Want to share my Paper of world building for my comic Open Flame but don't want to spoil

[KiabIce]

I want to share it so bad but don't want to spoil anything for the readers!
Do any of you have stuff like that too? That you can't wait to share it feels like it wants to burst outside you

[LadyN]

Everyday. Sucks the most cause I know literally nobody cares.

[KiabIce]

You mean if you shared the world building with everybody? Interesting

[LadyN]

Yeah. Most people I know or have met literally don’t care about my world building or my writing in general. I have a friend who wants us to work together in the future professionally but she wants to be the writer, creating all the plots, meanwhile I do all the art! Like I can draw and write, but people prefer my art over my stories. If I wrote a full novel that was actually good, nobody would really care. If I made a comic on the other hand, practically handing attention into my hands.

Sorry about that little rant.

[C_o]

I think the reality is that your world building will never be as interesting to other people as it is to you. World building is great when it happens in the background and compliments a good story and compelling characters.

[Kajaysee]

There's a bunch of stuff that I want to share in regards to my current project and other WIPs that I want to publish one day, but at the same time, I don't want to spoil anything and give away important details.

[Kajaysee]

Also, what kind of stuff do you like to write if I may ask?

[Kelheor]

@noros0617 you don't have to work with people who don't see you as a partner. If you like her stories and think you can make good art for them, that's a different thing.

I cannot wait to draw some artworks for Hexameron with characters interacting that will take place in the future arcs, but right now even the innocent sketches of characters will just be pure spoilers

[KiabIce]

I totally get it. I can't wait to share what I wrote. Built up the world of Open Flame from the first city to the country, then descriptions of the other 4 countries and their political stance. Also what the countries land description and resources are, or what the country is known for.

[Iris-Grimoire]

Though it's always good to gauge what's a spoiler and what isn't, don't forget that also you're posting a page only every few days, and people forget easily. I told my friends tons of things and when they read my comic months later a lot got lost; so no need to get too hung up that this name you said by accident in a trivia description would make someone figure out the twist.

[darthmongoose]

I have friends who are fellow comickers I trust who I can tell spoilers. That's how I get it out of my system. It's good to have at least one person you can spoil your story to so you can test ideas out and check they're good and don't have logic holes.

[Ramonkey]

@darthmongoose Exactly this.

I deal with this a lot because my storytelling basically focus on very complex lore that sits in my head of which I only want to give hints. I struggle a lot with wanting to reveal more about all this backstories, but I want the reader that is interested in it to take it as a game. To really participate in the metanarrative play, to wonder and especulate. I know it is a massively difficult task but is also a challenge I'm daring to face, and what works for me is having two very close persons that know almost everything, and maybe one person who you give some extra hints. This way you will have feedback about it all making sense, and also the viability of knowing and dissecting all of the inner folklore of your work.

(By the way congrats on Errant, I think you are doing great)

[aqua03]

Funnily enough, that's exactly what I do as well. Just spitball ideas off of my best friends (Both IRL and online) for feedback and the like.