Share how you came up with your story and promote!

peillustrator 2024-01-16 19:27:34 UTC #1

Hi everyone so I thought a cool way to promote would be to share how you came up with your stories, I'll start.
My webcomic is called Mena And The Gargantuan Island!! Here's a link to it and it's on both Tapas and Webtoon!!

I actually came up with the idea for Mena when I was in my first year of art school, I did drop out haha!! But my teacher at the time really liked the ruff draft I did and I got a lot of other positive feedback. I left it alone for a while, until I wanted to get back into webcomics.

I looked over the original draft and it wasn't perfect by any means, but it was still good. It just needed to be cleaned up and that's what I did. Plus I just felt really connected with the story I made. I tried other webcomic ideas, but none of them connected to me the way that Mena did.

Plus I wanted to give webcomic making another try. I had before, but I was much younger back then and didn't know a lot of the things that I know now.

That's pretty much it, so I'm excited to see the story behind your guys stories. Please be nice and respectful. Don't just post interact with others, we're all a community here!!

Aeneas1 2024-01-16 19:29:03 UTC #2

I was mostly inspired by a scrapped novel I came up with.

Leyelle 2024-01-16 19:34:12 UTC #3

This is a fun thread idea.

No worries about the art school thing, I've heard a lot of people say it was a waste of their money.

I came up with my story idea because I learned about the #trueloveontapas competition at the last minute and wanted to compete. I had some other romance plots outlined, but whenever I think too much about a story I get really severe writer's block, and I was pretty sure that would happen if I tried to work on any of the stories I already had and had psyched myself out of starting, so I decided to create a new story off the dome and work on it from there. I literally had to write a chapter nearly every day to meet the quota, but I still managed to write a pretty killer story if I do say so myself.

The inspiration for the story partly came from the fact that I wanted a theme that would lead my character on a relatively consistent search/with a daily goal to help me know where I was going with the story as I built the rest of the plot. So I decided to make her have to find and take a picture of something beautiful every day to send to her BFF while he's in the hospital. Then I had to figure out how why he was in the hospital, and that spawned the rest of the novel, which honestly strays very far from the initial 'find something beautiful every day' concept.

kyupol 2024-01-16 20:29:02 UTC #4

This is how I came up with AngHell Dela Blackpill...

Blackpill and redpill type websites, YouTube channels (they're generally atheist or agnostic) + religion / spirituality (Christianity, eastern spirituality, new age) + anime (Naruto, Bleach, yuyu Hakusho) + personal experiences and observations = ANGHELL DELA BLACKPILL

SirCoockie 2024-01-16 20:44:08 UTC #5

It started as a fanfic but it changed completly, the setting started in an isekai fantasy but endend up in a modern Scifi.

ScribbleJay 2024-01-16 21:08:00 UTC #6

What a cool idea for a topic! It’s fun seeing how the initial seeds of an idea grew over time.
I just posted a new comic inspired by a long, rainy drive. I was thinking about Bambi (the book). It follows Bambi as he grows older and slowly becomes more wise and more distant from the smaller woodland creatures around him, until he can barely relate to them anymore — he eventually grows so wise that he discovers God(!).
I’d just come back from the T.Rex Discovery Center in Eastend, so I had dinosaurs on the brain. I thought, if the experience of an adult deer is so alien from that of a baby deer, imagine the difference between, say, a +80 ton sauropod and its 8 pound hatchling.
And yes, it’s also inspired by Land Before Time and the Lion King, which are in turn inspired by Bambi, so I guess it all comes back to the same talking deer story.

Animal508 2024-01-16 21:22:50 UTC #7

I looked at isekais such as spider and slime, and disliked that their protagonists became overpowered. I wanted to come up with a situation where it was impossible for the protagonist to become overpowered, where he would be the underdog in every possible scenario, and so:

PenguinAngel 2024-01-16 21:46:50 UTC #8

I just.....came out at some point...and i was fed up with a toxic friend of mine (ex)

linZcomics 2024-01-16 22:03:46 UTC #9

My comic started off as a video game comic with one off jokes. It mainly focused on RPG and MMO elements.

