What is your biggest regret in comics / novels?

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Yeah and I made it harder on myself because I refused to re-use assets and make sprite sheets of all the characters. No...I wanted to draw every panel uniquely.

[MrOwl]

I kinda regret creating it at the first place and getting attached to it

That's so cute, what do you like the most about your story?

[MrOwl]

Yeah and I made it harder on myself because I refused to re-use assets and make sprite sheets of all the characters. No...I wanted to draw every panel uniquely.

Dude... are you insane? that's borderline masochist.

[lilithfairenwrites]

Deciding to write in a genre about girls that no one takes seriously unless the story fetishizes, dehumanizes, and victimizes girls.

[Freemints30]

not backing up my work. I had a previous comic that was 2 chapters from completion but my motivation for it was already waning. I had drawn the an entire chapter for it already but My old computer died and I lost everything. Literally everything and that was the straw that broke the camel's back and its now on indefinite hiatus(probably would just reboot it). Really that whole comic was a mess especially by the end I was making stuff up without script. Also big mistake

The same thing happened a few weeks ago but I had backed up my art on a flash drive so I didn't lost anything. But Im sad how old old comic went. Im glad I still did it, it taught me alot for my current comic, but still, it sucks.

[MrOwl]

Deciding to write in a genre about girls that no one takes seriously unless the story fetishizes, dehumanizes, and victimizes girls.

You're the dude/tte that created isekai mahou shoujo, did you try publishing it elsewhere? RoyalRoad is full of incels.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

@MrOwl
probably. I switched the comic over to a different medium because I plateaued in the desire to keep that aesthetic going.
Good decision, but it left me with 24 pages of pixels to redraw at a later date. But, again, I'm okay with having done it that way. I wouldn't be at my current skill level without it.

[MrOwl]

Really that whole comic was a mess especially by the end I was making stuff up without script.

A lot of "pros" do that. xD

[Freemints30]

yeah but that didn't work for me at all. It ironically made loss even more interest. Thou Im glad I learnt what I work best with but damn was that a harsh way to learn it.

[MrOwl]

probably. I switched the comic over to a different medium because I plateaued in the desire to keep that aesthetic going. Good decision, but it left me with 24 pages of pixels to redraw at a later date. But, again, I'm okay with having done it that way. I wouldn't be at my current skill level without it.

At least you're a better artist now.

[MrOwl]

yeah but that didn't work for me at all. It ironically made loss even more interest. Thou Im glad I learnt what I work best with but damn was that a harsh way to learn it.

You learned it the spartan way, you're a bad4ss now.

How do you approach your script now?

[Freemints30]

.....Script the entire comic from page 1 to 1000 , panel by panel, page by page. Before even Thumb nailing the first chapter. Gives me enough time to rethink and change stuff.

So now I have my current comic as a script that that I just draw out with out much thinking and if any thing goes wrong, I can just post that and say "If you want to know it ends but my hands were crushed in Afghanistan, read the script"

[joannekwan]

I regret not starting sooner. I didn't have an internet presence until I was 25

I also regret not getting into novels sooner, I can finish a project so much faster than in comics.

[WolfUnderTheMoon89]

same! started writing 6 months ago at the age of 30. should have started sooner
before kids etc

[DualDragons]

Not writing out a rough outline for the plot before starting with drawing pages

[BlunderingAlbatross]

I regret procrastinating so much I'd sit down to write and get distracted by things on the internet. It would've gone so much faster if I got on with it.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

I don't know, maybe planning the thing.

[MorganaMevil]

I regret the first novel I ever published for “realsies” on Amazon. I don’t regret the act of publishing it, but the story was written when I was a wee babe in high school, and I wanted to be done with it, so I published it this summer. I’ve gotten a lot of positive reviews, but I got one bad one and that wrecked my view of the book entirely. It shouldn’t have, but it did.

And, more than anything, it sucks that this is the first book I published because it’s not my favorite. It’s not the best of me, or the genre I think I shine in. It’s a good story about sisterhood, dystopian society, and lots of drama (think Hunger Games meets Downton Abbey), but it’s not really who I am as a writer anymore. And it’s the first book of three, so I’m gonna have to write those second two.

[CommanderMarty]

I regret trying to make my masterpiece first.

[MrOwl]

I regret the first novel I ever published for “realsies” on Amazon. I don’t regret the act of publishing it, but the story was written when I was a wee babe in high school, and I wanted to be done with it, so I published it this summer. I’ve gotten a lot of positive reviews, but I got one bad one and that wrecked my view of the book entirely. It shouldn’t have, but it did.

And, more than anything, it sucks that this is the first book I published because it’s not my favorite. It’s not the best of me, or the genre I think I shine in. It’s a good story about sisterhood, dystopian society, and lots of drama (think Hunger Games meets Downton Abbey), but it’s not really who I am as a writer anymore. And it’s the first book of three, so I’m gonna have to write those second two.

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