Honestly? My biggest suggestion would be just to begin!
Its okay if you don’t have everything prepared, and its okay if you don’t even fully know your characters yet!
Here’s a few examples:
-I started Gloomverse before a single thought of the other countries came into play
-Actually to be completely honest I started Gloomverse and only had up until what happened at the magic show planned
-Nim and Cirrus were literally put into the comic because I thought ‘man people with cloud hair would be cool’. It took months AFTER they first showed up for me to figure out how they worked within Gloomverse’s current rules (AKA the hat and wand rules) and though it hasn’t been revealed yet, it makes total sense. I knew I’d figure it out eventually, so it was a mystery to me at first, too.
-I started before I fully knew any of the characters- I grew to know them over time, the more I drew them the more I understood them
-I literally started Gloomverse because I genuinely wanted to, with no full script planned, no nothing, beyond just the concept and the basic characters sounding like a ton of fun.
-Gloomverse had been restarted a couple times before this current version. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with it, and realized TWICE (or three times?) that it wasn’t reaching its full potential. I knew the moment the concept of the current rendition came into my head, I’d never restart it again.
You could plan for years but your story will still change as you write it. So just start! Write whats in your heart, and if you chose to stop writing thats okay, and if something far bigger comes from it, awesome! If you don’t like your current version, and have something far better written in plan, there’s no shame in restarting (though if you’re restarting because you don’t like the old art, I’d strongly advise against doing that. Otherwise you’ll never be happy and you’ll never finish it)
I’ve been doing comics for many, many years now, since Elementary school for sure. So I don’t know what its like to start my first one. But all I know, is write what you want, start when you want to start, and wing it and see where it goes!
This photo was taken about forty miles from Portland, almost an hour ago:
They’ve closed the major highway that’s next to the river, I-84 (this photo was taken from the opposite bank of the Columbia River). They had to evacuate several towns, and rescue 140 hikers. The most recent estimate I can find is 4,800 acres are on fire.
The sun has been red all day. The moon is so obscured by smoke it’s dark red and barely visible even though it’s only a few days from full.
It’s raining ash so heavily in Portland that people are comparing it to the ash fall after Mt. St. Helens blew in 1980. Right now, at night, in the headlights of cars it looks just like snow flurries. On my two-mile bicycle ride home I kept having to blink it out of my eyes (it feels like sand, almost). It’s collecting on flat surfaces. I tried to breathe through my nose but then my nose ran too much–I’ll probably ride to work tomorrow with a scarf over my face. I kinda wish I had either prescription swimming goggles or a snowboarding mask or something.
Only a third of houses in Portland have a/c and it’s super hot still; I can’t imagine being someone with asthma and no a/c right now. Just the bike ride home gave me a mild sore throat.
Pika (aka barking mouse bunnies) make their home in the Columbia River Gorge. It’s one of the most beautiful parts of Oregon and Washington. And a huge stretch of it is currently on fire–because some fucking dipshit on a hike at Eagle Creek set off fireworks, despite the fact that we’ve had zero rain for like two fucking months.
I’ve been sobbing on and off all day.
It’ll be 30-50 years before the area looks like it did last week. I may never see the falls in their full splendor again IN MY LIFETIME because some bored teenager thought it’d be a laugh to toss firecrackers off a cliff.
People’s homes are burning, historic tunnels are destroyed, the fish in the hatchery had to be flushed out into the river because they were suffocating. Tourism in the area is devastated for decades. All because someone got bored and decided to throw a firecracker off a cliff for fun.
remember when smokey said only you can prevent forest fires this is the kind of shit he meant (Also for people in the area: whatever kind of goggles will keep shit out of your eyes. Fucking steampunk goggles will work. Science/chem lab stuff would be good, too. Dampen a cloth or scarf and wear it over your breathe holes. Get a hepa filter. The one I use for allergies is on Amazon Prime go do that I’m sure the local stores are probably out)
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