Do you know how your comic will end or are you just winging it with a faint idea?
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For the two I have on Tap, winging it, because I don't really foresee a conclusive ending, more like I'll stop at a point in the characters' lives and they'll just keep on going on as they have been.
I have other series that definitely END...
In fact I've written out their endings already. And in one case I've written the ending before the middle parts.
My comic has a fixed ending, but I've left it open enough to change it in the future if I want to.
I could change my mind and continue the story though: I wrote it that way for that reason.
I know exactly how I want mine to end, for me I need to know that in advance before I work on the story so I know what I'm going towards.
More or less, I often go with the flow and since I started my comic many things changed but they are all going in the direction that I planned. But it's more of a open thing, it's nice when you can adjust the ending to make it better!
I know exactly how I want Enchiridion to end. The only problem is getting there. I've basically only have the first 3 chapter thought out and then some of the bigger events with no idea how to get to them. That said the ending isn't permanent if I come up with a better one I'll change it. It's my make it up as I go series.
And Rebuild is going to be oneshot with an ending that implies that it can be turned into a series (but probably won't). I haven't completely thought out but a lot of the things are difficult for me to draw so I'm struggling.
I wouldn't want to start a comic without a conclusion in mind - I did that as a highschooler and became trapped in that comic (and seeing other artists get caught in a redrawing loop as they improved their skills over years but became dissatisfied with their first pages made me want reconsider).
I'm currently posting a stand-alone episodes comic, which I feel freedom from.
Over years I have been working on several comics of various length but never started seriously drawing them until I knew where it was heading (I actually almost always start writing from the ending 
).
Recently, I have been thinking of seriously drawing a comic that has a proper ending but in those 150 or so pages I can't explore the whole world and explain everything, so I think that if the story were to become popular, I would make a sequel where the rest is explained.
I find it really important to have a clear ending in mind.
Well, i have to admit, I do have an ending, but it's very very vague! Haha. I don't plan for my story to be very long and for some reason, it's just easier for me to see the end without the details. I'm only about a chapter ahead in writing and I really need to step it up!
Already plan it. It's going to be EPIC with everything concluded and revelation will be out and epic stuff will happen...
And i need a hella lot skill's to pull it off... fortunately it's still a LONG way to go so hopefully I can manage to improve
myself along the way... hopefully.
@ghostnxs how about you?
haha, nope that's why I'm starting to write short stories/ one shots so I can practice writing and finishing(I have a problem not doing that).
I have it very clearly written down how my current ongoing story should end. The ending changed a few times over the last few years, but it became obvious after a while. I find it extremely hard to start drawing a story without working out a conclusion first during the writing process.
I'd normally just wing it but I bet that would be a bad idea, especially for a long story. I get bored of long planning.
Oh yes, I have a solid idea how I want my story to end. And even if I make some changes to the meat of the plot, I still know the direction I need to go.
I have two similar endings I need to choose from for my horror comic... I need to fully write it out in script form as well.
It usually is beneficial to think of an ending as you're creating the beginning, so I did that with my newest comic too.
Main ending, yep!
Endings between chapters/arcs....much harder for me.
My writer: "I know you want X to happen in Y chapter, but what are you looking for as the ending to Y and Z chapters?"
Me: ╮ (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) ╭
I have the preferred ending that I would ideally like to reach, and I have the emergency ending for if my health gets too poor and I need to stop drawing comics.
Hopefully I never have to use the emergency ending.
I know how Grassblades ends. I haven't worked out 100% of the details yet (there's a certain character who I haven't decided if they survive or not, and I don't know whether I'll end it right after the climax, or whether I'm adding an epilogue), but I know where I'm headed.
Being a sprawling, very long story-format comic, Grassblades needs to have a bit of structure to it; if I was just winging it, I'd write myself into a corner. There's going to be lots of stuff going on further down the line, and I need to know where everything is going so that all the separate characters and subplots keep heading in the same direction.