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unknown_user
Feb '19
kimketli

Hmmmmmmmmmmm...
I remember that I had real human feelings, thoughts and ability to make simple conclusions, since the times I've learned to talk, at the very least. When I was a kid, I didn't know a lot of things, which I know now, I was less able to control my emotions and had less developed abstract thinking, but I still definitely was a human.
Kids are humans, and dehumanisation of particular groups of people is dangerous thing, it have lead to all kinds of totally unnecessary cruelty during the human history (including cruelty toward kids as well).

unknown_user
Feb '19

I've disposed many of my stories cause as time was passed, I've grown up and realised that

  1. The writing was vomit-enducingly bad.

or that they plots don't seems as anything interesting to me anymore.
But later I've started to doubt, was they really so bad or it was just perception distortion, caused by my unstable self-estimate? :thinking: I will never find out now ¯_(ツ)_/¯

2, In the start of the story I kind of bullied someone that I knew, he's "the weird kid at school."
The reason I stopped writing this was, it felt wrong. Creating this fictional world, Just to always remember the roots of the story were rotten, like I used to be.
For these reasons I can't even share my first actual story with my English teacher. All because of the first 4 pages. For if they found out I bullied a kid that is already bullied alot, that would really affect my reputation at school even though I have changed as a person since then.

I think I can agree with this reasoning. Inserting real people in your story may cause a lot of problems, especially if you make them look bad or mock on them in any of ways.

tyler9721111
Feb '19
Klaustasya

Are you saying you lose interest or the readers? If it is the readers, just keep working at it and read tons of popular comics and learn from them. If "you" lose interest than keep working eventually you will make a seires that you stick with. If you weren't cut out for comics you would have never tried in the first place.

So, good luck.

indagold
Feb '19

Part 2 of this story (or sequel or whatever). It was like...600-700 pages of meandering plot and it didn't even have an ending planned out for years, ate up a lot of my time and wanted to save on production so I cut corners and drew kinda shitty. I mean it does look cool visually in a few scenes and there are maybe 2-3 story arcs that felt kinda interesting but damn I could've just figured it out better in retrospect.

Freemints30
Feb '19

That kinda reminds me of a short story I wrote for an English assignment in primary school(I maybe was 9-11 years). I remember it being written the first person and based on actual incident that happen to me. However it was just way too personal for me to write especially with the last part of it involved me portraying one of my class mates(i even used their real name) alot worse than they actually were, they definitely didn't treat me as bad as several other kids during that time so I feel even worse doing that. I regret ever thinking that was a good idea to hand up.

Polararts
Feb '19
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I try not to be too hard on my kid self, everyone's cringy growing up but i'm at a point where I can just laugh at the childishness of my younger self without any malice.

I used to write A LOT of stories where the characters were trans, but I wasn't fully aware of the concept at the time.
I'm afraid those stories may have come off offensive to readers who understood their gender better than me.

I'm NB but didn't know it back then. I never said the character was trans or went into much detail about their gender yet there were a lot of telling moments that implied it, so I feel like I wasn't being informative or helpful to young readers who may have been going through gender soul searching themselves.

I'd hate for a story like that to be taken as the author being disrespectful to the subject. If I still had the log in info, I'd want to go back and make an authors note that those stories were written from the perspective of a very confused teen who was going through some stuff.

Nail
Feb '19

For me it's usually like this:
Stage one: I've got an idea, I like it, I work on it, I like what I'm doing, I'm finishing it.
Stage two: Three days later I'm dreadding to look at it, fearing, the cringe will kill me.
Stage three: Few years later I found the thing and think: "Hm... It was really good. Not like that shit I made three days earlier".

Polararts
Feb '19
Freemints30

I can relate to that. I would write a lot of stories about my characters being abused to cope with my own.
Gutsy of you to hang it up!! But in terms of writing it out, I don't think you should be too hard on yourself. You were just trying to process your feelings.

It's like how we have dreams/nightmares of similar irl situations as a way for our brains to figure out what we could have done different. It could also show us that things could be worse in order to lessen whatever strong emotion is troubling us.

