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Okay, so these are the ideas that best fit the "story" category (some of the other ideas I have are better suited to personal ocs). Please give honest opinions, I'm always open to questions and constructive criticism and like I said, these are just vague beginnings of more complex stories

•(All credits for this idea go to my subconcious for giving me this in a dream ) There was a man whose selfish desires caused him to use a risky form of magic in order to make himself wealthy (or something like that, I feel like just wanting to be wealthy is a pretty dull motive) but ended up destroying 99% of the population (and radiation from the destruction caused certain animals to become violent and toxic). Our story follows an excellent survivalist (he'll have a really cool personality too :3) who wanders the earth looking for that 1% of survivors so they can help defend each other in a dangerous world. In the end I want him to create a team of really diverse characters who compliment each other really well and are fun to watch. Definitely a feel-good concept even though there's danger involved, I don't want it to be heavy

• This one's so vague but sounds cute. It's about a world hero who is the strongest, most powerful person on earth. Everyone thinks he's really tough until he falls in love with someone and becomes a complete softie (feels like a common trope, but would hopefully be endearing enough that it could gain traction)

• This one's really hard to explain, but I'll try. It's about an ordinary man (literally as plain as they come) in a bounty hunter world who falls for the most expensive and most wanted bounty on earth (an innocent but ethereal woman who is extremely valuable for unknown reasons) and becomes obsessed with protecting her at all costs. He goes from being a dull businessman to one of the most powerful men on earth just so he can keep her safe (lots of emphasis on character development in this one, whether good or bad. I have a really hard time explaining how it looks in my head, it's so much cooler there I swear )

• And then of course we have the story about the kid and his abusive dad.

So those are the best of my stories that fit the manga format, I also have a concept that would work very well in novel form, but I'm not a good writer, so Hawk, if you like this idea, feel free to play with it cuz you're awesome at writing

• This one is about an eccentric, secluded (and most definitely demented) man who has the ability to create mechanic human replicas of some sort (don't know how he does it). He has made so many of them, but every single one has failed. Nevertheless, he continues to make more one at a time, each one thinking they are the first and having no idea they are not real humans. The story would be viewed from the perspective of the most recent replica, and they will explore their seemingly normal life until they start finding clues and evidence of the man's sinister past and the replicas that came before them. Kind of a slow-burn horror story that has many holes at the moment

The replica story reminds me of a novella I once read about a woman who has a fatal disease and allows herself to be cloned for her husband’s sake. I’ll see if I can dig up the author and title.

Yeah I really like the first one I think that’s a great start and you could build a pretty deep story around it

Ugh Row that just sucks I hate when movie experiences get ruined because of the people and not the movie it happens so much

I'm back sorry about the experience Row. Hope you have a better time next time

電気のデザート は 04月5日, 14:47に

Yeah I really like the first one I think that’s a great start and you could build a pretty deep story around it

と言いました。

Yes, I absolutely agree any ideas? Changes? Comments in general?

Imo, it’s easier to create a story after you have a bunch of lore, so what I like to do is overthink everything. That means find some logical reason for every question someone might have. So here’s some questions that might give you some lore: what kind of magic was he using? what was he trying to do with it? How did he find out about it? How did it destroy the population? Is the survivalist wandering by himself? How does he know there are other people?

You know, that kind of thing

(You don’t have to answer all of those, js giving examples)

I feel like writing lore before the plot has always ended up disastrous for me in the past

Loooore

Well, that's how I used to do it but like, a few years ago I had this one world I would think about all the time, and it started with a pretty straightforward plot but that part was kind of my counterstory to a book I read, but after I really started building everything I realized the characters were useless for their original roles, and then I realized that I no longer knew who the main character was or what the central plotline was, so I reluctantly threw it in the mental trash bin.

Then I started thinking of a different one and I was really confident because I had an established main character and even the start of the plot, but overtime I got really carried away and came up with a bunch of dramatic backstories for all the characters, and then it turned into backstories of backstory characters, and even worse, I was thinking of a bunch of alternate plotlines (which I had done with the last one too but back then I didn't even realize what a sticky trap it was). So even more reluctantly, I have thrown that one in the mental trash bin too.

As you can see, my story issues have just been evolving...