How much time have you spent planning your series?

Freemints30 2020-07-26 20:28:54 UTC #121

Well for my novel I am currently editing it and I have changed one personality of character completely, the only thing that is fluctuating right now is events way later down the line. Really the novel's 1t draft was written as a regular novel before I decided to completely changed format. Since I had a long planning period a lot of changes I liked were added before being made into the official version. Like my changed in the theme of my monster deigns for my comic was done before I got to them so yeah. Like a monsters had no theme before I gave them a theme while I was still drawing the first chapter.

However other than small tweaks in dialogue and removal of pages, my comic doesn't really have any big changes of ideas now. The biggest tend to get thrown into future projects I have written down in google drive. From entire characters to monster designs. They all now exist in a completely separate future project, in a completely different universe.

Inspector_Spinda 2020-07-26 20:31:52 UTC #122

I always get characters before story. My strength is character, but I'm really bad at plots. Everyone is different but for me personally if I spend more than a few months coming up with a story a story doesn't exist for those characters. At least not one worth telling. My first set of OCs came in 2013 and I spent about 3 years with a very vague story for him before dropping the comic. Ever since then I've come back to the idea periodically but I can't think of anything of any level of quality. With my current comic I came up with the idea in late 2017 and started the comic in early 2019. The story is still evolving as I draw it but most of the ideas came in that one year.

darkone4587 2020-07-27 01:11:00 UTC #123

I typically plan at least a light outline of events way before I even start writing and then and then go to work on characters.
This typically takes a while because I often do it in the background of other things going on.Typically I'll spend months if not a year or years before I get to writing any particular project.

If anyone's curious I have two novels here on the site I'm working on.

Fuzed 2020-07-27 03:54:52 UTC #124

That makes sense. Once you've got the basic premise going it starts to get a lot easier from there. With just characters you've got no idea where the story should go.

Fuzed 2020-07-27 03:59:05 UTC #125

I see. For me personally I get new ideas all the time as I write. Some good, others not so much.

The good ones I try to implement into the story and that's why I couldn't have a rigid plan. I always think of new stuff to add.

Fuzed 2020-07-27 04:05:55 UTC #126

I feel like for comics, most of the time you start with characters and then progress onto a story. I can't draw a smiley face, let alone a character so I'm a novelist. And for me, the story is more important than characters at the start.

But I now realize that for someone who can draw, characters might be more alluring.

SaraNGardiner 2020-07-27 16:55:33 UTC #127

I don't mind at all! I have a BFA in Creative Writing, so the thesis parameters were basically just "a completed book-length work of fiction." I haven't published it as a whole just yet; I feel like its length and format are better suited to an episodic structure like Tapas or WattPad. Once I have the whole thing put out (and therefore edited the way I'd like), I plan to put it on Amazon, I think, and use it as promotional material for the second and third books. ^^

Fuzed 2020-07-27 18:52:28 UTC #128

I see. That's pretty cool! So do you plan on becoming a full-time writer?

Freemints30 2020-07-27 18:57:57 UTC #129

That's alright. Some work better with loser plans others work better with flexible plans.

Fuzed 2020-07-27 18:59:01 UTC #130

That's true. I have a feeling that my loose planning might turn out problematic later down the line, but let's hope not

RyzaCobalion 2020-07-27 19:09:54 UTC #131

Had the idea for this series since 2013 but never saw the light of day until November 23rd, 2018. You could say that it went through a development hell because it went through at least 4 or 6 drafts ...... i honestly don't remember until I finally published it on Tapas. Bad news was DX I published it during the busiest time of college and didn't get to work on it much. Though it has grown a lot since I have been more actively working on it this year as it jumped from 10 subscribers to 65. Give it a read if any of you guys are interested in it.

ivanskilling 2020-07-28 14:38:50 UTC #132

I had the rough plot idea for my latest novel, Devil's Triangle, since 2017/8 I think? At that time, I only spent one hour to write the bare-bones plot down. It was only around August 2019 that I went full-force into expanding the idea into a novel-length plot. I spent around 2 months to finalize the theme and message I wanted to bring across, the character cast (backstory, appearance, personality, role), and a rough outline of 8-9 chapters.

I only started publishing it on Tapas in May (this year) and by then, I had already written 7 chapters (which translates to 20+ episodes on Tapas or so). I took a break from writing it recently so that I could plan out the details for the remaining chapters. It was getting to the point that I needed to iron out the exact clues that I needed to sprinkle in the earlier chapters and I wanted to be sure about the details of the murders and investigation!