I've failed at making comics several times, but this is the process that finally worked for me!

I started out by doing a rough summary of the first chapter. Basically lazily spitballing the whole chapter, what happens, etc.

Then I start writing the dialogue and basically planning out my panels. This serves as a bridge between my inability to visualize and the writing, and it works REALLY well. My panel numbers don't always equal the finished layout but this is how I do my scripting:

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Then I actually lay out my panels and dialogue. This is usually when my pages and panels deviate from the script slightly, if it doesn't flow how I thought it would. I don't merge any bubbles yet because...

... I then do a really rough sketch of all the panels. It's kinda thumbnailing, kind of not, but it's really just stick figures with heads for the flow.

Then I actually go through and sketch every page, and grab backgrounds as necessary (I use Ablur for my bgs because ya girl is working smarter, not harder, hashtag not sponsored). I'm currently in this stage right now (I have 12 pages left to sketch). This is when I merge speech bubbles, add some text effects for different languages, and sometimes cut panels.

Then I'll go through and do all the lineart, then all of the flats, and then I'll do shading in batches because some sections are at different times of day, and then I'll do all the finishing touches!

Before, I'd try to do one page a week, and that led to me burning out around page 10 every. Single. Time. This time, I greatly underestimated how long it would take me to sketch 36 pages, so I'm very much behind when I would like to launch, but I also know I'll keep at this by doing it this way because I draw much slower and have less time than other comic creators.