My name is Miranda and I'm the Creator of Muted
Muted is about a witch named Camille
who is part of seven different witch families in New Orleans
and she undergoes a sort of ritual, traditional ritual, with her family to find
out that she's actually part of another witch family. So, all the drama and
identity issues that ensue.
I like witches, and I like New Orleans and I'm also a
lesbian, so
Since like eighth grade I've been writing stories with my, now wife
and so we just I write stories all the time and so like this was just one of
those ones like we should actually start making comics and so I started this one
and she started hers and working on another one together so it's just those
sort of things where we just talk about stuff a lot
on WEBTOON I started...
I actually read Lore Olympus. It was the only comic that I had read at the time
and I was just like this seems like a really cool website so I look into it
and I posted the first episode only then to discover that you had got -- you had
started that contest and so I was like UH OH so I like to get down really
quickly to then post it again to apply for the contest and then I was like okay
now I have to do 40 minimum for this contest and so I went through all of
that and, at around episode 10, I believe, my editor, Bre
contacted me, "She's like hey do you want to come on board with us?"
And I was like OBVIOUSLY. So, here I am.
I think probably, Camille, for the most part. I don't
wanna, you know, it sounds weird like "I'm just like my main character." She's
not a lot like me but like, we're the same because she has a lot of anxiety and
depression and having to work through all that kind of stuff and self-identity
So, things -- when I'm trying to plan out how she acts
kind of like how it relates to me or at least people that I know to sort of
flesh that out.
Yeah, right now I have three seasons planned and like but
originally it was -- kind of adapting day to day, because originally it was only
going to be two and then I was like actually I think this is a good time to
take a break. So, it's like as I work on it and you work on it and you think of
more things I'm like actually I think this would work better so like the same
like major plot points are still kind of the same but like all the little details
like leading up to it are slightly shifting as we go along so yeah about I
think three seasons.
I combat it by, I guess, just sitting in my chair and just
like trying to -- if sitting in the chair doesn't work, then just like starting to
draw. If I draw it and I start to lay it out and I'm like well it's easier to
piece words into the drawings that come to mind almost as if because like
sometimes I get ahead of myself and I start writing the script out before I
drew it and I'm like this needs to be spaced out completely different.
So, it helps to
just sort of like draw it and lay it out and then add the text in after the fact
I think as cheesy as it sounds I think it is important to just DO IT because
like there's always that sense is like well I'm not good enough at backgrounds
or I'm not good enough at characters or I don't 100% know like how it's going to go
It's like so long as you like, you know, you like your idea it's like the
fastest way to improve is like -- if you even look between Episode One
that I did then and where I am now like I've already improved so much just
in that time I think you improve faster the more you do it and it's like and
it's easy to be like well it's not good enough to show to people but it's not
true it's like so long as people like enjoy your story and your characters
like that's what matters more than anything like --
and then you just learn as you do it.
So yeah, just get in there
My readers they've been so sweet
like every week, you know, how imposter syndrome is where you're like, you know
you just feel like a fraud all the time! But so every week for no
reason at all I'm like -- oh like preparing myself for any negative comments but
everyone is just like so sweet and so supportive all the time and I'm just so
thankful for you know for WEBTOON for giving me the opportunity and then
everyone just like really relating and liking the story as much as they have
it's it's been really nice
So thank you~!