4 Reasons Why You Should Create A One Shot!

[@MangaMikeLee]

Sorry everyone, the music is a little louder than I wanted it to be, please be sure to use the subtitles if you are having trouble hearing everything. Thank you! Mike

[@notationmusical]

I know I'll just burn myself out if I don't start out small. Great video.

[@MangaMikeLee]

Thanks so much! And yea burn out on long projects is more likely if you don’t pace yourself and you aren’t seeing the traction

[@maitiurs]

I like how you ask ME those questions that need to be answered to actually make a quality story, not just you telling me what to do, more like suggesting what could work for me! ♥️

[@MangaMikeLee]

I’m glad you found the video helpful! Thanks for the support 😊

[@malubarroso]

Thanks for this. I guess I'll make some one-shot comics!

[@MangaMikeLee]

You’re welcome. It’s definitely great to get started in comics and manga!

[@YoungwavyTheArtist]

Great video, you made some great points and I’ve been taking notes. These type of videos really help me out a ton, there’s still so much I need to learn but that’s all part of the journey.👏🏽✍🏽

[@comicbooking]

Nice video 😊😊,btgis helped with my comicbook

[@MangaMikeLee]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for the support 😊

[@YoungwavyTheArtist]

I also love seeing your improvement artistically, keep up the great work.✍🏽👍🏽

[@MangaMikeLee]

Thanks for the support! Wish you luck on your current project!

[@trevorgetty2968]

Thanks for the video

[@MangaMikeLee]

Of course! Glad it was helpful 😊

[@flowerbloom5782]

Do you have any advice on how to decide if your ideas work for one shots? I constantly create ideas that are longer series. I want to get into one shots. How do you come up or know if your ideas are one shot material?

[@MangaMikeLee]

Before I give the advice I would say don’t worry so much about being a one shot creator if that’s not what your story telling style is. There’s of course advantages if doing one shots, but you don’t want to force a square peg into a round hole so to speak. That will just stunt your creativity. So the real question would be what’s telling you to do one shots instead of maybe a longer story? Actual advice I would give would be to create a story then see which pieces are necessary and which ones are not. Do you need every conflict for the story to make sense or can it be condensed. Typically we think we need to explain more to the readers than we actually do. The other advice I would give which I believe is in this video is limit the amount of characters you and and limit the scope of the story as well. Instead of 5 character try 2 or 3, instead of the whole city being at risk maybe it’s just one building or a floor within the building. Limiting those pieces will help you write smaller scale stories. The other important thing is one shots can be wrapped up in a maximum of about 30 pages illustrated (of course there are some that are longer but just work with me here lol), if you’ve written for 30 illustrated pages and you feel like there’s just a lot missing then it’s not a good one shot. It needs to feel complete. Hope that helps!