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TheLemmaLlama
Nov '22

Mood :'D

Can't help you here, but I will say that my failing to think of a continuation after a few pages for my first comic attempt was what got me to really internalize the importance of making an outline for my overarching plot :stuck_out_tongue:

BlueDragon
Nov '22
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Not sure if this will help, but some things you can do to encourage a story continuation:

Put yourself in the scenario. How do you want this to play out? Is this dream just the un-actualized fears felt by the sister, or does this anxiety stem from how the sibling treats her?

What are you trying to tell the reader? You've set up the scene to create empathy for the sister who feels put down by the success of her sibling. Do you want her sib to be kind and comfort her, or is she the antagonist? You could follow these pages up by showing what the sis's reaction is to her dreaming. Does she wake her up? Does she go back to bed and have her own dreams? If she wakes her up does she (dreamer) feel indecision about revealing her dream?

You may want to take the story forward to show us what their actual relationship is like in reality. Maybe the scene stays in this room, or you move them along to breakfast. Or maybe you delve into more dreams that end up waking the sister again, prompting him to respond?

I think if you start asking yourself questions you may be able to start brainstorming where to go from here.

Apologies if this isn't helpful. I think it's very well drawn thus far. I like how you have a couple different points of views/angles, and the action is clear and easy to follow in the pages you've shared.

Best of luck with your comic!

Edited for misgendering mistake.

Ordinaryaverageguy
Dec '22

It might help to define the characters in your own mind. Who are they? How did they come to be in this situation? Does one really hate the other? Why does the other think that to be so? Sometimes if you know what kind of people they are, and imagine their backstory, their future story will begin to gell for you.

darthmongoose
Dec '22

So the thing you've established with these pages is:

  • There's this pair of siblings who sleep in the same room
  • Their relationship is going to be a very key part of whatever this story is.
  • The smaller (younger?) sister has a very strong sense of inferiority when it comes to the bigger (older?) sister doesn't really seem to bear her the ill-will that the imaginary version of her does.

So whatever story you tell, it's probably going to be about these siblings, and the younger sister's feelings of inferiority are going to be some kind of an obstacle and something she needs to learn to get over.

Honestly the hardest thing is, you could go almost anywhere from here. You could make it a slice of life romance story where the sisters both become infatuated with the same person... you could make a Fantasy story where they both go on a quest or get sucked into a magical world or discover one of them is the chosen one... It could be an action thriller where one of them gets kidnapped and the other has to save them... It could be a horror where they need to survive together as monsters attack their home....

Because these pages just establish a strong character dynamic, but don't really contain anything that'd contradict any kind of story you might want to launch into, which makes this both tricky, but also very open as a story prompt!

jhomarsoriano
Dec '22

If you don't like to continue, it's fine for a two-pager gag. I found it funny.

BlueDragon
Dec '22
nofacedrawer

Sorry about that D: I wasn't looking closely and I was more focusing on your question. I will edit my comment since it was my mistake!

Edit, besides my mistake did anything I write help you at all?

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