i mean, i've been working on a VN! i finished all the writing earlier this year, so i can at least talk about that aspect of it.

prose in visual novels isn't always identically constructed to conventional novels (in particular, there's often less ceremony around characters speaking, since you can just look at their sprite/name label)... but it was still a very interesting challenge to make a serious, concerted effort to write a narrative in prose, for once.

i've written things before, though nothing very long. some fanfics, here and there, beyond schoolwork. a lot of unfinished stuff. fair bit of poetry and lyricwriting at this point, too.

but as a storyteller, i prefer writing shorter stories. i am very accustomed to "trimming the fat" with any of my narratives, pruning and rewriting things until i'm satisfied. i found this especially important to do when making comics, largely to reduce the overall pagecount/amount of work i'd have to do visually.

i needed to slow down more than usual, pacing-wise, when writing my VN. it's not even an especially long one, regardless, but i had to deliberately linger more than usual, which took some adjustment. the pace i would have naturally settled on was far too breakneck for this project. i ended up enjoying the process, though. i learned a lot.

though, to answer your question more directly... i think my stories could still work, largely, in text format. they would just come across differently. i mean, simply put, i'm a significantly more experienced cartoonist and character designer than novelist, even as someone who likes my own prose.

i believe the various disciplines i've dabbled in, however unevenly, go down smoother when my visual art is somehow involved. but i still have a lot of work left to do! so please continue to wait warmly... for as long as it takes.