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

[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.

[migxmeg]

Mine was when we first started getting comments and the majority of them were hating on one of the main characters. Mixed in with excitement about getting engagement was this feeling of dread that no one would ever be interested in reading a story where the point is that this awesome girl that we like off the bat ends up with this sketchy guy that we don't trust.

Now that it's 6 months later I have learned to trust that Mig's version of the story is going to be more interesting than whatever I would have cooked up so I try to chill when this character does yet another dumb thing. It's helpful to listen to feedback but it's not a good idea to change the story based on comments.

[juliabbastos32]

when you see a mistake after post a chapter

[crowstories]

I think for me it was the realization that I would be stringing my early followers along for MONTHS before getting to a turning point at which half of them are likely to lose interest. I don't think this will be such a problem for people who get there late enough to read straight through to that point, but this is my first comic, so I underestimated the effects of webcomic time for people who are reading each episode as it's published.

I added a tag to clarify that this will be a thing, in case people actually read those, but then I run the risk of annoying people who find it specifically because of that tag.... because subverting a genre 3/4 of the way through a story is probably a bit of an "oh no," as well. Comic book pacing is just different from what I'm used to writing.

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

One of the first pieces of feedback I got mentioned that it "could be triggering to abuse victims" I then immediately added a warning in the description and moved on. Util I went through the following though stream:

"Wait... don't I have a moment written out for way down the line in the story where a character casually mentions suicide? Yeah, that moment that was intended to be grandiosely self deprecating but is now seeming way too blunt and insensitive. Oooooooh.... Sh*t. I have to change this! I'm not Ray Bradbury, and I'm not Rob Zombie either. I don't have the reputation for being brilliant or dark enough for people to take this in stride. F*ck"

So I changed the scene. Instead of mentioning suicide like it's nothing (god, what was I thinking!) I had the character call themselves a loser, in the same tone, after making mention of KYS messages from other people in a much more serious tone. Thank god I changed it.

[alliascompany]

A small one, but I have a character who was taken in by a circus. It was going to emphasize how she was the first circus kid to join by herself without a parent or guardian, and then I remember I forgot that the knife throwing kid didn't have any at all. So now he's no longer an orphan XD.

[Larua1997]

My first webcomic was, naturally, a zombie comic when everyone and their brother was making a zombie comic It took place at a school dance on Valentine's Day, and thus also being winter. So I named it...The Undead of Winter. Get it? The problem is/was, there was an existing and farrrrr superior comic called "Winter Dead" (it is still updating as far as I know).

I ended up at this really neat event called "Webcomics Weekend" that featured tons of webcomickers from the early 2000's. It wasn't the type of event where you could really reserve tables or anything (unless you were a webcomics star ) so I took over a vacated Girl Scouts table and started promoting my crappy comics anyway. I found a dude I had randomly chatted with that day, and waved him over to the table to share my claimed territory. We started talking about our comics, and I was pretty embarrassed to learn he had a long-standing comic called Winter Dead, that was like a bazillion times better than mine. He was totally cool about it and we joked about how our winter zombies took over the table. I still felt bad and did change the name after, and luckily, never finished the webcomic because I outgrew my zombie obsession and the comic sucked anyway.

[Undertaildoof34]

Another OH NO moment was a month after I made my first comic and realized it was utter trash...but hey at least I finished the thing. So I guess the best way to go about oh no's is to see how you can improve or take advantage of the situation. Like with my bad comic. Because I did all that drawing I realized it caused a swift improvement both in storytelling and artwork. It's like this failure is only failure if you don't learn anything. If you learned something from it then it's not a failure is it?

[CytricAcid]

I was too excited to start drawing my comic and thus the first two chapters are out of order chronologically. This isn't terrible, because as of now, chapter 1 has a better hook than "edwin goes to the store and bullies people" in chapter 2, but both are important for setting up the story and character relationships.

aonther big OH NO is that, as an RP first, theres a LOT of things that i took for granted that us RPers knew that just isn't available in comic form. I have to go back and insert a lot of stuff in order to portray things I realize aren't actually mentioned in RP (like why is Edwin in California? how long has he been here? how does he know Pantucci?) as well as certain things that we just didn't RP because it wasn't as interesting or was one sided.

This RP was never intended to become a comic. Part of me is like, "fuck it" and just explain plotholes if they come up, because this was never a story intended to be in this medium, but part of me thinks I should at least try and cover them up if I can see them.

It's a tough learning experience and every time I think about it, I realize there are more things I need to address and go over so the comic people have the same level of knowledge as we did when we RPed these scenes in the first place. It's been a HUGE Oh No moment.