You are a young bounty hunter payed to deal with this mess, alone, independent. What do you do? 🌌

Starting idea: After rapid expansion into space to win the great earth war, the newly formed United earth federation grows with vigor 💫. But resistance in the outer rim of the system became lucrative for some outcasts.

My idea for a start:

The young mage apprentice Gustavo faces a challenge. He lived inside the college and walked across one of the empty hallways. But there he encounters a beast of old legends: A frost troll. Why? Who left it stroll freely across the campus? No matter; It is aggressive and he will need to defeat it. The problem: he is a specialized ice mage and trolls are resistant to frost.

You can go in a different direction using the heading if you want.

You've made it to Hero High, the high school tailored to students with superpowers. Your super strength makes you a target of recruitment for pretty much every sports team, and otherwise garners a lot of attention.

What everyone else doesn't know is that your strength isn't your superpower--you just work out a lot. You do have a real superpower, but it's something completely different...

Please tell me if you think this would be useful for you.

I'm working on a story plotting app which focuses on value changes as the basis of the app. For each section of the story (beat, chapter, act) there are value changes (characters getting closer or further from some goal, threat, or other value). And I want to visualise these changes on a graph, so you can see how everybody's fortunes rise and fall.

There will still be the standard components, something similar to index cards to plot out the actual action of each chapter and beat. But the unique addition that I'm bringing here is you can see everybody's changes of fortune, like watching the stock market, or maybe like reading music.

It will be a desktop application (written in python and JavaScript).

So, does anybody think this would be useful to your writing? Are there other things you might want to see added to such a piece of software?

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1752885

From the article:

1. There are a lot of stories already out there, but there can never be too many of YOUR stories out there.

2. Being unique isn’t about telling a story that has never been told, it is about telling a story from a perspective people can both relate to and learn from.

3. No one writes like you write. You may have a style inspired by other writers and stories you love, but there is only one you, and only one voice through which the stories you write are told.

4. If you are thinking about giving up because of something someone else did or said (or didn’t say or didn’t do), take some time to consider your choice. No one technically has the right to tell you which dream you can and cannot follow, and anyone who tries is just not nice.

5. One bad day is not enough of a reason to give up. Not two bad days or two bad weeks or two bad years, either. Life is rough, and it’s tough to handle. But that does not mean you have to stop writing — or that, if you do, your hiatus has to last forever.

6. Just because multiple people aren’t constantly praising you for your work does not mean you aren’t doing good work. Much of the work you will do as a writer will go unnoticed by the masses. This is the way of things. Keep doing good work.

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(More of the article in the link up-top.)

My thoughts:

Tbh, I might give my writing a backseat.

I'm doing too many things as it is and I want to do less and just focus on what I want to do (and not what I feel I have to do).

Plus, what I excel at so far will pay dividends down the road; I don't know if I'm ready to write a novel or not.

Not my own idea, but one of the writing prompts from the "other site" that I immensely enjoyed. ;)

Earth sends its most distinguished diplomat to make a good impression. Then the alien representative introduces himself - Biggus Dickus.

Dead people came back alive and were sitting in rows. The rows were younger variant of Jesus Christ, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and many, many more.

The school is filled with students, the most important figures from history from two thousand years ago up until recently were all here.

You came into that class you were assigned into with a teacher, she told you to introduce yourself to the class...

Humanity has discovered FTL travel. All trips in the direction of the galactic core vanish without a trace. Plotting the disappearances reveals two things:

1. They outline a sphere.
2. The sphere is expanding at the speed of light.

Bonus points if you don't do something like "the main character considered themselves the hero and the story is narrated from their perspective"