Is there something you wish you could change about your story?

[mariusthered]

I'm actually just getting a chance to to that. because I'm revamping Talesfromswipecity pages to bring them to Tap, it had given me a chance to move some things about a bit. lots of things are in a time frame order so they are stuck where they are but things like my prison rescue have been moved. I am putting in three scenes that have not yet been read because I left them out when I was posting on my own site .

Still not fully happy with season one as I think a lot of people are put off by it, but I'm hoping people give my comic another go later on and my subs increase as I go, but plod on what ever.

I have for the last three days been going threw my pages of existing chapters and writing them into my word processor to save into seasons. I wanted to be sure of no more typos. at present it looks like my fans are going to get 10 seasons before I start writing new stuff again.

my biggest wish is that I brought my comic over to Tap two years ago when I first started.

[Vikiro_Hop]

My strips have little to no continuity, but I sure as hell wish I drew the first 30 episodes better...shit the first 37 at this point.

eh overall I'm learning so not to worried about it.

[Chopythes]

Both yes and no. Beyond the Ordinary is my very first long run web comic, which is over 300 pages by now.
Pierre could've had more personality, haha! But he's pretty reserved and doesn't make much of a fuzz whereas Beive stands out more and I like that difference between them.

I wish I could change the pacing a little, however it was never really intended as a web comic when I started it. It has always been meant to be printed.
In printed form I think it looks pretty rad, it's better fitted for it.
It's supposed to be a rather slow story and easy to read for all ages! :D

But... Story wise? Nah, I think it's just the way I intended to.
With BTO being halfway through (omg I never thought I'd make it this far) there's some loose ends I need to tie up, but there's some time.

[kazukitakamura126]

One thing I wish I could change with my main comic Seishin Patona is apply better paneling to help with immersion. With my later pages I am starting to understand how to change the pacing with the panel sizes and shapes. Also I want each panel to sometimes work together so they act as a single entity just like how you link what happens in each panel to create a narrative.

As for my secondary comic In The Midst I wish I made it more of a romance. It turned more into a drama but, romance actually influences the plot so I have to be glad for that.

[Thesleepypencil]

Yes and no

For the yes. With Lalita at the end of the universe I would want to change pacing and style and layout of pages. Just to make it look more like how it looks now.

BUT at the same time i don't want to change anything, from where it started to where it is now it kind of holds this special place in my heart where i love all of it the good and bad. I also want to go on the form of don't go back keep moving forward so i need to keep that mentality to keep the comic running

[jessiepolfliet]

Especially the exposition on how the world works I really rushed. Further I wish I had start my story with the main character in action.

[Tentakelgottheit]

Jupp. I got a pretty nice idea about how the first chapter of Strayer could have been better structured and how I could have had all the things that happened in there, but with faster pacing. I even thought about re-doing chapter 1, but I think that would be unfair to the readers, who want to know how stuff progresses.

[Waterdrain]

For Hobo story, right now I'm revamping the beginning but if I really had to change some thing, maybe have a time where people stop nagging at each other because in very scene their always have to be someone who's mad at someone else and that's not an enjoyable experience. I also wouldn't mind to change up Adelaides design because as much as I do like draw sweatshirts, I wish I gave her shorter hair like when I did sketches of her a few months ago https://twitter.com/Waterdrain/status/667356638781775872?lang=en
but yeah I think that's what I'd would change.

[shazzbaa]

Oh, for sure!

A lot of smaller things. There are smaller things in the first couple chapters that are kinda problematic because I didn't know better at the time, and there are places where I see now how I could've set things up better -- I definitely had time to set up the idea that the blood aberrants' heart is vulnerable before they were fighting a blood aberrant, and that would've made the end of that fight much smoother, narratively, for example.
Every time I post page 1.23 somewhere it's hard not to apologise for it -- it's the biggest infodump in the comic, that taught me that in the future I really needed to think ahead when I know I'll need exposition later, and plan where I'm going to put it!
There was one scene I felt for a long time had set up one of the characters very poorly, and I was really unhappy about it for a while afterwards. Ultimately, though, my dissatisfaction with that scene helped me figure out what was important to show in that character in future scenes, and I feel a lot more assured of their direction now!

So yeah, there's a lot of little things I look back and think "DANG I coulda--!" but not like... not to the extent that I'm pining to go back and change it. Just things I see now that I coulda done better, but I learned from them, and now I know to do better going forward!

[ToonDoctor]

Question for some of you. What's stopping you from just reworking the scene over?

[kambreapratt]

Oh yeah! I wish we would have done a lot differently, but we were just learning. I would have done better with the story early on and maybe did it a bit differently.
I know my husband cringes at the early art on it. That is one perk of a self contained, one shot I guess. You do it all in one time and stay consistent.

