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Flamboyantly A (bentscare) wrote in webcomickers,
@ 2008-10-10 23:37:00

Where to Start?
Ok, I'm not a comic artist at all, but for five years, I've wanted to be. I've got characters, a world, and most of the ending planned all the way back to the dramatic climax. I just have no idea how to start, motivations for the characters to do what they do, and whenever I try to start, I get bogged down with tiny annoying technical details..like how I don't like the paper I'm choosing. Or the annoying fact that I hate drawing inside boxes. xD;
Anyone else have problems like that?

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	seetherheyne 2008-10-11 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	I know exactly how you feel except I have a starting point and i don't know how to put it to paper to make it seem right and progress the story properly. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bentscare 2008-10-12 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	I get stuck with that problem sometimes too. One story I've got the begining of, but I don't know how to actually get it started. xP (Reply to this) (Parent)

frostflowers
2008-10-17 02:46 am UTC (link)

I have a huge problem with beginnings. There's so much I want to tell - so much about the world that I know and want to communicate to the reader - that bogs down the beginning and it feels like I never get anywhere with it because I'm too caught up in details. It becomes boring. I draw a hundred pages before I get to the point, and so on and so forth.

I'm bad at writing proper scripts, too, so I usually plan a story out just a chapter ahead, which means I write myself into a corner and tear at my hair in frustration.

... Isn't it interesting how, despite this, I still think that making comics is the most enjoyable thing I've ever done?

My most recent solution to my problems has been to sit down with a pencil and a wad of paper (cheap printer paper, so that it doesn't feel like I'm wasting anything important) and simply draw. I draw the first page of something, making it up as I go along, utterly ignorant of what happens on the next page - until I get there and make it up. It's... liberating to do something that doesn't require weeks and weeks of careful planning and writing.

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bentscare
2008-12-09 10:39 pm UTC (link)

Now that seems to be my exact problem (just add in all the little technical details I know about making and printing comics). I've got this world that I spend so much time on, and I've got no idea how much I should let the reader know about it, or what's important to the plot.

I think that's how anyone who does anything creative for a living feels. xD

Maybe I should just try your approach. It worked for me for NaNoWriMo, why shouldn't it work now?

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