Creating stories

[midge]

How do you come up with new comic stories? Do you have a particular method for it or do they just randomly come to you?

 

[Apple Bun]

I depends really, I normaly just take snipits from a dream I have had and see where it takes me.

 

[Mini Mariah]

I take stuff that happens in my life and manga-tise it with dramatisation or symbols lol x]

I suggest you take notes from anime and mange if you're really serious about it xD

 

[midge]

Just wanna say thanks for replying : ) I was thinking about looking into some books on the subject, ones on creating comic stories and writing character profiles to see what they recommend was wondering if anyones used them/found them useful?

 

[hopeful_monster]

Personally i take bits from other series and spin them out. Its not as plagiaristic as it sounds though. Take a short scene from a movie or series and come up with an alternate beginning or ending (or both). One three line scene has kinda spun out to a 3 arc webcomic idea i'm working on.

 

[Raujinn]

You'll need characters and genre, and perhaps an overall goal. After that it's all about scenarios.

The general guideline for any story is that they follow this pattern:
Intro - Goal - Conflict - Resolution.
Intro to introduce (duh, goal to establish the point of the story/scenario, conflict being some sort of obstacle that needs to be overcome and resolution being the ending.

Books can be very helpful but I reckon the important training comes from experiance.