon.

I've had to do this a couple times and rewire it so it DOES work. It helps if you have a fallible narrator (which usually works best in first-person.) Like...why was my female lead's now mother in law able to offer to adopt her in her teens after the death of her mother if her father was still alive? that turned into a pretty messy sub plot/story element.

I sometimes feel tempted to fix some of the major art issues in my series Crow's Worth (kids with giant heads, word bubbles in weird places). But this would also involve having to import them to CSP and reformat the pages, which would take way too much time.

I also have a chapter where I lost the original files, so I have no way to do simple edits without just having to redraw everything.

Solar flare / EMP wipes out computer... Two days before you decide to print a hard copy for yourself. :cry_02:

Back when I was working on August I really felt this, because it was supposed to be set in 2001 and I didn’t exist back then, so I didn’t know how to make it feel 2001… I do know a lot about tv shows that came out then.

Me: Does this feel turn of the century?

:joy::joy::joy: I feel that

Elsie is steampunk after all but decided for the fashion to be historical and not mainstream steampunk fashion.

I have copies on my stories and art stored locally (one on my computer’s hard drive, one on a thumb drive) and on the cloud (MS OneDrive). The cloud version is actually my “working” version, since I can access it from anywhere.

Ngl, I hate working from cloud storage (or internal server systems for that matter). There's so much more risk of things going wrong, plus working locally is much faster and responsive.

Side note, I hate One Drive. Legit uninstall it every single time :laughing:

That said, I am considering setting up a NAS-based private cloud for myself some time in the future. Just so I don't have to fuck around with thumbsticks and external drives as much.

"And then she put all the heroes in a big bag and dragged them towards the villains lair"

Your way makes excellent sense. I am a goblin who hoards printed copies of my published works. :rofl: I do a backup every couple of weeks to the cloud and an external SSD, but that's about it.

I only use OneDrive because I got a free year of Office 365 and a terabyte of Onedrive storage when I bought my Surface Pro 8. I’ve since become dependent on it (I tried writing with OpenOffice and LibreOffice and hated both). When it came time to renew after the year was up it was 50% off so I renewed. Something like $60 for a year. I don’t even have that Surface anymore.

The nice thing about working from the cloud is knowing that if my house burns down, or it floods, or gets robbed, or whatever, I will still have the newest, freshest copy of my work. On the off chance that something takes Microsoft down I’ll still have my local copies that are a week old at best. Now, if my house burns AND Microsoft goes down, I’m screwed. Wait, no, I still have my stuff on Tapas, so not all would be lost!

Microsoft has been trying to get me on office 365 for a while now. But I bought a licence a while back so I have no need for their subscription service haha.

Honestly, when I can I try to avoid cloud services alltogether. I just don't like the idea of my working files being on some companies hard drive.

I much rather spend a hundred bucks in a hefty portable HDD to do the trick, or upgrade my PC's storage. If I end up switching PCs I can take the drives with me.

I learned my lesson after spending several weeks scanning 70 years worth of family photos. There were thousands. They took up most of a 750GB solid state drive.

And then that drive died. Quite suddenly and quite thoroughly. Probably two weeks after doing all that work, I was unable to access the drive. Computer wouldn’t even recognise that it was plugged in. Tried installing it internally. No soap. Sent off to Crucial (the manufacturer). They told me that the drive was toast and that nothing could be recovered. They did send me a shiny new drive - in fact they upgraded it to a 1TB model since the 750GB one was no longer available. But I lost it all. After that I am meticulous about hacking my stuff up.

The photos? I still have the original copies. I just don’t have the heart or desire to sit down and scan them all again. This may change as boredom sets in while I’m off work for two months with this broken arm though.

Damn, how many photos were that? I'm assuming the average size of a photo is what? 5 Mb? That must have been close to 150.000 photos then :dizzy_face:

But shit like that is precisely why I have back-ups of back-ups (and want to invest in a NAS system) haha.

Wanting to create a realistic/historic war backstory for a char after a year of publishing the story, but realizing they're the wrong age by like a decade.

Inconsistencies with timeline/seasons. I never bothered to create a calendar of events and I'm regretting it now.

