#i have a very vivid imagination

[cokowiii]

Hey!

I don’t know if you’ve ever answered and ask like this, but i was wondering how you stick with a comic series. How do you manifest plot and such and stick with it without later deciding it’s not good enough for your tastes and completely changing or dropping it as a whole?

Fun fact: I DONT!

Rarely do I have ever stick with a comic! It all comes down to how much I’ve thought about it and what my mind is replaying in my head while at work.

With this comic I’ve been replaying and rewatching parts of it in my head like a show while at work until it’s to my liking then I get home to draw it. I usually don’t sketch a page until I like how the little episode in my head looks.

That might’ve not made sense.

[howtodrawyourdragon]

"HUR, HUR, HUR." Dogsbreath laughed so hard that snot came snorting out of his nose.

Hmmm.. No. No, this paragraph is not a vibe. I regret reading it.

[neverwholelahey]

Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like if I was someone else or in a different universe.

[worstloki]

Mu Qing ascending is objectively so funny considering Feng Xin and Xie Lian also do. Out of the people in your kingdom who accomplished immortality there’s this guy who used to be your servant but is now on equal rank to you and he‘s super rude now and also thinks you hate him because he remembers when you were 18 and lacked socioeconomic-interpersonal awareness

[mangotelevision]

diaries katelyn vs mystreet katelyn

[akuma-tenshi]

does anyone else remember the mild upheaval that happened in the idv fandom in like 2020 where there was a rumour that andrew was like forty years old and people were freaking out or did i just imagine that

[natjennie]

im not a pat/julian shipper but it seems especially funny to me if they got into fights like imagine julian's parliment defensiveness coming out like "well, with respect patrick, where's the proof? did you ever actually see me move the spoons, I think not sir!" and then pat forgetting to turn off children tantrum mode so in scoutmaster voice he's like "that wasn't a very nice thing to do to mr. kettle, was it? I think maybe we apologize to him and put him back home with his friends the teabags" like I think there's something here.

[thedrotter]

cw BLOOD!!!!

2003 Kinder Yuuichi doodles motivated by this one battle sprite of him with this goofy face ... (also 2003 shunsuke appears there too did I need to draw him differently from my design of him no did i do it anyway yes)

Wanna doodle him more but first I'll be figuring out what's being said in the game ... Do not want to mischaracterize him even if he's slightly different so for now THE SILLY

[phantomofthehoepera]

one of these days I'm just gonna snap and write a long incoherent post abt my hcs for the largo siblings as kids but for now have this and do not be fooled by them smiling you can rest assured that I envision only suffering in their lives

[potatobugz]

ok. hear me out. bear with me. ive been struck with an idea for a kny au in which basically genya and kanao become main characters.

keeping in line with the whole "5 senses" theme, genya would have a heightened sense of taste and kanao would have good eyesight. :)

[kellycalliekell]

I had a vivid ass dream that I saw the first episode of Wednesday S2. Y’all, I dreamt it opened up with Wednesday looking a bit sad and regretful. Then the camera panned to show a stained glass window with Larissa’s face on it. Basically confirming she had passed away.

I woke up from my dream going “Why would you do this? Why would you dream that?”. Now I’m sad. More sad I couldn’t dream other episodes too.

[transingthoseformers]

Do it.

I'm interpreting this as about the hypnotherapist oc because I don't have a design yet beyond green somewhere, but I feel like they'd have this initi sinister energy to them but are secretly sweet as pie and mean well.

Absolutely tempted to make them snake based, because snakes and hypnotism, but I'm also tempted to make them a flier because yay! Wings! (Maybe a bit of both? Mnnnnnnn I'm tempted to go for that!)

[jyou-no-sonoko19]

『Not so resurrected now, are you?』

[rattfreakk]

Fun fact when I was 13, I had a dream where Tim tired to run me over with lawn mower 

[phlavours]

im glad I'm not the only one that has characters that are used just for imagining random scenarios while falling asleep

SAME!!! I see so many awesome creators write/draw such great stories for their ocs but i'm perfectly happy just having mine for self indulgent day/night dreaming purposes LOL

I've tried writing their story and I have some thoughts but my mind always runs away and it gets so complex its not even good hence why I just like thinking up little scenarios rather than a huge overarching plot.

[definitelynotshouting]

Do you have any tips for starting a story? The middle and end is easy (lie) but the beginning SUCKS to write sometimes

oh gods no joke openers are one of the hardest part for me. Theres so many ways a story can start, and it makes me CRAZY because that right there is your hook, thats what convinces people to start reading!!!!! And there are so many unique ways one can start, so it ends up feeling a bit like that one reaction image of the girl being handed so so many pancakes

I think for me, what i try to ask myself when sitting down to write an opener is: "what kind of story is this?"

Because each story needs something different to accomplish its goals. A slower story might want to take its time with setting the scene, while an action-packed one might start in media res and with a bang!!! I guess if i had to give advice i would say, take the time to identify what your story is trying to say, and then look at what different openings can do for you to identify that goal.

For example; this is from my fic when the night cries, which is essentially a ghost story:

This was meant to be an introspective story, with a very gentle pace overall, so i took the time to really set the scene, build up the sense of what we're looking at before we get dropped into the fic proper. I remember my thought process for this was: how can i make this unique??? how can i make it FEEL like one of those old paintings with the beautiful yellows and summery oranges, while giving the reader a sense of whats to come?? Adding in the repetition of "it begins" was a way for me to sorta hammer that home: this is the start. This is where the story originates. And in a technical sense, it hooks your attention, with the question and immediate answer within the narration. The intention here is for the reader to want to know why this is important, and now it's answering that, but still leaving gaps for more questions.

Now compare that to, say.... lost in the dark's opening:

The overall pace of hunger au is slow, but this opener isn't-- partially because it's a rough draft, but also because what i wanted out of this scene was a sense of deep, deep urgency. We're in the middle of action; Grian is physically running while he thinks, and i wanted the reader to feel hunted and uncertain with him. Dropping everyone in with Grian at one of his most frightened, shaken points was the best way i felt i could establish that scene, and throughout it i drop hints as to what's actually going on. He's scared. He thinks he's going to hurt people. He's been on the move for a very, very long time. These are all things that are meant to pique interest and get answered later, when the reader is already invested. And i guess in that regard, its really all about timing.

But yeah!! Rambling aside, i'd say try out a few different ways of opening your fic and see what works. Think of em as thumbnails; write maybe 200 or so words at most and see if something works better than something else. I think theres this secret culture of shame among writers for not putting the perfect start down on the page the very first time you open the doc, but it's super normal to have to workshop things around to your liking!!! There's absolutely nothing wrong with writing a few different openers to see what works best for you and your story, and in fact is something i genuinely recommend. Its good practice, and essentially functions as a warm-up!!! You also get the benefit of exploring new angles in a scene, which can sometimes unlock really cool stuff for your writing

Sorry for how long this is, anon!! Hopefully you find my rambling helpful :D thank you for sending in this ask!!!