Choosing THE Date to Post Your Comic/Novel

[surin]

Thank you so much for the advice ^^
Yes I get why it sounds like more of wip and it is, also because I am a pantser - so in my writing process I can discover a whole new twist that can change quite literally half of my story so I only put out the things that are 98% canon in my head haha. I also find it really hard to write my summary because what I wrote in the previous post is more of me describing the first chapters now that I reread it and the initial idea is that I wanted the reader to experience and discover the magical world in the same way as my main protagonist who knows nothing and pieces everything together - so I will have to think of something haha

Love your summary, I actually have never thought of making a couple of them so it was really an eye opener! Also I have read your comic and I really love it, can't wait to see more of it (:

[Lady_T_Musings]

I can feel that. I mean you could have your summaries be more like the first page of a monthly comic book. They kinda just say in general what the story is about and then lead you into the actual comic with only a teaser of what's to come next. That way you could update it as you tell the story, maybe changing it with each new arch or chapter to fit with what's to come.

Tyty, that means a ton to me!

[surin]

Oh I see, I actually have never saw those but I will look into this option! Thank you

[cortezlord96]

Thank you, I appreciate it. I think the 4Q wasn't the best cause everyone was busy with family and stuff and they probably wanted more seasonal stuff.

[Kaydreamer]

I've just started posting my comic!

I chose January 2021, because it's the start of a new year and I always find that to be a good time to start forming new habits and beginning new projects. It's also the summer holidays here, so I don't have to work, and I can focus on creating a nice buffer of pages for when I do get really busy.

Originally I was going to launch Blue Star Rebellion by posting five pages at the end of January. But once I finished the first three pages, I realised they made a nice little gateway into the story on their own, so I bought the launch forward.

The world Blue Star is set in - something I call the Dragonfeathers Project - has been in the works for over a decade, but Blue Star itself is actually quite new - a sizeable chunk of story and script just occurred and poured out of me over a weekend around mid-year. I knew I wanted to use this story to develop my comic-making skills, (I've never made a comic before and didn't want to START with Dragonfeathers), so I tidied up that first 50-or-so pages of script, plotted some loose ideas about where to go after that, and just hopped straight to designing ships, outfits, side-characters, settings and so-on, with the goal of a January launch. It was a pretty quick development window, all things considered, but a LOT of the lore and magic system, as well as a handful of characters, are carried through from Dragonfeathers. That simplified a lot.

[Eiranyx]

What made me decide the date to publish it is because of the theme(the story was quite dark in a way) , my comic has vampires and supernatural beings in it so I created a teaser chapter to intrigue readers and set the date on Halloween --- so that they can remember it easily to check it out then I posted the first official episode on Halloween on October 31, 2020 at 3AM(lol witching/demon's hours to fit the theme) -- I thought of course mostly readers might be in the mood for something supernatural, fantasy/ horror because its Halloween -- its easier to remember the anniversary of my comic too ^^

[crowstories]

Kind of a foolish answer, but I told myself I'd start publishing once I had 10 episodes ready to give myself a good buffer. So... I just started publishing the day after I finished episode 10. Didn't even have banners ready. I suggest not doing this.

[Lady_T_Musings]

Understandable, but at least graphically it looks cool as a date to remember ha!

[Lady_T_Musings]

Congrats on getting your comic posted!!

I feel you there, I like to start habits I want to form at the last month or two of the year and then bring it on over to the new year in hopes of making it feel like I've been doing it longer so I can keep at it (Like working out at least 20 mins a day and drinking water haha). Ahhh then this truly is a fantastic time to get your comic out.

Ok then, that's what's up!

Ohhhh the mind has been brewing quite a while on this baby, I know the feeling. Lookit you getting your practice under your belt. for real though, the best way to improve is to do, so here's to learning a ton on the journey that you will totally use for Dragonfeathers!

Yasss having a world to pull from that you've been working on makes things so much easier when you wanna tell other stores in the world. You can skip the preliminary setup for world building and get right into the meat of your story!

[Lady_T_Musings]

Ohhh yasssss Halloween launch for the spooky and eerie works is the best! It's like having the theme all set up and you just bring the present! Oh snap, you wen in hard with your theme releasing it at the witching hour, I love that ha! All about making anniversaries memorable!!

[Lady_T_Musings]

lol, but hey you stuck to your word and made it happen when you said you would and that's some initiative and drive right there. Banners and stuff are hella nice to have for advertisement, but those can always be added later at least

[ButterflyEmpress]

I did something similar. I waited until I had 3 chapters worth which was about 60 pages. I originally wanted to wait until 5 chapters in, but I got impatient (this unfortunately led to long hiatus). I started posting in January 2019 with month long hiatus between chapters.

[adderfly]

This is going to be a weirdly intense/personal answer, but here goes. I had been working on my comic for four months, had 7 episodes "ready", and was obsessively redrawing all the panels I didn't like. I kept pushing back the release date farther and farther because I wanted it to be perfect. BUT THEN I was jumped and beaten with a metal baseball bat on my head two blocks from my house. I went back to my hometown to recover. At the end of my first week in my hometown, I was in a really bad PTSD spiral and was desperately trying to think of things to do to pull myself out of, and then I thought "You know what? Some validation about my art on the internet would probably cheer me up!" So I bit the bullet and posted it, and it did cheer me up, and here we are.

[Lady_T_Musings]

I was in a redraw spiral for my comic for a few months before I just had to get it through my head mtt art was going to evolve as I worked and I'd just have to get used to it and move on haha. Damn that's awful that that happened to you :(. I'm happy that though your art you were able to bring yourself some kind of positivity though <3.

[adderfly]

Thanks for the sympathy! And yeah, the redraw spiral is ROUGH. Like I literally started drawing my comic with the goal to complete the series and improve my drawing along the way so that my NEXT series is really professional and beautiful, so you would think that the growth I've been experiencing would feel like success, but it actually just makes me want to redraw my older episodes five thousand times!

[voifont]

I started mine on 12/Jan/2021 for two reasons:
1) The MC is 12 years old
2) 12/01/2021 is a nice date with repetitive numbers 00111222

I can't do weekly updates, so I plan on updating the comic on days that end with a 2, (every 2nd, 12th, 22nd).

[ble]

This may be offtopic, as my comic started like 2 years ago, so i don't remember that one.

I do remember that I choose the date when to return from hiatus after several months, that i decided to post the first week of January of this year. Like i didn't want to post my content last year because i feel it was really cursed year, and i kinda quit comics, but in October i decided to return, so that's why i was building a backlog for the next year.

[Lady_T_Musings]

<3

Keep moving forward Eva :). Promise of the next series being even better is a great goal to set your site on and it can only happen if you keep moving forward with your pages .

[Lady_T_Musings]

Now that's a thematic release right there haha! I'm digging the dedication to the theme too with the release date line ups. It's not typical but it's easy to follow schedule wise, so that's what's up!

[Lady_T_Musings]

It's all good. Congrats though with still going after 2 years, that's what's up!

Aw yeah, fresh start for a new year that's hopefully way more of an upswing than the downer of last year. Cursed year made me laugh, but you ain't lying it was pretty rough... Glad to hear you were ripping and ready to go at the start of the new year though!