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Hello, Herz! I wanted to ask you about how you go about writing for your comic? I know you mentioned during the recent stream that you don't tend to do a lot of writing for a few reasons (iirc anyways, sorry if I'm misremembering), so I was curious what the process was for planning out the story for The Devil's Favourites? Feel free to answer this as and when, I'm mostly just curious. Hope you have a nice weekend! <3

Ahh hi Spooky!! Thank you for the question, I wish you a lovely weekend as well!!

I haven't done any lengthy comic writing in many years, the only longer projects I did were for myself and a few friends, or for zines, which is why I am still kinda rusty when it comes to long multi-arc stories.

For The Devil's Favourites, I started out with writing down specific scenes I wanted to have in there (the page that initiates the finale of the first chapter being one of the very first things I ever thought of for it), regardless for now if it can be put into the same story or not. I just collected moments, feelings, sentences and visuals that I wanted to write and draw. Then I wrote an ending I wanted, and started to slowly piece everything together from there - because I know that unless I know the ending, I personally can't work properly.

This is also how I come up with characters usually, their designs etc only come to be once I have a bunch of scenes, sentences, story beats and emotions that I feel could go into the basis of a character :)

I'm still moving around parts, sequences, moments between major points, I'm far from being done bwhaha

The only thing I'm writing in full and properly are the chapters as they go, with a list of all things I need to set up early, hints for later reveals, what I need to especially pay attention to for each character at this point in the story, specific dialogue pieces so I don't forget and such!

The comic writing for the chapters, I do on pieces of paper that I've split into four parts, each of them representing one page, so that I can write 8 pages on one piece of paper - it helps me to keep it simple for the draft cuz i have to draw tiny, and keep an overview on how the pages are looking to avoid being too repetitive!

I hope this answers your question! <3