However, the characters naturally started to evolve. As they evolved, I wanted to work on a more serious story. From there it just kind of happened.

sams_cartoon_shack 2024-01-16 22:12:05 UTC #10

The idea for a comic about talking shapes came from this Australian CGI cartoon I watched a child called The Shapies which was about these geometric shapes trying to be the best band in the world. However, most of my influences came from newspaper comic strips like Garfield, Peanuts, Dilbert, and, most importantly, Pearls Before Swine. I would draw these little comics on sheets of paper throughout my teen years before ultimately deciding 3 years ago to redraw these strips so I could start actually publishing them.

llobucervallince 2024-01-16 22:14:07 UTC #11

LostKelp 2024-01-16 22:28:17 UTC #12

Originally najm and alya were random kids that were gonna be adopted by a badass space mercenary lady - think Boba fett/Hans solo if they were a buff old lady with a starwars fixation, like in universe she wants to emulate them. So she's also a Nerd.

So in this post apocalypse these two kids crash land their spaceship onto this mercenary's land and she brings them back to an old space port to send them back. But then I thought well where are they going back to? Maybe they crash landed on purpose? Maybe things aren't so hot in space?

I turned my focus to their backstory maybe a corporate overlord Elon musk style crossed with stormtrooper aesthetics? Well then the story couldn't be about sending them back into corporate hell, so my beautiful Boba fett lady got put on the shelf, and the story became about Najm alya and their crew mates Qam and Rahat persevering through corporate hell and finding a way out and even a way to bring them all down.

So check it out! It's a hell of a ride.

(Also in spite of all the inspiration, I don't really like starwars. 'S fine, my mom likes it plenty so the imagery might have seeped in that way)

willmarstudios 2024-01-16 22:30:37 UTC #13

What a fun idea to help promote and share our work! Thank you for this opportunity

NULLED has a very long history of revisions, AU's and ideations spanning back to almost middle school for me. The MC, Conri, was never really a solidified character because I was just doodling one day, but then he just stuck around and I'm glad he did! The basic premise/plot stemmed from an old RP plot that was I want to say maybe 2 - 3 years in the making. Very rough, very trope heavy and just a combination of insane plot lines: it was very fun!

Then my close friend (starlitswords on twitter) told me that she was in the process of writing a trilogy series that she hoped to get published one day as she went through school (its very much in the editing/revision stages). Her story is so vivid and absolutely wonderful from what I've read and one day she approached me and asked if she could include Conri as a side character to which I was absolutely honored! I said yes obviously!

From then on as I was included in her writing/drafting process, we went through ideas of how to include him and that collaboration inspired me to really want to flush out his backstory. Hence why NULLED now exists lol

Thanks for reading and I hope you'll enjoy this queer modern fantasy:

MK_Wizard 2024-01-16 22:55:32 UTC #14

Psychoborg started off as a "what if" fanfiction scenario that I felt could have been a great opportunity if He-Man the 2002 remake went that way. However, it began to deviate so much from the source material that it was not He-Man anymore and it was better for that because I was still left with a great story.

Psychoborg is the result of twenty years worth of imagination, heart and work. It is an action fantasy inspired by the 80s and it rated M.

NetherSlayer 2024-01-16 23:38:32 UTC #15

I came up with my story over a decade ago when I was playing the MMORPG Spiral Knights basically every day. Over the course of 5 years, I sunk one thousand hours into it, and I was always hoping that the game would receive more love and development, but it just... never did. Sure an update here and there, but not like most other MMORPGs, and the biggest gripe I had was the barebones story, when the game had everything to make a massive, sprawling, expansive and immersive world. Maybe that was never the intended goal for it, but I definitely dreamed big for its sake.

