Note that both Elcenia and HTHT have their origins in a collaboration, although Elcenia’s was longer-lived. HTHT’s co-creator (who is very invested, in general, in straight-up mahou shoujo tropes) was no longer on board by the time I started publishing, but I didn’t feel like I was free to arbitrarily discard bits of the original concept. But I think it’s mostly a matter of my having improved as a storyteller, as you say—that, and I’m a lazy, amateur artist, which makes webcomicking an awkward juggling act between leaning on the writing and failing at “show don’t tell”, and leaning on the art and having everything be incomprehensible and take forever to draw. At this point I’m not having fun with it, but I feel obliged to finish it (in part on the urging of my erstwhile co-creator). That’s not exactly inspiring me to new heights of quality.
Luminosity is sort of collaborative in the sense that I’m using a borrowed world, albeit with no direct participation from Meyer herself, but I honestly do not think worldbuilding is my weakness, nor character creation (Radiance in particular mostly runs on characters who are original or so far diverged from their canon origins that they might as well be).
Note that both Elcenia and HTHT have their origins in a collaboration, although Elcenia’s was longer-lived. HTHT’s co-creator (who is very invested, in general, in straight-up mahou shoujo tropes) was no longer on board by the time I started publishing, but I didn’t feel like I was free to arbitrarily discard bits of the original concept. But I think it’s mostly a matter of my having improved as a storyteller, as you say—that, and I’m a lazy, amateur artist, which makes webcomicking an awkward juggling act between leaning on the writing and failing at “show don’t tell”, and leaning on the art and having everything be incomprehensible and take forever to draw. At this point I’m not having fun with it, but I feel obliged to finish it (in part on the urging of my erstwhile co-creator). That’s not exactly inspiring me to new heights of quality.
Luminosity is sort of collaborative in the sense that I’m using a borrowed world, albeit with no direct participation from Meyer herself, but I honestly do not think worldbuilding is my weakness, nor character creation (Radiance in particular mostly runs on characters who are original or so far diverged from their canon origins that they might as well be).