@ToonDoctor Why we don't change it? Well, time mostly. That and we are so far into it now, I don't know if it is worth the time to go back. Not saying we wouldn't move it to a different media and possibly change it there.

[shazzbaa]

Question for some of you. What's stopping you from just reworking the scene over?

It's not worth it, man! Most of the time, anyway. I'm always going to be improving, and Runewriters is a long story. If I went back to fix every time I noticed that "dang, I know a better way I could've done that" the story would never get told!

Plus I feel like, I'm in the middle of telling a story, so it'd be weird for me to stop and be like "Oh, wait, no, I messed it up, okay, when I said that Han shot the guy, forget that; the other guy shoots him and THEN Han shoots back -- okay where was I" and change the reality of what my readers have already seen. I avoid doing this if I can!!

[joannekwan]

I would change some of the pacing for Heavy Horns' first chapter, but it doesn't bother me too much to actually go back and do so.
I would also redraw some shots of Ian's face in Erie Waters in the first several pages. Maybe I'll do that for print.
Generally I'm pretty happy how all my series have started.

[heterodont]

Definitely fix the pacing of the first 4 chapters, as thats what screwed everything else over writing wise!
I sped through them way too fast and as a result the story is kinda confusing on first read, especially bc of the way I made the two different plots converge :>

And as always also add in more foreshadowing and context because I hadn't finished the script when I first started my story...

Art wise I really have nothing to fix. I like seeing the improvement through the chapters, as much as I abhor my old art.

[meatmaiden]

I feel you on the painting skin tones too white thing. For some reason I ended up drawing like... Four pages where my main character looks WAY too pale. I'm also considering going back and re-coloring him, but I'll wait for the "blu-ray version" (print) to do that. x'D

As for 75+ pages... Dang that's a lot to fix. T_T'
You could try doing quick multiply layers over the skin/hair to darken it, but I'm not sure how well that would work... ^^;;
Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

[AnnaLandin]

You could try doing quick multiply layers over the skin/hair to darken it, but I'm not sure how well that would work... ^^;;

This is my only real option at this point. I'm thinking I'll go through the existing pages and darken the panels where it's most obvious I've screwed up (thankfully, most of chapter 3 takes place in a dim, foggy environment, or a darkened indoors-one, so I can probably leave it alone), fix the bits I have the time to fix for print (which I'm doing right now), and then leave the rest.

Sometimes, we just have to live with our mistakes, and vow to do better from now on.

[meatmaiden]

Good luck!! I'm sure it'll look alright no matter what you do ^^
And I'm also sure that even if you can't fix all of it, your fans will forgive you! It'll all be ok in the end, so don't worry too much!

[Bluejay]

Ugh, yesssss. Every time I read the beginning of my comic, hahaha. I actually did redo it once, but stayed from redoing it again. I asked my friends what they thought about it and they said to let it be: "you will always improve and feel like redoing the things you've done again and again."- Is what she said from what I can remember. And the other had said that it'll let not only you, but the readers as well, see the improvement from your past works till present. So, I guess that's that. No matter how much I want to change it, haha.

[MannyMelancholy]

The beautiful part about being a writer of your own story is that it's never too late to incorporate something you desperately want to add. Doing so could set up a huge dynamic and even a new story arc if you introduce it creatively. Let your brain morph and develop the story naturally into the world you have already created, it might even birth some new characters. So why not brainstorm it in? It can't hurt, it will just be challenging

[efdvorsky]

(something weird with the reply it replied to someone instead of the topic, I'm sorry)

Just a couple of days ago I was 4-am texting a friend of mine with anxiety saying I didn't like the first chapter of Cosmic Fish because it felt like a tv show pilot (not that it's a bad thing but it needed a very basic introduction as things would get confusing later on without it) but it felt like it harmed my story.

I'm only sharing this because of what she told me: "everyone hates their first chapter. The important thing is that RIGHT NOW you're looking back at it and seeing issues or things you wish were different. That means you've grown, and it should motivate you to make everything afterwards even better."

And that is very true.

Hell she even pointed out to take up the first chapter of all my favorite comics and see how much they've improved, and even Neil Gaiman has thanked people for going past the first few chapters of Sandman. That's completely natural and when I saw this topic, my first reply would have been the first chapter, but with this new info, I think I'm happy it went the way it did. It has all the info and even teases which will be important later on. Pretty much how TV Pilots or first episodes work, so yay.

Now if I WOULD fix something it'd probably be some names, but i've gotten too attached to them, I can't see them as anything else.

Maybe some design choices here and there but mostly minimal.