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stella
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Hey fellow writers!

When you have a story idea in mind, how do you approach writing and publishing it?

  • Do you start by publishing the first chapter and figure out the rest as you go?
  • Or do you prefer to write multiple chapters in advance before publishing?
  • Have you ever regretted your approach and wished you did it differently?

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wolflu66
23d

I complete the entire story outline before I start drawing the manga. So the direction of the ending is determined from the beginning. Of course, some temporarily added plots might be inserted in the middle, but overall, they don't affect the development of the main storyline.

As for the manga's dialogue, I only write the dialogue for the next chapter after completing the current one, at most writing dialogue for two or three chapters at a time.

2DLenzy
23d

As a to-be Tapas writer, I'm currently drafting as many chapters as I can right now. I'm kinda slow, and I also like to brood over my story a bit before I publish to make sure everything feels right. When I had started a comic on here, it was in production for about two years beforehand, so I had a good idea of everything that was going to happen (and still made things up along the way and changed things, lol) Only thing I somewhat regretted was getting feedback earlier, which would've enabled me to edit my pages for larger font. I know better now.

Hadn't spent as much time on my to-be novel story (about 8 months and 12-ish chapters on and off), but as soon I begin publishing it's gonna be interesting to see how I write and change things up. For now though, it's still in the drafting phase. I'm projecting to release in June, which gives me enough time to really pore over everything and have a large enough buffer so I don't stress over too many projects. We'll see how that goes.

Here's a link to said comic if anyone is interested to take a peek. Sub ain't required. Novel link will appear later June, if I remember to post it here...

KevinReijnders
23d

If I were to do a novel on tapas, I'd write the whole thing first and then start publishing it.

With my comic, the process of production is too slow to wait for it to be completely finished. That said, I have already written and sketched out the whole thing.

CarltonIsaac
23d

Complete my Novels (Novel Series), publish them on Amazon and Goodreads, then publish little chapter parts in sequence here on Tapas and also on Fiction press.

Comics are plotted completely, then at least a dozen episodes completed to have a buffer before posting on Tapas, Comiicfury, Globalcomix, Duckweb, Twitter, Instagram.

Leyelle
23d

I drafted the whole book first, and then write the chapters individually, and release them on a schedule

eternityoz
23d

As of now, my projected overall storyline is going to take up many thousands of tapas episodes, meaning drafting a considerable amount before posting would be pure agony for me. For the sake of planning, I've divided my story into overarching sections called 'sagas', connected story sections for 'seasons', and then the usual individual 'arcs'.

I usually plan out the general content of an arc / season in advance, but don't actually write them until a week or two before I publish a chapter / episode. Although I sometimes wish I were more prepared and had a backlog of chapters, I like the flexibility my style gives me, since I often end up coming up with ways to improve the plot or characters only as I write on a weekly schedule.

Ninjabunny
23d

For my comic I don't have multiple stories completed since that takes a long time to draw. I already have the words completed for at least 31 chapters but no drawings yet.


For my novel I wrote the whole thing before publishing, but then again I had it completed for a while, it just took time to edit. I find it easier to have them all completed so you can schedule when the chapters come out so you can work on other projects.

kyupol
23d

I draft multiple chapters.

ADB has about 10 chapters drafted and more outlined. It's turning epic in my head :laughing:

cinnaminions
23d

for webs and roses, i had everything written and (for the most part) edited beforehand. for cooking with soul, i only had a few episodes written, and it's a decision i almost immediately regretted🤡🤡🤡. i'm writing and editing as i go along, and while i love a challenge as much as the next person, i think this is one i could do without. in the future, i'll try to go back to my original method because i don't think my current one is sustainable.