What inspired you to create a comic/novel. How did the idea come to you?

Beppobear 2021-06-22 03:10:14 UTC #21

Haha! I love that! You knew you had a good idea and you couldn't get it out of your head! I can tell you right now, I did not like writing up until recently. I was always a curious child with a lot of theories and just last year, I had no idea what I was doing, but I starting putting these theories onto paper (or google docs in this case) and realized that I really really liked writing my thoughts down.

THen thoughts became ideas and then these ideas had characters! And before I realized it, I had the urge to write their stories!

It totally get you lol!

jmccubbins 2021-06-22 03:13:41 UTC #22

Exactly! You shaped it for you. Because who else knows exactly how to portray YOURE characters in the world YOU made. You do! You were so inspired by you're own ideas you had the courage and power to put on paper! Think of it this way! How many people day dream of making a novel and never start. Or never have the courage to share it! People who share there work are brave and courageous. Because they are pioneers paving they way for the inspiration of the future! So yes good sir or mam! You are one of these great pioneers! On ward to writing and creativity!!

Beppobear 2021-06-22 03:15:37 UTC #23

Thank you! I FEEL LIKE WRITING RIGHT NOW! I MIGHT JUST DO IT! Suddenly, my writer's block has passed! I wish you good luck Mister! Or maam!

jmccubbins 2021-06-22 03:16:43 UTC #24

You are very welcome! I solute you ! o7

Kuma 2021-06-22 03:19:26 UTC #25

My current novel has mutated quite a lot since its inception. Originally one of the characters or at least a spiritual ancestor for him was part of another story, one being adapted to a comic (manga style). He was a secondary character that I ended up liking a lot more than the main one.

I proceeded to build a world fitting him rather than the previous MC. I tested the character in different projects, testing ideas and concepts. And wrote a bit too much lore and worldbuilding.

Oto_Kouda 2021-06-22 03:20:17 UTC #26

Thanks! I get what you mean about not writing until recently.

I wrote a LOT as a little kid. I'd make little comic books and short stories on printer paper ^^;

I stopped writing stories for a few years to focus on poetry and composing music, though to be honest, I was kind of...scared of the commitment that'd come with writing something long again.

The next thing I knew, I had this idea and KABOOM!—I was writing again!

caelinalexis 2021-06-22 03:22:06 UTC #27

I love Tapas, but most of the romance stories on here follow the same cookie cutter plot. I just wanted to bring in something different to the table, you know?

My characters, well

i mean, if you really want to get the story spoiled for you, go ahead, no biggie

My characters are actually based off of me and my life. Yeah. It's kind of, well, it is a massive spoiler and it's crucial to the plot, so I won't go into too much detail.

It was one of those days, where I just looked back on every mistake I made and I was like, "God, I was such an idiot. Why did I do that?" and a whole bunch of more self criticism (or whatever the word is).

I'm an impulsive person, so I started uploading it as soon as I thought of it. I'm also very forgetful and noncommittal. So I have to do it before I lose interest and move on to Fortnite (I spend WAY too much time playing that dumb game).

Beppobear 2021-06-22 03:26:21 UTC #28

I get that! One of my first projects (one that i've put on hold for now) was all built around two characters who I really like the trope of. Just because of them, I decided that I wanted to give them a world and a story! It got out of hand and now there's eight characters. What can I say? It was my very first project and I got excited!

Beppobear 2021-06-22 03:28:50 UTC #29

Ahh yes! I think inputting your own experiences and bits of your personality into your characters and stories is VERY important. It makes your story realistic and relatable and I get it! I also think Fortnite is a dumb game but I can't stop watching people who are ACTUALLY good at the game, stream their gameplays lol.

Beppobear 2021-06-22 03:29:55 UTC #30

Lol it's best and scariest feeling when you get soo into your stories! I love it and it scares me!

kwestlake99 2021-06-22 04:11:39 UTC #31

One of the stories I'm writing, which only exists in script format atm, is a prison story. There was a period of time where I went looking for a good anime or manga set in a prison, and while a found a few gems, none of them had what I was looking for. It seemed logical then to make my own.

TheOddFungi 2021-06-22 09:49:55 UTC #32

My story was born during a very difficult time of my life. I felt very isolated and it provided an escape for me and to be honest helped save my life. This was over a decade ago during my middle school years.

