Question #6: Have a Plan...

Doing a comic improv style really worked in this context. It made sure that the emphasis was always on keeping the comic funny. Comic didn't get published until it had a punchline, and I never had to bow to the needs of some specific script I had in hand. Keep writing until it works. At the same time, dang, things could really wander. When you're just making things up on the fly you really aren't beholden to anything, good or ill. That's not a writing style that will work for all occasions, that's for sure.

 
nangbaby
2022-03-14 14:02:54 
I seem to have the opposite approach when it comes to writing. Even though I don't outline I have very detailed ideas with anything, especially chapter to chapter. Heck, I could tell you exactly what would happen with every one of my abandoned projects. While obviously I do leave room for improv, I know exactly what is supposed to happen in a y story arc. My issue is that it's literally hard for me to "just do it." So, I envy you with the whole "fly by the seat of your pants" approach.
nangbaby
2022-03-14 14:04:53 
(And where did that extra "y" come from? I read that paragraph three times and still missed it before sending.)
DemonicAdj
2022-03-14 21:36:13 
The plot to Castlevania RPG. At this time of day, at this time of year, in this hemisphere, made up mostly as you went along?
darkmoonex
2022-03-15 00:14:25 
Yup. If you had asked me (and I'd been willing to divulge) what would happen, say, a year or two down the road for a given arc's finale I could tell you. If you'd asked me what would happen three strips from a given day, I wouldn't have had a clue. I knew the broad strokes but literally none of the details, lol.
DemonicAdj
2022-03-15 21:51:38 
Not a bad system, it's how the current-gen "big" anime seem to do it now. The writer cooks out the broad-strokes skeleton and leaves the animation team to play around with it. Then they follow up with a monthly manga chapter as the harder canon. Sometimes they like what they see and keep it. Not as much stalling "filler" at least.
    

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