Currently: Making a horror special whilst trying to keep it short(not really) and get it out on time. Or considering publishing next Halloween and do something simpler. (Might be mid October when I decide)

Juggling more than one project, and of different types (comic, animation, 3D, writing...life) and stalling on a few...

Oh gahd, new terror unlocked. :cry_01: Who's for ordering a new PSSD and doing a double backup to the cloud and solid state drives?

Also, get well soon! Wishing you a speedy recovery!

I scanned them in very high resolution and saved in high quality mode, because I was basically archiving them. I think the file sizes were closer to 30-50Mb each. I do know that they were too big to post on Facebook. I still have a few, maybe a hundred or so, that I had reduced in size and managed to post and share with family members before the drive died. After it did I redownloaded them from Facebook but the quality was lost. So were the file names.

I also lost my wedding photos, of which no hard copies existed. It truly was a disaster.

1) getting "blanks" writing a long winding script then having a hard time figuring out how to put it in comic form while also considering the fact that it can't just be all "talking heads" or that would be boring

2) when you still wanna write more plot but can't. You seem to have hit a wall.

oh yeah, or a hard disk error

tbh, there's always a war going on somewhere, all you need is an excuse to make them part of it. just google wars that took place the approximate year you wanted your oc to go to war and there probably was one, or at least civil unrest that was a whole lot like a war

I feel like most of my problems with writing or creating in general come from my mental illness relapses, it sort of goes is phases. So sometimes I can write 4k words a day and than others I'm just happy if I draw a simple sketch :sob: I'm learning to work with it though.

I'm not really scared of making mistakes though because I know I can't be perfect the first time or ever, but like no body knows me, no ones actually gonna be disappointed if I accidentally forgot to draw someone's necklace in one panel or something, ya know?

I used to be super perfectionist and it limited my art and writing, but since I started drawing butter bee, even the ridiculous art has actually helped my art process and learning. I've improved a lot actually just in this first year of creating it! And now I can appreciate that most things are in fact imperfect, even published works. It's why fans go crazy over dissecting plot holes. But that just gives people more time to talk about your work >:] I embrace chaotic mess <3 <3

Also for anyone looking for a free alternative to Microsoft Word (2003 vibes) there's OpenOffice. I use it for backups for when I don't feel like having everything on google drive lol.

Even their website sort of looks like its from 2003..... but I've only used it since 2015
https://www.openoffice.org/

... What about trying to build a whole new fictional religion / philosophy that's destructive, egotistical, hateful... But based on a combination of the world's most peaceful religions (Christianity, Buddhism, Stoicism)... that promote love, destruction of the ego, and thinking things in a calm non reactive manner...

But many cults exist right? But the vast majority of them can be dismantled easily using the original religious text taken into proper context... Anyone with 120+ IQ can see through them... And I used to go to a small house church that read Bible with a fine tooth comb to the point where it got so tedious and boring that you wanna fall asleep.

Need something more subtle... More insidious...
That deceives even the very elect... something really dark from the pits of Hell itself... :smiling_imp:

i did this in the first strip of my comic I was illustrating with a carpel-tunnel glove the ML was wearing.

Oh no you're a baby lolll :joy: Although I was still in elementary school in 2003 but I love making animations on Power Point more than writing in Word at that point. Anyone else make animations on Power Point??? :0?

@Leyelle Don't worry I really don't think most people notice, especially with webcomics most people kinda just zoom through it honestly. But you can get better with repetition of drawing the same character, so it becomes easier to draw and remember all their details :slight_smile: It's okay to make mistakes, and it's especially understandable in the beginning. We learn a lot through error. I def wanna get an agent though when I start publishing my novels so someone else can proofread/proof...what do you call the visual version?? Oh well, lol you know what I mean! Editing is good but its okay if I make a few mess ups.

Try writing something for 2 years and then on the last five chapters nobody reads them. Ever. That was me on Wattpad.

omg yeah it looks like there's alot of young creatives here! I'll be the elder in the corner with my walker cheering you guys on to continue your writing and drawing endeavors lol

OMG ur still in high school I think I've seen you mention that a few times lol you are one of the youngest here it seems like xD but your art is pretty still!! You got some skills, my dude :sparkles:

Currently Me:
"Look at all these creative whippersnappers out here creating."

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