What to do when you've outgrown your own story

@LordVincent
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:32:23 +0000

@LordVincent wrote:

If you haven't launched or worked long on it, let it die. Unless it's short, then you may as well finish it just to have a finished story under you.

Personally I am stuck in this exact situation with one of my comics. I don't know if what I did is anything I would advice others to do... but what I did is I cancelled one of my oldest ideas because it was so old, so far from what I wanted to do with my life and it was a commercial flop on top of all that. As a full time webcomic artist, I have to take finances into consideration or I will end up with unpaid bills.

The other one, Bloodroot, I decided to finish. It has too large a fanbase to just cancel and it would hurt my reputation a lot if I dropped it. I think many fans would also lose their trust in my ability to finish the stories I start. I am still working on finishing it, and basically what I'm doing is I cut out any padding, any unneccessary things, any just-for-fun shit etc so that the plot will wrap up as soon as I can manage. My fans know I have lost my personal connection to this project so they don't mind. They're just happy I am finishing it.