How do you plan stories

[MochoStudios]

I am struggling with planning stories
How do you people do it

[IdiotWithPencil]

How I plan:
0. have an idea and try to explain it in 10 words or less
1. make a check list of ideas, what scenes you want, what expositions should happen and what will happen in the story.
2. make a rough outline of these ideas, place them in a time line and make sure it makes sense.
3. right down the characters you will need for each story idea, and give them personalities you would want to see
4. write down how the characters react to the situation and try and steer the plot to hit each beat while still having the characters act as they should.

next up is just fleshing out and writing the story with dialogues and panels happy writing

[magnavarra]

As for artist is hard for me to simply write out story I want to see it. i am using miro realtime board (it's free!)
you can drag some pictures there and text and connect it with arrows to establish story flowchart .
Start with main events and thrn add detail or referenses. You can even write dialogues and copypaste it to the story later
it looks something like this

[detectiveghostfrog]

I normally bounce ideas back and forth with my close friends. See if it's a story arc that could be viable, and true to the characters. See if it would be something I could keep on track and up to date with and plan out rough sketches to make sure it will still flow well!

There are so many good ways to plan out stories but honestly different things work for different people, so I would recommend trying a bunch of different ways and see which sits best with you.

[TheGentleArtist]

I generally plan a story by have a beginning then have an end; once that happens, I fill in between and make sure that it connects and makes sense

The idea either comes up from creating a character(s) then building a world around them to create a story

After thinking up a character design, I draw the character and then draw them again after some time to change their appearance until they look good

I sometimes make a script for dialogues, but mostly just wing it after thinking about the dialog and going straight into making a panel

[BakedPotato]

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[Kiweevil]

I doodle out crucial scenes to visualize an idea of what I want, then storyboard the comic a bit like an animator doing inbetweens on keyframes ^w^ the hardest part is just getting started. Once you have that first bit of connective tissue, the rest comes naturally