What's your writing process? What have you learned?

@TheLemmaLlama any pronouns
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 02:28:24 +0000

@TheLemmaLlama wrote:

zeitybitey:

It's strange, because I usually start designing my characters when I barely have the structure completed at all, and then slowly build up the world as I start working on character interactions.

Haha I think a lot of us are like that; I came up with most of my central characters way before I decided on their current plot to the point it was so long ago I don't even consider it part of my writing process anymore XD That's not to say I didn't come up with plot just after I came up with the characters either; it's just that I decided the plot was not great but I'm attached to the characters now and want to keep them so instead of reinventing the wheel for the new plot, I just transplant my new characters into it

NickRowler:

I sort of found it efficient during the scripting/paneling phase to write down vaguely what I want a character to say and rewrite it once I add text to my pages.

Same, but for me it's just because I can't think of the exact dialogue at the time XD If a nice piece of dialogue does happen to pop into my head, I'll add it to the script and use it in the final comic, but often I don't have proper dialogue prepared when I get up to drawing that part so I have to come up with it while thumbnailing (which also helps to balance the text with composition, I guess) I also barely write ahead of what I draw but mostly because I'm lazy :'D