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[powerplantanimations]

I was writing for my story and I realized that the arc after the Date Arc would take too long to finish releasing and I had no choice but to RESTART to make everything shorter. The good news is I was able to make the story better... the bad news is four weeks of work is now down the drain so like...

I'm thinking about releasing these scripts as little extras.

Has this ever happened to you guys?

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[TheLemmaLlama]

Hm, I've definitely have to edit things down to make them shorted and I definitely have at least 4 weeks work worth of obsolete drafts on my harddrive, but I don't think it's ever happened all at once and I din't remember having to straight up restart everything from scratch; it's usually a series of minor edits that end up with the final version being completely different from the first version, 'Ship of Theseus' style

[smokesalty]

I've deleted a ton of scenes because it was only until later that I realised they didn't really add anything.

I had this scene in Chapter 1 that I actually quite liked but it really didn't add anything. It was quite sweet and had nice dialogue tho After asking for some editing help from a friend I removed it (I still saved it elsewhere because I can absolutely use it for extras.) It was for the best, it would have made Chapter 1 way too long.

(that scene was meant to introduce a specific type of cult member in my story, but since they are relevant only in the third act putting them there did NOTHING)

Also episode 1 was supposed to be a talky scene before ceremony scene, but it was BORING. I took what was established there and sprinkled it into other parts of the chapter which improved the story, especially since the first episode is now a much better first impression

I have a bunch of other scenes I completely removed because they just didn't set things up in a satisfying way. For example, I'd actually planned to have Anopheles be more abusive in the second scene and I was like NOPE TOO EARLY. TOO EARLY. A lot of editing was done for build up.

But yeah, usually I try not to fret over deleting scenes when I know I can always make them extras if I want to

[river121693]

I feel ya! I've had to rework a couple of times. It's super frustrating, but I've only been happy after it was done. The good thing is that youre in the scripting stage right? atleast it's not mid way through drawing :B

[TheSingularitySeed]

I'm going through this right now!

Doing my first chapter made me realize how slow my script actually reads when I translate it to drawings.

Now that I'm on my second chapter, I'm combining scenes and cutting lines and just trying to create the most condensed version of my original script I can handle.

I just like to think if I never did the first draft, I wouldn't have done the second so it's not wasted time at all

[darthmongoose]

I don't even want to say how many scenes I've scrapped, because I don't know how long it'd take to even tally them all up. The entire original opening of Errant was scrapped (originally it started with adult Rekki and then there was an extended flashback, but so much of the story is hard to follow, I put the flashback at the start and it became the prologue).

It's probably safe to say that for every single scene in Errant there is at least one alternate, scrapped version, or even a totally different version of that storyarc that played out very differently. For example, the current scene where Subo and Jules are talking originally happened in the Chapter House Lounge and involved a lot of pretty funny banter with Viv the barkeep... but having them at the chapter house, not moving on patrol, would have slowed down a lot of upcoming stuff, and all the jokes were really dragging out the scene, so they ended up walking and talking.
On top of that, there are chapters that have been scrapped because I felt like there was a more efficient way to have things play out. It's kind of just how it goes because I know how the story will end, and what beats we need to hit to get there, but I'm flexible on how and don't want to lock myself into an impossibly long comic. I actually scrapped an entire storyarc and merged it into the current one because of this!

[powerplantanimations]

That would've been terrifying. I was glad that my artist didn't get to this point yet.

[GumshoeComix]

I'm going through this right now, me and my partner looked at the size of our script and realized we wouldn't even be halfway through till 2025 so a lot of it is getting cut or squished together and hopefully before I run out of backlog

[Sarah_Lane]

This is actually something I did recently with my current project, Hub JETIRKO. The previous plot line had some overlap with the current one, but the new MC wasn't slated to appear until post-climax. But all the small plot points and things I wanted to do in the previous story had no connecting points, and it felt impossible getting everything to line up.

When I decided to completely scrap the original story of Hub JETIRKO and go in this new direction, start from a completely different point of view with fresh characters/perspective/etc, all the plot points and things I wanted to focus on suddenly fit together. It was like I had the puzzle upside down, and it wasn't until I flipped it around that I realized where all the pieces were supposed to go. I was bewildered by how well everything fit together.

Now I'm at the point where I need to figure out the in-between chapters of the big plot points, since they've all been broken down. But I'm leaps and bounds ahead with this new plot than previously, and I'm super excited about the progress.

Sometimes, you need to let that old idea you loved to death, well... die. So that when it's reborn it comes one step closer to what the end product needs to be, whether you see it or not.

Good luck to you, friend!

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