Forum: Story Discussion and Feedback

These days bandwidth is cheap. So no worries about resources. Currently all the sites we have use about 3% of our included bandwidth. So plenty to go around.

I'd have to create a new workflow to handle multiple images quickly as the current workflow is too slow, and maybe create a better display system, like maybe a slideshow or something. But other than that, no issues.

So cost wise there's no problem, that's good to hear. Now we'll have to see if there's interest from both authors and readers.

However, it a rarer skill and very time consuming compared to written words.

True, maybe Alicia and Mat Twassel can share what software they use to create their images and give some advice to get started. If there's so much interest from readers there must be creators that want to cater to that, just like the writing authors share their effort here on SOL. Bookapy can sell comic books too.

A new sister site? Comics On-Line (COL)?

A new sister site? Comics On-Line (COL)?

That can only happen when there are enough books to populate such a site. That will take a lot of time. Unless of course comic book authors that now post on other sites start contributing. Which wouldn't surprise me considering the generally friendly nature of SOL and it's a good opportunity to reach a different public from the specialized sites.

I would be in favour, but how would management cope and what extra resources would it eat up?

Require a premium membership? Or maybe a separate membership?

As someone who was paid to write comic scripts for an online comic book website, I think it would be great.

So... you could create one as an example for others, share your knowledge to those who want to give a try in creating a comic book?

Without the words, it's lacking quite a bit. Not just the dialogue. But the comments, sound effects, etc. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but without the words the comic is missing too much.

Of course there needs to be text, text balloons and/or text in between. It has to be a story after all.

As a writer of illustrated stories, I'd be happy to have them included in a special section in SOL. At the same time, I wouldn't want my stories to be too disassociated from the main body of SOL; I'd like my new stories to show up in the new stories list, for example, or at least in a comparable "new illustrated stories" list, and I'd like my stories to be discoverable through the various search capabilities without the searcher necessarily having to include "illustrated" in the search.

I suggested a special section because I wrongly assumed that the cost for hosting them might require a separate paid membership. Lazeez corrected my unspoken assumption. Neither cost nor lack of interest from readers seems to be a problem.
Your stories are listed in searches just like any of the other stories on SOL if you add the appropriate tags for them. They will be found without the reader requiring to add the illustrated tag but based on the other tags.

Merceneiress is a great version of this without going to far into the manga.

Looks great yes, but I doubt he's an artist that would post on SOL. A great example though as to what can be achieved in creating a comic book.

An illustrated story is not a comic book.

No, of course not, but some stories are tagged as illustrated while they only have a single picture at the start of the story. To me that qualifies more as a cover image. Not what I would call an illustrated story.

If there is no story, words not just pictures, it gets a rating of 1, "you call this a story?".

So as a child you never 'read' a picture book story?
If there is no story I agree with "You call this a story?".

If you believe the "story" does not belong in SOL, instead of giving it a rating of 1, why not report the story as inappropriate?

why can't we do both?

but if the objective is to get the "non-story" removed from SOL, voting 1 isn't efficient or useful.

There's no guarantee that Lazeez will agree and actually remove it.

There's no guarantee that Lazeez will agree and actually remove it.

There is a reason the number of stories on the site is announced on the home page fairly highly.

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Actually once the count crosses 50,000 I will be removing that count display from the home page. It's already irrelevant, but it's been there since the beginning.

Removal won't bother me but why? Irrelevant is relative, for new visitors it's good to see there's a huge number of stories available. Or is it replaced with something like "50.000+ stories available"?

inappropriate?

I am under the impression that reporting "inappropriate" is for stories with characters who are not yet age 14 participating in sexual activities.

I am under the impression that reporting "inappropriate" is for stories with characters who are not yet age 14 participating in sexual activities.

Rule 4 Storiesonline has the right to refuse the posting of any work, for any reason.

Rule 5 Storiesonline may remove your works at any time at the discretion of the moderators. (We'll notify you if that happens and the reason.)

I've reported the a few political rants over the years that didn't even pretend to wrap a story around it.