#my forest sprit AU was a huge learning experience for me

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Hi there :D!! Hope you're doing well. I wanted to ask you for advice. I'm working on a pos!discduo zombie AU story and it will be my proper first AU I've ever worked on, and I'm planning a lot for the plot, characters, dynamics, etc. My question is, what do you think it's better to make the AU on, as a fanfiction or a comic?? I love to read fanfics and comics about the dsmp so much and I'm indecisive about how to bring out to the world my AU, because I think both thngs have their pro's and con's, and since I've never write or make a comic before idk what to do. Anyways hope you have a good Thursday and I'm excited for a new part of No Man's Land!! (No pressure tho!!)

Aw :D

Well I have both written fics and drawn comics for years, so I’ll try to keep my answer somewhat simple.

I agree that both have pros and cons, and I wouldn’t say one is superior to the other, personally.

Off the bat, I think writing is much more beginner friendly. If you don’t have experience doing either, I’d probably lean that way first and see how it goes. Maybe you’ll find yourself being drawn more to comics later, but it’s probably safer to start there, than the end up in comic purgatory.

I’m sure it’s not the same for everyone, but in my experience, making a long-term comic is very draining, depending on how much detail you want to do. I don’t want to scare people away from it, but there’s been many times I’ve started something and gotten sick of it long before it would have reached any sort of ending. I’ve combatted that with No Mans Land by not stressing about upload speed, and also allowing my style to change in the process. (Which always drove me crazy before. But now if I want to suddenly change which brush I do all the line-art in, I will.) Through attempting several webcomics over time, I’ve learned a lot about my process and my weaknesses and how to get around them. It’s important to know yourself and know how you’d handle that sort of thing, which you can only do by trying. I would tell anyone interested in writing a comic to start with a short one-shot before trying to commit to something that may take years. (Which I learned the hard way lol)

But also. Consider doing both! I’d recommend writing a fic to start, but that doesn’t mean you couldn’t also throw in some shorter comics to add flavor; for extra scenes that don’t make it into the fic, or even just drawing out your favorite scenes. I’ve done it for my old fics a few times ^^

#vault asks #I’m down to ramble more in DMs if anyone wants more of my comic wisdom 😂 #or in asks but I try to be more brief here #my forest sprit AU was a huge learning experience for me #nearly every installment has a drastically different style as I figured out what worked best for me #subtle style things still change and evolve in NML too