I "met" my MC, Shyba, before knowing any of the story. I remember sitting in my room, disassociating, and he kind of came out of nowhere. I immediately knew his name, what he looked like, a bit of his background. It was like seeing an old friend.

So I started writing with him. I would stay up all night with my new friend and tell this story to myself. At the time my favorite anime/manga was Black Cat by Kentaro Yabuki, and the original concept resembled it a lot. As I grew and matured though, so did my story and my characters into what they are now. Interestingly enough, one of my characters, Jeremiah, ended up being a lot like my brother who I created before my brother grew into that personality.

The characters come from a lot of different inspirations, but the two main characters, Shyba and Kiara, have a lot of their personalities from me. I like to think of them in a way as a yin and yang version of me, with Shyba more of my mental traits and Kiara having more of my outward traits. There are a few characters I have named after my enemies (heheh )

I actually had published it on Figment at first (if anyone remembers what that was) and had a decent following with regular readers, but I knew it wasn't refined enough so I started working on it. Years passed and life got in the way (like a soul sucking job where I was overworked and underpaid), so it kind of got set on the back burner a bit even though in my head I have always been working on it, just hadn't actually done the work.

Then the pandemic hit and I ended up having to quit my job due to complications from that (which I was already planning to quit do to a lot of reasons) and ended up having a lot more time to actually work on it and get it to where it is now.

This story and these characters have been a part of me for so long and I am really excited to see how far it goes and share this story with others who will enjoy it, perhaps also needing an escape like I did.

Avonguardian 2021-06-22 10:17:07 UTC #33

I think it all started after I had started playing world of warcraft around 2013 and I got obsessed with the idea of a big vast world with characters spanning years and around the world. I also felt like I wanted to create Witches that werent so dark and moody, there aint nothing bad about a dark moody witch but I wanted to make something more colourful.

This story in particular was inspired when I was watching the sailor moon crystal show around 2015 and a thought occured to me "why is it that magical girls always wear skirts? How about something different... Like shorts?"

And thus my main Character Lisana was fully born, she had existed before but never as a full concept, I created her as a means to an end in a roleplay group, I just needed a funny character at the time and randomly came up with her on the spot. -but she has slowly developed as a funnier and interesting character to me.

Around 2016 my mother passed away from cancer, and it hit me pretty hard, left me practically homeless moving from friends house to house, I managed pretty well but I could never find the energy or the bravery to actually start up or finish the first chapter, rewrote it and changed it a hundred times.

2018-2019 I went to this "comic school" for a year where I finally got off my butt and made the first chapter of my comic! It inspired me alot even if the school wasnt that great, it created a nice environment for me to finally set in motion my comic. For the final project at the school I made the first part of chapter 1 and it was published in this big anthology book alongside my classmates.

I had finished the first chapter and was sketching the second when a sudden wave of depression hit me around the autumn of 2019. My partner and I finally got an apartment but it was across the country, it was a student apartment in this small town. Around that time my partner and I really got into dnd and my comic faded a bit from me, though it was always in the back of my mind.

Then of course Covid hit and we were all pretty confused on what would happen next... Until... The new year of 2021, we finally got our own apartment that wasnt bound to my partners studies and I opened up photoshop and looked at chapter two that was in the sketch phase and then I just thought... "Might as well do some light linearting, I have nothing better to do" And that spiraled alot, now I've posted both chapter 1 and 2 just about to finish off chapter 3 and I am finally back on track!

Depression is still there but I hope that some people might still enjoy my comic, it brings me joy to make and I hope it brings other people joy to read.

I realise this is alot of text! Oops! Well... Here's the comic!

Jwebtoons 2021-06-22 10:28:25 UTC #34

I grew up watching many battle shonen anime like DBZ, Naruto, Bleach, and many others. I loved their stories and the amazing fights. One thing I didn't like from fight scenes I saw in shows that had superhuman people was that most of the time it was over in like two or three hits (kind of made it feel anticlimactic).

A battle shonen goes more in depth and gets very creative with their abilities and how they worked. I loved the stories so much I thought it would be amazing if they all got combined into one story. I thought of this a long time ago, but I was a really bad writer, but I studied and practiced for years and I think I have what it takes to make a decent story now.

