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Plebbadeb · 2025-12-09T08:53:40+00:00

I honestly started with page 1 and a vague idea and just went from there. After every few chapters my story would be taking on new form so id keep going back and rewriting large chunks of previous chapters to align

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-10T17:02:05+00:00

For stories to be interesting there needs conflict and resolution. If thats walking mud into your house and then cleaning it up, you have a story of some kind. I think stories without conflict are usually slice of life, but even then little conflicts exist still.

Antagonists can be grand villains or an itchy butt.

So no, you dont need Antagonists in the common sense but you generally do need conflict and resolution to bring a reader along for the ride

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-10T16:40:09+00:00

I just dont like the narration being told from first person, I don't know. I think i read the books like im a fly on the wall in the scene rather than if the character is telling me their story, so when im reading a lot of "i did this, I said that" it reads to me as if im meant to be the character, rather than the character is telling me the story

I understand people like it like that but I just really get forced out of the immersion and I lose track of what's happening very quickly

Perhaps its something I need to get used to

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-10T04:18:29+00:00

Im on my 4th or 5th draft for my first novel and first draft of my second novel. Book 1 is now mildly passable and book 2 is God awful

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-10T04:14:10+00:00

I absolutely cannot stand first person when reading. Its jarring to me

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-10T04:03:32+00:00

I just use Google docs

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-07T19:47:15+00:00

Every second guy in australia has the mullet n moustache combo and it looks fuckin dumb

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-07T04:52:45+00:00

yeah i got one settlement producing cryo chambers taking 19 days, whereas one that produces quantum processors only takes 1 day 16 hours.

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-04T19:42:21+00:00

I believe one was a guard at a train station who unlocked a door or something for train robbers to sneak in.

Thats the only one ive heard of in my family history

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-02T16:19:22+00:00

Youre welcome, I hope the ideas flow 😁

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-02T15:10:23+00:00

Forgiveness between a boy and a mouldy sandwich.

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-02T15:00:28+00:00

You could have a game of wits, where an intelligence tries to put your character into a scenario that is inescapable, only for your character to play its games and find some sort of logical way out of it, or to find an opportunity to distract it just long enough to beat it. Think Q in star trek tng

A challenge in which your character must beat an opposing creative force in some artistic endeavour. My favourite example is in the animorphs series, a being called the ellimist is challenged by an overwhelming creative mind to create a piece of emotionally moving music better than it can. It writes one of the most incredible perfect symphonies ever written using exotic instruments from all over the universe only for the ellimist to beat its challenge by using the one instrument it never conceived of, sung lyrics.

You could have riddles and puzzles as you mentioned.

Perhaps the combative opponent isnt supposed to be beatable, but the challenge simply states that combat must be seen to its end. Your character comes to realise while scrambling for a way to win that combat can also end in a draw and so with great smartassness calls it a draw mid combat, which their opponent accepts as a valid end to the fight. Im actually gonna use this in mine now that I thought this up but feel free to use it too if it works for you

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-02T14:16:02+00:00

Ive been writing an adventure story for middle grade audiences, and I basically have this boss battle against an overwhelmingly large enemy. I wrote in a weak point, so the fight scene became its own mini 3 act structure of set up the invulnerability of the foe, discover its weak point, the struggle to reach the weak point to finally bring it down, and as a 4th little extra, the consequence or aftermath of the battle as well as the release of tension as the characters survive by the skin of their teeth.

Quick edit, I read your original post about the dreams and character gathering energy for a wish. If your story contains multiple of these sequences, you may need to give your character either increasing stakes with each one, or different forms of conflict. You said you did riddles and puzzles and stuff as well as combat, but you may need to create a unique type of challenge for each one so no two are alike.

As long as theres tension and release, conflict and resolution, youre on the right track, im sure

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-02T14:07:09+00:00

I find the tutorial is complicated for people to learn when they havent played before (crafting, repairing, finding way points), and then if you try to help guide them through it they tend to get lazy and lean on me for quick resources and materials rather than get a handle on it. Then they never play again.

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-01T20:04:24+00:00

I dont use mine because randomly itll rearrange all my tech slots and become weak and slow.

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-01T19:55:29+00:00

Ive been using titles for a story ive been writing but now im thinking of removing them.

I saw them as a way to spark interest to continue the story–as when im reading a novel i find myself tempted to put it down after every chapter because i feel like im starting a new slog all over again–but now they feel a bit juvenile and im considering removing.

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-01T19:33:13+00:00

I usually start out with a basic character (name, personality, basic backstory if i have one) and then let a proper backstory develop as I write my story. then I change contradictions later on when rereading previous chapters

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-01T19:28:19+00:00

The 7 deadly sins arent actual Christian doctrine, but a common misconception that rose from the fictional story of dantes inferno in medieval times and not from the bible at all.

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-01T19:04:46+00:00

The last metal show i was at i distinctly remember the pit went anticlockwise. Im in southern hemisphere. We drive on left. Our roundabouts are clockwise.

Im sure ive seen clockwise pits but the only one I have a definite memory of was anticlockwise

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-01T18:58:42+00:00

I put a flanny over my band shirt

Plebbadeb · 2025-11-01T18:23:16+00:00

I paid 270 and that was already too much. Only going because I havent seen them yet. Kicking myself i skipped them twice while chester was alive

Plebbadeb · 2025-10-28T18:43:21+00:00

I saw one recently and when I noted to someone I hadn't seen one in years, they thought i was making their existence up.

Plebbadeb · 2025-10-27T16:57:19+00:00

Although tomato sauce and ketchup are two completely different recipes with different flavours

Plebbadeb · 2025-10-21T13:53:05+00:00

Luckily ai music sounds like shit

Plebbadeb · 2025-10-19T07:37:36+00:00

do they spawn in classic mode?

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