One big, four-year, webcomic-shaped one.
My comic started out as a novel. I did a rough draft in 2013 - really rough, as in, it was a complete story but quite a few key scenes were just summarized or glossed over - and left it undone because I was just going to turn it into a comic anyway.
But this weekend, I decided I wanted to go back and finish it. And the more I write, the more I realize that oh sweet Jesus was trying to adapt this as a comic a bad idea. It's slow-paced, with loads of description, dialogue, and narrator commentary, and almost no action until the second half. So, as it is now, the picture-to-word ratio is far, far too high.
I've been doing one for every paragraph or two, when really, it only needs one every three or four pages to show what the characters and settings look like.
It's a problem. I've had to cut out a lot of passages about the characters' personalities and histories, and I've felt the need to tell sections in pictures that should've been told in wordsâlike the main character looking something up in a bookâleading to some unnecessary pages that are my least favorite parts of the comic.
Not to mention it goes on hiatus all the time due to the difficulty of trying to draw things that really shouldn't be drawn. Where I am in the comic is ten percent of the way through the novel. After four years. And I've still got a lot more to write in.
In other words, it's not really a webcomic, it's a light novel, and I don't want to continue on its current path. What do?