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Writing Discussion Thread

Lukewoesal007 said:
How banal.
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Tf you mean banal, this is peak.

Bro reason to become a multiverse God was to give everyone a chance. Even his own enemies.

Joshua is victory achieved without sacrifice given form, one that can only be attained through the most difficult, painful, and honorable path, even when it seems unreasonable and virtually impossible
 
Rakih_Elyan said:
Tf you mean banal, this is peak.

Bro reason to become a multiverse God was to give everyone a chance. Even his own enemies.

Joshua is victory achieved without sacrifice given form, one that can only be attained through the most difficult, painful, and honorable path, even when it seems unreasonable and virtually impossible
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What do you know about Above The Sky?
 
Rakih_Elyan said:
This guy hax is antithesis to needless tragedy.

Joshua's [Miracle] allows individuals to become their own protagonists as long as they can remember everything about themselves and develop their own futures. This ability ensures that destiny is not controlled, and no plot is fated to occur. It guarantees that all things will not be forgotten once they end, even the books that would be closed after they are read.

Joshua's [Miracle] is an ability that rules over all probabilities and universal principles. It allows him to determine future outcomes, ensuring that no one gets injured or dies, enabling him to clear a game in a single attempt, or defeat a powerful foe in just one try. Joshua can bring about a perfect ending, creating a final chapter free of regret and realizing the greatest possible future.
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As someone who isn't a big fan of these sorts of novels, this Joshua guy sounds like he's a peak character just for this ability alone
 
Success0906 said:
Dude.. I am pretty sure he is from a wuxia novel. What did you expect? Even his fart has some kind of hax, I am sure of it.
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I don't really care about the character's "hax." I just think that achievement of utter "perfection" through an ability is unimaginative, and the two effects contradict each other. To be fair, I haven't read whatever novel he's from, nor do I ever intend to, but it's hard not to reel back and roll your eyes when this very juvenile character is pushed in front of you.
 
Lukewoesal007 said:
I don't really care about the character's "hax." I just think that achievement of utter "perfection" through an ability is unimaginative, and the two effects contradict each other. To be fair, I haven't read whatever novel he's from, nor do I ever intend to, but it's hard not to reel back and roll your eyes when this very juvenile character is pushed in front of you.
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There was this one wuxia novel where two guys did it upsidedown. Yeah.. crazy, right?
 
The_Unknown_Warrior1 said:
Ugh, Akame Ga Kill...I think AGK should be an example used in literary classes to teach students what well written tragedy is and what horribly written tragedy is.

Like, I understand that AGK is suppose to be a story that says anyone can die at any moment and not everyone can make it to the end and all that shit. But every time a character died, it felt less like a tragic moment in the story and more like a cheap way to invoke emotion by killing off a character people liked.
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Yeah, I read it a while back, but entirely false. It's pretty nice work, but the tragedy after tragedy can throw people off. I will say that the constant deaths led to me being quite surprised when the MC lived.
 
While we are on the topic, what kind of world building do you guys prefer? I personally prefer moldy world building , but I can roll with pillars as well. You can say that I am ~ connected to nature~
 
Success0906 said:
While we are on the topic, what kind of world building do you guys prefer? I personally prefer moldy world building , but I can roll with pillars as well. You can say that I am ~ connected to nature~
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I can usually roll with a lot of settings except sci-fi. I struggle with that a lot on account of the "characters are as smart as the people that write them" issue and in the far future, everyone's usually a lot smarter than most of us
 
Peppersalt43 said:
I can usually roll with a lot of settings except sci-fi. I struggle with that a lot on account of the "characters are as smart as the people that write them" issue and in the far future, everyone's usually a lot smarter than most of us
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"I am Barry Allen. And I am the fastest man alive."
Three minutes:
"Cisco, what do I do?!"
"Barry.. try la pu la ka."
"Omg, Cisco! How come I couldn't think of that? You are genius, Cisco!"
 
Success0906 said:
While we are on the topic, what kind of world building do you guys prefer? I personally prefer moldy world building , but I can roll with pillars as well. You can say that I am ~ connected to nature~
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The settings that are usually the most conducive or fitting to the stories I like to tell are those which are set in fictional locations within the "real world," or a world at least superficially similar to our own. While I am not current working on the project, I drafted a story set on a fictional island in the northern Atlantic Ocean, which was in many ways a combination of Western European and New England culture, history, and nature.
 
Any ideas for a specific "ability" that I can give to my main character?

Like Saitama having Super Strenght, Flash having Super Speed, Ben 10 having Transformation, Supernatural Luck etc.

Like 1 singular power that can be used in vast amount of ways?
 
ShionAH said:
Any ideas for a specific "ability" that I can give to my main character?

Like Saitama having Super Strenght, Flash having Super Speed, Ben 10 having Transformation, Supernatural Luck etc.

Like 1 singular power that can be used in vast amount of ways?
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Supernatural luck that causes misunderstandings that always benefit the MC, even when he doesn't want it to. I like this trope a lot.
 
ShionAH said:
Any ideas for a specific "ability" that I can give to my main character?

Like Saitama having Super Strenght, Flash having Super Speed, Ben 10 having Transformation, Supernatural Luck etc.

Like 1 singular power that can be used in vast amount of ways?
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Telekinesis and perfect instincts are slept on.

