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jonathanhudgens
Aug '14
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Personally i do my writing during the thumbnailing process....keeps me goin' ya know. But now its your turn, how do you write your stories?

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Preney
Aug '14

That's my pass time on the bus to and from school. Just making a bullet pointed list of ideas for my comic.
I just try to choose what is easiest to draw when I get home XD
Then I draw a sketch into a final. Boom, bam, done!

supercerealos
Aug '14

Well, I do a gag comic, so I don't do much writing. I just think of it and then scrap the comic, I guess you could say the scrap serves as a script. Then I do the comic based on that.

Kecreed
Aug '14

I do something similar to Preney, I think about the story a lot before writing. Though often times I forget certain things so I quickly write them down on anything, even a receipt. I outline the whole dialogue as I'm sketching the page out as well as little notes, here and there about the action to remember whats going on for future reference.
First thing I do though is get the beginning thought out as well as how the series will end, that way I know there's an actual ending instead of just dragging things out.

duong99
Aug '14

My comics are all based on special events in my life or "in the moment" ideas and if I think they are good enough, I draw them out. "but Matthew how do you determine if they are good enough?" Basically, if I laugh to myself like an insane person, then I know to draw it out.

When it comes to drawing, I doodle everything out in this small sketch book I made for myself and I doodle a rough sketch of the idea. When I get home, I take out my iPad and I draw it on there smile

teddy
Aug '14

One of my comics, the one I am currently working on, is based on life experiences that I remember from recent days.
For my other comics, which I am still brainstorming now, I simply jot down some major moments in the plot, some ideas for each episode, and even draw little scenes. I later compile them and organize them into a nice story.

jonathanhudgens
Aug '14

i just subbed to your comic, im a total sucker for slice of life films and movies and animes.

teddy
Aug '14

Thanks, I appreciate the support! And yeah, I enjoy reading slice of life comics here on Tapastic. I even love reading slice of life / realistic fiction novels.

hurstah
Aug '14
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When I'm writing for my comic, I begin by thinking of different subjects or topics I can build off from. Sometime I will be asleep in bed and thinking of ideas. I also try to read a lot of different material. The more you read, the more you know.

MylCreates
Aug '14

For Hacheeachkee3 I think through the story, then I write the script/story (it's a mix), then I read it through with a friend so they can critique me or ask me questions
"why the heck would they do that when they can do this?" "Well, uh-... good point"
Then I'd go back and change, re-review, then when I feel like it's ok then I draw out thumbnails according to that script/story.

kristintipping7
Aug '14

I generally write down a bulleted list of all the plot points on paper first. When I'm satisfied I know how the basic plot is going to go, I start making the script and the page layouts in Word. I make a table and put the script in the left column and the page layouts in the right.

noxfox
Aug '14

I've been writing since I was 13 and the most successful pipeline I've found for myself is to have a little bunch of text docs in which I write themed elements. I'll have a doc for plot devices that I think would be useful, one for emotional sequences I want my characters to experience, one for events, several for listing characters, locations, factions, cultures, beliefs, politics, etc... And then I start to thread all those things together in another doc so to shape the skeleton of the plot, with milestones.
Then I write the script in the fashion of a theatre play, with annotation as to where the focus should be, and trying to already picture in my mind how I will organize the page.

HOWEVER, for my current series, Singmire Haze4, I just have a small list of little things I'd like to have in the story at some point, and for the rest it's just improvisation. I usually don't know what will happen beyond the 5~10 next pages, so it's a lot of fun.
But also something I can achieve thanks to those 13 years of experience in writing. Heh. Now I can say I've been writing for half of my life.

hankcoca
Aug '14

When my comic was a slice of life I used to just come up with the idea and then draw a thumbnail and then I would write the text after I drawing the comic. Now that they connect I write scripts one chapter at a time, then I draw the thumbnails and I rewrite based on the final drawings.

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groovykinda
Aug '14

I do each script as a series of thumbnails so I can see where everything goes. Then, if I have time, I let it sit and think about it. Then I make a couple more drafts before I finally sit down to draw.

mrazrielblack
Aug '14

Usually for me it begins with an idea that I then start to explore. I usually map out a lot of stories in my head during work hours and them write them down in script form when I come home.
I usually look at stories like a huge puzzle where I'm discovering pieces or simply making my own pieces, carefully crafting a tale I'll be happy with.
After I've written it down and begin to draw it I usually make a few changes to it and revise it. You know, polish it a bit smiley

LittleEndian
Aug '14

Since my comic is a slice of life comic, I let ideas come to me in real life and from my family, or friends stories...).
And also when I watch movies or series (like Little House on the Prairie).
There are some situations which I said to myself "Oh, this movie made a happy end, what if thing turned bad for the heroes? what if...?" So I used to imagine parallel stories smile

I usually write down my ideas on the way from work to home. ^^

Sidulus
Sep '14

I pretty much write down a basic plotline (usually in text edit or something like that) to rough out how the overall story will go. I generally tend to bullet point events like
1.) Character A and B go to the market.
2.) While Character A is bartering with a spices trader, Character B spots a rare gem that he recognizes.
So on and so forth.
I have a few people look over it to see if there are any real plotholes or glaring issues that I might have overlooked.
After edits, I go in again and write a more detailed script that contains the exact dialogue and descriptions of what is going on in the panels.
After that... more feedback and more edits.
Then I start sketching out the comics themselves, and pretty much go from there depending on what my schedule allows.

Raven_C
Sep '14

My process is quite similar to OP's process. While I do some basic outlines and scripting, most of the major changes in writing come during thumbnailing! Sometimes the way I panel things influences the dialogue and flow of the story. My comic is slice-of-life, and there's really no "big plot" so writing the story isn't too difficult. I just go with the flow~

Aeonhue
Sep '14

Well here are my steps

  1. Create broad Idea
  2. Create timeline of important events and character changes
  3. Thumbnails
  4. Final page

I tried to write a script but it just seemed unnecessary so I write dialogue during the Thumbnail process which is basically a script. I do this even with my current series Well here are my steps

  1. Create broad Idea
  2. Create timeline of important events and character changes
  3. Thumbnails
  4. Final page

I tried to write a script but it just seemed unnecessary so I write dialogue during the Thumbnail process which is basically a script. I do this even with my current series http://tapastic.com/series/tmc I just shorted the amount of work I do for each step, due to the decrease is story length. I just shorted the amount of work I do for each step, due to the decrease is story length.

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AffectedMind
Dec '14

When I was creating my story I wrote it at first from a point of view of the main protagonist.
It's a lot easier later. I already have like... 22 pages and based on 8 pages I manage to create almost 4 chapters.