Rejected story ideas.

[CarburetorThompson]

Do you have any story ideas that you gave up on because there wasn’t enough substance to the concept?

Just curious

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

I got one where zodiac signs are fighting each other using 'chosen' people. I find it quite weird and bad.

 

[RepresentingPride]

I've started to write one litrpg about a guy who got reincarnated as a goat, just for something like a troll (having the mc complaning to the god that he was reincarnated as a goat,etc...) and because I wanted to create a character that look like Baphomet from ragnarok online. But it doesn't sounded good after starting some draft chapters

 

[georgelee5786]

Super soldiers fighting giant monsters. Just weird

 

[dummycake]

Looking For My Little Sister In Another World

a guy reincarnates after dying together with his little sister
he's super paranoid and overanalyzes everything, also I was trying to subvert some expectations about Isekais and set up some cool things, so I got bored and a bit overwhelmed...

here's the cringe synopsis I wrote:

At the end of my life, I died while trying to protect my annoying little sister.

Yet, I couldn't do even that right. She also died, together with me.

However, it wasn't the end.

She was reincarnated in another World—a World similar to RPGs— a World with magic and swords.

Now, while overanalyzing, avoiding tropes, and learning how to navigate this World, I have to find her and protect her once again.

What a pain.

Can't we just return home and resume our normal lives?

anyone can use anything I post in this thread without permission btw, just tell me and maybe put my name in the description...

 

[BernKatstel]

I've started to write one litrpg about a guy who got reincarnated as a goat, just for something like a troll (having the mc complaning to the god that he was reincarnated as a goat,etc...) and because I wanted to create a character that look like Baphomet from ragnarok online. But it doesn't sounded good after starting some draft chapters

Isn’t something like that on RR trending rn lol?

 

[melchi]

I started making a renpy game based off of an artists blog posts about trying to make it as an artist. Looking back, I think that might be kinda creepy stalker territory.

 

[RepresentingPride]

Isn’t something like that on RR trending rn lol?

I've seen one, but I don't think it's on trending. I've seen one here too.

But I didn't read any of them so I don't know what they talking about, just they are litrpg.

In the one I wanted to write, I've prepared some kind of racial evolution. He also get captured and contracted by a summoner in the beginning

 

[CarburetorThompson]

I had an idea for a short story based on the jeweler who cuts magic gems and makes it into items for the heroes/typical fantasy mc’s to use. It was a fun idea but I couldn’t think of any real underlying conflict that could move the plot forward in a way that related to the core concept

 

[l8rose]

Hoo boy....

I have a few ideas that I scrapped but I think the worst one was my attempt to write the life story of two semi-immortal villains. One was a lycanthrope bear (cave bear) and the other was a Sami vampire. They had severe codependency issues, the tendency to either molest or murder their way through everything. I mean, their way of deciding what they were going to do one evening was to "wishbone" a random stranger and whoever got the larger chunk got to decide. I think I got about 3/4s of the way through my first planned chapter and then got too squicked out to continue. It also felt like anyone who would read the story would also need to see a therapist.

A little outside the realm of just writing but there was also a game I wrote that was supposed to be a horror-suspense thing about two siblings going off on a trip. I ran out of time to finish it as it was for a Game Jam but it basically played out that the sister falls from a ledge and begins trying to get back to their brother. Only, she was a ghost stuck in a loop (including looping maps that changed each time the character went through them). I went back to finish it later but realized I had no other premise than that. Just... dead sibling and that was it. I had zero thoughts (or notes) of where to go with it. I did have a fun mechanic though where the PC's clothing slowly went from blue to red as things got worse (which I totally stole from the Silent Hill movie).

 

[Azhurie_Mythephan]

A story about a god who looks away from his world for about 5 seconds, and a fucking dumbass construction worker throws a coffee cake into a distortion in reality, killing the entire population and destroying half of the galaxy. He goes on a very long vacation afterwards.

 

[John_Owl]

so... freaking... many... ADHD and I've been writing under different alias' for going on 13 years, so...

 

[2wordsperminute]

Tried to make a broccoli dating sim. Soon after, I lost any motivation to continue it.

 

[GabrielTenma]

Sometimes my mind just says why not when coming up with ideas at times.

I've forgotten any really bad ideas I've had. The only one that stuck with me was one where a guy's ability was walking, with no Isekai leveling system or anything.

Just straight walking because of a disability that makes it so he can't run. He gets into dumb situations where people always hype up his walking, similar to king from One Punch Man.

OP Villain: "My acid that can melt through diamonds with a touch! How is this man walking through it unharmed!"

"Only a rare material that's been lost for 1000s of years can stop this ancient ability of mine! He's too strong!"

Mc : 'My ass is so god damn broke! I legit only got shoes because I found what I got on in a dumpster."

*Mc Walks past OP Villain and OP Villain faints*

'What's wrong with that guy?'

 

[Gryphon]

There are a few I give up on. Not for the lack of ideas I have, in fact I have a few. The issue it that they're among the lower priority of ones I would work on.

For instance, a story idea I had years ago was a mother kidnapping her daughter from her foster home while they run from superpowered government officials trying to kill not only the mother but also the daughter. I came up with around a trilogy of ideas for it, including the ending. It's just when I have other things I'm working on, it end up lower on the totem pole.

I mean, their way of deciding what they were going to do one evening was to "wishbone" a random stranger and whoever got the larger chunk got to decide.

That's unironically a really great way to introduce a big time antagonist. I would love to read stories like that which don't hold back. As long as there's substance to the brutality though, like Berserk.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I never give up. I just have priorities, and my first priority is three years old.

 

[NotaNuffian]

I wanted to write a story that had MC being dragged by everybody else's plots and schemes. A literal nobody who is like a pathetic leaf blown in the wind.

Hence the smiling tosser in my signature,

Then I discover something.

I am a shit writer who is boring and can only birth boring things.

The only conflict is that people are bastards. The major problem is that my MC is flat like jpeg.

When everyone in the written work is an asshole, nobody is.

 

[fluffypie374]

Oh I actually got some I really, really wanted to read, so I threw this out on webnovel in hopes of seeing somebody write it for me: Novel ideas

 

[ElijahRyne]

Do you have any story ideas that you gave up on because there wasn’t enough substance to the concept?

Just curious

A god of contracts creating a city state in a world similar to Mesopotamian myth. Contract magic, stealing authority from other gods, etc. etc.

A slasher where… actually that is about as far as I got, I had a couple of scenes planed but I have forgotten them now…

Man is isekaied as a book, in a world carved out from the inside of a dead god’s eye. The book when opened will give its reader the most important knowledge to it. (more like I hit a wall on this one instead of giving up on it.)

A world creation story, similar to One Planet for Everyone! Building Science and Technology Civilization at the Beginning.

A story about how the ubiquitous litRPG system was created by a group of gods to limit and control the power of a planes inhabitants. And how the people of the plane come together to try and topple it. (This feels more like a story arc or two, instead of a full idea.)

 

[Corty]

A story about ghost and demon hunting with SCP-like adventures.

It pulled no views... but now I want to remake it. A third time.