Where did you story came from?

[AdamBraveOfficial]

Hi folks!

While I was thinking on the development of my Gods VS Dragons plot, my mind end up travelling through a lot of animated TV shows that I saw in the past, which some how, kinda make me feel disappointed. The thing is that, naturally I would like to build a story with a original plot, even knowing that, at the base, there is a lot of things we have all already seen in pop culture. But at some point it seems I'm stuck with a lot clichés. I know where I want to go, just dont know yet the most coolest and original way to go LOL

So, out of curiosity, where from are your stories inspired? Do you discuss your plot with other people?

By the way folks, my subscriber counter has been frozen for a while now. Would anybody give him some love and heat to start moving again? Go on, take a look at Gods VS Dragons. There is a old saying in my country that really describes what you will feel when start following it. "Primeiro estranha-se. Depois entranha-se." Dont know how to translate properly in English. You can try to put it on google translate and check what it is if I aroused your curiosity. It's Portuguese xD

Stay safe!

[LadyN]

It’s called 300+ hours of fantasy video games-

[LadyN]

Oh and uh, I just gave up on telling people cause I realized shortly that nobody cares.

[AdamBraveOfficial]

Telling what? Your story? What do you mean?

[magnavarra]

That's kinda not much time to spend on games)) My steam top is 3,057 in dota , 793 in warframe , 164 in Nion, 150 in witcher 3, 114 in devil May cry, I am too lazy to check other platforns not to mention mmo... but yeah thats a huge part of inspiration

[TheYaoiEmpire]

My major novel, Fatal Moon: Angels Axia, is heavily inspired by Devilman, Demon Lord Dante, Trinity Blood and other anime like that. Plus my own religious letdowns, the Catholic Church and National Geographic animal documentaries

[magnavarra]

well If you think that your story is cliche why do you even want to make it? If you just want to draw/write find a fellow artist/writer to do another part of job. And if there is a particular theme or thing or emotion or character you want to tell story about, than ask yourself what exactly you like about it and try looking for reference and inspiritaion in some unexpected places to make it less obviuos. Like old books or opposite genre. Like a magician who only knows 1 spell or a super loud ninja, or a homeless God without temple and zero followers etc,,, Also it's never to late to start learning - like watch some free coursera lessons on storytelling and comic writing.

and to answer the topic question my story is based on my life , having parties with friends and going to live gigs, with quite exagerrated characters that just compliment those events. Because thats what I know about - how to drink rum and have a party) I mean I would never make some high fantasy story with elfs and dragons despite all those dnd parties and movies and games i played, because all that i know about it is cliche.

[babibao]

Xaezora is heavily inspired by the kind of, “modern fantasy character” thing, or just the different species against each other type of thing like beastars (although they are not ALL animals..) .

[Random_Guy]

My public story, Dark Hope, comes from hours of binging D&D streams.

[sc101]

80s references, a desire to run away and the tv show the end of the fxxxing world.

Rotten Apples | Tapas

[vothnthorvaldson]

The early beginnings of my current comic date back almost 8 years, when I completed my PhD and suddently realized I had had no creative life at all for the whole time of my grad studies. I had no old project to continue, nothing ready to start working on, for the first time in my life. It felt very bad. I felt empty and useless.

So I challenged myself to start getting creative again.
The first thing I did was to make up a story for a Skyrim RP, that would absolutely require some modding (so I was forced to imagine things outside of what the game was already proposing, and actually get creative). Worked nice. The only thing that remains of this RP in my comic is the name of one of my characters and the fact he lives in marshlands.

Then when I was driving for substantial periods of time, I would challenge myself to make stories on the spot, entirely improvised and without thinking of where they were going (almost like automatic writing). I have over a hundred hours of these (I recorded everything) and they have been feeding my comic since then.

Because of the way I write, described above, the influences in my comic are multiple, and pretty much everything present in my cultural, personal, social life (or my past) can end up in my comic (in a generally pretty indirect way, though).

[LadyN]

Literally anything writing based

[BakedPotato]

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[spadedigsbutts]

Always wanting to play Call of Cthulhu but never getting into a game at cons 🤣

[spadesart]

spire is actually a continuation/expansion of my season 1 audition of cascade cabaret OCT (which i'm also competing in season 2 with my other comic). i lost season 1 of ccoct after round 4, but found myself really attached to my characters and their world, and decided to expand on what i'd explored during my round 0/audition (it became the beginning of chapter 2 up until william and cog hit the dead end wall).

enccore (mentioned above) is my season 2 entry for cascade cabaret. i actually made it past round 4 this time and will get to give my characters an actual ending! i'm also surprised that it actually got some attention on this site, i was mostly mirroring it here because i liked the old scroll format and only expected 50 readers at the most.

i think its kinda funny how theres some overlap between the comics. i figured since the setting of the cascade cabaret deals with multiverses that it would be fun to still have season 1 william and cog present in enccore and have their spire versions be an alternate universe/good ending of their audition.

SPIRE | Tapas

enCCore | Tapas

[unknown_user]

I invented my story and characters either when I was bored at my work in the bank, or when I walked after it, freely thinking.

I told about inspirations here and there... like:

My comics is strongly influenced by classic cyberpunk from 1950s-1970s years, several post-apocalyptic settings and "transgressive fiction".
( https://forums.tapas.io/t/what-sets-your-story-apart-from-others/41624/38 )

Here is more about origin of particular details or ideas:

I enjoy very much listening to musical duets of man and woman, if they are singing emotionally, expressive and harmonically complement each other in the same time. For example, such as it is performed in the songs "The kinslayer" or "I wish I had an angel" by Nightwish or "Where Is the Blood" by Delain. I know, that it is a bit strange, but it somehow inspired me to make the story with man and woman as main characters... ¯(ツ)/¯ There is also one song, which even inspired for the particular plot…

Ideas can come from everywhere ...

[Kiweevil]

The mentally unstable sh​tstorm that is my brain. I used to have major mental illness problems. I feel like in someway or another, my story was a hallucination I experienced. Like a demented Alice in Wonderland.

Spoopy.

[Dreams-of-Gaia]

Hi! Well, my latest story (RedZone-137) was inspired by a youtube video about some guys trespassing into a SEGA arcade at the Fukushima's exclusion zone. Seeing the place completely abandoned, the silence in which in another time could have been a very noisy place, the fact that there was something dangerous but which you couldn't see, fascinated me to some point and made me question myself: "what if the world, as we know it, eventually ended?" "How would humanity survive in isolation, hidden in shelters?" "What if that outside world we take for granted actually becomes strange? Distant?"

Now with everything going on in the world, this whole plot scares me hahaha xD But I'm taking what's happening as a direct inspiration now.

By the way, I read the first chapter of your comic. Seems like a very interesting premise! And I don't think there's anything bad on taking inspiration from other stories, most plots have already been written. But the charm is in the way you write it, how you make that plot yours.

[darkone4587]

The crazy combination of reading a ton of books, hundreds of hours of video games, anime, TV, and movies. And the crazy way my brain likes to connect random bits of information here and there.

[Panqiuyan]

mine came from my mush brain