Fast forward a few years and I began writing a novelized version of the series of events that unfold in the game, but giving it that attention to detail and thorough explanation that the game sorely lacked. Characters are based on NPCs or players I encountered, convenient game mechanics are explained as why the world works the way it does, and the missions aren't just levels with enemies scattered about to fight with an occasional dialogue sequence, but compelling and designed to move the story forward.

And, while I'm writing a bit out of order, here it is! Weekly episodes should resume shortly.

GunmetalSkies 2024-01-17 00:33:11 UTC #16

I also started my novel from the True Love competition on here after a friend showed it to me! I have a variety of story ideas in play already, but I wanted to do something new for the competition, and I knew I wanted it to be fantasy-based. Eventually, I decided I wanted to play around with the idea of blood knights, which led me to create Fia. Opposing him, I ended up with Eli as our resident world-traveling thief. And since I hadn't yet written a fantasy story that involved dragons, I decided I needed to work that into it as well.

This was a very fast-paced creation process, given the time frame of the competition and the fact that I wasn't starting right at the beginning of it. There was a lot of world-building along the way, but I eventually settled on the state of the world with the empire and what the conflict would be in various places throughout the world and story. Part of this, because of the nature of the competition, settled around the romance between Fia and Eli, or what would eventually be their romance. That part became a bit of a play on the prince needing rescue, only our prince happens to be a knight who is also quite capable of killing a dragon on his own, so rather than the traditional fairy tale story of princess-knight-dragon, we've got a blood knight, thief, and empire!

The magic system and how the shadows actually worked took a little more time to play with. But I really love the idea of in-between places and other worlds, so this gave me a chance to introduce that concept into the story as well through the magic itself. Plus, lots of fun new creatures! I've always been a sucker for good bonds between characters and animal companions

I also knew I really wanted a story where I could play on the whole idea of "all that glitters is not gold" with characters who aren't wholly good or bad, and ultimately how love kinda saves us from the worst of ourselves. And from that, I created Dance of Blood and Faith!

skidiggy 2024-01-17 03:15:11 UTC #17

I started working on ideas for Apparent Secrets about ten years ago to distract myself during the day during downtime at my 9-to-5, which eventually morphed into the story as it is today. Major progress was made for the True Love on Tapas contest, and I've been writing every day on it ever since.

menthol.crayon 2024-01-17 04:26:23 UTC #18

I wanted to rebel against my catholic upbringing by making angels and demons fall in love <3 https://tapas.io/series/Horns-and-Halos

LadyWarrior 2024-01-17 09:17:21 UTC #19

Hello! I want to promote this story. This story was written way back 2012. I was highschool back then when I wrote this and I just make a new plot but same name. I didn't like what I wrote back then because it was so long, confusing and kinda boring since I am not mature. So, I write again the Vampires Game with different plot and twist. I came up with this idea because of dreams. Actually, I have dream about this castle in the party where the protagonist seat, observing the people then, the next thing in my dream was, she was jumping high on the rooftop to the other side and was chased by these vampires. Later on, I am thinking about writing this and then I make a scenes in my mind, I stitch it one by one in order to create a novel. Added to it, is inspired by love, family and friendship.

rosskinnaird 2024-01-17 13:42:17 UTC #20

I'm a LGBTQIA+ writer and author of the Power of Love Series.
While the main High Fantasy Trilogy is available in a traditional format (2 out of 3 novels are available worldwide), the one I write here, The Power of Love: A Tale of Time, it's a prequel to the main story.

I came up with this latest novel mainly because I had so much to tell still that I wanted to write about all the things I had to cut from the first novel. Being a Portal Fantasy, my first, debut novel had a lot of world and magic system building but I couldn't keep the entire backstory. So, I decided to spin this off as a webserial.

The main idea is to eventually publish it as a full novel, but for now, the story in here is almost complete!! Only few chapters away from the end!