novel been in your mind?

VikiKuli 2017-10-24 19:15:51 UTC #23

The story behind Wednesday7 is actually only around 2 years old and I've been publishing it for more than a year already. I had a clear image of a character (Wednesday) and how he would look and act and I was like ok, let's build a story around that. From there I added characters recycled from dead stories and built new ones as well.

XzynderVexymous 2017-10-24 19:40:02 UTC #24

3 Years. One day I said “I want to draw this story.” So I did some studying and I Have a LONG way to go but at least I started.

unicornfield 2017-10-24 19:49:24 UTC #25

I'm still in the process of developing my story, but one of them is based on something I wrote when I was around 12 which was a post-apocalyptic sci-fi... thing. It was just a setting, flat characters if there were any, and no story. I hadn't really worked on it until years later, and it changed a lot. The only thing that stayed the same was that it's still post-apocalyptic and sci-fi.

darkone4587 2017-10-24 21:20:44 UTC #26

I feel ya there, I have the same issue, mainly from watching, reading, or playing something interesting.

YangKoete 2017-10-24 21:45:53 UTC #27

Let's see...For two I plan on making, 2013.

For the other; 2016.

It's a weird idea for me, but the first two involve a tabletop I've been working on since 2013.

amirabillustration 2017-10-24 23:02:10 UTC #28

The oldest story Idea I've had is a few years old! since I still haven't started it yet but I come up with stories pretty quickly.Alex is only a few months old story wise, I came up with the plot and worked my way up! I have another story that I want to tell that's a few months old as well but we have to finish what we start!

colonel_ressentiment 2017-10-25 08:40:53 UTC #29

It's interesting how many people have ideas from way back in the day - I find that a lot of my older ideas are too under-developed to carry into a story that I'd be interested in working on now. But I do have old characters from ~12 years ago that might be fun to put into a comic, so that may count once I actually start that comic.

My current comic is a fan comic, so the time from concept to starting to draw was a bit shorter - only about a year spent planning out storyboards, and another ~3 months revising drafts of the plot before I actually began drawing the final version.

Testaccount 2017-10-25 13:27:34 UTC #30

I've had one story in my head for over 10 years now, and it's the next long story I'll be writing. It has elements of classic fantasy like LOTR mixed with summoners and element-type magic.

I'm pretty excited about writing it =)

Wumbl 2017-10-25 22:46:18 UTC #31

My current story started as a college project almost 3 years ago...
I graduated the A-level with an A and now I've got a full story based on that one scene!
I also have like 6 other stories on the table and dozens of characters ready for the universe in question......... just waiting to be published after this one is done.
Me and my partner have developed it into a full blown world with its own rules and systems and it's gonna be wild!!!!

dawgofdawgness 2017-10-25 23:23:36 UTC #32

Bahaha I started planning out my comic in the beginning of last year when I joined jazz band.
I thought I was good at saxophone back then and was pretty much convinced that I would get into big band, but instead I was placed in jazz II (which is basically big band jazz but... with less experienced players). I ended up having a great time in Jazz II - we became almost like a family and I had completely forgotten about my hopes of getting into big band jazz in the first place.

That's where I first got my idea for Leftovers, except the main character is someone who can actually play well. I thought that would spice up the story a little bit.

Basically my comic was born out of salt but it turned into sugar over time.

Rixou 2017-10-29 03:29:01 UTC #33

My favorite childhood Greek myth was the story of Eros and Psyche.
Figured I should follow the classic writing tip and draw what I love about 9 years ago and started on the very first draft of Pandora's Scar- a present day retelling of classical mythology.

4 years ago, after 3 re-writes, a one shot and countess tweaks, settled on the final version of the story, which continues to this day. (6 chapters done and counting! )

Tulmut 2017-10-29 03:57:45 UTC #34

In its current form 2 months but its first form was in middle school

ladyofmae 2017-10-29 04:23:52 UTC #35

I first thought of story since middle school, put it on paper back in highschool, and I am currently revising it now.

echotokki 2017-10-29 04:46:17 UTC #36

There are alot of stories that have been in my mind for years but as I've gotten older I've noticed I've combined alot of those ideas into a singular story or a couple stories rather then many. Adding more elements.

MCH 2017-10-29 05:18:26 UTC #37

Funny thing is... my current series I started recently; Found and Lost, hasn't even been on my mind for quite a month yet. Probably sounds like a massive mistake.
The thing is.. I have about 5 other series Ive been developing for years now, one in particular for over 15 years. I'm notorious for self-inflicted expectations for perfection, so no matter how amazing or awful they might be.. Ive never been able to get them off the ground over that fear. Plus I feel I need to better my art to properly portray some of them.

But then a thing happened.. my computer literally caught on fire, twice, in the same month. The second fire resulted in me having a build a new PC from scratch. So for 2 weeks while I waited on parts to come in, I was left with my phone, and a little notebook PC that had the processing power of a dollar store calculator. But I could use it to write, and with nothing but time on my hand, that's what I did. I wrote, and wrote, and wrote. I wouldnt say the story is complete, but I built quite a buffer in that time and drew up some concepts with traditional tools.

As soon as I had my PC going again and all of my programs and brushes recovered, I said to myself.. I am doing this. I am not sitting on yet another story to rot under my butt. I wanted to finally do something, I wanted to get the experience.
So that is exactly what I'm doing now, full of anxiety but pushing forward, learning as I go, and hopefully providing something entertaining for folks along the way.

lunaartemisasama 2017-10-29 05:33:16 UTC #38

Like 6 years lol. It all started with this draw and I thought it would be cool to make a story about it lol.

And this is how it is going

Yay for procastination!

sandpaperdaisy 2017-10-31 21:33:45 UTC #39

Twenty years! I'm so old!

Gonna try and start writing some on it tomorrow, so wish me luck...

MatthewDavidGonzales 2017-11-01 19:26:41 UTC #40

Most of the stuff I use for my stories comes from daydreams. So as far back as I can remember I guess.

Valbear 2017-11-01 19:50:17 UTC #41

The biggest story that I have in my mind right now has been 3 years in the making and has evolved and changed multiple times. It started out as a doodle of random characters while I was bored in class. I just decided to create a story around them.

I've had stories that I thought up in high school that have since been abandoned because they were so cliche and cringy. But I've taken some of the character designs that I had for some of the characters and used them for the one that I'm writing now. The story I'm doing for Nanowrimo was literally birthed only a few days before I decided to participate at all.

These are novels by the way. Not comics. I'm not really good at doing comic art, illustration/cover art is more my thing.

do any novel writers find theirselves thinking of character designs/descriptions before they even have a story? Because that often happens with me.

joe_galindez 2017-11-01 19:56:12 UTC #42

Sure we do. Sometimes you meet the players before you read the play.