Original Fiction Ideas, Discussion & Recommendation Thread

Terthna

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By request, a thread to talk about original fiction.

Here's my idea, which prompted CarlManvers2019 to suggest this thread:
I have this outline for a story I thought of decades ago; it's about this girl who lives in a medieval fantasy world, just outside a village in the woods by herself. One day, she's gathering food in the forest, when suddenly, she wakes up back in her bed. She goes to gather food in the forest, only to wake up in her bed again. She goes into the forest a third time, stressed out and on edge, not knowing if she was awake or still asleep; this time, she hears the whistling the arrow makes as it flies through the air, before it hits its target, killing her instantly. She wakes up in bed again. She stays there this time, and by nightfall; she can just about smell the nearby village burning.
A fantasy variant of Groundhog Day? Could be good, could be bad, but you never know how people like it if you don't write and post it.
Not exactly; whenever she dies, she wakes up on that day, in that bed. As long as she stays alive, however, everything goes on as normal; if she stays alive. I'm planning on making that "if" difficult for her.

As for this question:
Ah, does this also apply if she dies of old age?
I haven't decided yet. Maybe, maybe not.
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
So the objective of this girl is to save her village from bandits or an attack by soldiers from another country or Lord? Okay, I’m gonna guess she eventually gets fighting skills and lays down lots of traps and repeats till no one in the village is hurt
 

Terthna

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So the objective of this girl is to save her village from bandits or an attack by soldiers from another country or Lord? Okay, I’m gonna guess she eventually gets fighting skills and lays down lots of traps and repeats till no one in the village is hurt
She'll try, but she'll fail. This isn't a fight she can win; there are too many of them, and they are all incredibly skilled. These aren't bandits or common soldiers; this is an extermination squad, sent to kill everyone in the village, including her. Her third life, where I ended the outline? Ends soon after they find her home.

In my original notes, I wanted much of the early plot to be about her running and hiding from these people who want to kill her, for reasons she can't even speculate on. Eventually she gets really good at stealth, and tries to actually fight back; it works somewhat at first, but eventually she realizes there are simply too many for just one person to defeat with no more than a few hours of preparation, if she intends to save the town. Especially considering the fact that she still knows next to nothing about these people attacking her home. Act one ends with her managing to catch one of the enemy alone, who happens to be the same gender as her, and has a similar build.
 

Terthna

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@Terthna
So in the end, what’s the end goal for the story outside of saving the village?
Haven't quite worked that out yet; though I'm leaning towards saving the village not being in the cards for her. At least, not until the epilogue. Act 2 was going to cover her infiltrating the organization that sent the extermination squad; but other than that, this is where my notes ended. Well, besides a few questions I still don't have the answer to, like; how does she have her powers? Can she change her respawn point somehow? Why are these guys so determined to kill everyone even associated with that village, and who are them?

I do know that I want the reader to feel like the character is trapped tiptoeing around things that, if she makes even the slightest mistake, will at best kill her in an instant; setting her back to square one.
 

trekchu

For the FEDCOM! For the Archon-Prince!
I've got an idea for a Fantasy/SciFi fusion story.

It starts out as your normal high fantasy tale, Hero finds magical Armour/sword, hero runs into bad guys putting his village to the torch, hero goes on a quest for revenge, hero begins to meet rest of party, hero finds that there's more to everything, and that the bandits were merely hired goons and the real big bad is after a magical artefact that can supposedly give him power over the entire world. Epic quest ensues, betrayal, swordfights, politics, yadda yadda.

The SciFi part comes in when the reader is slowly introduced to the idea that the world isn't quite normal (for a given value of normal in a world that seems to have magic) as for example some magic spells are acting suspiciously like common electric arcs (if insanely strong ones), that mages can't actually do magic without artefacts of their own (which in the specific case of the party mage needs recharging from something that looks suspiciously like a capacitor and a SciFiy battery), that there are magical technologies that look/function like things that would be perfectly normal for us lot (one specific example I've worked up is a magic cold spell which is pretty much an ordinary freezer) and eventually the reader discovers that they probably live on some sort of post-apocalyptic world that holds onto remnant technologies without really knowing what they are, their overall tech level being early rennaisance.

