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Heidifisk
Sep '24

For my first 2-3 stories all my writing was already done and my artist mostly only had to draw/interpret the scenes from my writing.

One of my recent webcomics I had to cancel was written chapter to chapter, and it was FAR too much work to the point I had to put it on hiatus and used an older/completed work.

Evening Star: Connecting Strings has been FAR smoother, simply because everything is already written out as a complete story.

What about you guys? Are you chapter by chapter, arc by arc, or is the entire story already finished and you are just writing/scripting it?

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AmysGames
Sep '24

I have a full outline for the series, but not every scene has been written out in full detail. Some stuff in the latter half is particularly hazy at the moment, lol.

For a long-term project, I think it's a good idea to give yourself some wiggle room. I'm okay with not knowing every detail of the story right now, because in the time it takes me to get to the final chapters, I imagine that my writing skills will have improved, and that I'll have come up with several new ideas for storylines to include.

Aeneas1
Sep '24

I have been planning this series for years, including its ending, which none of you will have to wait too long for. If all goes well, Nixvir will be ending in June of next year.

BoomerZ
Sep '24

An outline complete and knowing where I'm heading, with actual episodes done on the weekly. This allows me enough flexibility to have fun writing but not getting lost in the plot.

JoshRaed
Sep '24

I kind of have a plan. l know how it will end and things that will happen during that time, but that’s it.

Lensing
Sep '24

It always depends on what I´m working on.

I won a german comic contest with a comic which I wrote from panel to panel.
It´s hard to do it like that but I liked the result and it was fitting to the style of the comic

I´m currently creating a series of short cartoon like stories which all play in the same
setting. I´m writing a rough outline for the episodes and then give myself enough freedom
to improvise.

The fun part of making comics for me is the improvisation with a rough idea. Very
similiar to how I record an album. One of the best albums I recorded wasn´t planned
at all. We rehearsed the songs the night before the recording or on the day of the recording.

BarBarKetrab
Sep '24

Only vague ideas for now. Which is unfortunate, because I've learned that I find it extremely difficult to write without a solid plan.

If I had to come up with a ratio, then I think 60/40 would be my preferred plotted out/unplanned balance.

megumibex
Sep '24

I plan my story to have multiple arcs, and the first arc was around 80% finished when I started publishing. For the later arcs, I have the broad strokes of what I want to happen, but I won't plan out scene by scene until I'm ready to start writing them.

It's too early to say whether this system will work for me long term, but right now I'm quite happy with it.

Leyelle
Sep '24

Before I started releasing "Sun With a Paper Crown" (the sequel to "Damsel in the Red Dress.") and "A Dozen Morning Glories" I plot pointed the entire books chapter by chapter BUT i had not written out every chapter yet. I stocked up a certain amount of chapters in advance and wrote more while i released chapters from my buffer. I would consider the plot points much more than a vague outline since it's basically a play by play of the chapters (when i write my outlines) along with any relevant dialog or lines of description I want to make it into the final version of the chapter.

now for "Crystal Blue" I HAD an outline chapter by chapter, but it was much vaguer, and I ended up diverging from that outline and I just keep diverging. But hey the stories are better this way.

when I first started writing DITRD, i was just winging it with a vague concept of what would come later, but then i started coming up with ideas for future chapters and writing them down, organizing them chronologically, sometimes in pretty good detail, so it was kind of a combination



ArtGremlin
Sep '24

Yup! I have all the dialogue for Recollections written out, as well as doodles of the page concepts for some. One of the biggest benefits of this is that I can improve it as I go. Sometimes I’ll even add in a whole new page in the middle if I think it’s necessary.

kyupol
Sep '24

AngHell dela Blackpill has 10 or 11 chapters written down.

It's definitely gonna get more intense and exciting (in my biased opinion)

llobucervallince
Sep '24

I have planned this volume, 45% of my spin off, 65% of the second volume, 58% of the spin off's second volume and 20% of next, and about a 32% of the main story third volume.
Yeah, I know the direction my comic's going, I'm mostly scared that, given how far away it is, I'll change too much and grow out of my own work, so I'll try to evolve without affecting who the character in my story are.

Emalie
Sep '24

Yes, it's the best thing you can do. It took me a little longer than I thought to publish on Tapas, but it's worth having a buffer or even the entire story written in advance. I speak from experience. :sweat_smile:🥲

XiuLyn_12
Sep '24

I've just figured out the main parts and ending of my current work! Although I haven't thought about some details yet, which I think is pretty common for most authors, haha! :blush:

I'm planning to divide my story into 3 seasons, so I'm focusing on the first one for now! I wrote about 2 or 3 chapter drafts ahead to avoid any sudden need to change the plot. I've found this approach to be pretty helpful, I think!

Good luck with your work, Heidi! :yellow_heart:

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Tubacabra
Oct '24

I just barely started, but I can tell you right now: my mind does far too much wandering for me to write out my plot in any degree of detail. As we speak, I probably have about thirty premises/plotlines bouncing around my head, waiting for me to give them an outlet. Unfortunately, only about ten percent of those make it to my idea list. Seriously, I think of the weirdest things at the weirdest times. Just recently, I had an idea for a company in a sci-fi setting. "Edibles Inc.® Inventor of Prechewed Food and the all new Edible Human!" Disgusting, I know but that's how far my mind goes. :sob::sob::sob: