Honestly... if the artist is near mental breakdown from the pressure it's only natural that they are gonna take a break from what they've been doing if they don't wanna completely ruin themselves. We all have it when we burnout really badly and taking hiatus makes sense. We're no robots who just wor…
Hmm... it's a complicated thing, and obviously different people have different tastes, but I think some core ingredients are: It's About People: Soft Sci Fi and Fantasy have the advantage of not needing to perfectly follow the logic of the real world, and so it's a lot easier to explore big myth…
I think @Junohugger has the right idea: a soft setting/system means that the paradigms the world runs on are subtle, simple, and/or remain in the background. And the easiest way to achieve that is to NOT focus on them. ^^; Write a story about the characters' relationships, goals, or conflicts, whe…
So i've been slowly realizing that I'm not cut out for writing a "hard" sci-fi or fantasy setting like I initially set out to do with the Dragoons and ToP among other projects. So i'm wondering just what makes a good "soft" system for sci fi and magic because sometimes I feel I've gotten things over…
Yeah, it's not really true that Tapas has more of an issue with audience size compared to number of works than Webtoon. Webtoon has a bigger audience and also more works, but even less space devoted to features, so it can be harder to get seen on. The main difference between Tapas and Webtoon is y…
It's bloody hilarious that people are attempting to censor others by claiming things are off-topic and then refusing to engage in the conversation when they chime in. I think Darthmongoose gave some great examples that discuss the nuances of self-censorship and the power our works have in the wor…
Dude I wasnt the one who brought the topic up. In fact was i still was talking about censorship but you do you . I'm sorry I have little tolerance for misinformation and bigotry that has hurt soo many people. Maybe I should just lie down and go "yup true". But I guess some folks here do have that pr…
But this is the point. The topic is "SELF-censorship"; it's about what we, as creators, choose to put in our work, right? And that might be something about our beliefs, or something we believe is important to discuss, or to present as potentially sympathetic in the face of often being presented as…
Finally someone said it, very sus. I dont agree with darth fully on the ideas of self censorship. But she made solid arguements, dont agree but that's neither here nor there
But yeah I would say weird how people jump to defense of very bad misinformation with "urg bring up the tran ideology 
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This. I feel like JKR is a perfect example of how just running your mouth can lead to a lot of people being turned off by their work. I guess it is the catch-22 of a creator, do you state your opinions or stay quiet so you don't upset people. I feel like social media and bad press has lead to peop…
And don't forget to use AI to write your comic.
........New thread idea, "is irony a lost art?"
I think people also need to remember that story craft is very subjective as well. While I have my own binary biases when it comes to story craft, it all comes down to what type of story is being written and how to tackle these things. Your story might need that villain with a backstory. A lot of new…
I've been featured several times, so it's kind of an interesting one to answer... The first time, it was a surprise. I'd just been put forwards for a "community feature" here on the forums, which was something Tapas were trialling at the time, and so I was like "YES! Finally! I will get some sort …
Ahhh this binary stuff can be hard, because the urge is strong to tell a creator "NO! Don't do that!" about things that don't normally work... except you know somebody made it work somewhere in very specific circumstances. There's always this long list of caveats that make the advice feel watered …
I 100% agree. XD I think we need to ban the word "trope." because people think when they are using any given trope that it makes a story bad because the word kinda has negative connotations. But guess what, most stories are made up of tropes, haha. Anyway, I always say that anything can work in a st…
Honestly that writing advise issues hits the nail on the head. Alot of new writers tend to take thier advise from online personalities. On surface level there isnt anything wrong with that. Free learning resources and information is always a good thing But alot of the advise pushed up in the s…
Honestly there's so much nuance to a situation and it's totally dependent on everyone's individual story they're trying to tell that I've stopped replying to such threads altogether because it takes time that I'm short on. Because it's not a yes or no question LOL
you're good pal, take it ez
Ikr like that's not the way to deal with that, its not either or when it can be both. and dw myself and a TON of other people are still suckers for tragic villains. I think that thread just attracted the worst kind of responses
i feel this, and a lot of comments on those threads are volatile whether they mean to or not. But I know they were started wth the intention of looking for some kind of direction or validation with their writing, since writing has so many innocuous rules, they probably thought they'd be breaking a…
The answer for many tropes is that it depends. Tropes are storytelling tools, so which ones you use depends a lot of the kind of story you are telling, and even among stories of the same genre, the answers will not always be the same.
Okay, sorry, I should have added in the post but didn't think to the following: You're allowed to change. There are actually quite a lot of comics people I know who are absolutely lovely now and widely supportive and generally well-liked who were absolute edgelords or really problematic or ann…
Ahhh alright so the term is better not used for a statement like "LGBT content will be featured on future chapters" (as an example. After our exchanges I think it'd be better to do the flag thing on the character profile) And I see! Thanks for kindly explaining ^-^ I think I'll limit myself to con…
I've done this in two different chapters for the first volume of my comic. The first time I didn't think to include printing in the future when doing a call for characters, so I had to find all the creators to ask them if it was alright. The second time I included it with the call for characters p…
Ahhh sorry, I'm not a native english speaker so some words may come off as wrong! Do tell me though, it helps me know how natives do take those words 
I think I've read manhwas saying "Content Advisory" instead (?)
Ohh I was indeed thinking of adding character profiles, I did so in my other (disco…
The worst thing is, the person who commented on this, did so on a story in which the characters were adolescents and nothing lgbt was going on XD not like sexual, but like literally there was no content but the tag was enough for them to go over to my deviantart and comment the "I was interested but…
Oh no, I think you misunderstood a better interpretation (or I probably wrote it wrong sorry) I mean, this person was upset about the queer tag (as in homophobic) but then they said "Although I also have a gay character, I'm not ready to read about other queer characters" thus the reason I was eve…
I see, I do find it complicated because the majority of my cast isn't heterosexual and I've had people complain about the tag when I used it, like one person wrote to me saying they would stop reading cause they weren't ready for reading about that even though they had a character like that. I was s…