Story You Wanna Make, But You Don't Have the Time?

[powerplantanimations]

Do you have stories you WANNA make, but you don't think you have the time? I wanna make a grounded comedy series sorta like the Office and then in one random episode in the middle seasons, I allude to the fact that a supernatural force is a thing (like vampires or werewolves) and everyone is aware that they exist. I could have a cameo from a hunter or something and then I NEVER speak of it again until I'm like...

"Hey, you remember that hunter? Yeah, I had this show planned out FROM THE BEGINNING. OHHHHHHHHHHHH." And then the show is like this scariest, intense thing ever. I remember getting that idea from American Dad out of all things.

I'm kinda doing that with one of my characters in That Stick Figure Isekai, but still.... that world is already supernatural to begin with so people can be like "Eh... no duh".

[Rock-Well]

I have a lot of series I want to make but, really don't have times to do.
I had one called Black Roman, who I made few importants characters.
But I never had the chance, or the time to realize the serie. Even writing it.
So he got stuck in my head since then.

You can see some of my characters I started ; Sheet reference
https://www.deviantart.com/rock-well/gallery/72385265/my-original-characters

And the univers I started on it; Map's, weapon, stories about my characters...
https://www.deviantart.com/roze-well/gallery/77681549/om

[NickRowler]

I sort of wanted to have a character in my comics who was a war refugee who was also mute and learned to use ASL. But the amount of research I would have to do for said character seemed like something I did not have the time for. Especially since they are more of a background character.

[Emalie]

I would love to be able to do a post-apocalyptic style comic. But I have so many drawbacks at the moment, so I'm taking it easy being here with a story more focused on dramatic and realistic themes. I really don't have as much time as I would like. Also, creating a comic like the one I have in my head takes time, a lot of time.

[Lady_T_Musings]

Cool idea though hahah!

Gawd sooooooo many. Ive taken to waiting more short stories that can be expanded at a later date if i choose, but getting the shorts out satisfy the nagging itch…. For now…

[Stargazer31]

I really want to do a gothic cattlepunk story but idk how
That, or a teen highschool drama set in a clown college

[BoomerZ]

I have an afterlife story I wanna tell but I need to finish the story I'm in right now. Going to be at least 2 years to finish the current story.

[Mallory]

I have like, 7 or 8 stories on the backburner that I occasionally go "but what if I found time to make it??" and then realize that, no, I still don't have the time or the energy...

...As far as ones I definitely know I won't make, I want to write a whole YA and adult follow-up to my middle-grade comic project (so, like if the 10-year-old girl in my current story grows up). It would follow her through her last year of high school, then drop her off in college, and pick her up again 1 year after graduation while she's working towards building a career. It would be like the LONGEST SLOW BURN ROMANCE EVER because she'd reconnect with a friend/former teammate she has a very uhhh turbulent relationship with. For professional reasons they can't exactly hitch up (she's working in a very male-dominated field and if she gets together with this guy, all of her accomplishments will forever be attributed to dating him). So then they put all their ~unrequited passion~ into accomplishing GREAT SUCCESS TOGETHER, YAY. And they try to date other people and of course it always falls apart. And then, when they win it all on the grand stage, they finally both decide they're being dumb and actually get together. The END.

I really want to write it because I feel like there isn't really a lot of stories that focus on how two people can compete and challenge each other and still be great partners, it's usually one supporting the other, or if they do start as competitors, one of them usually chills out for the benefit of the other (and until recently, it was always the woman).

But between my webcomic project, my project I'm trying to get trad published, and a couple of over novels... I just don't have the desire to write it. And research it, too. I wouldn't be happy with it unless I felt confident in its authenticity, and that's a whole lot of research I just don't want to do. I have comparable experience, but it's not 1-to-1.

Still though... I enjoy sketching it sometimes and pretending I do have time for it.

[Awesomeness_Studios]

I got a couple ideas.

• Rom-com about a big scary dragon who has fallen in love and doesn’t know what to do about it. I plan to do this after JumpHero is over, though that will probably take years to get to that point. I may also try to pitch it to Tapas Originals or something similar in the future, since I’m okay with this story idea getting professionally edited/altered
• Kirby fan comic about Keeby and Galacta Knight and some silly shenanigans . I wanna do this because I haven’t seen many funny Kirby fan comic series out there and this one has been in my mind for a long while. However, as a fan comic I know it can’t get promoted on any platform, so I would be at a great disadvantage and would have to rely on the Kirby fandom alone to share this with everyone. Perhaps it’ll happen in the far future where I have time to make it casually.

[SamAndFriends]

I want to write historical correct books about stuff like life on a castle as a knight but the amount of research that would give me a secure feeling about "correctnes"... oof

[powerplantanimations]

I wanna do historical fiction too, but yeah researching is annoying lol.

[kyupol]

I wanna make a blackpilled comic.

[AnonymousHouseCat]

There's one I've been wanting to do for a couple years now (I even have art of some of the characters up on my ig) but it's a complicated political drama, and I don't know enough to write a story like that currently, so I'd have to do a ton of research. Also, even though it's a fantasy world, it would take place in an area roughly inspired by the medieval Mediterranean, so learning about the cultures, architecture, and fashion would take even more time. On top of all that, I worry that some aspects of it are too similar to Pandora Hearts (I didn't realize that until later) so I'm not sure if it's actually worth the trouble.

[AmandaJ-art]

When I was 16 I started making a comic about my great-grandmother's childhood. I was so inspired by her stories. We'd sit and talk along with her younger sister. She, along with her sister and brother have passed since then. I'd love to revisit and reboot it. There is just no time anymore.

[bloodstained.skies]

I really wanted to make series in style of "Medieval Doom". A demon hunter, a swordsman and a magician want revenge on gods and demons, stuff like that

[Kelheor]

Two engineers researching crime and conspiracies and trying to make their inventions work. Drama, sci-fi, crazy scientists included maybe one day...

[powerplantanimations]

Oh hey I really love the artstyle for this. Is this something you sketch on your freetime? Like not the comic, just the characters lol.

I do that a lot with stories I wanna do.

[Kelheor]

Thanks so much! Yeah, these are just my usual doodles. My writer has a ton of stories and I don't know if I will ever be drawing all of them as actual comics, but just sketching different characters is always fun

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