#webcomic writing

[miiiwu]

hi 🌹 :3

hi Dylan ^w^

major spoilers so i had to crop it lmao. Zeke is like embarrassingly tsundere and a failsadist. he was kinda making fun of Tommy’s naivety but then Tommy got too sad and he’s like. “i need to push him down and stare at him and watch him cry and maybe hold him but that’s too gay.”

Jackie is so sick of Zeke’s bullshit. like dude you have got to lock in and get out the damn timeloop im sick of watching my friends dieeee

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image 1: trying really hard not to laugh. Really, he is. "Fuckin'... What other reason could you have possibly-"

"SHUT UP!!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!" His head no longer buried in his knees, he snarls and hisses like a rabid, cornered animal. They both freeze for a moment.

Zeke brings the hand previously rubbing Tommy's back up to the nape of his neck, and he runs his hand back and forth on the edge of where Tommy's buzzcut begins.

Self soothing, maybe soothing for Tommy too, not that Zeke cares or anything.

...It's not just about that." He sounds like a lost child. Zeke suddenly wants to scoop him up in his arms and... he doesn't know. Do... Something with him... He pumps the breaks on that train of thought before he makes himself nauseous with want.

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“And then, unbeknownst to you-“

Jackie tilts her head at him and scoffs.

“Oh it’s Beknownst to me. It’s VERY FUCKING BEKNOWNST TO ME, ZEKE.” She looks like she could strangle him.

“Okay, God, sorry. Jeezus.” He runs a hand through his hair. “Fuck.”

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Question for all my lads out there who make comics of any kind, how do you go about writing it? Do you have a basic outline and then go from there? Do you script it? Do you write it in prose first? Pls I’m curious

[mcaquila]

Guess I’ll Write: Twilight Sparkle Time

While this WIP isn’t my first webcomic, it is my first original and colored comic. And I want it to be both consistent and pretty. Thus, a serious amount of already-completed work must be done before uploading the first page.

But where to begin? And how many pages do I need to make in advance, anyway?

It was time to make a solid to-do list:

(The above is about half of page 1, out of 3 pages.)

Not everyone is a planner!

For some people, making a list like this would increase stress and anxiety. But for me, the opposite is true; making it was like a huge weight off my chest.

This list was originally an MS Word template for something completely different. Sure, I had to completely destroy it to change it to suit my needs (and that took some time)... but it has a really cute picture of stacked rocks!

(In retrospect, I probably should have done an online search for BLANK templates. Could’ve saved time there.)

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Suppressing the urge to name my vampire character Edward just so I can make Twilight jokes

[nightinghoul]

I'm trying to stop being absolutely ashamed that I have OCs that I have involved in the process of a story that I now hate and have replaced with a run-of-the-mill fantasy. I'm allowed to still have my OCs.

This is Neem (left: He/him/they/them) and Jasper (right: he/him) and they haven't met yet but they will, and they are both [unidentified adult age] and probably ace, and Neem is a hard read, and Jasper is a bumbling professor trope played by a young Doug Jones and they are in love.

[nightinghoul]

I had posted what I have now decided is Chapter 2, Part 1 of my webcomic, and retro-fixed it in my last post. Meanwhile, I hated Part 2 so hard. It was starting to get muddy like my old writing.

That's the problem I have in writing, and I only just put my finger on it: I muddy everything up. I get focused on parts even I don't like, because I don't know how to transition from a scene, an idea, or a situation.

Part 2 was very muddy. I had a revalation, and that was that I only have to explain what I have fun explaining. Having my own headcanon about characters that never becomes part of the story is fine. Sometimes it turns out I had the wrong idea about them anyway.

[nightinghoul]

VR GAMING! I've started playing the new VR game Maestro. It's been on my wishlist forever, and now that it's out, my husband got it for me as my early birthday gift.

I've always loved classical music when I was a kid, I used to listen to it on my Walkman and pretend to be a conductor. It drove my mom crazy, because I would be running around the house waving my hands around all the time.

The game teaches more than I expected, which is nice. I don't do this all the time, but I love to watch conductors on YouTube (my favorite is Gustavo Dudamel). Now I will have a better understanding of what they are doing!

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HEALTH RELATED! Also, something very, very cool: I am working on standing without support for longer and longer periods of time. I think I really allowed myself to decondition when I first started having trouble, and now I need to build up strength and endurance. Being a pretend Maestro makes it less of a chore to practice standing!

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OG CHARACTER! An aside: One of the main characters in my fantasy webcomic is a conductor (because of course I did that!) His story is, his culture is based on bardic magic, and Maestro is a magical title, like Archmage. He was set to be the next one, but his mentor disappeared before he was finished with training, so he went out into the world to discover new music and cobble together his own version.

So, he ended up actually joining an orchestra, becoming concert master, and eventually became an actual conductor. Partially because he wanted to, and partially so that he could still earn the title of Maestro, albeit through a different route.

So, yeah, I have to play a fun game, because it's research.

[honey-doggo]

So I'm currently working on Episode 5 of my webcomic, "I Got a Secret, and So Do You", and I didn't realize how long it was. Like there is no way I would get the while thing out on time without having carpal tunnel come back to bite me. So I made the decision to make Episode/Chapter 5 a 2 parter. Depending on the how quickly I can finish Part 2 and Episode 6(which is much shorter in comparison) I might post those two together or just post Part 2 earlier. I haven't decided yet, so yeah! I'll keep you updated.