What to do when you've outgrown your own story

@charliesackett Horace Bulregard
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:54:59 +0000

@charliesackett wrote:

My favorite exercise is to take reeeeeeeeally old ideas and rework them into something I would like to read now. The comic I'm currently working on started life as a comic idea I had in high school. I sat on it for 7 years until I worked at a music store. It's about music stuff so I figured I'd let that influence what happened. I axed a bunch of the characters, reworked the remaining ones, and rewrote the plot. It still has a little bit of the ghost of comics past, but it's different enough that it's not highschool-ey.

My point is don't be afraid to change things. It's not written in stone because you haven't finished it. You can sit with it and ask yourself 'what would I be interested in reading?'. Just keep asking that any time you get bored, at least you'll entertain yourself.