If you could only complete one of your stories in your lifetime, would you pick the story you're currently working on?

[Leyelle]

To be honest, I have so many stories I want to tell, and I love the projects I'm working on, but there are some stories I'm attached to a lot more than others. the problem is, the stories I'm most attached to are also the ones I'm most worried about ruining so I'm often hesitant to start them.

And yet, if I never start them, I'll never be able to share them with the world and the stories that matter the most to me will die with me.

Can anyone relate?

[abigaillmartin]

Elsie. And I’m determined to complete it in my lifetime.

[The_Chosen_Z]

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[GamerPrincessXI]

Yes. I have a plan of fifty chapters. I'm sticking to it. Lol

[Paul_Tromba]

I fell in love with writing my main story as it makes me feel like I am getting the story I wanted to truly write. All the others feel like attempts at bettering the craft and finding an audience. Though I would rather just write what I want. That is why I will finish it in my lifetime no matter the consequences!

[Oriflamme]

No, I’d pick the world building project I’ve mentioned in a few other threads. The reason I would do so is because the way the universe works, it would be possible, but extremely clunky, to fold all the other ideas I had into it and create a mega story. In the context of this question, my need to have the liberty to create override the need for my creation to be good.

[Leyelle]

that makes sense, I have some cartoon universes that would probably be the thing I create if I could only create one because I could mix so many stories into them

[annuskabriar]

I would not, honestly. while my comic is important to me and i enjoy writing it, its never ever been my main story or the one closest to my heart. and yeah haha I have the same problem - im worried about ruining it if i start it. i do have stuff written for it and its an old story but im scared to like, really get into it and everything ive written is very subject to be rewritten (and often has been.

that story and my comic are both from the same world/worldbuilding project, but are generally unrelated to each other. and besides this one story being more important to me, the worldbuilding aspects in it are also more important to me (like for those cultures), regardless of the actual story

[The_Chosen_Z]

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[ArtGremlin]

I really want to be able to complete Recollections of the Prince. I know it will take years, but I have to do it!! The ending- I need to share it with other people.

[MelancholicOtaku]

Hard question but my main novel that I am working on now. It’s the one where I want to see my characters complete her journey and more importantly it’s the one that I have the most fun working on.

[dan_thepainter]

That's a good question that I've thought a lot about I really love my current story and am so happy with how much time I dedicated to it. But when I think about only being able to tell only one story, I don't think I'd pick this one as much as i admire it.

I have this other story in mind which I've been wanting to tell for years but it has such a huge scale and is like triple the size of my current comic. Comics take so much time to make too If I did that story I would probably have to dedicate like 15 years to it at the least lol I started my current comic because I wanted something a little smaller scale and even that is taking some time. And I want to tell more stories before I dedicate everything to that big one I have in mind.

[gigadrillsnake]

No. I need my favorite project to be PEAK so I need to master my craft first. I love what I'm working on now but it is my first comic I've published. I wouldn't risk making my favorite with so little experience.

[skullforceagents]

Yes. I would love to complete Skulls Force Agents as my life goal.

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[kyupol]

I'd love to complete Anghell Dela Blackpill... Or at least progress really far in it. God knows if some unforseen accident will take my life.

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[AmysGames]

This is something I've been thinking about a lot as I get older.

As far as long-term projects go, I think I would say that Niji Chikara is the one that hits both categories of me being attached to it while also being something that I can realistically finish within my lifetime, yeah.

There's another project on my backburner though—a game I've been chipping away at over the years—that I've long considered to be my magnum opus, but that I feel less confident about being able to finish in a timely fashion. My hope is that I'll eventually make enough money to be able to hire a team to help me finish it, but worst case scenario, I guess I could turn it into a novel or something.

[yondoloki]

I can relate a lot.
Though I don't feel I have "many" stories to tell - I mainly have two that occupy all the story real estate I have - I feel the hesitance in messing it up.

The story I am currently making, The Changeling's Sister, was originally a "small test story" to see if I could even do this comic thing, before I made the story I ACTUALLY want to make...

My bigger story I refer to as Project Usqara and it would be the one I would write if I could only write one story.

I post only one of my stories on Tapas currently, but that doesn't mean I don't work on the other behind the scenes. It depends on my mood which one I give attention or which one I feel inspired to do. I am also in different parts of the process with the two stories. TCS I obviously have the plot down and just need to actually make the pages, while I am still in the planning faze with Usqara. Whether I will finish that project in my lifetime is a big question... there's ALOT of story to get through there....

So I get the hesitation. Usqara and TCS are both my babies and I would hate to see them flop. But, if I hadn't started TCS I wouldn't have grown either as a comic creator or as an artist as I have. Sometimes, you just have to take the leap of faith and hope the wings will bear.

I feel I went off topic, but I hope some of this might help ^^

[Leyelle]

well, mastering a craft Is virtually impossible, but I get wanting to improve your skills first, that's what I made my comic "Sketchy Business" for.

[Lensing]

Yes I would pick the story universe I´m working on right now.

I started to relearn how to draw on may 15 2015. My goal was too get good enough
to draw the comic. It was good that I took the time to train because my skills were really
embarassing 10 years ago and I can live with my skills now. I did finish small projects,
comics and pages in the 10 years but none of the big project.

I will only occassionally do theory and training lessons from may on and I will focus
on the comic the rest of the time.

[yaziroburrows]

Hmmm.

I have finished several stories at this point, but if I was only able to complete one more, it would be Blade of the Archangels, which is my game project. It's currently on hold while I teach myself to code the things I need to learn how to code, but I have had the story concept for going on 20 years now, and if I was only allowed one more story, it would be that one. All of the characters mean so much to me and I would gladly give up storytelling as long as I could tell theirs.