Postby Jason Toddman » Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:56 am
I agree with Bondagefreak and moved this to Tugs talk as being a more appropriate forum.
Now then, this subject is near and dear to my heart since I've drawn thousands of pages of bondage stories in comic book format (including my own avatar here) starting since 2000 or so, and have posted some of them in text form (with some illustrations) here at Tieupgames.net, so I'd like to comment if I may.
Should it be more comedic, or more serious?
That should be entirely up to you. You should do whatever you are most comfortable with. You don't even have to do it always one way or the other. Tell it straight when the story situation calls for it; inject a little humor now and then when the story also calls for it. Tell the story the way you want to tell it; worry about reader reaction afterward. Telling it the way that pleases YOU the most makes it most likely that it will please the greatest number of readers as well... especially when you keep the relative level of 'kink' as low as what works with the story.
It wouldn't be dark or anything either way... It's like the difference between a sitcom and a more realistic slice-of-life story.
Sounds good to me. The problem with many of MY stories is that some got a bit dark, and also had too much explicit kink; one major reason I have yet to post many of them here even in tamer form. So this sounds like the best way to go.
Should we keep the story in the real world (or at least, keep it as something that could happen in the real world), or do we allow fantastic elements? Magic bondage is something I've found interesting, as is the idea of an intelligent species for whom bondage is cultural.
Again, that should be up to you and also depends on the needs of the story. I've done serious real-world stories AND fantasy/sci-fi stories where the captors are alien boys or elves, or where the captives and captors alike have superpowers (and TUGs is what fuels said powers). Assuming you want to tell more the one story, just go with what fits. Does the story need fantasy/sci-fi elements, or will it at least be enhanced by them? If yes, use them. If no, don't insert them. Just go with the needs of the story you want to tell; that's your best guide and just go with what works best from there.
Should the story be set somewhere where bondage is common (a convention, a made-up country where it's cultural, etc), or should it be "underground" like in the real world?
Again, different question but same answer. Do some of each (in different stories that is). Different stories will be more interesting if you vary the theme each time you tell a new one. It's that frame that makes a story more than just another TUG story, which - let's face it - gets only so interesting without other elements to give it variety. One past comic-book story that i am currently re-writing in text form and posting here involves a boy who is somewhat other than a normal human - and i don't mean because he likes being tied up virtually constantly or likes being tortured while he's being tied up. Don't want to say more just yet because i haven't finished the story yet and don't want to post spoilers. But the story will involve strong fantasy elements toward the end. Others I've done involve adolescent angels and demons. Another I plan to post eventually involves an adolescent alien boy (with green skin and antennae) who needs to enslave an Earth boy in order to use his life energy to (harmlessly to the captive) power his interstellar spaceship. The fantasy and sci-fi variations are endless. Just use whatever you feel works best in a TUG story. Some people won't like those, but others will. You won't please everyone no matter what you do, so just please yourself first and foremost.
I am not going to show nudity. I'll come pretty close if needed, but not full nudity.
Mine do, but that's just my preference. Yours are equally valid, and probably will attract a wider readership than mine anyway.
Most of the bondage will have girls tied up, because that's where my interest is, but I will include some guys tied up too, because I know other people like that.
Again, do it in the way that pleases you most. I myself do mainly boy-on-boy stories, and rare are my girl characters, so i probably have that fiekd well covered already anyway. Your preference with girls being tied up will add variety to this site, so go for what you prefer and use guys tied up only when you really feel like it. The quality of your stories will be best when your own interests are being m,et when you do these anyway.
It will be a continuing story, not a bunch of one-page jokes like xkcd or something. (Not that I don't like xkcd! I think it's hilarious, but it's not the sort of thing I want for this comic.)
Good. But no need to limit yourself to just one story. I've done a great number of different stories, from graphic novels averaging about 150 comic-nook pages to series running a number of 36-page issues each... each with the same basic TUG theme but with wide variations in fantasy/sci-fi levels and so on. That way I can depict just about whatever I want; whether vampire boys, ghosts, alien, or whatever else wouldn't fit some other story i did.
Anyway, good luck with all this but most of all have fun with it. Not only is that the best reason to draw and write but also it'll improve the quality of your work.
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