Got a cheap drawing tablet some time ago and been messing around with it... not sure I totally want to pursue this but at least I've tried aha.
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Sort of random, but my quest a week or so back randomly had like 20+ guests viewing it at a lot of times. Normally I only hit those numbers with total viewers total after I update, so it was a little strange. Can't tell if it was some forum bug, someone linked to it somewhere, or if it was something else.
Lost two watchers on my quest suddenly and don't know why. Know I shouldn't pay attention to things like that but have been in a pretty bad writing mood as of late >.>, esp with quests. Feel like I'm doing things wrong but not sure what. All I can do is keep on writing I suppose.
I've been making progress on starting up my second quest, but its been difficult really making the push to finish it up. Have some doubts whether I can manage two quests or if people will like it all that much. Thinking of posting what I have so far on the quest ideas thread or something to see if people are interested but unsure on that.
Just started my second story thread. It might mess with my writing scheduling later, but it feels nice to have more than one thing to write about.
SV fics, I'm not sure how if there is a general vibe I've got. It feels like a strange mixture of SB and Ao3 to me, good and bad from both. There's gamey and feelsy stuff from both, and I've seen a lot of interesting topics get explored here that I don't see in other communities. Quests seem much more prominent here as well compared to other works. Continued in thread
Royalroad and fimfiction I have little experience with. I know royalroad tends to have a community that prefers original fiction and publishing, especially progression/litrpg stuff, but little besides that. I've read some good fics on fimfiction and that's about it. All other sites I know little about or are a bit too niche. Might add one more post about SV(spicy) though.
I honestly have no idea about Wattpad. It's a very big site, but every time I've read something there its always been trash and at best guilty pleasure stuff. There have supposedly been big stories there, and it's not just a fanfic site, but yeah I don't know. It just feels like a place where people just throw out random stuff in, like the worst of AO3 and fanfiction . net.
Fanfiction . net is the home of edgelord and harem fics. There are a lot of gems in there, but you have to dig through piles of garbage for them. Some of the fics there really shows their age with the cliches and tropes they use as well. I don't think it's quite as bad as wattpad, and I can enjoy an edgy, gloomy curbstomping fic sometimes, but yeah. I'll stop for tonight though.
Spacebattles writing tends to be more solid but at times feels a bit "gamey". I'm not sure how to word it exactly. There's not as much as the godawful stuff on other sites, but there's a loooot more stuff revolving around super logical powerscaling everyone else is super dumb but my MC and their friends. In very light doses, this is fine, and Spacebattles has a lot of iconic stuff, but the average is tiring to read.
A lot of AO3 fics are very... feelsy. At least the mid-popular ones. This can be both a really good or really bad thing. A fic written well in that style has great character writing and relationships. A fic written badly gets really tiring to read when a character has a breakdown every two sentences. AO3 has A LOT of fics, but this is a recurring trend I've seen. They also love betrayals and character bashing.
Something I've noticed after reading way too much fanfiction on various sites is that there tends to be a certain culture and/or writing style in each of them. There are of course exceptions, especially the ones who post on all of them and everyone knows about, but it's noticeable enough that I think I'm not seeing things. I think. I'll expand on the next posts.
Just submitted an OC Sinner to someone's Limbus Fic. Was very interesting and sort of helped conceptualize my OC as well. Might be awkward if I ever get around to writing that Limbus fic, but I suppose I'll get to it when I get to it.
I was once thinking of starting up, not sure how to refer to it, a story starting during the time period in some fantasy settings where gods, demons, spirits, and other beings are first being created and formed from the primordial chaos/ether. It was a little vague, and I didn't know where to take it, but it's definitely been on my radar for a while.
It's something I'm doing in my current quest sort of, but I was thinking of writing a story/quest about an empire of ant-like species expanding against species from various animal types. Its always been my (unfounded) opinion that a lot of what we attribute to human's specific intelligence/quirks aren't tied to sapience itself, and it would be intriguing to explore different types of behavior.
Hmm, lost(and I think regained?) some watchers on my quest. Sort of unsure if it was because of my most recent update or something else about the quest, but surprising after it had remained stable for a while. Wish I could hear some feedback on that, but I guess I shouldn't think on it much. It's difficult knowing if what I'm putting out is good or not, but all I can do is keep writing I suppose.
Another quest idea I forgot to mention. I was thinking of writing out a "Hero Maker" quest where you play as a somewhat nebulous force of good against evil that picks out potential heroes to fight against various problems. Voters would choose how to make an appearance, whether to be a mysterious messenger or mentor that vanishes, and more. Sounds fun, but it needs a long view that I haven't spent the time on yet.
I think one thing that stops a lot of my writing ideas is my inclination to follow canon for fanfiction. I'm of the stance that while headcanon is fine and necessary at times, adhering to canon when you can is really important. It's easy for stories to lose cohesion and integrity when they stop doing it. Which sucks because I'm very lazy in consuming original sources and media. Any opinions?
One thing I'm very painfully aware of is that there's no way I can write all of these ideas unless I can somehow spend all my time doing this. I don't know. If someone has experience managing multiple quests at once, feel free to share your thoughts on that. Maybe if I drastically change something about my writing process...
I've got a lot of other ideas, but I'll just say one more to move on. I've flirted with dungeon core/litrpg stuff, but I think the only way I'll do it is if I start a story off with a dungeon core that already has like one hundred floors. Stories I've read make things SO slow and take 200 chapters to upgrade 1 floor. I mostly want to explore what it's like to be a strong dungeon and its politics/societal role.
Another is a hive mind fic, where several people in the world link up together after experiencing a similar trigger event at the same time. The scope of this is very big though and I'd have to headcanon a lot, and given I never finished Worm… yeah. Also a while back I had the idea of an alt world version of Touhou protagonists being part of the ABB, but I put it aside after struggling on powers/certain plot stuff.
So, I've been around SV and SB for a bit, and I definitely came up with some fic ideas for Worm. They're a bit out there tbh. One of them is an Alexandria fic of her being transported to the RWBY world during the time of Ozma/Salem after the brother gods did their thing. I put it aside after not really being able to figure out shard mechanics and how her power might work over thousands of years.
Last quest is a original setting one, which will 99% be my next quest. Don't want to reveal too much, but it'll basically be about escapees from the most secure galactic prison trying to survive getting hunted down and ostracized in a setting too big for any one person. To the three people reading these, this is some of what my mind has been vomiting so far since I found SV/SB. More later, though normal fics.
This one is probably never to see the light with what I chose for my first quest, but I was thinking about doing A Last Dragon quest first. You play as a small, but ancient dragon that gathers as many eggs as she can and travels to a remote island to raise them after being unable to stop the dragon hunts, then eventually come back. There were problems though on the setting/characters so I eventually scrapped it.
One last one before I head off to sleep. A Pokemon Champion quest, focused around doing your duties as a champion in a region, competing/negotiating with other champions and regions, and trying to establish exactly what a champion's role is politically. There's one more twist but I'll save that for later. This was one of my ideas to do first, but I held off because trying to find details on pokemon society sucked.
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