What do you love about your book?

[MissPaige36]

Authors and artist of tapas, no matter how flawed or incomplete your current/finished works are, what is something that whenever you reread it, it makes you think “this… this is why I write/draw.”

For me, it’s the characters. It’s creating a character either by taking a trait from you or people close to you, and turning it into something more. And when your readers say “ahh, it’s X! I love them so much” and you’re like “wow… you love this character?” And it blows your mind?

That’s why I write. Oh and to make really stupid jokes too. Cough, this might be a slight promo too (wink wink: https://m.tapas.io/series/The-Clueless-Prince/info)
If you’re slick with the promo, I’ll add your story to my library haha

[CarltonIsaac]

I love that my writing makes me money,

[sleepykuya]

I love what I wrote because I went through a rough patch, and I devoted myself to trying to develop all of these characters. It’s a big cast, they mean a lot to me, and I’m excited to see how their story ends

[psto1464]

I love seeing people get invested in my characters too! When readers say they relate to them, or are trying figure out what's happening next? Its what I do as a reader, and bringing that out in someone else? Makes my day:heart:

(here's my story, cough cough > https://tapas.io/series/Rewriting-His-Past/info)

[MelancholicOtaku]

Honestly I just love writing my story. Since I don’t really have any thing planned ,it’s been fun just trying to figure out what happens next in the story. Also just being able to share with the readers best thing ever .

Slight promotion

Read The Lost Forest | Tapas Web Novels

[harlan]

I love my characters. I love my readers, and when they are happy, when they are surprised, when they are passionate or questioning or make good guesses it makes me feel happy. I like weaving plots.

But probably the most rewarding thing for me is when I get an individual scene to feel just right. It's common to be a dissatisfied perfectionist and want to fiddle with word choices and sentences and so on. But that makes it even more special when you go back to a scene later and read it with a fresher eye and think to yourself "wow, this is good."

[larrylampard]

I love the character introductions. It's kinda weird and specific, but I just like doing them so much. As they say, first impression are everything!

Read Samurai Cat | Tapas Web Comics

[kalmia]

What I love about my story is the fact that i’ve managed to take it from a silly little scene i dreamt once into an actual fully fleshed out story with a beginning and end, themes, motifs, interesting characters, and a pretty decent premise. 12 year old me would be very proud that i’m actually where i am now!

And yeah, also the characters lol. But I do have a special fondness for some of the really cool visuals i have planned!

[justanothernerdling]

Honestly? HONESTLY? I love my characters. They're all so different, writing their interactions brings an incredible joy to me. It doesn't matter if it's between the main couple, between enemies, between friends or strangers, I LOVE writing interactions between characters I know so well. It writes itself, honestly.

Baby bit of self promo: https://tapas.io/series/A-Crownes-Game/info

[MissPaige36]

Right?! Like, even when you’re at your lowest, you don’t want to drop your story because you too want to see what happens at the end! Especially when you’ve planned on introducing x y and a characters later on!

[MissPaige36]

It makes me day too! And that was a slick promo, I’ll give you that HAHA

[MissPaige36]

Heh, slick promo, but yeah I totally get that too! I feel like my characters just is the little cherry on top!

@harlan Totally! Especially if it’s like a scene that you’ve been practicing for and worried you might fail to do, and then when you finally publish that chapter and return to it to reread… There’s no words to explain being proud of yourself, is there? It’s a great feeling though.

@larrylampard Ayo, what about the slick promo? But totally get ya, character promos are a lot of fun!

@kalmia oh I felt that on a personal level! I remembering absolutely obsessed with stories about being transported into another world and I tried writing it when I was like 13… let’s just say it was really really bad. But now, years later with much more experience, it feels like a rewarding effort to finally make your silly story ideas come true! Even if they’re vastly different.

@justanothernerdling Totally! I used to suck at interactions but once I studied how to make them more fun, they became my favorite to both write and read! Especially when it’s a funny scene! You bet I’m laughing at the dumb jokes I made 7 months ago! It was funny! (Cough, I give your promo a pass bro)

[DanielRKM]

I love juggling tone and finding out that it affects others the same way it affects me. To genuinely laugh with my characters, swoon a little bit from time to time, or take a moment and just feel their sadness and loss with them, it's such a fascinating and fun experience.

I just heard a great quote from Jack Antonoff (from the band Bleachers) where he describes his music as "celebrating grief with peppy tunes" and I thought, yes, that is exactly why I do what I do. It can be so cathartic but also so much fun when the right joke gets interjected and you find yourself smiling and falling in love with your characters all over again. To balance sweet, with sad, and funny. It's the best.

Read Valor: Family Tree | Tapas Web Comics

[WildMoonCrow]

I love my characters, I love evolving them and watching three grow! I also love having an outlet for what’s inside my head, I’ve always been making stories and writing really allows me to let it all out​ It’s like free therapy lol

Read Echoes Of The Void | Tapas Web Novels

[VersusVII]

I love when readers get the way my characters behave or notice the hints I left for the future plot development. My story is slow peaced, with some clues during the main part: only at the end you get the full picture.

[king-goldfish]

I love when I reread my own story, for editing purposes, and hours later I realize I have done no editing because I got lost in the story again. Even if no one else enjoys it, at least I've entertained myself.

I love that my writing gives me a place to think about real-world problems from different perspectives. I love asking questions that have no answer, and seeing how the characters try to answer them anyway. I love the gallows humor.

I love where this story ends. I can't wait to post the final chapter. It's a banger.

Read Big Dead Energy | Tapas Web Novels

[TheLemmaLlama]

(Since you mentioned art as well I assume we can talk about our comics too )

I love that my story surprises people. I get really happy when people go 'I've never seen anyone do this before' or 'I never thought of it that way' Still, the ideas/themes themselves aren't totally new; people do talk about them in thinkpieces/random online discussions and stuff; but people still seem to find it fresh because no-one's featured those ideas in a comic before (or perhaps even a novel) XD