Creators of Tapas what where the OH NO moments for you?

[vothnthorvaldson]

My big 'oh no' moment was when I saw Covid was starting to become a big thing, and my comic main plot is based on a epidemic disease
I had to rewrite a big chunk. I'm still upset about it, but feel ok with my story now.

[Kaydreamer]

Mine came about a week ago when, after having now read far more broadly and really developed a better sense of the webcomic medium and what I like in it, I realised that the pacing in my early episodes is nowhere close to my ideal. (It moves too fast. I need to slow it down.) And also, that I missed a prime opportunity to establish how cluttered and untidy my protagonists' ship is in those early panels.

It's okay, you live and you learn. It's my first comic/webcomic, so clunky things were bound to happen. If I can pull my buffer far enough ahead in the coming months, I'll re-do those early pages/episodes later this year. But ugh, realising it was a bummer.

[MeltingCORE]

The biggest "oh no!" in my first draft of "Red Shift" was when one of my beta readers pointed out I kept flipping from third person limited (Steppe's point of view, you only read what his mind knows) and third person omniscient. I burst into laughter upon being told this and went to work fixing what I had written up to that point. (6 chapters only, thankfully!) Yes, Steppe someone how knows all the secrets and thoughts of the Royal House even though none of them will really speak with him except his sister (the Queen).

[cherrystark]

I take the Bob Ross method and turn my mistakes into "happy little trees". haha. With my current series, I haven't had any big "OH NO" moments but I have had a lot of loose plot threads that I've had to keep track of and weave them back in.

[Maps]

Somehow I’ve caught my own plot holes (since I constantly re-read my work) before any of my readers have. But that makes for some stressful chapter writing to try to clear it up before it gets caught.

But I think if a reader pointed one out I’d fill it, whether in future chapters or past chapters if I had to. And then you can always send the update that sends to readers with a note if you wanted. Or you can just do it silently and fix it for future readers. We’re only human!

I will continue to keep re-reading as I go. I’ve not only caught plot holes or errors, but I’ve created more plot lines based off of or tied into things I’d forgotten I’d written about.

[carloswebcomic]

Mine came about 4 years ago when my readership dropped like a lead balloon and realised that I was way worse at writing and art than I initially suspected.
I've been on this uphill battle ever since trying to improve and to keep whatever readers I have left.
It's not going too well.

[Kura]

Me: Introduces absolutely horrible piece of shit character based of an individual in my life that's permanently traumatized me and is absolutely nothing but vile and horrible to the main character

Readers: I ship them!!!!

[amortelito]

My first "OH NO!" Moment was when readers hated my prologue's huge chunk of text. But that's extremely important to the story!!!

I redrew it, made it more "show" instead of "tell" but it made me realize that most like nobody will stay around until the end for it to payoff. So it will be a waste of first episode for many readers. 🥲

[pilot-obvious]

My biggest oh no is reading the news about corrupt figures in politics/tech/finance and realizing my villains probably aren't evil enough.

I'm still working on that one.

[shfra13]

My 'oh no' moment isn't really a plothole... it's the fact that I accidentally over-commit to a series that I planned as casual and sporadic...... and it's a series that I haven't finished the first draft yet, so I'm in constant chase with my own impulsively-decided twice-a-week updates and the backlogs. Terrible decision. I forgot I always feel bad when I make people wait.

[Carossmo]

Idk if considered an "oh no" moment but I feel it is...

Somehow this one reader reading into the main girl character too much and assuming about her on the fly? The reader assumed the girl was making "everyone's" problems about herself. I had to reread the previous chapters to check if this was true. Kinda wish I had more reviewers to see if that was the case.

[BlunderingAlbatross]

I've thankful not had anyone point out any plot holes (yet) but I've had a few comments point out minor issues with continuity or grammar or whatever, stuff that can be fixed in a few minutes Really grateful for that kind of feedback though, because it means I can improve on my work :3

[sc101]

Mine is that I have no fucking idea how to make the sci fi convincing and that I have no idea how to further the plot other than a very vague idea. Also no idea of how to go about the next chapter but uhh such is life.

[darthmongoose]

So, it was an Oh No. But it turned out to be something really amazing for my story, and I'm very glad it happened.

I'm fighting my instinct to apologise profusely for the inconvenience to say I'm very happy it was helpful and turned out well in the end!

[Iris-Grimoire]

I have another Oh No moment related to darthmongoose as well : P I had relatives say they didn't get the start of the comic much back when it was just half Chapter 1, and I just assumed it was unfamiliarity with the fantasy genre. Nope, get to that review, and I really am throwing terms out out of my own experience with the genre and not taking into account the reader might not have read exactly what I have.
I think it enhanced the comic majorly to hit that hard obstacle - as it turns out later, when I got to exposition, I was also cluttering up the dialogue("I have heard this spell was used in this form" rather than "Someone set fire to this") and making text boxes massive as a result, and rewriting them to just use simple terms rather than magic stuff helps out immensely.

[Lady_T_Musings]

I'd have to say mine was forgetting about the importance of Link-Bands in my story as they serve pretty much the same purpose as a smartphone do these days, so instead of a character going to a computer lab to look up something they'd just use their link and I was like...This is super convenient Lady and you designed them. USE THEM PLS. Also, remember where everyone's band is placed for the day. yeah, they can be changed, and not even all folks wear them on their arms (and they are super customizable) but I needed to think of them like watches, most folks don't change the location of a watch multiple times a day, or in my case, every panel DX.

[darthmongoose]

I have another Oh No moment related to darthmongoose as well : P

Oh no, this thread is now...
"Raise your hand if you've personally had your webcomic victimised by Kate Holden."

Sorry! But I hope it was ultimately useful!

[nathanKmcwilliams]

@darthmongoose raises hand. (Just kidding XD your review was exactly what I needed to push me further)

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My first OH NO moment was actually my own fault. Mostly it was that I started my comic in Pixel-art and then realized I was making it way harder on myself for 25 episodes. I changed styles, twice after and now I'm redrawing the first 30 pages (VERRY SLOWLY. Taking my time with it.)

Second OH NO moment. Made some story decisions, impromptu, and while I'm happy with them, I also realize that I made some continuity errors back when I cut some pages from the first draft. SO...that's the other reason for the redraw, it's also a patch to fix some of the glitches XD.

[ninjashira]

Ahaha yeah definitely don't apologize! After having that pointed out to me, it absolutely helped me make my story better. And it wasn't even like I had to redraw anything, just rework some rough thumbnails and rewrite some scenes. And once I rewrote one part, it influenced another scene, and another, and I added more pages, and it's honestly so much better now than it was in my initial draft. So thank you!!

[djourner]

I haven't had an 'oh no' moment in my current version of JTA.
But i had a big one in the first version I wrote.

I always like first person perspective as i tend to find more intimate to the characters... In one of the old version's chapter I actually started the chapter with one character narrating and ended with another one.
When a chapter is too big (mine usually go over the 10pages mark) i tend to take a break in writing, It seems on that particular chapter I took a break when i was writing a sentence for a character that wasn't the narrator, and when I came back i just continued on as if they were.
Luckly i never published it, I passed it onto my mate for test reading and he pointed it out to me xD

I do have a lot of 'oh actually' moments, again, due to the first person perspective sometime i'll begin writing a chapter in the perspective of one character only to find out it would have made it more interesting to have it done from another character's perspective.
That has happened to the current version of my story, but normally i don't mind those, it's just a natural realization and it makes sense to switch, even if I do have to rewrite over 10 pages sometimes, it's for the sake of giving the reader the most fun and engaging experience.