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DasIstWunderblyat
Feb '19

Also known as discontinuing and rebooting a story :slight_smile:
Yes, I'm thinking of deleting my current work, go on indefinite hiatus to develop and modify it, then reboot it with the hopefully new and improved version. What do you think?

I know this might sound petty, but I feel stagnated with no growth or opportunity to. I feel saturated so I can't think clearly about things, although I have planned what to do.

I should have waited the time I have sufficient skill, which is not now. I should have waited to so I can make a perfect entrance and good first impression of my work; now people have already know my mistakes and get tired of me, while I'm left with no room for redemption or improvement because of my creation has already established. I'm doomed because I messed up my start.

Although it feel like I'm murdering my own child who I think wouldn't grow up properly because my shitty parenting, and make a new one :sweat_smile: It's a really bad feeling, but it worked really great the last time I did it; so wonder if I can and should pull this off again.

I wish I never got attached to my work or my readers in general, while worrying about how people see me at the same time :disappointed_relieved: I just want to make people satisfied in what I do, and finally get my sense of self.

(Sorry for sentences that don't make sense, I'm literally sick and sleepy. I just need to get this off else I can't sleep.)

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DasIstWunderblyat
Feb '19

God, I really mess up .:disappointed_relieved:
This is why you shouldn't act by impulse when not 100% awake.

Please let this thread drown by not replying to this, thank you :smile: :blush: If you want to help more please flag this as spam.

beta1042
Feb '19

I want to respect your request to not reply, but I think it's good to say this for other people who plan to do this, because people do do this,

Delete your original series AFTER you reboot, so you can tell your current reader base that you've rebooted and you don't upset those people who have already invested in the story and want to see it continued.

skicoak
Feb '19

I'm completely support of any reboot that includes more giant sharks.

Klaustasya
Feb '19

I support yout decision :slight_smile: i'm currently going through a similiar process, and it can't be helped if you're not satisfied with the current situation of your story! Wish you the best of luck!

revisionstudios
Feb '19

I'm here to tell you that it was good you started. It was good you didn't wait. You would not know what you know now if you hadn't started--no matter how long you'd have waited, the only way to get better at stories are by making stories, and those mistakes were inevitable. Might as well get through them now.

Everyone starts somewhere, and honestly I don't think you should bother rebooting, because eventually you'll feel unsatisfied with the reboot, too. It'd be better to finish your current story (or just set it down if you're not feeling it) and move on to some other idea that grows from your experience. Too many people get stuck on the ideas they have in middle school/high school like it's the only good thing they'll ever make, and it's a shame. As a creator you'll have lots of different ideas and they'll get better as you age and improve.

There's no shame in what you've done, and NO ONE is keeping track of your mistakes or judging you for them. First impressions matter to a certain extent, but you're still barely starting out and hardly anybody knows you. You've got billions of people out there who haven't had their first impression of you yet, so don't sweat the small stuff now while you're still developing, okay? Just create what you want and try to separate yourself from that social pressure.

JBrentonParker
Feb '19

This isn't true at all, so don't worry about this!

I published my original version of my work ten years ago on a different site. It was terrible! Just so awful. But so what? Everytime you create something, you're practicing those skills, be they drawing or writing or character building or whatever. Nothing is a waste of time or effort, because you need to continue using and developing skills over and over again in order to grow and improve them.

And if you share your not-so-great early attempts with other people online? Awesome! Because having people who read or view your work and get enjoyment out of it is meaningful, even if it is just one single person. Because that one person likes what you have created, and they are invested, and you owe it to them to stand by your work, even if it isn't up to your ideal standards. They don't care, they value it anyway, and that's a damn good reason to keep at it, to keep practicing.

You can modify your work, totally recreate it from the ground up. I've done that a thousand times. With each attempt, you get better and better. Sometimes you hit a point in a story or comic where you realize it just isn't working anymore, and you need to do a serious reboot to put some life back into it.

So go ahead and do that if you want to, it's never a bad idea.

But don't delete the old work, at least, not completely. You could take it down from the site if you wanted to, but save it. Does Tapas have a "hide" option? If it does, do that. Because the version that you don't like so much is still a stepping stone, and there are probably nuggets of gold in there that you'll want to revisit.

One thing not to worry about at all: people having read the version you don't like and judging you for it, and choosing never to read your works again.

That might happen from time to time with traditional publishing, but not on a site like Tapas. There are soooo many readers, and sooo many stories, and honestly, not much overlap. On a site like this, you can't really become "established" straight out of the gate unless you end up on the front page and gain 10k subs in a day. You'll have a thousand chances to remake yourself and create a new "first impression" to hundreds of people with every story you create. Out of 180 subs on one story and 48 subs on the other, I think I only have like three people who are subbed to both stories. Every single story, every single comic, is going to be a new first impression for most readers.

And if you choose to stop updating the story you don't like, you won't get many people reading it. And if you post something new, odds are people who come across it randomly aren't going to be checking the author, they're just going to jump into reading it to see if they like it. So even if they did read the old story and weren't a fan of it doesn't mean that they'll avoid the new version.

Okay, that was really long and I feel like I rambled. I have to go to class now, so I'll wrap this up. I don't know if it made any coherent sense, but just don't get down because you feel like your story didn't live up to your expectations. Reboot it if you want to, and don't worry, you haven't doomed yourself in any way. I mean, Terry Pratchett is a writing god, and most of his fans recommend skipping his first Discworld book, The Color of Magic and returning to it later, because it's not quite up to the quality of the later ones. So if Terry Pratchett can have a rough start, by god, so can you.