Bite-Size: A Creator Discussion and Advice Thread

[Iris-Grimoire]

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]

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]

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]

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

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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]

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]

@ar-ninetysix @UrMom Welcome.

[ar-ninetysix]

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]

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]

thank you

[Blozzy]

thank you

[At12MN]

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

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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]

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]

Welcome to the thread

[Rhonder]

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

[KRWright]

Hi @UrMom! If it gives you an excuse to keep coming back then it's worth it I think!

Welcome @ar-ninetysix ! I'm looking forward to seeing what you might decide to create.

Hi @At12MN ! Don't worry about your english and just jump in whenever you want! It's totally fine, trust me!

Hi @Rhonder ! Short, Medium AND Long term goals. A man after my own heart there! It seems like you've got your heart set on the same kind of end goal as me!

[Chita]

Hey there!! This seems like a very helpful and profesional idea, thanks for making this thread!
Sooo, here's my introduction:
Preferred name: Chita
Pronouns: she/her
Genres you create: Fantasy/Romance
Where you want to take your writing journey: right now I'm taking it easy as a hobbie and posting my comic just on Tapas. I'd love to build a fanbase (even if it's small) and maybe one day sell a few printed copies at small local cons.
Link to Tapas Account: https://m.tapas.io/Chita

[KRWright]

Welcome @Chita ! I hope that this thread will be useful to you!

[KRWright]

New people - please feel free to continue to introduce yourselves!

Okay @Everyone ! It is very early Saturday morning for me and that means it's time for our first discussion. For the first few discussions, I'm going to drop some infographics that explains things. I may not always have time to make these, but sometimes I will so that the topic itself gets explained alongside the discussion.

[ar-ninetysix]

Oh, well, uhhhh

(might as well talk about my projects, I guess)

Ummm.. I really don't know how to describe my main comic project, but like I'm sure that there's some anime or manga like it out there in the world lol it's Japanese police officers hunting down yokai with super backhanded special abilities, the only real thing keeping it "unique" is the fact that the main character duo is an older sister and her younger brother.

The other idea is a short GL thing we're barely developing. There's room for drama, but I wanna keep it light-hearted as possible even if it gets crazy. The rough idea being that two best friends are close, but one likes the other.. thing is, she's about to move, and uhh.. silly shenanigans happen in a huge downhill run. I wanna have it have like just.. a fun, airy vibe, idk something like Studio Ghibli movies. Obviously not as skilled, but you know

[IndigoShirtProd]

Hey everyone!

Preferred Name: Indigo
Pronouns: She/Her
Genres you create: Fantasy, Action, Drama
Where you plan to take your writing journey: My comics are a way to improve my skills and build an audience. I have story ideas that I eventually want to publish, including a short story I'm having trouble finishing. My goal is to make a career, even if it's a side hustle, on my creative works because I love the process and end results so much
Link to Tapas Account: https://tapas.io/IndigoShirtProd

So, most of the of the work I'm putting out as of now is general audience friendly. I draw with the idea in mind that a lot of people might it (even if that's not the case now), and that will reflect back on me. I try not to alienate anybody. Of course, I can't really accomplish that but still. Now, the literature I write is all the way on the other side of the spectrum, at least the one I'm working on now. I think the thing keeping me from finishing it is that, in all honesty I've never finished a project before. Not only is this project far removed from my norm, it is also such a hard reflection of the major issue I have in my writing: shallowness and a lack of structure. So I'm hoping to get some good advice and interesting perspectives from this thread.