Let`s learn from each other mistakes!

[joe_galindez]

• Using words like "just" too many times in my dialogue.

• Writing page after page of description without actually advancing the plot.

• Being too minimalist. Trying to use as few words as possible is generally good advice, but not if it gets in the way of clarity.

[Tes]

• Not understanding speech/text composition

• Not being dynamic

• Not introducing and establishing side-characters properly

[Testaccount]

Trying to use minimal words as possible got me too.

[joe_galindez]

. . . Happens. . . .

[DiegoPalacios]

I declare myself guilty of this too

[UbePie]

If i write it can be about making a pbj sandwish, it's gonna be two pages long. I go on and on, so I wish i had that problem.

[joe_galindez]

Exposition isn't a bad thing, if you know when to use it. Was the sandwich important to the plot?

[69Michi]

2-Sharing your comic with people outside Tapas is cool, but if they dont create a Tapas account they cant like your comics or add them to their library. So you end up with"empty views"

Is it really that bad though if there are people outside that actually bother to go check out your comic? Wouldn't that just be more audience for you? Or you rather just keep it to Tapas only? How does empty views work? Is it just people that read your comic without subbing to you? And it's... bad? - I'm just curious haha.

For me:

• Not having a buffer. (My updates tend to consist of 40-60 panels nowadays, it's getting longer and every update I'm still rushing to finish it up just in the nick of time)
• Not having every plot planned out completely. I know it's my style of writing story, but sometimes because of this I overlook plot holes and it's horrible when I look back.
• Give into my multitasking habit more often than I want to. I draw 5 minutes, take a 15 minutes break. Repeat.
• "It's fine, I still have time-" No, don't listen to that procrastination evildoer in your head.
  

[jammythebirb]

• not drawing characters with wrists, resulting in sausage arms for the first few chapters
• obsessing over subscriber count/loss of subscribers
• PROCRASTINATION
• not taking time to practice/understand perspective
• using multiple-tiny-line shading without the appropriate skill to pull it off. (early chapters don't look great. I've learned since, and from chapter 5 I'll be mixing it with cell shading.)

[modrawmanga]

I posted my entire plotline as the story summary and leave very little to the readers imagination lol, good thing my buddy helped me rewrote it

But yah, mistakes are good teachers, I think it's a very valuable experience that I will remember for next time around for sure.

I agree having feedback from the right person would definitely helped with it comes to comic.

Also agree on your opinion about those empty views.
If I want to measure views to subs ratio, and long term retention rate of the subscribers on that particular platform, having random outsider who has no interest of subscribing to it makes it hard to measure the engagement rate, especially for long term story.
So I removed any outside direct link to my series in tapas, not that I have that many to begin with, to measure how does the series perform inside tapas itself.

[DiegoPalacios]

It would have been better if i had my own website and send them there.
It`s more about the Tapas algorithm. It measures likes-subs per view. Or at least that is how i heard it works. I may be wrong. If i am wrong please correct me
Of course i appreciate people reading and enjoying my comic, but if the algorithm push me away, that means less people will reach my comic.

[DiegoPalacios]

Maybe it would be better to link the people from outside Tapas to a website made by you. I think wordpress is good for that. Probably i will ask here about it.

[69Michi]

It`s more about the Tapas algorithm. It measures likes-subs per view. Or at least that is how i heard it works.

I only heard of dead subs actually. Which mean if you have more subs than views, the Tapas algorithm will push you down on the trending line. More views is never bad, be it from your subs or your non subs! That is what I gathered though.

[DiegoPalacios]

I hope you are right. I heard it`s about readers, but i had the doubt if it involved likes and subs. Thanks for the info!

[thekinginthesun]

It`s more about the Tapas algorithm. It measures likes-subs per view.

if you have more subs than views, the Tapas algorithm will push you down on the trending line.

Actually, the trending algorithm takes into account how many likes/shares/comments/new subs/views you had in the last few minutes for each sub you already have. If you have a lot of subs but less likes/shares/comments/new subs/views, no trending for you. No one knows the exact formula, but that's roughly how it works.
That's why dead subs are so bad. They don't give you the likes/shares/comments/new subs/views needed for trending.
That also means that people with very few subs can get to trending with just a handful of comments/likes. Sounds fair.

[insomniascrawl]

-Over thinking everything

• UNDER thinking everything (usually when I'm frustrated and don't want to have to draw something again tbh or when I wanted to start a story, but the plot was still up in the air.)

-Getting bummed out over everything

-Saying 'meh, my story just isn't for everyone', but then getting sad when people would be like 'I don't like it'

-Saying 'I'll finish it later' (That phrase is written on the door to my personal hell)

[DiegoPalacios]

It`s nice to know that, thanks a lot thekinginthesun!. Luckily, my subscribers are incredibly supporting and my like-per-subscriber ratio seems good

[JeanGuillet]

not using a comic-designed font. http://www.blambot.com/ saved my life.

[modrawmanga]

Yeah, I feel the same way, if you wanna drive traffic, why not to your own site? I just haven't got around to do it tho, maybe next time I'll ask around about it.

[LCT_m_a_d]

Balance... everything is balance. No rule or principal is too sacred to be experimented on. I tried to incorporate too many best practices and my art became flowchart.

It's important to be productive and efficient, but at the end of the day people value something that really can't be replicated. If you are honest about what you want to create and bring to the world, it's usually a very unique idea. Techniques and strategies are simply a way to get you closer, but they're never going to pave the way if you haven't picked a destination.