Hello everyone!
I've got a question for the community this evening: How would you handle a significant change to your story?
The second chapter in one of my comics, which contains a B plot with a secondary cast, doesn't appear to be working for flow or visual storytelling. I know it's normal to lose readers, but I lost an unusual number of readers midway through this chapter. On top of that, my growth has stagnated for the last 2 months (about how long this chapter has been posting), so I know something is amiss.
Long story short, I think I want to cut the entire second chapter. However, I'm not sure whether it's better to:
- Inform my readers and cut the entire second chapter
- Quietly cut the second chapter and pretend it never happened
- Make a new comic with the original uploads, minus the second chapter, and point people there
- Something else...?
I don't want to lose reader trust, but I also don't want to push forward with the story as-is when it doesn't seem to be working... never mind that I'm not super happy about how it's coming across.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thank you very much!