Share your Journey and Stories, when and why did you start your series?

inubasket 2020-08-19 11:33:27 UTC #5

I've been writing stories and comics since I was about 10. Eventually I discovered webcomics & started scanning my comic pages onto my computer and posting them on deviantart etc. Then I discovered smackjeeves and posted them there. Eventually I started drawing digitally with a mouse. I did that for years up until just last month I finally bought a tablet and now I use that!

I discovered Tapas a few months ago too & now I post here! This site is a lot nicer than smackjeeves, and also smackjeeves dug its own grave when it changed its website format. Everyone left.

My current comics:

triggermangaverse 2020-08-19 11:41:59 UTC #6

I like the creatures you draw and potential ways the cast can come up with to deal with them. I think it's very cool, I think the world building you have planned is already showing and working well. Looking forward to seeing more of it!

triggermangaverse 2020-08-19 11:55:51 UTC #7

I haven't started looking at novels yet on this site even tho I have been planning to. I think I will start with yours. I wouldn't consider magical girl stories shallow. I've seen shows like Magica Madoka which explores a lot of darker and emotional themes. Or take Harry Potter (it's is not really magical girl but it deals a world of magic in a fun way in some parts), I am interested in seeing what the world. I think as long as people can get attach to your characters, or world or plot (any one of the three), I think it would be fine. I will try to give you some feedback when I have read enough of your work but I am not sure how useful my opinion would be xD

ivanskilling 2020-08-19 12:06:11 UTC #8

I always liked reading and writing fiction when I was young. I stopped in my teens (writing, not reading) due to school but picked up again in 2015. I started with fanfiction, original short stories, and poetry in 2015. Eventually, the fandom died down and I didn't want to confine my stories to use a certain set of characters. So I did my research and found out that Tapas concentrated on original comics and novels!

Then I started posting some of my older works here - after editing and revamping it of course.

My latest novel is new though, and it's inspired by people in real life.

WolfUnderTheMoon89 2020-08-19 12:13:15 UTC #9

I started writing in February this year.
Before that I did a lot of RP's with one friend and with that, I mean that we did that for over 14 years. Always with the same set of characters but thousands of different contexts and storylines.
This year I just figured: I want something real, something I can hold in my hands at some point.
I plotted out a real story for these characters. Ending on 6 different books for the series.
I wrote the first draft of book 1 in four months and ended on 108k words. This is the one being uploaded on tapas.
Right now I'm rewriting that first book (added 6k words in the first four chapters and working on chapter five and while doing that I'm writing book two, where I reached 20k words

Flauschwurm 2020-08-19 13:27:14 UTC #10

I just started releasing my Original Story Morpho Mons here on Tapas.
It's a Novel which is also illustrated, and will feature short comic pages in the future.

It's a passion project, a remake of sth I created 12 years ago, which combines childish/nostalgic media with more mature topics.

Genres are Drama, Slice of Life, LGBTQ+
More subgenres will be added in the future. It's a bit hard to categorize, but I generally want to show the stories/identities/struggles of the characters in this setting.

The origin of this is very funny bc when I was 12 I was all over having Pokemon Fancharacters, Digimon Fancharacters, all that jazz. However I wanted to create my /own/ monster series, where I have the creative control and where I only implement what I like.

The story was frozen for about 8 years until I decided to revive it and give it a glow up, using it for my need to design and draw monster characters and build genuine LGBTQ+ characters that I and hopefully others can relate to <3

domisotto 2020-08-19 14:31:26 UTC #12

I love writing and I started writing and coding when I was not getting the content I wanted in the old video games.

Then I did the same with the novels.

I write for the dead tired from work Because I am dead tired from workand I need escapist stories that are full of adventure, funny and clever.

I stun Rule of Cool and Larger than Life stuff. With settings that are awesome! Pulp fiction is my thing!

And,yes, have interesting romances between kick-ass characters.

migxmeg 2020-08-19 14:39:32 UTC #13

I started drawing the art for our series a couple months ago! I hoped to be an oil painter when I was younger but ended up going into mechanical engineering instead and then corporate work. My personality is just not suited to the networking I needed to do to make it with painting.