These fictional stories created by many manga artists made me write my own original story that was inspired by them. I can't draw like them, but I can still use words. I hope I can entertain at least a fraction of the people they did some day.

tamapochi 2021-06-22 11:58:35 UTC #35

Ohh this is an interesting question! I can definitely relate to an idea suddenly turning depressing lol. My original outline for my novel was definitely more comedic but as it progressed it turned more and more tragic. Staring at the outline, I just ask myself "what happened?" And what was that manga you read? ️ I'd like to read it as well 🤲

My novel actually came from the comics I made when I was young, I'm guessing I was 10 or so. Me and my uncle (he's only a year older than me) used to spend our time drawing comics sort of RP style. I'd draw one panel and he'd reply back by drawing another and the story flowed from there. Eventually, we decided to stick into one universe. And that's how the 12 masters was born.

My uncle created Shinichi and I'm pretty sure he thought of Shinichi as himself xD Shinichi was quite the gary stu, he was cool and had all the girls fawning over him and he was great at everything. My uncle was quite narcissistic :') Then he created Irish, inspired by his real life best friend. And then I created and controlled the rest of the characters 🥲

We didn't have an actual plot in mind. At that time, we liked Naruto, so instead of calling places cities, towns, or counties, they were villages (although there was only ever one village created ). My uncle had a huge crush on Sasuke so Shinichi basically stole his chidori. And since we liked anime, we tried to make the names Japanese-like.
And what else was there in animes? Schools. So we made them enroll to a school. Eventually though, we stopped drawing it, though I never forgot about it and had always wanted to share the story to the public eye.

As I grew older and consumed more media, the story eventually evolved. I read so many game-like webtoons these past years that I had to implement it into the novel as well. I was also getting into Lovecraftian creatures and the fear of the unknown stuff. So that's where the concept of multiple existing planes came from. The key word devouring just came from me thinking of a cool word for ending the world. Why not eating it away? Naoki Urasawa's Monster also greatly inspired me! Two men with polarising philosophies and slowly coming to a synthesis, that became the basic conflict of my story between the MC and the villain. Chainsaw man also influenced the dynamic I'm trying to write between the main trio: one person forced to become a single dad and take care of two rowdy kids xD
And so Devouring of the Master is born!

21stCenturyHero 2021-06-22 16:58:08 UTC #36

I spend a whole lot of time writing and researching for my novel, that's correct! Economy, history, religion, culture... all of this is deeply fascinating to me, and as a history major, I have a lot of research material available. To a degree, it being my own culture that I'm striving to create a "fantasy" for also helps. At this point, I've written a timeline that spans roughtly 3000 years in this world!! There aren't details that "are more important" or "are less important" to me -- everything is a part of this world, and it makes it feel alive. Even if it's mentioned only as a throwaway line about the state of the goverment, or someone complaining about the price of copper... this all creates a more whole, cohesive picture of a "world" that's "inhabited".

Worldbuilding is just... so much fun! Sometimes, it feels like my plot is merely an excuse to show it off. I'm also working on another projects in the fantastic world of Eomaia, so please, stay tunned!

Your words of encouragement mean a lot, thank you very much!

Beppobear 2021-06-22 19:39:31 UTC #37

I totally get what you mean! Sometimes, I feel like I share too much about the world of my characters than what's necessary but I can't help it!

jcmraz 2021-06-22 19:43:03 UTC #38

I write down any idea that comes to me and this one evolved from a similar idea that was supposed to introduce magic to our world. The specific inspiration was the gamification worldbuilding of Made in Abyss. I built the magic system out from there and then started building the world from the laws that the world would have to interact with. Because of the nature of the magic system it kind of made the concept of a Runner, which was taken from the Chilean Chasqui, came naturally as a result. Then I had to figure out an overarching conflict.

Beppobear 2021-06-22 19:45:10 UTC #39

OMG the thumbnails and banner and cover! I adore those painted styles! I love it to such! And that art style development! I love to see growth! It's so heart-warming how your uncle spent time with you like that! And especially how it stuck to you even after. That's adorable!

Beppobear 2021-06-22 19:47:43 UTC #40

Ik what you mean about most shonen battle scenes! It feels too quick and i'd like to see more on the analytical side of things. Like how they fought the battle not only with their OP powers but their minds! It's even better for me if they beat them all with their intellect.

I also admire you devotion into writing!