How far ahead do you have episodes scheduled?

[ThunderChicken]

Currently buffered out to November with Defining Daecon, but it's not difficult for me to build big buffers because I don't start posting stuff until after I've finished writing it. With WNHCD and FDW I had the whole books written before posting a single episode, and the only thing preventing me from dumping the whole things in one day was the illustrations for each chapter.

Defining Daecon is a little different in that it is a rewrite of Finding Daecon's Way. It is a ground-up rewrite with very little text actually carried over, but the story has already been laid out and I'm reusing the images so it has been fairly easy.

It's enough of a rewrite, though, that what previously fit in 18 of Tapas' 15k character limit per episodes has now been spread out into 30 (so far, I'm not even halfway done doing the Tapas edits).

[Leyelle]

Buffers definitely help avoid stress, but they can be their own kind of stress too

[KevinReijnders]

None.

Y'all are gonna have to wait until the 2nd halve of 2025 for the first set of episodes of Trespasser - Chapter 03

[llobucervallince]

ya'll so cute having none, or two weeks in advance, I literally had up to 3 months of queue piled up, now I have until september 16 to keep piling up, which, luckily, I've already started.
I agree with @2DLenzy , keep stocking, it's less stress down the road.

[KevinReijnders]

I honestly don't experience any stress about not having a stockpile of episodes.

This is a thing I do for fun, there is no schedule nor deadline, only that which I choose for myself. And that's there just to allow me to realistically finish the entire planned 5 books within this lifetime haha.

In fact, as long as this is a thing no one pays me for, I won't ever worry about meeting hard upload dates. Y'all just gotta wait until it's done cooking haha.

[Leyelle]

I agree with @2DLenzy , keep stocking, it's less stress down the road.

same, I stock up stuff as much as possible, just have a lot of projects to balance

[Leyelle]

I honestly don't experience any stress about not having a stockpile of episodes.

well, it's different for everyone. when you write professionally, deadlines become something to be aware of, but it's perfectly fine to do it as a hobby. not everyone can relate to everything

[binahwrites]

I think I started uploading Tales of Valor when I had finished or was about to finish the volume, I tend to upload 5 to 10 pages per week, I did it like that so I wouldn't have hiatuses or anything like that, currently I am giving more attention to the journey before putting more attention on the second volume of ToV to have a heal amount of content before its relice

[JokesterComics]

I honestly have no idea. I more or less just think about the plot for the next few chapters, then draw about 2-5 pages, and just upload. But roughely 20-30 chapters in advanced.

[KevinReijnders]

Yeah, I'm very much aware. I am afterall, a professional.

But who here on Tapas specifically is actually doing this thing professionally. Very few of us here have a contract with the site I wager.

Honestly, I think a lot of y'all are way too worried about providing free media.

[Emalie]

I have around 6 chapters scheduled and I hope to upload more until the rest of the year. It has been the best thing I have done for my own good, I have been drawing my project for about 8 months.

[Leyelle]

I am afterall, a professional.

Honestly, I think a lot of y'all are way too worried about providing free media.

You just said you just did it for fun and no one pays you for it lol, don't those two comments contradict each other?

If you mean you are a professional as in you work another job, that makes sense, most adults can relate to deadlines, but for some of us writing IS our job, and the work we do in one place represents us in all places, so it is important to represent ourselves well. One of the ways we can do that is through consistency with the works we put out.

I was actually offered a contract by Tapas, but I turned it down to retain more creative control over the story. (nothing wrong with contracts if that's what people want ofc) You may consider it being too worried, but everyone has different opinions. I write professionally, and at the very least, my free stories are a way of getting my name out so people can find my other works that aren't free. There's nothing wrong with people taking the work they do seriously. If you can live without stress about your work, that's great, but it's not true for everyone, so please respect other people's struggles, relating to the matter.