In the last third of the story it becomes full-on SciFi as they enter what is generally known by magicians and certain scholars as the shell for long-forgotten reasons through an old iron mine. Only to then discover that they live on the inside of a Dyson Sphere that random Alien superspecies #14123 built for them after accidentally wiping out earth, giving them as close to a planet-like experience (complete with resource deposits for them to mine and things like that) but that something went wrong and the humans regressed to the level that they are at. The artifact with incredible power turns out to be a storage drive of some sort that contains malware that would shut of the insanely complex systems of mirrors around the host sun that simulates a day/night cycle, roasting one half and freezing the other. Party goes back to surface, fights big bad with some seriously boosted 'magic' looted from the hull of the sphere, recovers and destroys drive, deciding that no one should know the real state of the world.

The end, more or less.


I've got enough other stuff going on right now, but it is one I'd really like to do at one point.
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Idea Title: Fighting & Killing Aren’t What I Enjoy

The protagonist is a guy who has a “Mantle” or a sort of spiritual or eldritch parasite/symbiote that decided he was the best candidate for having great fighting skills and physical power and a strong will from a young age

Thing is, that contrary to the Dual Spirit/God who is/are named Mars/Ares, he’s disgusted with fighting and killing, either of the two, even in self defense or the defense of another

All he wants to do is collect and read lots of books on his Magitek-Kindle.

Basic story is him traveling the world or the planes of existence, doing his “duty” and fighting the wars he’s told by a higher power or more powerful being with plans, need to be fought for Order’s sake
 

AndrewJTalon

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How about a family trapped in a sitcom-esque time loop where they become utter monsters due to a lack of consequences?
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Idea: A former female Marine who came back home from her tour after doing something to piss off her superior and get effectively fired in-spite of being really good at killing has a hard time properly getting a new job

She is then summoned to another world by a mysterious force. Naked.

By chance or design, she finds a magic sword stuck in a stone whilst running away from monsters which she uses to kill them.

It then gives her bikini armor which she results in her getting pissed at the perverted talking magic sword.

Rage and Embarrassment about the bikini aside, she realises/decides that this' a better alternative to job hunting and would satisfy her battlelust and chooses to travel the new world.

DC8558AD9A399DC07EBA907D0B2A3827E8804DAF


Using energy blasts, energy beams, sword beams and energy shields alongside sheer physical power she quickly gets reputation
 
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Konami2000

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Well, I have had this idea for a long time to create a story of my own using many mythologies in it. Mainly the Christian religion and the demons of it.

I have been writing the first chapter and a separate story, mainly to see what ideas to keep, reject or implement at another time. That way when writing the main story don't make any mistakes.

Any advice you have for this amateur and lazy writer?
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Well, I have had this idea for a long time to create a story of my own using many mythologies in it. Mainly the Christian religion and the demons of it.

I have been writing the first chapter and a separate story, mainly to see what ideas to keep, reject or implement at another time. That way when writing the main story don't make any mistakes.

Any advice you have for this amateur and lazy writer?

Make the Angels into Eldritch Abominations
 

Zyobot

Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
I've been contemplating writing a story called The Panarchist Network (or something like that). In line with a more obscure ideology known as 'panarchy' (or 'panarchism'), it’s centered on people choosing which of the various worlds/dimensions dominated by a certain form of political organization they favor—liberal democracy, fascism, anarchism, whatever—and being sent to their place of choice appropriately. Maybe as a caveat to prevent the denizens of certain realms from wanting to conquer others (i.e. a Nazified world planning to conduct lebensraum or a communist one plotting to export "the Revolution" beyond its bounds), people who choose to live within whatever system they've selected find themselves unable to forcibly interfere in the politics of the other worlds.

If they’re dissatisfied with the new governments they live under (or perhaps lack thereof), they’re presented with another opportunity to change their mind. I can see particularly capricious individuals changing which world they live under every so often, which is no doubt helped by the fact that everyone has unlimited opportunities to change which realm they inhabit. It may seem like too much of a ‘get out of jail free card’, yeah—and I’m willing to reconsider that element of this setting, or at least modify it so that people don’t get off the hook quite that easily—but I think it’d be rather cruel, for instance, to force some dumb, naive kid with wacky political beliefs to live under the potentially nightmarish state that’d form if they actually got their way (you can probably think of some more concrete examples of what I might be referring to here).

