Going into the second chapter in a story

[chocolatteboss]

Hi everyone. I hope you all are doing well...

earlier this year I entered the second chapter of my story. I know it's still a second chapter and not nearly close to a completion, but it's a huge milestone to me.

I'm curious to know about the creators that worked on their stories for a long time....

1. How long did you work on it for?

2. How did your work process evolve?

3. What changed after doing the same thing and following the same characters for so long?

4. Did you stay with your original vision for your story or do you feel that you slowly drifted away? If yes how did you change and how did your story change?

You don't have to answer all these question. Or you don't have to answer them at all. I just want your insight before I share mine.

If you are curious about my story you can find it here on tapas and webtoons:

Thank you!

Peasant Queen | Tapas

Peasant Queen

[magnavarra]

1)I've wanted to draw a comic for quite a long, but stories I came up with were all no good. I first wanted to make a medieval drama about kings and queens which I really like in books and movies! But then I realized that I know very little about the topic from historical pov so it was very weak. Best advice I got from all my studies is "draw what you know and realy like" . I know how to revel and how to drink rum! And there were always funny things on our parties and gigs I went to, so I decidet to exagerate it into my story.
First I've started recording memorable moments into the notes on my phone ahd one day realized that it's actually my plot. It took me about half a year I guess.
2) I've started using miro realtime board to visualize storylines and keep some valuable information and connections there - since mobile phone is not very suitable for it
it looks like this

3) I have a lot of characters and more to go - I am not tired yet , I can always switch between them cause my story is kinda spiral - all happens at one time, but characters see it from their pov and only reader has the full picture
4) Right now it al goes according to plan while I only add some extras regarding realtime events.

[chocolatteboss]

wow. that looks so organized compared to my system interesting.

[magnavarra]

ha hs it's a small part )) others are more messy)))

[cosgo]

I have been working on my story for more than a year. I started making the first publications after 5 months.
During this time, only the drawing style has changed. It has become much better. And I decided to publish my story in English.
P.S. Congratulations on starting the second chapter

[chocolatteboss]

Thank you!
Good luck in your work!

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[Cavechan]

I started posting my True Power series in 2007. I'm not sure how long before then I started working on the series. The comic and all side stories were completed in 2016. So that took about 9 years, minus a 2 year hiatus (do not recommend, ever).

I started working on the story for the sequel, True Power: MS2 in... it must have been 2008 because I was still in college. I finished the thumbnails... I'm not sure when. I'm pretty positive before I started posting the comic. I started posting the comic in 2017. It's been 3 years and now I am on chapter 8 out of 20. Maybe 40% done. Ooph, kind of a scary number. Wish it were higher. lol

For my main comic, Celestial Chronicle Shion, I'm pretty sure I started brainstorming and creating the story in 2016 and started posting in 2017. 3 years later, I'm about 25% done.

Much of the process has remained the same as I thumbnail/outline in a notebook, review and tweak as needed. However, I used to work with traditional materials and now work digitally.

The things that have changed are I have more of a drive to work faster and complete more. I want to get faster at drawing so I can increase the output.

The stories are all my original vision for them.

I also have a new story I am brainstorming and want to begin working on but I really want to complete my True Power comic before working on it because 2 comics is a lot to handle already.