How To Pace Your Webtoon: Comicbook Writing Tutorial

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Is your webtoon too slow? Should have started with a prologue? When do you need your hook? This video will help answer those questions.

Here are some tips for helping you plan your webtoon's pacing and story structure. Use these guidelines and you'll have a much easier time retaining the readers you get.

Bad pacing can cause readers and subscribers to forget about your story or become disinterested.

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Art simplification is a topic that personally interests me, be it character design or backgrounds. One thing I only really noticed when paying attention is that oftentimes, the webtoon artist leaves out the backgrounds or simplifies the characters (like a chibi version for comedic effect) in ways I really wouldn’t notice in casual reading. Knowing what you can leave out without jeopardizing the reader experience sounds like a great skill to have.

rainpooper
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4:10 “Whatever it is evil people do... I wouldn’t know, I’m not evil” *side-eye* 😂😂 that sent me

kuhmee
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This channel is way too high quality for the views it get.

mangakaar
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I find it’s easy to leave a reader wanting more, By cutting off an episode at cliff hangers or new found information or a climactic moment. With every chapter the plot has to have moved forward so that it feels worth your time

amiamarie
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I also realize that when you apply this pacing pattern it will totally prolonged the series and make every episode worth reading, it's just all depend on how the writer executes the idea without losing the story line. With this, every writer can publish one hell of a great story.

halululi
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Love the advice here! It could be confirmation bias though, since I already agreed with all of it, lol!

I love that you brought up finding a focus for each episode - I think about this a lot too. I really like using Mary Robinette Kowal's take on the MICE quotient when structuring chapters or episodes (depending on the media) so would recommend people looking at that. Effectively, it's an acronym for things that a story can focus on:

M - Milieu (this is a fancy word for place): conflict begins when you enter a place, ends when you either exit or accept the new location. The place causes the problems
I - Idea: A particular idea or question drives the conflict. Conflict begins because of a question, resolves when it's answered.
C - Character: There is a character/relationship that needs to change driving the conflict. Resolution comes when someone undergoes character change
E - Event: An event happens! That event drives the conflict and is the thing that needs to be resolved.

Different types of stories use these in different amounts. My comic is a fish-out-of-water story driven by a lot of small character interactions, so it has a lot of "character" and "milieu" episodes. On the other hand, I'm writing a book right now with a train that explodes at the beginning, and the rest of the book, the characters are trying to solve the mystery of WHY it exploded. It gets a lot more "event" and "idea" chapters.

Anyhow, I could ramble on about this for forever. But seriously! Look up Mary Robinette Kowal and Mice quotient if you want another great resource on pacing. Great video as ever, Walter!

EmilyPaxman
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I was literally looking for this yesterday this is great

cinder_flames
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My webcomic genre is action so mostly i need to learn action poses and great shot perspectives soon since my comic just starting can you maybe have a video about perspective about person poses in the future it'll be a big help for me❤️❤️ love your videos

brillientan
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I know you posted this 3 years ago, but I love this video! I've always wanted to draw comics but I'm still very new to the whole process. Do you have a video on maybe how to introduce different characters and how best to pace it? I have a handful of side characters but don't want to end up smashing them all in the first episode

kimbobimify
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Yo did he say your horse breaks down? This horse must be seriously breaking it down for you to have to stop this horse better be shmoovin

QueenSiv
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Oh, lord... I had to pause the video cuz I started laughing when you were saying to avoid giving a history lesson/exposition dump at the beginning, bc I was just going over my script and wondering if I should cut that that part out, and then sure enough, you said it! lol Thank you for that!!

moartu
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*me the whole time...✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾
Great video!

yogosapphirey
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You said to say hi in the comments, so hi! I listened to this while shading an episode lol.

triangle
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My boyfriend and I always give every anime 3 episodes before we decide to keep with it or not ^_^ 3 is a good number.

Thank you for making this!!!!

kuremyona
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I'm glad I found your channel, I've been literally binge watching your videos before I somewhat release my WEBTOON. Thank you so much for making these videos!!

ozymandias
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I've done the before and it has helped so much! I also like to write extra notes about subplots and how they help the main plot.

KimBryanArt
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Hmm, about the length, I think I'll plant to create a really popular series that goes for 80 episodes, and then go on a hiatus for an unspecified time.

RuberSocks
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Thank you as always for making such informative videos! I'm watching you as I work on my comic and it helps a lot, I've had multiple moments where I fixed stuff after hearing your tips haha :D

kayomi
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Thank you I'm planning to start my own webtoon.... It's really informative.

낫수드락닐
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Good ideas to start and keep a spark in a story(ies).😊

Iggyshere