I've been an avid manga/webtoon reader for years and my husband (the amazing writer) and I had discussed a long epic-ish story a couple years ago and even started a couple panels, but I kept falling into the "my art isn't good enough" problem and eventually dropped it. When I lost my job -thanks pandemic :(- I thought it would be a great time to revisit. After reading some advice we decided to go with a "short" project first to get a feel for our workflow. It was supposed to be short but I'm getting really attached to the characters . We'll see where it goes but it just feels so great to be making art again!!

kaetana 2020-08-19 15:34:31 UTC #14

A few years ago, I had just started getting back into art after a long period of being too depressed and low energy to work on it. Around that same time I was playing in a DnD game, and had started chatting with the group about how I thought the character dynamics and setting would make for a neat comic, and they were supportive of the idea. I had flirted with the idea of drawing a webcomic in the past, but had never committed to doing something like that long term, with all the planning that involves. But I was excited about the idea, especially since I had read that webcomics were a great way to grow art skills since you have to do so much drawing for them.

And then the DnD game died lol. Which was a bummer at first, but sort of worked out in the end because it freed me up to just take the pieces of it that I wanted for the comic, but do whatever I felt worked best for the story otherwise. I spent about a year doing pre-production, figuring out character designs and deciding what stuff I needed to cut and what new things needed to be added, before finally launching on May 1st 2019. And here I am a little over a year later, I definitely feel like I've learned a lot! I've had to slow down my update schedule (at the very beginning I was updating twice a week), but doing so has given me more time to polish my pages, so I feel it's worth it. I've definitely got a long way to go on the story, since I didn't follow the common advice of starting out with a short comic, but honestly being committed to a long project I'm passionate about is working out with how my brain likes to focus on things anyway, haha.

youu2sef 2020-08-19 15:47:56 UTC #15

I did posted something like this topic before, so because I'm too lazy I copied what I wrote on that topic and have fun

For me, I started reading the comics first on webtoon and I thought that I could make something like that, I watched YouTube tutorials about how to draw, but I really made no progress, and one day I came across a group on Facebook that shares some stories, then I got the idea of creating a novel.
But I needed the spark that will boost me, it was an anime called " Black clover ", and then I created my first episodes I think three months ago, and after that I found out about Tapas, and I began sharing my imagination and ideas with you !!

And if you wanna check my Novel " age of magic "

Y2F AND PEACE 🏼

insomniacarrest 2020-08-19 16:10:58 UTC #16

I wrote a heck of a lot of fanfiction back in college that sparked my love for writing and became pretty popular! I eventually broke off into original writing around 2 or 3 years, but only ever short stories. I was looking to start writing long fiction again and browsed around for a home for my work. Tapas seemed like a good bet due to the tipping system and I started experimenting with long form stories. I had a couple series going, but my novel "My Roommate is a Camgirl" ended up taking off. I never intended for my erotica to become quiet so popular and get over 50k views, but maybe I should have seen that coming, oops haha. Anyway, I've been updating twice a week since March of this year and it's been a fun and interesting experiment!
Here the story is now: https://tapas.io/series/My-Roommate-is-a-Camgirl

triggermangaverse 2020-08-19 16:22:42 UTC #17

I checked the video the music is actually pretty good. The drawing gives a very good vibe too. I really like what you've done with the background. You got yourself a sub

Crusoe 2020-08-19 16:37:27 UTC #18

I've been writing since I was a kid, like since I was six or seven, because I loved reading and telling stories. Then I started publishing in my native language on wattpad, but my motivation shifted to drawing and writing essays more in high school because writing became too time-consuming. Around two years back I started writing short stories of my oc's and I wanted to pick up writing again!

So when I finished an rp with an amazing story I was sad that we couldn't develop the story further and that no-one would get to see it, so with the permission of the other person I've taken the main plotpoints from the rp and created a more detailed story around it.

https://tapas.io/series/Fair-No-Fair-

Possum 2020-08-19 16:38:38 UTC #19

I've been writing books since I was really young. I spent a while worldbuidling for Demetori as you can probably find on another thread. Most of my fantasy novels are in the same world and Demetori is planned to be the first real example of that.

