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Sep 2017

During my neverending planning stage, I planned out every detail of my story, every turn of events, etc.
But now I kind of just improvise after each scene, changing up the plot a little bit. The main key events are still the same, but some of the smaller events have been tweaked.

I don't start writing a story unless I have a very clear idea of how it ends, and usually I have a decent sense of what events need to happen along the way to make that ending happen. But I try to write down as little as possible before hand, other than sometimes a timeline of things that happened before the story started (just to keep dates straight). The more I write down ahead of time, the less inspired I am to actually do it!

I plan out the plot pretty throughly cia bullet points (roughly 1 per page), then add details and dialogue as I go.

I'd say its half and half for Life of an Aspie2

I have an idea of where the comic is going in the future and I have a basic plot outline of the next chapter or two, but some of LoaA's story has been made up on the fly since not a whole lot is ever set in stone.

ok first get a beginning and an ending, write them in stone and the rest wing it, that way you start strong and end strong and you have a goal to build towards if you don't have a goal you end up like bleach a fire works as bright and flashy but dies quickly in the end

or at least that's my philosophy

that's the one with the creepy crazy illusionist guy Ainz was it? the ending was good in that one but after that the series went down hill faster then the approval rating for the Emoji movie

I'm fuzzy, but it was when they were in this big shinigami city and what used to be urban fantasy devolved into a tournament arc.

For all my stories, a conceptualized ending is necessary before I draw anything. I need to know what I'm working towards.
For ones with a hard plot, I like to have about 75% of it scripted and ready before drawing. I do rely on established dialogue before I plan out a page, but that doesn't mean I won't edit it last minute.
For slice of lifes with a loose plot, I might have 40–50% scripted with much of that in the beginning of the story so I have something to draw. Then while I'm drawing and publishing the early scenes, I have time to fill in the gaps of the latter half of the story.

For my actual comic, i have most of the story planned from beginning to end. But because is a comedy, i search for opportunities to make a good joke and think in which part of the story fits better. I do a script before making a page to avoid using the eraser as much as possible. Sometimes i get better ideas and i adjust the script before making it a page. That way i know where the story is going and i also have some flexibility to make changes.

For all of my stories I sort of do a rough idea of what I want to happen and then I just carry on with the story as I feel the natural progression to get from point A to point B as I write. It's loosely planned, and quite spontaneously lol.

I usually have a plan. That plan has various layers, with varying degrees of detail, but I can't say I have every detail laid out. My brain doesn't work like that.

To me, laying out every detail would encompass knowing exactly how many chapters/issues a story was going to span and the details of each, and I just don't go that far. I honestly don't know what the next chapter will contain until I start planning and writing it.

I have an outline, but only of things done in the past.

Once the comic starts, I literally make things up page by page.
No real script, tho I use Open Office to proof read.

I know. I'm chaos.

i planned robo hole1 all our from the start. but i changed some things while i was doing them. like it was mainly suppose to be about 2-3 characters. but then i started to really like some of the extras and put them in the story more
all the big plot things were already planned out tho. i think its fun to plan it out cuz then ya can plant little clues to things in the story

A little in the middle XD For What Is the Price of Freedom, I did a little both. I knew what I wanted but sometimes your characters will take a sudden change which turns the story around.

I don't think you should make up a story as you go unless you're just experimenting. If it's a story that you're in any way serious about then you should plan at least the bare bones of the story.

i failed every single comic i made up as i went before i hit 20 pages, started working with a script and a bullet point plot outline for SPIRE1 and im at around 130+ pages

i only have up to chapter 5 outlined at the moment but i have a rough gathering of important plot points up to season 2 of my comic. if your story has a structured plot you REALLY should use a script and outline or you will hit a brick wall at some point.

This is my script: 3 Seriously though, you can always change something that's already planned out, but you'll never hit plot problems if you work them out ahead of time. It's nicer for your fans to know that the story isn't going to self-destruct and disappear because you lost your way in the story, that there's an ending. https://tapas.io/series/chateaugrief3