Of course, I also believe that writing this story as an overwhelmingly ‘everyone wins’ scenario and leaving it at that, at least in the long run, is ultimately too boring and free of the substance needed to tell an engaging story. As one possible way to ameliorate this, maybe conflict would arise over someone from Realm A accidentally winding up in Realm B. Some cases would turn out rather benign, namely someone from an American constitutionalist world winding up in one dominated by liberal-democratic monarchies modeled after the UK. Other cases, however—such as a military detachment from a global Greater Germanic Reich winding up in a world ruled by basically Ingsoc straight from 1984—would wind up far, far worse.

Another, less obvious peril could be that if the network somehow collapses and people with different ideological tastes can no longer live within their own bubbles, they won't be accustomed to mutual compromise and coexistence like we in the real world are (for the most part, that is). For that reason, a catastrophe that causes the barriers between realms to collapse and forces their diverse populations to live under one roof would cause far more fighting and disobedience of whatever authorities claw their way to the top, likely culminating in a multipolar bloodbath that makes even the World Wars look tame. Maybe you could get libertarians and Bourbon Democrats to be ideological BFFs, but getting fascists and communists to extend the olive branch—let alone to the various non-authoritarians who abhor their ideas—would likely end in a Cold War that teeters on the precipice of going hot, at best.

That's what I've thought of so far, anyway. Maybe I'll add more either here or elsewhere, depending on what else comes to mind and how set on actually writing it I feel.
 
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Pulpy adventure story.

English conquistador/knight in Spanish Imperial Service.

This story would be serialized and have lots of action, romancing, and the like.

He’d seduce Ottoman harems, and slay Aztec warrior priests, lead expeditions into China, and marry an Indian Queen.

Unabashedly imperialistic, Eurocentric, and pro male. The character would be a mix of Conan, James Bond, and Captain Kirk. A womanizer, a fighter, and an adventurer. Would not shy away from “problematic” portrayals of non Europeans or women or whatever. Basically 30s pulp style.

Who happened to flee execution in England to work for the Spanish.

Would be set in the 16th century-from 1490 to around 1600.

Maybe longer if I include mystical elements like the fountain of youth, or forms of magic.

Basically “awesome Englishmen slays barbarians and gets laid and is awesome, fuck yeah”.

Not the most intellectual or even original of ideas. But we haven’t had that sort of unabashed power fantasy in a long time.
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Pulpy adventure story.

English conquistador/knight in Spanish Imperial Service.

This story would be serialized and have lots of action, romancing, and the like.

He’d seduce Ottoman harems, and slay Aztec warrior priests, lead expeditions into China, and marry an Indian Queen.

Unabashedly imperialistic, Eurocentric, and pro male. The character would be a mix of Conan, James Bond, and Captain Kirk. A womanizer, a fighter, and an adventurer. Would not shy away from “problematic” portrayals of non Europeans or women or whatever. Basically 30s pulp style.

Who happened to flee execution in England to work for the Spanish.

Would be set in the 16th century-from 1490 to around 1600.

Maybe longer if I include mystical elements like the fountain of youth, or forms of magic.

Basically “awesome Englishmen slays barbarians and gets laid and is awesome, fuck yeah”.

Not the most intellectual or even original of ideas. But we haven’t had that sort of unabashed power fantasy in a long time.

You know, REH has a thing for his protagonists to rarely ever be in their homelands

Which explains how a Texan is adventuring in Afghanistan of all places
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
"A Netorare Story Gone Wrong"

As the guy being NTR'd turns out to be a Shoggoth or part-Shoggoth who was horribly shocked to find out what was going on

Now they are constantly on the run, waiting for who will be the next victim, they can't trust anybody or anything, the NTR Men are afraid for their lives

They can't even rest easy, knowing that the vending machine maybe the BOYFRIEND all along!!!

The remaining NTR Men a year later meet up and team up to survive

You don't get to see the NTR, this is SFW right up until the horror movie scenes occur
 
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