Things authors are thinking

[Leyelle]

drawing buildings with bricks is just...

[kyupol]

"What's gonna happen in the next panel?"
"How do I fill in this or that plot hole?"
"Damn that dialog is so lame... gotta revise that"

"Damn I just thought of an evil plan that is so fool proof that the villain actually wins. Villains have to be stupid or slip up somehow in order for the hero to win. They cant be smarter than the hero."

[Leyelle]

they can be smarter than the hero lol, that's why heroes need help

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

Why do so few people leave comments?

How about just some "likes"?

[xstarx07]

Personally, I think once you reach a certain point during the journey of being an author, you start developing this internal scala between constantly battling one's inner demons creeping up, thinking no one's ever gonna read your works because you feel like they're mediocre, until you turn your frustration into a determination to be able to fight God himself because you can literally bring your imaginations to life and it's not like anyone's gonna stop you from writing something so insane that might even rival the greatest classics.

Like, it all comes down to getting in the right mood and just get to it.

It's some cycle to love and hate tbh, but it also has some magic to it. It keeps me motivated, even when there's a chapter with little to no feedback xP

[kyupol]

Heroes win usually by the power of love and friendship a team. And the villain is usually command and control dictator whose minions usually obey him/her out of fear

[Leyelle]

yeah, and the team is there to help them with their short comings. the villain has to fill those in him/herself because no one would WANT to help them

[ShidoDraws]

This basically summarizes what I think every time I upload a chapter.

[Leyelle]

we really torture ourselves

[Leyelle]

what about

1. how do I show that these characters have the same sense of humor without making them seem interchangeable

or a similar personality, which seems to be a thing for close friends or people who have lived together for a long time.

[Glofernwolfe]

I actually have this problem for some of my future chapters. Marana is a funny girl. But I also wanted a bit of humour with Subeya (especially since she's a muscular 9 foot tall poban). Sigh Well just gotta keep thinking I guess.

[Leyelle]

Yeah. The thing is I feel like I can often write different senses of humor, but with characters who are really close or have lived together for a long time, I want to try to express the way they've become pieces of each other, almost like each other's other halves, without making them seem redundant. Yin and yang I suppose rather than yin and yin. I guess the key in duos is to make them play off of each other while not saying the same sort of things all the time, or speaking the same way. Cuz that just becomes how everyone writes twins lol.

With individuals, I'm by no means a comedy expert, but me and my siblings write comic strips a lot (trying to earn enough to get a tablet so I can start drawing and releasing them) the number one thing I've learned about comedy is that everyone has their own sense of humor, and your characters shouldn't be the exception. When you understand their personalities then you'll understand the sort of jokes they would make.

[Glofernwolfe]

What helps me some times is that I describe people I know in real life for certain characters. I have two funny friends with different forms of humour, and when I write I associate each of them to my two characters.

I haven't done this for Marana and Subeya though. These characters are purely fictional.

[Leyelle]

yeah, cuz that'll only help you if the characters are similar to your friends, and if you wanna write funny villains...well hopefully you'll have no friends for reference

[PoppyTheMerpasaur]

"Are you saying the story is good because you think it's good? Or because you don't want to hurt my feelings?"

I'd rather someone give me such brutal feedback that I wish I almost wish I never posted it in the first place... cuz that's the type of feedback that you can learn from <.<

[Leyelle]

same, fortunately my editor covers that.

[Leyelle]

did i really just spend two weeks just figuring out WHY my characters like each other?

[skidiggy]

• Oh no, someone fell madly in love with the 2nd ML in the comments. Oof. Is it too late for a harem ending?
• Could someone really be that evil? (Checks notes from actual old job ten years ago) Ah, I remember now... (ratchets up the evil quotient on Bad Guy).
• Jeez, our heroine can't catch a break. You know what she needs right now? MORE HARDSHIP!
• Seriously, what are the odds that these two would run into each other coincidentally on that particular day in the big city? Oh, wait, I forgot about "plot magnetism" again.

[Leyelle]

lol, the lack of plot magnetism in my story has kept my male lead from running into a certain someone who lives in the same city as him for 28 years

[skidiggy]

Oh no, ANTI-plot magnetism strikes again!