I've been on hiatus to work on my buffer this month, so I'm up to 5 weeks
I'm very happy because now I can work in batches; so much nicer for my style of doing things I was hoping to get closer to 8 weeks, but not bad for a start! I'm hoping it'll give me time to think about other comics I want to make
Mine is between 55-60 pages, but it took me so long to get that much due to school and work. I planned it out so that it'll last me 'til next January. Hopefully it'll buy me enough time to create another 50-60 pages.
I heard that some people make week or month long buffers, so maybe I over did it lol.
Literally impossible, there's 0 downsides to doing more work up front xD I feel like a lot people are either just too impatient to stockpile that many pages up front (that me), or are in the middle of posting already and don't have the luxury of time to build that much buffer even with a hiatus @u@ either way, def jelly of a year's worth of buffer! way to go
Hmm I usually have about 6 weeks of buffer, but I've been building up in anticipation for the birth of my kid in March, so right now i have about 11 updates and I've went down to a reduced schedule of 3x updates a month, so nearly 4 months of buffer for me at the moment. Hoping I can get the 12th ep of buffer before the kiddo comes.
Not long enough lol.
My current work schedule is kinda weird, I upload early on Patreon so I'll always be at least 1 update ahead, I think having the patreon early access is the best thing ever, it gets me to actually finish the episode and upload it without making last minute decisions. The next update after than is coloured but I need to arrange the paneling properly and add text, I have the episode after that lined.
right now my buffer iiiiiis....... 14 pages long, 7 updates, just under two months. which is around about the amount of time i need to make the next chapter. i need to be snappy with all that though, bc after that comes my Final Final Final project in college and i think im gonna be decimating my buffer again.
late to my own party but generally my buffer has always been none! the only time i ever had a buffer was Before starting to post a series (then id let it run out oops) or when im Right at the end of it and i wanna give it that last push (which is why regression's last couple of weeks were double updates lol)
HOWEVER lortia has made me realize my mistakes (and also im going to a 1 month trip to japan soon where i wont be able to draw soooo)
9 weeks ahed atm!
My buffer hasn’t been entirely uploaded yet but, right now I think it’s roughly 33 pages long.
I’m working on chapter 4 right now so once I finish the first half of that I’ll have 15 more pages. By the time I get it all fully drawn and colored, it’ll probably leave me with 45 pages because I’ll probably finish up when I have 25 pages left in my current buffer and then just tack on 15 more pages.
Probably. Hopefully. I keep getting faster at everything so I’m sure my buffer will keep growing. XD
But yeah I gotta have a big buffer cuz I never know when something will get sprung on me, disrupting my whole work flow.
LOL
I haven't had a buffer in a long time outside of completing a story in one of my novels and dumping a new chapter daily. XDDD Except now where I'm completing my Gingergeist story, but posting batches of at least (3 to 5 chapters) in the style of little episode bombs or whatever they're called to keep interest without blowing everyone's brains out with the immense load of words, action, and spunky sentence structures (Try saying that 3 times fast).
Comic Buffers are easy, but Novel buffers are a challenge on their own, Kip, lemme tell ya'. XD
This is BATCH #1
Batch #2 will come somewhere after I write at least chapters 6 to 10. I gotta check on the length first.
Hoooooo boy.
Currently I have a buffer of about 41.5 thousand words, which comes out to somewhere around 70 single-spaced pages. This means I'm 25 updates (a little over 12 weeks) ahead, and also have a good bit of bonus content already written. To be fair, I started posting with a buffer of about this size already built up, so I've just been putting in the work necessary to maintain it and edit existing writing.
I would actually like to be quite a bit further ahead. I'm pretty meticulous about foreshadowing (I often do sentence-level edits to set up for events several story arcs in advance) so having a long buffer is really important to me. Plus I'm petrified of letting the quality of my work significantly degrade, letting my schedule slip, or resorting to poor plotting in order to meet a deadline.
Honestly, I probably would be paranoid and feel behind even if the entire novel was already written, because that's just how I am.