What makes your fiction unique?

[SouthernMaiden]

What single thing makes your fiction different.
What sets it apart from others in the genre?

It could be your prose, a worldbuilding detail, a character, something about your plot.

I want to hear what makes your writing unique. I mean we all do this because we want to put something out onto the world, right??

 

[Eldoria]

What single thing makes your fiction different.
What sets it apart from others in the genre?

The premise of my fiction is subversive:

What if the world chose to forget its savior and its sins, while the savior chose instead to protect her daughter's innocence?

That premise already shows how subversive my fiction is. It explicitly rejects the hero's journey trope. It places the mother and daughter at the emotional center of the story. It implicitly prioritizes domestic peace over world peace. Why?

Because I've read hundreds of mainstream fictions, and I'm tired of fiction that prioritizes the world over the hero's peace. I'm tired of seeing mothers merely as backdrops or victims.

I want a mother to be the center of the story. I want a mother to be a subject. I want a mother to be a subject of history.

So, I want to create fiction that let a mother tells her story and honors her.

Of course, I understand the risk of being too subversive will make fiction difficult to become popular. However, I'm more satisfied with fulfilling my artistic vision than market demands.

 

[pangmida]

Maybe... a lot of hidden Daoism in a European vampire story? Is it even possibly to be truly unique with so much content in the world now?

 

[expentio]

I guess my take on the non-human transformation genre? My protagonists are humans who turn into certain kinds of monsters. Yet at their core, they are the people they were before, without any adjustment. They need to deal with being most foreign creatures in body, as well as society. So I'm exploring that part from a more psychological angle, where the characters don't get to be adjusted to their existence.
Nothing like a vampire who instinctively is capable of draining a human, or even feel nothing about it.
I decide for rather peculiar creatures and have them struggle with coming to terms with their situation.

 

[Zinless]

My story has a great buy one get one free deal

 

[Nevafrost]

It has 4 FMC and 4 other male species as their partners (this is ragebait btw. Just trying to make someone suggest some effing good multiple MC novel for me to take inspo from hehe). And the story focuses on their journey more than the characters. It is dystopian even though I myself hate reading dystopian novels. I have a love-hate relationship with my novel.

 

[tantrayaan]

I like to write about characters in the real world. Real relationships with comedy and sometimes drama. Bad things can happen to my characters and they don't get to hand wave the issues away.

 

[Eldoria]

My story has a great buy one get one free deal

I wonder how it's possible for someone to love a gender-reversed version of themselves within a single consciousness?

I once read a Chinese fiction about a protagonist who travels through time and meets (and then falls in love with) a gender-reversed version of themselves. But that only implies two souls within the same person, not a single conscious entity.

 

[Nevafrost]

I wonder how it's possible for someone to love a gender-reversed version of themselves within a single consciousness?

I once read a Chinese fiction about a protagonist who travels through time and meets (and then falls in love with) a gender-reversed version of themselves. But that only implies two souls within the same person, not a single conscious entity.

I know I would be pretty handsome as a boy (I still am more handsome than beautiful lmao. A lot of my classmates tend to call me 'brother'. And all the doctors my mom saw told her that it would be a boy and BOOM! At midnight, everyone thought they misheard that a girl was born. So, they called in the morning to check if they heard it right lmao ). But fall in love with myself??? Nawh

 

[SouthernMaiden]

I want a mother to be the center of the story. I want a mother to be a subject. I want a mother to be a subject of history.

I really like this. Mothers are essential to every society, but are also overlooked. Quite a paradox. Love your approach.

Maybe... a lot of hidden Daoism in a European vampire story? Is it even possibly to be truly unique with so much content in the world now?

Sounds unique to me. Daoist themes in a vampire story is cool!

decide for rather peculiar creatures and have them struggle with coming to terms with their situation.

Writing a story about outsiders who have to struggle with their forms has a lot of opportunity for unique angle

My story has a great buy one get one free deal

In this day and age with the hella inflation this sounds like a good deal,!,

s. I have a love-hate relationship with my novel.

What makes you feel dissatisfied about it?

I like to write about characters in the real world. Real relationships with comedy and sometimes drama. Bad things can happen to my characters and they don't get to hand wave the issues away.

Grounded. I like it! Very difficult to pull off

 

[pangmida]

I once read a Chinese fiction about a protagonist who travels through time and meets (and then falls in love with) a gender-reversed version of themselves. But that only implies two souls within the same person, not a single conscious entity.

That is... some self love indeed!

 

[AstreiaNyx]

All my characters are hot, even the dog.

 

[SouthernMaiden]

All my characters are hot, even the dog.

???

 

[Nevafrost]

What makes you feel dissatisfied about it?

The fact that it's dystopian. I never intended to squeeze politics in my novel. Just a fluffy romance between princes and Princesses, something anyone would read with a hot cup of chocomilk, wrapped in a warm blanket. But the plot slowly diverted towards politics. The more I think about it, the more dystopian it becomes lol.
Now, I'm having so much fun writing this novel that I kinda contradict myself lol.

 

[SouthernMaiden]

That is... some self love indeed!

Selfcest.
Ashamed i know that word...

The fact that it's dystopian. I never intended to squeeze politics in my novel. Just a fluffy romance between princes and Princesses, something anyone would read with a hot cup of chocomilk, wrapped in a warm blanket. But the plot slowly diverted towards politics. The more I think about it, the more dystopian it becomes lol.
Now, I'm having so much fun writing this novel that I kinda contradict myself lol.

Sounds like you like the dystopian stuff. Its like a weird interesting emergent property of your story

 

[Ani_nerowriter]

Honestly usually I end up writing fanfics. But even so I write original works from the time to time. The fact is that Isekai (original work) is supposed to take a sort of grounded thing where instead of just falling into clichés, I wanted it to be genuinely darker.
Because rarely I seen stories with such surreal psychological things in it apart from my favourite animation. And I kind of wanted to see what I can do that since my stories are typically very dark even without smut.

Yeah that Isekai is on hiatus but I do plan some stuff for it.

 

[Naravelt]

A time-traveler hobo who turns out to have killed his own waifu hits rock bottom and becomes a slave, but later becomes an adopted dad to a broken little slave girl, all while dodging a messiah job interview from a future emperor and just trying to find a place he can call home.

But the buildup to reach that part is slow, starting around chapter 161.

 

[sodaliteskull]

Space pirate livestreamers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[ElijahRyne]

What single thing makes your fiction different.
What sets it apart from others in the genre?

It could be your prose, a worldbuilding detail, a character, something about your plot.

I want to hear what makes your writing unique. I mean we all do this because we want to put something out onto the world, right??

A lot. The most significant thing is probably the eraser or emanations.

 

[Corty]

My personality.