What's the story you would write if you were an author?

A lot of people worldbuild when they daydream and have the bones of a story kicking around in their brain, but have to pay the bills and raise the kids etc so they never flesh it out and write it down. What's your story's premise? Fantasy, sci-fi, alternate history, mystery, western, whatever genre.

Alice ,
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I will not tell lol I am working on it and really excited about it

Cryophilia OP ,

Not even a hint?

That's so cool you're actually writing it though!

Alice ,
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Ty it's a lot of genres a few are fantasy, adventure, that's all I'll say

savvywolf ,
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I have three things I want to see in a fictional world (either mine or someone else's):

  • Furries, but not in a weird "metaphor for racism" way.
  • A nice sophisticated magic system.
  • Either a mideaval fantasy or spacefaring sci-fi setting.

The current idea rattling in my head is for a game which will likely never get finished. A spaceship with a small crew gets blown off close while travelling at warp speed or whatever. The heroes need to visit a bunch of planets (and learn secrets within) to find... Elemental crystals or something, I guess, to make their way home. Not sure how I can incorporate magic into it though, or if that would just be scope creep.

Cryophilia OP ,

I once started writing a story with a "monster universe" setting but in space. Werewolves and vampires always at war with each other. Humans and animal-humanoids caught in the middle. A few eldritch horrors lurking around the void.

I did a self contained short story set in that universe, about an observation station sitting at the edge of the galaxy, monitoring for potential intergalactic information. They detect a large mass of dark matter that only became detectable when it got close enough to reflect light from our galaxy. As they observed, they realized that the string of dark matter was just a tentacle the size of a large star cluster, and they couldn't see what was on the other end. It swept close and then retracted away.

neidu2 , (edited )

I'd finish one of the stories I'd already started:

  • Sci-Fi, life on board a converted old interplanetary transport vessel, refitted for interstellar transport, on its way to join a small group of pioneers and colonize a distant planet.
  • Fantasy, centered around a crafty dwarf who has built a decent self sufficient for himself independent of the fortress, unaware that his childhood friend caught a curse and caused the fortress to succumb to the goblin invasion.
  • A more down to earth story about a struggling early twentysomething, and what sheer desperation does to a person.

...but the common denominator for all three is that I haven't quite figured out the plot yet.

Cryophilia OP ,

What is your dwarf society like?

neidu2 ,

Was*

Typical dwarvish. Very hierarchical. An industrious proud people, full of skilled craftsmen who pull their weight for the greater good of society. Due to seasonal attacks from a goblin horde nearby, they've built fortification that protect them, and during attacks the wall guards are helped by alchemists fire. Unfortunately that last step failed during the most recent attack, which was also unusual in its strength and strategy (the horde got outside help), causing the fortress to fall. While looting, the invaders opened the floodgates that had redirected the river, thus drowning any survivors except one.

Cryophilia OP ,

Shit. No other dwarven cities? No war of reprisal a la War of Dwarves and Orcs?

I played a fantasy game (on Nintendo 64!) that had a lore waaaay too ridiculously deep for itself, but part of it was that a vaguely dwarvish race had dwindled to a single city via repeated wars and pogroms from other races, and were living under the protection of one of the large human kingdoms at the time. These dwarves were also secretly harboring the last known dragon in the world, who had given magic to humans about a thousand years ago.

neidu2 ,

There are, but they're quite some distance away, and the story doesn't focus on the region as a whole.

Hobbes_Dent ,

That’s the hard part. If I had that, I’d be writing.

Alice ,
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Just TRY these. At least check them out. Also use character ai for the characters dialog

https://hf.co/chat/assistant/65e722db59ac89b2b6cd0b5b

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.cordes.pluot

Cryophilia OP ,

If you give me a genre, I'll give you a premise

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