Sean
Feb '19

Basically all the stories I've ever made. Sometimes I ask myself first like, "Will I regret this after?" "yeah probably." But I still do it anyways because I like to suffer. :joy:

lil-sea-salt
Feb '19

I wrote this story in 8th grade about everybody in the class being superheros and the teachers being villains and then I left it somewhere and the whole school read it . . . then in the end I made everyone die because I didn't want to write it anymore and I got in trouble . . . but then the principle was also in it so I got out of trouble because he thought his part was good.

I did it once in 4th grade too and the principle was there while I read it and he said I should write for tv . . . which was like a nice compliment. but the one in fourth grade just had my close friends and teacher and principle . . . not the whole school

Hexigate
Feb '19

I don't have any stories I outright regret making. "Regret" seems like too strong of a word, It's not like I've actively made the world worse than before with my stories...I hope...

It's just terrible writing when you look back at it.

But I'm honestly quite happy when I look back at those stories. Despite how terrible it is, I get nostalgic about them. It's like going back to a simpler time when you didn't know how to write well and you didn't care, you just wrote. I'd think about how differently I'd write it if I were to, say, remake this particular story idea. And a part of me indulges in bad stories, like a guilty pleasure.

Zaboem
Feb '19

Nah, I do not regret. I just label my stories as satire and pretend that they are bad on purpose.

More seriously though, one of the aspects of being an amnesiac is a general ignorance of all sorts of things I did when I was young. I might have made wonderful or terrible things as a child for all I know, and I do not remember any of it. As an adult, I have not really been productive enough to have an early and then late career.

demthorshie
Feb '19

My first ever comic that I made is so shameful, I pretend it never even happened x.x. Art was terrible, story was non-existent, plot kept changing, characters were bland, I didn't even write a proper script for it. Everything kind of just happened how it happened. Good god, and the comic is still out there in the interwebs. I pity anyone that finds it :x.

2 months later
baasinsimple
Apr '19

Yeah... No use crying over spilled milk though. I find myself regretting nearly every comic decision I make now. So that's fun.

TJSchongar
Apr '19

I have stories that I regret wasting time on, but only because they were co-written, and they didn't really go anywhere. I wish I'd had more purpose in those cases, not that I hadn't created the stories themselves.

QueenofBabyLoon
Apr '19

I am more of a fanfic writer. I was suffering from a debilitating disease for … well, forever. Just that I didn't know so (it is a really funny disease when you know you have it … but when you don't, it can cause neurological damage in its worst form).

So, I was really suffering from pseudo-depression and tried desperately to shake myself out of it. I was somewhat known for the fandom and pairing I was writing for. And as soon as I started that story, it went wrong. I was not able to organize my thoughts at all. The style was completely off compared to what readers were used to with me.

They picked up something was really wrong and many reached out to me. And it is thanks to that that I went to the doctor and got a diagnosis. So I regret the horrible writing I put people through, but at the same time, I don't regret having written it, taking into account it helped me in a very weird way.

AniStaciaArt
Apr '19

I don't regret what I write, typically. Even stuff that isn't very good I find a good idea or a line that is particularly good. My problem is with art. Every time I finish something I have to promise myself I'll move on and never look at it again or I'll just redo it over and over. I'm never satisfied with my art. I cut myself more slack with writing, I guess.

Maps
Apr '19

I have a guy from school in the past who I really regret treating how I did. I wouldn’t say I bullied him because we were also kind of friends, but since he was bullied a lot it was embarrassing that he followed my friend and I around and I pretended I didn’t care for him. I didn’t want to be bullied for being friends with him. In retrospect I did care about him and I hope that he’s found a good friend system these days, many many years later. (I looked him up on Facebook, he looks good)! You are not alone in this type of regret!
Maybe if you’re comfortable doing it, you can reach out to the guy you bullied and aplogize for treating him wrong or for doing anything that you did to hurt him. Maybe after that you can accept your own writing as a learning experience.
Or another way to make personal amends is to maybe have your character grow to own up to his mistakes and make amends with the character the bullied in the starting pages. Kind of like writing in a way to forgive yourself for your past mistakes.
Just a thought!

Best of luck in your writing!

baasinsimple
Apr '19

Man, I had to reboot a couple times to, but I didn't have any romance the last project I made. I spent 2016-2019, a good 2 1/2 years with my project called 'The Quos', I'm happy I quit it. I wouldn't call it a waste of time but it's a real shame it never got anywhere.