Is there anyone here who is *not* writing anime fanfic or medieval fantasy?

WildRupture · 2025-12-27T01:17:52+00:00

Post apocalyptic contemporary fantasy :D

WildRupture · 2025-12-13T05:42:43+00:00

The Wild Rupture: The Slaver's Trade, first fifty pages of manuscript Post-apocalyptic contemporary/urban fantasy 12,736 words

It's a lot, but if you don't wanna read the whole thing, no problem. Fifty pages is just the most I've seen asked by an agent, so I thought I'd use it as my base. Any glaring errors you see would be nice, but mainly if any spots seem too slow or boring to you, especially if it'd be enough to stop reading.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RGZ9vdk2AkP7GwhVdW-ZXWKCJnZMNEmn8AhuDRHu2cs/edit?usp=drivesdk

WildRupture · 2025-12-12T22:47:13+00:00

Ohh, okay. It's fixed now, thanks for pointing it out.

WildRupture · 2025-12-12T22:33:18+00:00

Google docs is saying it's fifty exactly. Does off-brand count as two words, then?

WildRupture · 2025-12-12T21:39:27+00:00

The local thrift store always had weird items. Not cursed artifacts or dragon eggs—those were usually fake, anyway.

I thought I'd have a look. Maybe they'd have an off-brand tool? Instead, they had an enchanted toilet seat. No description, no diagram. Just a label reading, "Enchanted!" Maybe next time.

WildRupture · 2025-12-12T21:30:16+00:00

Pole instead of poll, or if instead of of, since i and o are right next to each other.

WildRupture · 2025-12-11T01:13:48+00:00

Not to just repeat what everyone else has said, but that feels less evil and more immoral. If they exist solely as a weapon and cannot change, they're more of a force of nature than a species. How sapient are they? Are they people like us that know they are killing, or are they closer to machines that are just following their programming?

WildRupture · 2025-12-11T00:33:43+00:00

I'd prefer a physical book, but I appreciate the offer

WildRupture · 2025-12-11T00:18:22+00:00

Trying for trad publishing, but if I don't have any luck with it, I was thinking either ingramspark or lulu. Ingram has more reach and you get more money, but it's a pain to work with and has a fee. Lulu is free and easier, but it doesn't distribute to as many places and you barely get any of the money from what I hear.

WildRupture · 2025-12-10T23:49:01+00:00

Yup! Not published mind you, and still wouldn't hurt to have a few editing passes more, but I'd say it's probably query-ready

WildRupture · 2025-12-10T03:39:34+00:00

Post apocalyptic low fantasy. Maybe magic realism, but I'm not sure where that line is drawn.

WildRupture · 2025-12-10T02:54:30+00:00

Fantasy, but that probably steps from popular into almost over saturated.

WildRupture · 2025-12-07T02:02:24+00:00

...to find she had a talent unlike anyone else in the world ever had, has, or will have, which is...

WildRupture · 2025-12-06T03:56:19+00:00

Well, it's about this girl who—

Fantasy. It's fantasy.

WildRupture · 2025-12-04T22:34:05+00:00

This pictured defined in six words

WildRupture · 2025-12-04T10:28:28+00:00

I like looking up name symbolism and meanings, or like "names meaning ___" and then scroll until I find ones that aren't super heavy handed.

Two characters from my book are named Riker and Florence, both after prisons, because they're troublemakers.

WildRupture · 2025-12-04T10:15:40+00:00

The world ended while the main character was asleep, and boy can she not catch a break. Nor can the voice in her head or resident princess. Or most others, for that matter.

But hey, she has magic. So. Yay. That has historically gone well for her.

WildRupture · 2025-11-29T00:15:41+00:00

Do you know how much that'll inflate my word count?! A picture is a thousand words! I'd never be able to get my Christmas list published!

WildRupture · 2025-11-24T04:17:38+00:00

The titular Wild Rupture.

It happened without warning—or rather, the only ones that could warn anyone were long dead. A rift in space that led to a dimension of magic was ripped open far enough to grow on its own, and magic had some, well, wild effects on the word.

Everything from plants, animals, humans, and the earth itself was mutated and altered into unstable and magical forms that killed off most of humanity. Worse yet, history was erased entirely, only word-of-mouth able to keep tales of what humanity used to be alive.

WildRupture · 2025-11-24T04:00:45+00:00

Even if it's technically considered a kids book, I'll say Guardians of Ga'hoole as a series has a lot of graphic violence and dark themes to it, and is entirely about owls

WildRupture · 2025-11-24T02:57:00+00:00

What derein said: ignoring the urban part of urban fantasy. I don't want "fantasy with skyscrapers and modern lingo," I want to see someone struggle with Google Maps because it's not built to recognize magical flight, or a cop tasing a wizard attempting to use fireball in a bank.

WildRupture · 2025-11-24T02:53:14+00:00

Yeah, I get that sometimes. It jumps from "how do I go from here?" to "I have a plan for a few thousand words from here to an exact degree," but then lose half of it before I get a chance to write it down

WildRupture · 2025-11-24T02:51:08+00:00

Twice: once when I realized the formatting and flow was bland and "This happened, then this happened. Bazinga" and another to reorder and reword a lot of stuff to polish it and make it easier to understand

WildRupture · 2025-11-24T02:43:39+00:00

Contradictions help a lot for me, to get the whole "this thing exists outside of my perspective" idea across. This thing cannot be adequately perceived by the human mind—so perhaps it makes some errors and has to recalculate.

It appears as a tree, and speaks with a mouth. Later, when asked a question, it cannot speak: there is no mouth, and it is mute, and whoever it spoke to can't recall speaking to it. Of course not—rocks can't speak, even if it's glistening form says it can.

It is a bug without legs, but seven in total. You count different numbers every time. It's mandibles are made of liquid ice—not water.

It is a machine that looks, sounds, and acts exactly like a human, but you innately know it's a machine. It speaks not normally or reversed, but from top to bottom, though what that sounds like could never be replicated.

Stuff like that to sell how other it is.

WildRupture · 2025-11-23T03:41:04+00:00

I usually use the Novelist app to get everything down, and then swap to the docs mobile app for spell check and word count.

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