Imagine instincts telling him not only an attack is coming but feeding him 8 different escape routes and 5 different means of counter attack, and he simply knows what option is best to take
 
Success0906 said:
Supernatural luck that causes misunderstandings that always benefit the MC, even when he doesn't want it to. I like this trope a lot.
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Similar to King from One Punch Man?

In the past was thinking of making like a "Demon King" that is just good at bluffing lol, he isnt a demon king he is just some guy
 
Success0906 said:
A wholesale adventure series.
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Added to my list
Darkmon_cns said:
Imagine instincts telling him not only an attack is coming but feeding him 8 different escape routes and 5 different means of counter attack, and he simply knows what option is best to take
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Hmm this seems cool too but may be kinda hard to write due to how op it is
 
ShionAH said:
Any ideas for a specific "ability" that I can give to my main character?

Like Saitama having Super Strenght, Flash having Super Speed, Ben 10 having Transformation, Supernatural Luck etc.

Like 1 singular power that can be used in vast amount of ways?
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Ask yourself what you want the core themes or your story to be and what kind of character you want to write as the protagonist. I find it a lot easier to design a character's abilities (whether supernatural or not), when you have an idea of their personality, archetype, and what sorts of abilities may compliment the former two.
 
Lukewoesal007 said:
I don't really care about the character's "hax." I just think that achievement of utter "perfection" through an ability is unimaginative, and the two effects contradict each other. To be fair, I haven't read whatever novel he's from, nor do I ever intend to, but it's hard not to reel back and roll your eyes when this very juvenile character is pushed in front of you.
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It is through hard struggle first before he created miracles, he created miracles not for himself but for all living beings. He didn't depend on that ability in his entire journey since it doesn't even exist lol. He even want that Miracle to be used by his enemy to defeat him if they can.

He gave a chance to all being for example, an inanimate rock who suddenly gain consciousness due to [Miracle] and defend themselves from human.
 
Rakih_Elyan said:
It is through hard struggle first before he created miracles, he created miracles not for himself but for all living beings. He didn't depend on that ability in his entire journey since it doesn't even exist lol. He even want that Miracle to be used by his enemy to defeat him if they can.

He gave a chance to all being for example, an inanimate rock who suddenly gain consciousness due to [Miracle] and defend themselves from human.
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I never implied that was reason I disliked it. I just think it's a pseudo-philosphical interpretation of reality warping and fate manipulation that doesn't make much sense.
 
Lukewoesal007 said:
I never implied that was reason I disliked it. I just think it's a pseudo-philosphical interpretation of reality warping and fate manipulation that doesn't make much sense.
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Miracles are impossibility made real. Like not impossible as it have near zero chance to happen, it is zero in infinite chance to happen but miracles made it happen.
 
I can binge watch anything, I mean anything. A generic Isekai where the MC is oblivious? Fk it, we roll. Generic dungeon setting with the hero betraying the MC? Sure, why not? A romance story that takes a hundred chapter for the couples to hold hands? Dam straight! A harem with excessive fan service? Sure, could be worse. A CGI infested anime? Damn, didn't know your game was like that. Fk it, we roll. Fanfics with overpowered characters and no overall plot, along with badly structured narrative? Eh, could be worse.

And if there is something that isn't to my liking, you know something is wrong with that. I mean I have watched several ***** in my life, but this one fanfic takes the cake. And of course, it has to be MHA fanfic. Good thing is that the author just deleted his whole work due to the negative criticisms. It seems the guy was on his early teens, and had just started watching anime. Dude got done so dirty, he had to delete all traces of the book.
 
Guys, I just caught someone beeping the honka badonkas right outside my house. What do I do? Should I just leave them be? Should I call the authorities for doing inappropriate stuff right in the public where I can see them?
 
SweetDao said:
Talking about this... Am I the only one who despise the system trope?

I get it, sometimes it's cool and all, but 99% of the stories I've read containing systems ends up with the MC being either over-reliant on it or straight up dependent of it.

Worst part about this is that most of those MCs are the typical "loser/rank F hunter/Low tier talentless cultivator" who ends up monologuing about how the world is unfair because some people are stronger and treat him like shit, yet, they gain power due to pure luck (if not due to plot) and ends up doing the very same shit they were against.
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Ah, the "fake underdog" story. It pretends the MC is somehow given a bad hand in life because he supposedly has no talent and people hate him, but only as a way to establish the entirety of the cast as strawmen jerks the the MC will eventually put in their place when the MC turns out to be absurdly overpowered and show how badass he really is (his harem who always believed in him excluded, of course).

I have the same issue... I don't hate power systems or anything, but just don't get invested in them since the story never follows them and always breaks their rules for the sake of plot: in action shounens the MC will just ignore any limitation or consequence through willpower or friendship speeches, will achieve with "special training" in a lunchbreak skills that everybody takes years, and whenever they are in disadvantge they will just evolve midfight and end up winning due to tenacity or something; in Light Novels and such the MC will likely have this special unique skill that trivializes the entire system, flat out be good at everything, or if they are bad, they will just happen to develop a different skill and still unique skill that is a complete anti-meta strategy, pretty much giving him an unfair advantage.
 
There a reason why I doesn't really like limited and inherent power system where no one can improve and grow their power except the few chosen.
 
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