What pushed me the extra steps to want to publish Demetori is basically just how many books I've written that I say I'm not happy with and therefore cannot show in the light of day I have a writing degree and STILL don't feel comfortable with my work being out there. But it is now and I hope you guys read it one day.

lilithfairenwrites 2020-08-19 21:11:41 UTC #20

Rest assured, my stories aren't about torturing girls for daring to have their own lives and dreams.

Dark_Faeire 2020-08-19 21:20:33 UTC #21

'Don't Touch' was never meant to be a story honestly... I wrote chapter 1-2 as a one-shot to express emotions of anxiety and panic attacks. it was to represent the emotions my best friend deals with because she had a few traumatic events happen to her and not a lot of people understand how she feels.

Then I approached a friend who posts comics here on tapas and expressed how I wanted to write again since the last time I wrote a story was about 8-10 years ago. She encouraged me to give Tapas a try so I did. I give 'Don't Touch' a try on July 2019 and it's been the best so far having this story grow.

RyzaCobalion 2020-08-19 22:05:02 UTC #22

It honestly started as an idea i had when i was in high school but little freshmen me didn't know about how to write or even draw at the time and pushed the idea in the back of his mind. But the idea itself kept crawling back to me over and over again only until i finally decided to pursue it and make it into an actual series. Problem at the time i had was that i knew nothing about writing or drawing at the time so i signed for dozens of different art and writers classes to help develop my skills both as a writer and an artists until i felt comfortable enough in order to publish it ... somewhere. It wasn't until one of my friends showed me Tapas where it was a good place to publish as either a novel or a comic. i chose a novel first because my skills were not quite there yet to make a fully fledged comic so novel will have to do for now. i published my first ever series on November 23, 2018. Dx unfortunately i did not do a good job of keeping track of an uploading schedule because i posted it during college and college ate up more of my time than anything. It wouldn't be until mid-march of this year where i had more time to actually work and upload new chapters. Needless to say i went through a tough journey to make more progress on my series to be successful. And currently im still working on the new cover of my series and on the first few pages. But with college right around the corner, Dx the comic version is probably gonna get delayed.

MeltingCORE 2020-08-20 01:02:19 UTC #23

Thank you so much!

impossiblesoul 2020-08-20 01:14:45 UTC #24

When I was a kid, I daydreamed my time away. I'd wish for some kind of fantasy creature to come from out of the woods to take me away or maybe some spacecraft to beam me up. I think all fictional writing in one form or another is an expression of the author's wish fulfillment when not pandering to demographics for money.

A couple years ago, I got into a PM conversation with someone who seemed narcissistic. The person treated me like garbage, continually insulted my intelligence, and yet there was something extremely charming about them that kept me engaged in the conversation. The person was very knowledgeable in some ways that piqued my curiosity, and so I set aside my dignity to learn more. This experience inspired me to write Galatea.

Sadly, the person removed me shortly after our conversation. I desperately wish I could talk with them again, and the urge to do so would be overwhelming if they were to readd me. Maybe you could call it Stockholm syndrome?

I also grew up on a few influences that pushed me towards sci-fi:
Invader Zim.
Sgt. Frog.
Kaiba.
Gurren Lagann.

NickRowler 2020-08-20 03:45:06 UTC #25

I always wanted to create comics ever since I was little. As a college student, I tried to start up webcomics but they seemed to always fail due to bad story planning. One of which was a story about a weird alien who befriended some humans. The story originally had a co-creator who later became an ex-friend due to her treating me like crap. I was super upset during that time and decided to rewrite the story idea and in 2012, The Robot Zombie Space Pirate (from Outer Space) was born.

I have mix feelings about this series as a whole mostly because it was written during a very intense emotional time.

In 2015, I was dealing with another set of emotions. I recently graduated from college yet felt very unhappy with where I was in life. I was very lonely. I guess I needed something to cheer me up, so I dug through some old drawings and read a comic I wrote in high school called Crow. I realized that Crow, who was 24, was the same age I was and that it was sort of subconsciously wrote a character who didn't eat during a time I had issues eating. So, I rewrote Crow with a similar mindset of Robot Zombie where I indirectly write how I am feeling. Thus Crow's Worth was born.