Cool question. I actually fell into reading a lot of BL, specifically werewolf BL last year and I started to see kinda of the same plot over and over again. There really wasn't anything new and I kinda want something more than the typical "alpha claims me" or "i didn't know I was a werewolf" so I decided to write my own. And after that, I have been writing ever since. And this is my first time writing so I really have been enjoying myself! Cheers!
I came up with mine after thinking of random scenarios that my characters, that I drew separately, would get into together. Then they became a trio and I made the comic.. Some influences from short comedy/Slice of Life anime and long comedy/action/Slice of Life anime is in there XD
I started mine with a simple character that I made for fun one day and gave him supernatural powers. I wanted to expand/elaborate on said powers so that it would be easier to explain and well it just all went from their.
1: Designing the Characters
2: Me thinking to myself: "How can I hurt youuuuu?"
And then a story happens 
2: Me thinking to myself: "How can I hurt youuuuu?"
The mind of every series creator to their own characters XD
oh yeah mine really spun out of control
so initially the titular character, vainglory, was a D&D character. I gave her a couple fun, energetic traits, but she was not complex. then, gradually, as we went through the first campaign, she became more and more complex and developed a more and more detailed backstory. slowly, she began to interact with the themes of romance, humanist and hedonist philosophy, abuse and self-loathing, and compartmentalization
several years later, I drew her buff and I was like "I need to continue drawing her" and thus the comic was accidentally born
There was just too many BL comics out there. So I wanted to make the last one.
@wocalichofficial what an interesting way to start a novel. With a chant.
I wanted a gothic romance about two women who get locked in a medieval castle while searching for an artifact (it was a collection of rare pottery illegally exported from Vietnam by the French.) one lady was of Jamaican descent from Montreal, the second was a Vietnamese with the knowledge of the artifacts being stolen from the destroyed museum through her family. The French family was the villains.
Seeing how that set-up would be too hard to find audience for on-line, I change to the Italian mafia family power struggle that puts the two future lovers in the dungeon, made it straight, American and the bad boy with tragic past for the love interest. Once I decided to write First Person, Present Tense, I had to make the main character un-identifiable. I also added a bit of deSade and CIA background for the dungeon
They both sound interesting, Domi!
I'm glad you came up with Trapped by the Mafia though, the main character is a joy to read. 
Thank you!
I am hoping to finally wrangle a werewolf book into something not too out there for people to read. But so far my ideas have been too outlandish to capture audience. Also, switch gears to BL vs female protagonist. Probably start with BL first, since it will come more natural to me, then work on werewolfinization.
Oh? I'd love to read a werewolf book by you. Why do you think BL will come more naturally? Are you better at male mcs?
I like writing romances. I had problems with shifters, because I have no natural interest in werewolves.
My 2 dragon-shifter books tanked harder than any other books Iâve written, so I donât trust myself. âOh, a were-crow will work! Oh, a prehistoric setting would be awesome!â
Nope. It wouldnât work, it is too out of the genre, stupid. Werewolves seems to be like a gothic romance, have to stick closely to the formula.
And there are were-crows in some stories...if you go to Japan. Like Tengu or the three-feet crow(Yatagarasu)
I would love sth like that from you Domi @domisotto
When i was a kid, while playing with my cousins,for some reason i found a rock in my toy box.....
I thought this random rock in the toy box was hillarious so i used it as a rock, but every other character would treat it as a legendary hero.....
Many years later i remembered that funny anecdote and thought it could be a hillarious premise, so i made an inanimate rock a shonen Mary Sue protagonist.
And this, kids, is how i came up with Rocky the rock1
I think the issue is that when it comes to novels, the visual elements are not shown, so reader`s imagination fill the blanks.
You may have a really cool and sexy design in your mind for your dragonshifters, but conveying that is trickier. Werewolves and vampires have an established presence in pop culture and media, so the mental image on how they can be attractive is already there.
I am not saying that dragon shifters can`t be pretty, but on novels is way trickier to convey the visuals the way you expect.
edit:(just to clarify, i mean the humanoid form)
I don't think that's the problem. They weren't trying to convey the sexiness of dragons after all, that would be bestiality. And Domi is good at writing attractive males.
Mine came up from my personal experiences or what I saw or feel. I also wanted to work on my sense of humor, so there's that. I initially started mine as a means to experiment on panel composition. Nowadays, I became unexpectedly invested to it.
Mine has come up from an idea I had as a 13 year old, way back in the early 2000s.
Originally my main character was just a Sonic OC. Then the concept for the story changed as I aged, and finally in 2009 I had an idea for a Battle Shonen with a dinosaur mc of epic proportions.
Then the story continued to evolve for another 7 years until I finally, finally after many variants and failed starts I buckled down and decided to take the plunge into it. And in January 2017 I finally started and stuck with it and built up a buffer and released it in August 2017.
As for how I came up with it, it's just a mixture of my interest in dinosaurs, action cartoons, and heavy metal music.
What can I say, I'm a stubborn dreamer XD I really just wanted to get to a point where my story becomes an animated series or even a movie.
No, i have good visuals and all that. Itâs a full dragon when he shifts and a human knight when he doesnât, so the imagery is familiar. In the first book, he becomes a dragon as the ending. Itâs just wasnât what people wanted to read.
Definitely. That stubbornness has kept me going through a lot of difficult times, burnouts, and depressions. No matter what I always try to put pen on paper (or drawing tablet xD) even if I don't feel like it.
The looks is not what draws people to werewolves and explains their durability vs vampires or elves. The hierarchy that provides built-in inequality, the fitting in, the fated/forced nature of romance paired with loyalty, the discovery of being a magic boy/girl, they promise those popular staples. The other shifters do not have the same promise, no matter how they look. Obviously, if you draw, and you get a drop-dead gorgeous/intriguing man-image, it helps to titillate but yeah, the magic of werewolves has more to it than the muscular hairy chest
For me, my comics started off as a one off about teenagers who were training to be ninjas called "The Action Society". But for shits and giggles, I did a little sketch of an apple ninja who could've also been a teenager and a part of the group.
Although, I really wanted to stand out. So instead of making them human teenagers, I made the ninjas all giant sentient fruits who were teenagers instead and ran with the idea. Yep, that was several years go and since then, they've been called "The Action Fruit Society". I doubt you'll find any other cartoons similar to mine about fruits (or any food items who are crime-fighters in general). It just goes to show you that a kid's imagination is filled with endless possibility 
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There is actually a long classic MG novel from an Italian writer, immensely popular in Russia about preteen sentient fruits and vegetables overthrowing the aristocracy
