What was the idea for the story vs the actual story that you're making?

[Kendoboi]

For Let's Go Hero, it started as a "What would it be like if we gave High school students in a district superpowered suits and pitted High School v High School for territory over a city." (It has dramatically changed from that idea)

For Spider-Man: Knights & Mayhem, the idea is actually the same as the current story. "What if our universe had more than one Spider-Man? Like, enough to count as it's own civilization if they ever decided?"

I wanted to see what yours started vs how it actually turned out!

[kyupol]

For MAG-ISA it was supposed to be a quick comic about school shooters. But it got longer because instead of just being normal humans, just had to make them satanic super soldiers with zanpaktou...

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[DasIstWunderblyat]

An exiled living weapon find friends and save the world.

An ancient living weapon who didn't know he is one must navigate around the newfound fact and try not to revert to his intended purpose.

[ArtGremlin]

For my comic August, the original idea was a “superhero story” that focused on an antihero type character trying to avoid actually working while the city is being bombarded with villains, monsters, and what not. Basically the only thing I kept from that was the opening scene, which I then mostly changed later. I guess it’s not the same story at all, but it came from there… somehow…
At some point it became a sci fi about a kid who’s the only known intelligent alien known to humans being raised by a scientist who doesn’t know how to be a dad (but he’s trying).
Even after that I changed a whole lot of stuff, most notably, his personality. He went from apathetic no emotions, to goofy lil innocent kid.

[Leyelle]

"Damsel in the Red Dress" was originally supposed to be a sort of day 1-onward story charting my FLs recovery as she goes out to find something beautiful every day for her best friend who is in the hospital, but it's become a full blown drama. It still addresses their recovery from disabling injuries, mental health issues and such, but now there is a whole lot more, complicated family histories, villainy in characters that have always been worshipped as angelic and so on. I thought the story wouldn't be able to go that far, but the more I write the more ideas I get, so it has strayed very far from my vague base concept.

For "Hushabye Prince" it's more like it evolved than that it drastically changed, but there are some details that changed quite a bit, mostly character designs. Jinwoo got a little sister who never existed in the origin plot, characters switched ethnicities, the most major change being one of my blander bully characters becoming an out-spoken and friendly drama queen (named Diva) who is much less of a bully than she was originally planned to be.

[xstarx07]

It started out with a group of friends meeting their heroes like in a saturday morning show, then one day it turned into a full-blown jrpg story by the end of it.
I wanted to make it as cool as possible and the right influences came at the right time, so now meeting and befriending said heroes became the first few sidequests before the actual plot really starts to unfold. (And yes, it does end in the typical jrpg fashion by the very end.)

Personally, I find it deeply hilarious, as well as much fun to work towards, even though I've barely finished chapter 6 and just covered meeting 1 new character of a handful that are still missing for Part I of V xP

[2DLenzy]

From "stupid gag-comedy featuring chickens" transformed into "melodrama with some humor featuring chickens and humans and a deep two-sided plot that shamelessy blasts commercialism/consumerism/capitalism, etc, etc, etc."

Basically, a beautiful mess

[riddp]

Mine is what if after we write the books, the words become alive. For now, the protagonist words are traveling to a different book world trying to uncover a mystery!

[perezathena312]

For Uncle Howard and Paul, I originally posted Chapter 1 as a short story on Medium. I later made Chapter 2 and posted it on Medium again. I liked the concept and relationship between Howard and Paul so much that I decided to compile their adventures and publish them into a novel. I did not know where first to upload it until I stumbled onto here on Tapas. I was originally considering Wattpad, but I had issues signing up (a story for another day). In the end, I developed more characters and more arcs for the feline and his nephew.

[NickRowler]

I sort of switched my series from being short stories to a gag series. But I do wish I could write some short stories, especially to flesh out back stories for characters.

I am somewhat thinking of making a novel spin off to do this, and maybe have a couple of illustrations for each story.

[TheBlacKat333]

I DID have a beta version of my story posted to webtoon. It was basically a bunch of silly and kind of pointless slice of life gags and no “storyline” ever exceeded 7 pages. It was fully colored and shaded though, so points to past me.
Then I went a little batshit with adding more backstory and fleshing out the world to the point the gag strips weren’t doing it anymore. So I revamped the whole thing into the comic it is now

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Also the beta version was called Banana&Beans and was ONLY posted on webtoon. It never got much traction lol