Bite-Size: A Creator Discussion and Advice Thread

saintc 2020-02-21 20:08:45 UTC #46

Hello! Welcome to the thread.

darthmongoose 2020-02-21 20:12:44 UTC #47

Hey, wow, fancy thread!

Preferred name: Kate (but I don't mind if you call me Mongoose, it's chill).
Pronouns: She/Her
Genres I create: Character-focused Fantasy, Action and sometimes Soft Sci-Fi.
Plans: I'm making comics again after a break, though I have done professional work as a comic artist in the past, and as a Games Artist and Illustrator until very recently. Now I'm trying to build an audience and create an interesting ongoing series, I'm hoping to monetise Errant when I finish the prologue and start the story proper in a few updates, probably through Patreon. In the future I'll probably Kickstarter a print run to sell at MCM and stuff.
Tapas profile: https://tapas.io/darthmongoose

CodeMonkeyArts 2020-02-21 20:19:09 UTC #48

Preferred Name: Coda

Pronouns: She/Her.

Genres you create: Romance, Action, Fantasy, SciFi...All with a dose of HORROR!!!!

Where you plan to take your writing journey: Oh man, I would love to have my work published and hold it in my hands like hardcover. Or even do Light Novel Serialization...For now, I am hoping to build an audience on Tapas and promote through other social media stuff.

Link to Tapas Account: https://tapas.io/codemonkeyarts

Since I don't have the time or energy to do webcomics, I am doing a light-novel style with each episode having a 'cover' or 'insert' art to accompany the text. This way I can still also shape up my characters too :3. At least with only one of my stories; the other is an anthology.

Indigo-Child 2020-02-21 20:40:16 UTC #49

Heeya everyone ! love the idea of this thread!
Preferred Name: Indigo Child
Pronouns: She/Her
Genres you create: Fantasy, Bl's Romance ( Fantasy)
Hmmm i just a hugeeee fan of Bl and there wasn't a lot of the kind i liked so just wanted to created my own that's how i started drawing two years ago now .

Link to Tapas Account: https://tapas.io/himenoririn

Ps :sorry for any mistakes , english is not my native language ^^

saintc 2020-02-21 20:55:30 UTC #50

Hello! Welcome to the thread.

saintc 2020-02-21 20:56:13 UTC #51

@Indigo-Child welcome!

Oh, I like light novels!

Iris-Grimoire 2020-02-21 21:01:36 UTC #52

Yeah, my first language is portuguese. I mix up british and american versions of words a lot but thankfully no one has paid much attention to it so far, and that's usually as far as it goes. And yeah, with time posting things online gets easier - though with a large story it's important to have a reader to see if you're not making huge mistakes right away. With art it's easy to go 'oh pretty' and move on, but with writing you'll lose a lot if the story's payoffs aren't too engaging.

KRWright 2020-02-21 21:07:01 UTC #53

Hi @ben ! Welcome to the thread! Animation work sounds SUPER exciting!

Hello @darthmongoose ! I love Errant! I'm so happy to see you here!

Welcome @CodeMonkeyArts ! The illustrated light novel thing is super duper popular on Tapas. I wish I had the talent and skill at drawing to do it!

Greetings @Indigo-Child! Don't worry about English not being your native language. There are lots of people here already in a similar situation!

KRWright 2020-02-21 21:14:02 UTC #54

I'm so excited! We're gathering a lot of people so I hope that this will end up fueling some good discussions. We're starting off on the easier end of creative discussions (more Writing 101 stuff) but we're going to be moving steadily into more semi-pro and pro level stuff later on. We want to respond to the needs of the community, so if you ever feel the discussions are getting too basic (or too technical), just shoot me a PM and I'll rejig the thread.

Tomorrow we're going to be doing 3 Act Structures, or the basics of constructing plots. Even for the more experienced crew, it can be a good idea to review the basics sometimes, so I hope you'll all join me!

UrMom 2020-02-21 21:15:47 UTC #55

Hello!

