How do you keep yourself from spoiling everyone around you about your Story?

[Legendofgenii]

LOL! So you just tease them into thinking somethings going to happen, but then it doesn't?

[KoreanTacos]

Quite often, its more fun than blurting out the truth

[joannekwan]

If people type in the comments and they get close to what will actually happen I will often reply with something like "we'll see! :3c " It's a bit of a tease without being a full blown spoiler.

But if people are way off I usually leave those alone. Especially if it sounds like their minds are made up that what they predict is what will happen. I won't correct them in the comments, I'll just have to wait for the story to get there.

Otherwise, I spoil everything to a third party, namely my husband, who doesn't have a vested interest in the story, but has a lukewarm interest in my creative endeavors. I use him to bounce ideas off of all the time.

[TAMAnnoying]

they way i do it is ill usually spoil the really small things or the things that don't matter too much cause it might be an epilogue kind of spoiler so it has no real effect on the "here and now" scenes and events....

this usually stops people from asking me the hard questions like "so whos gonna die in the story?"

[jcmraz]

I just don't talk about it behind the scenes unless I want to bounce some ideas off people. I want it to be learned in the order that I write it. I care about the pacing.

[kelchan]

Most of my readers end up spoiling my story just in the comments but I guess its easy to follow and not necessarily a bad thing, though I'll throw em some curve balls to keep it fun. Also shows high engagement.

[imagineemmajun]

I just go with the flow. If my brain is throwing up new ideas for chapters I make an outline til that well runs dry. Then I get back to drafting. If my brain is stuck on one chapter I keep drafting that chapter. I find if you don't follow the creativity you can risk losing it.

[amthecomic]

Personally I always answer that in the end everybody dies. They stop asking about it.

[MoseyP]

One day I cornered my brother and just told him the entire plot of my story Vehementia (it's okay, I didn't force him, he wanted to hear it ahaha). It was great because it let me flesh out the plot in my own mind and it was satisfying to tell someone else about it.

[shfra13]

Simply, I
......................... do not talk.

Easier to do when I have no friends and no socmed for my projects.

Any time I have an idea on my mind, I will talk to myself and that's it, that's kinda enough to fuel my thirst of talking about my projects lol Well, when I do have someone interested in my projects and ask something spoiler-ish, I'll say "the answer will be too spoiler! So just look out for it" and that's that.

[nostalgicroxas]

I try but most of the people around me:
1 don't care
2 don't read the story
3 know of it and the characters but haven't read it because "im too busy"
4 dont want spoilers, because if they do ever read the story, they don't want to have been spoiled
5 have read up to like .... chapter 15 and stopped for whatever reason, so anything i tell them will be so far removed from their context of the plot they'll just go.... huh?

[Caro]

Honestly, I just don’t think I feel comfortable talking about my work in general!

I only really talk about plot stuff with folks who also work in comics like my partner and some of our colleagues and usually only when I’m having structural problems that I need to talk out and get some input on. Everybody needs one or two peers who aren’t just readers or potential readers!!

[lynestjules]

I find mystery most enticing and personally, I hate spoilers. I want to go on the journey and explore everything on my own.

I often get questions about upcoming chapters at conventions especially. I rather say something true, but super vague that nothing is spilled or let them tell me what they think is going to happen. I know they're loving the story and part of it is the fact that they get to go on the journey with the character, that's why spoilers is a big no-no.

I'm super duper excited about this current chapter and I've been wanting to do it for over 5 years, but it's so challenging to draw that it's actually a much slower process to get a page done, so I'm really no where ready to upload any of it. So, to satisfy my need to share it with people, I did the cover and uploaded it. It's enough to get something out there, without saying too much. I'm very secretive about my series.

[cherrystark]

It's really hard... I have great backstories and spoilers that I want to talk about with somebody but I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't read it. I generally just tell my brother who is another writer but hasn't read my stuff.

[blackorchid]

I have found that a small circle of people works well for me, even if it's the one friend who I know will probably never read it but still wants to support in their own way. They're great for bouncing ideas of and for coming up with things I would have otherwise not realized.

As for the really delicious spoilers: I have no remedy other than my cats. My secrets are kept with them.

Though, honestly, I preface my stories with 'spoilers or no-spoilers?' and a blanket, okay do you want the tag-line, or do you want the grab-your-limbas-bread-and-compass,-Frodo,-we're-going-on-an-adventure version when I talk to people about my stories.

[MeltingCORE]

I know this feeling well lol! When you've got some cool stuff coming up, it absolutely is hard to keep yourself tight-lipped. For my followers, I tend to drop hints - not spoilers - in my art. Clues. The only people who get to know ahead of time are my bf and two of my closest friends who are also my beta readers.

[DaysOfLunatics]

Haha omg you're not alone. It's a pain really.
The comic has been my hyper obsession for a long time and I'm super aware of that, so I actually try not to mention the comic at all around ppl cuz otherwise I keep rambling forever and won't be able to keep the spoilers away.

But to not violently collapse and implode I have 1 person (and my dad haha) who I share everything with. (almost hehe) All the spoilers, theories and new ideas and characters.

I took a look at your comic, I really like your style!
I definitely wanna see more :v
Keep up all that awesome work!

[Rhonder]

I approach the manner in 2 different ways depending on who I'm talking to/who's asking:

Someone I'm friends with (or like creator acquaintances I'm comfortable discussing projects with):

I honestly don't have any qualms about spoiling my stories to people in this group unless they request to remain unspoiled which I don't mind accommodating (although I admittedly have yet to encounter this, all of my friends are happy to talk deets hahah). For me, at least, having people to talk to and bounce ideas off of help me to develop the story into a stronger end result, especially in the outlining and scripting stages. For TreasureHUNT!!, for example, I sent the entire storyboard out to several of art and non-art friends asking for feedback before I got started on the story proper, so there were several people who had the whole short story's plot and events front to back before I even began drawing it for real xD

Misc. People I don't know and/or random readers commenting and posing questions or whatever:

For people I don't know or who are purely readers of my story I just... don't talk spoilers and answer any spolier digging questions in a vague manner lol. I think it's easier to control myself on this because I allow myself to have the aforementioned outlets. This includes anything I write or type out publicly though- like I make an exception on these forums since it's primarily a creator based platform, but generally I try to keep spoilery story discussion for my projects either in like discord servers, vocally when hanging out with someone, etc.

[DiegoPalacios]

I put in my comic subtle foreshadowing of future characters and events.....that takes away any urge to tell them, while keeping them surprised.

If they don't notice the hints, they will be surprised and impressed. If they read again when they connect the dots.....If they notice the hints, they will feel clever and get more engaged.

One way or another......is a win

[honeyandcreambutter]

Oh mannn. EXTREME self-restraint. My webtoons is still in its early stages so none of my readers have burning questions in their mind. But the novel adaptation of it is quite ahead so I've had quite a few readers comment their questions and theory discussions.

It's so incredibly difficult not to spoil anything cause I just want to be like "AND THEN IT GOES LIKE THIS! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?" but I also know they're not actually asking a question to me directly to get answers. So usually I just cry internally and keep my mouth shut.

I ended up exploding the entire plot to my close friend though lmao.