Establishing Stories

[insomniascrawl]

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.

[ConradComics]

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.

[natchevil]

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.

[TrustyShamrock]

i planned robo hole 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

[joe_galindez]

You got a broken link, bro.

[TrustyShamrock]

huh. yeah lookit that. thanks i fixed it!

[375]

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.

[tayo_rafferty]

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.

[spadesart]

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 SPIRE 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.

[JeanGuillet]

This is my script: 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/chateaugrief