Preferred Name: Dani
Pronouns: They/Them, He/Him
Genres you create: Psychological drama for now (not sure if you would consider character study a genre), possibly cosmic horror, sci-fi and fantasy in the future.
Where you plan to take your writing journey: Finishing my comic and self-publishing.
Link to Tapas Account: https://tapas.io/Bloomer

Not the most socially adept, or active here, but maybe this will help me remember the forum exists. Lol
I'm almost halfway with my plans, I already have the cost figured out, started rescanning pages a couple weeks ago and plan on turning the first four chapters into a book. I will also be halfway done with my comic once I get further into the current chapter.

ar-ninetysix 2020-02-21 21:31:47 UTC #56

Ehhh, why not throw myself in here?

Preferred Name: ar.ninetysix just to keep things simple
Pronouns: He/Him but They/Them is fine with me too
Genres you create: Action, Drama, Urban Fantasy (and trying Romance and Comedy)
Where you plan to take your writing journey: Honestly, I'm not sure. I just wanted to try it out. I'm more of a musician and composer, but in the past few years, I've been interested in coming up with stories. That's how I wound up here lol I'm not bold enough to assume I can make this a career, but hey, if that's the way it goes...
Link to Tapas Account: https://tapas.io/ar-ninetysix (but I don't have anything there lol)

I got projects in the works, but that's it. I intend on writing music for my stuff too, so that's nice lol

saintc 2020-02-21 21:43:16 UTC #57

@ar-ninetysix @UrMom Welcome.

ar-ninetysix 2020-02-21 22:03:21 UTC #58

Hi, I'm garbage at talking to people and idk how to respond to someone just saying "welcome" at me, but boy if that ain't a nice invite to this club

UrMom 2020-02-21 22:08:55 UTC #59

Thank you for the welcome! I'm not very good at participating in discussions, but I love comic stuff so I'll do my best.

Blozzy 2020-02-21 22:13:36 UTC #60

thank you

Blozzy 2020-02-21 22:39:19 UTC #61

thank you

At12MN 2020-02-21 22:42:05 UTC #62

Hello

Preferred Name: Em
Pronouns: She/Her
Genres you create: Romance (with MM/MF pairings most of the time), subgenres: Contemporary, Historical
Where you plan to take your writing journey: At this point, I just want to write as many as I can and see where that takes me. I've only started writing fiction seriously 2 years ago and had to study from scratch so I consider myself a newbie.
Link to Tapas Account: https://tapas.io/At12MN

I love reading discussions but usually forget to join. (Also because I fear my English is not good enough. ) But I'll do my best. Nice meeting you all.

Blozzy 2020-02-21 22:42:25 UTC #63

sorry I didn't know i could reply
well here u go
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it is about a girl called lea who have lived in the human realm for almost all her life, well at least 20 years, she knew she was not human and wondered what her real home is like.
When she finally entered the fae realm she realized that they are a lot of things she knows and doesn't know. She also her mate and while she is happy about it, he is not interested in her and he has feelings for someone else

that is mostly what we have for now though we hope we can get people to read and follow

Blozzy 2020-02-21 22:43:31 UTC #64

Welcome to the thread

Rhonder 2020-02-21 23:14:29 UTC #65

Yoo~

Preferred Name: Rhonder (username) / Alex (real name)
Pronouns: He / Him
Genres you create: Fantasy, Action
Where you plan to take your writing journey:
Short Term - Just continue to improve my craft- both the art and writing sides need a lot of work yet lol
Medium Term - I would like to dip my toes into self publishing and attempt to monetize my work a little bit. My specific goal for this is currently to get some work formatted for print this year and try out tabling at local conventions next year! Also maybe try to actually start populating my patreon/ko-fi with content lol
Long Term- I guess my "end game" is more or less building a large readership/presence as an author. To have lots of people enjoying and invested in my stories would be the best!
Link to Tapas Account: https://tapas.io/Rhonder