going away - Comic Discussion (Print & Web!)
Making retroactive edits
Neilsama
at 10:19AM, Feb. 28, 2007
Online comics have the convenience being edited (i.e., corrected) at any time after publication. How many people here have gone back through your archives and changed things you weren't happy with? And if so, then what?
last edited on July 14, 2011 2:10PM
Neilsama
at 12:29PM, Feb. 28, 2007
For me, I just decided that I don't like the name of the city in which my characters inhabit. The city was named originally named Dominian City, but now I've decided that Stratford City sounds cooler. Now I've got a project ahead of me of going through all of the dialogue and changing it to reflect this asinine decision I've just made. Oh joy...
last edited on July 14, 2011 2:10PM
rengori
at 4:14PM, Feb. 28, 2007
Usually just spelling and grammatical errors, in fact I did this on my latest comic.
last edited on July 14, 2011 3:05PM
Kristen Gudsnuk
at 9:06PM, Feb. 28, 2007
Neilsama
For me, I just decided that I don't like the name of the city in which my characters inhabit. The city was named originally named Dominian City, but now I've decided that Stratford City sounds cooler. Now I've got a project ahead of me of going through all of the dialogue and changing it to reflect this asinine decision I've just made. Oh joy...
Stratford City? to me, that sounds... well... maybe because I'm from Connecticut, and I live right near Stratford, so I think of Sikorsky Aircraft (helicopters!) and the movie theater. But then, I'm probably a rarity, right?
last edited on July 14, 2011 1:22PM
Neilsama
at 9:32AM, March 1, 2007
Ack! Hopefully I won't run into that distinction confusion a lot. Dasien definitely does NOT take place in Connecticut! I completely forgot that there was already a city by the name of Stratford. But this is Stratford CITY! So Ha-HA!!!
Besides, I've always envisioned my fictional Stratford City as being a midwestern city, somewhere between Minnesota and Ohio. Maybe as far south as Missouri. It's got kind of a Riverdale aspect to it where it could literally be anywhere on the map.
Every so often, my spelling and grammar improves enough that I go through the archive and make subtle changes to the dialogue. I don't totally sanitize the language, because sometimes improper grammer is simply part of the culture. For example, I'm sure a lot of my characters end sentences with prepositions, but I wouldn't actually change that.
But a couple times I've gone back and dumbed down the expositionary dialogue, simply because I can't stand dialogue which exists specificially to walk the reader through the story by the hand.
Besides, I've always envisioned my fictional Stratford City as being a midwestern city, somewhere between Minnesota and Ohio. Maybe as far south as Missouri. It's got kind of a Riverdale aspect to it where it could literally be anywhere on the map.
Every so often, my spelling and grammar improves enough that I go through the archive and make subtle changes to the dialogue. I don't totally sanitize the language, because sometimes improper grammer is simply part of the culture. For example, I'm sure a lot of my characters end sentences with prepositions, but I wouldn't actually change that.
But a couple times I've gone back and dumbed down the expositionary dialogue, simply because I can't stand dialogue which exists specificially to walk the reader through the story by the hand.
last edited on July 14, 2011 2:10PM
©2011-2012 WOWIO, Inc. All Rights Reserved





