It's all so tiresome

[Suchende558]

The absolute amount of reincarnation stories is insane.

Reincarnated as an [x], reincarnated in [x],Reborn witha system! Reborn as an OP goddess of cultivation! Reborn as a loli! reborn as a futa with a harem of pretty girls! Reborn AS THE NEW LEADER OF THE THIRD REICH?!

It's all so boring.

I get it i am kinda being a dickhead for being the fun police but dear mother of God i feel the need to rewrite my entire idea now that i see the amount of the same shit over and over and over

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Do it.

 

[greyblob]

this is nothing new, and will not stop any time soon. if you're trying to be unique go ahead

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Do what you want. No one is going to able to stop you.

 

[Syringe]

I mean, reincarnation stuff is super popular and it's been like this for a very long while now. Besides, this isn't a professional writing hub. Reincarnation stuff is adoptable by even beginner/first time writers. Additionally:

- People write it as a wish fulfilment (not always!)
- Is a fun genre to write period.
- Easy to consume.
- You immediately know what you're getting into from the title alone.

Honestly, if you can't beat them, join them.

 

[Corty]

I wrote one. People liked it. Everyone was happy. The End. So… what is your problem? I didn’t get it. Just write one that people can enjoy.

 

[LunaSoltaer]

So i was blabbing about looking in a trend from outside it, and then i reread the OP.

My two cents of practical frigging whining amounts to this:

We are beyond the age where anything realistically new can happen. Like, almost if not every setpiece, location, game mechanic, isekai excuse, you name it? Someone has done it.

And there a Trope or something called Shakespeare Did It First.

Yeah age of originality is dead. Where we're at, is the Age of Remix.

We take existing conventions, and set them together to create a scene that hopefully has never been shown before, or if it has, we decorate it with our own voice to create something new.

If you want to quickly become unique in a regard, try to play with the convention a bit. For example, in a thread about System Or No System I suggested an idea of having someone fail to jump over a small gap because their jump skill is bad, never mind that they could clear the gap in a hearty sprint, let alone an actual hellsdamn jump.

I haven't seen stuff like that be done, but then again I haven't been looking, and it gives me so so many ideas. (im keeping the main one im ideating about to myself so i dont get called a copycat when i eventually do write it cause i inspired someone else first. This post is also proof of concept)

If you want, you can.... reincarnate as yourself. with exactly the body you died in. And everything. (well okay maybe without the injury or illness that killed you but ..)

 

[pynkbites]

I keep seeing that "Reich" story hit trending and I'm like... ?

 

[TheEldritchGod]

The absolute amount of reincarnation stories is insane.

Reincarnated as an [x], reincarnated in [x],Reborn witha system! Reborn as an OP goddess of cultivation! Reborn as a loli! reborn as a futa with a harem of pretty girls! Reborn AS THE NEW LEADER OF THE THIRD REICH?!

It's all so boring.

I get it i am kinda being a dickhead for being the fun police but dear mother of God i feel the need to rewrite my entire idea now that i see the amount of the same shit over and over and over

I'm getting tired of people telling me they are getting tired.

LISTEN UP, WELP.

This shit isn't new. ALL OF THIS happened before. The internet only made it more common. Dear GOD, I remember going to my library and saying, I'm gonna start here at A and read to Z. Why? Speed reader. I just read fast. Your average book took me a day.

The overt sexuality is new, but otherwise, the story is the same. LitRPG is a bit new, but the story is the same.

Picks something. ANYTHING. It's been done.

How to be a wizard. The MC finds a book in a library about how to be a wizard and becomes a wizard. I mean, Jesus fuck, you think THE SHIT on SH is lame? YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING UNTIL YOU READ THE FICTION OF 1970's AMERICA.

Penny dreadfuls used to refer to stories you could buy to read that were a penny, and they were DREADFUL.

Your idea, whatever it is, has been done before. Not only has it been done before, but I bet the Simpsons did it as well.

The question isn't, is your story old? It's a good story people want to read, it's been done before. Making something different doesn't
mean it's worth reading. Don't write something new. Anyone can write something new.

Here.

Melfum was a turnip. He could shoot spaghetti out of his nose. Santa asked him to have sex with his wife. The End.

It's "NEW", but would you want to actually read 350 pages of this?

You wanna be a real writer? A REAL WRITER? Here's what you do...

You start BASIC. You write something that has been told a thousand times. Write Little Red Riding Hood, seriously. Not as a joke, but SERIOUSLY and you make it compelling and interesting. BECAUSE IT IS POSSIBLE. I've read basically a retelling of the story, not updated for modern audiences, but as a goddamn horror story. AND IT SCARED THE FUCK OUT OF ME.

And it was basically... A girl going to see her grandma.

Your story has been done before? YES. It has. So WRITE IT. And FAIL or SUCCEED. But you do it because THAT IS HOW YOU GET BETTER.

Right now, I'm writing a very ambitious story. It involves time travel and the multiverse. Any writer will tell you, DON'T INCLUDE TIME TRAVEL OR THE MULTIVERSE. Why? It ruins the stakes. No stakes, no story. Very few time travel stories have been done well. Guess what? I'm writing it anyways. You know why? BECAUSE IF I DON'T, HOW WILL I EVER KNOW MY LIMITATIONS?

You wanna give up on your story because it's been written by other people. Why? It's TOO HARD. You can't write it because IT IS TOO DIFFICULT TO WRITE A GOOD STORY IN A CROWDED FIELD.

Loser.

You lost. You gave up. You failed. You'll never be one of the greats.

And that's fine.

Not everyone is going to be one of the greats. Not everyone is going to be Stephen Fuckin' King. I'm never gonna be. I'm most likely gonna fuck up my story. You know what? I'd hate myself even more if I didn't try. Because when I've finished it, I can go, "I learned from that. I'm much better writer for biting off more than I can chew and failing."

But I'm going to FAIL. You? You're gonna give up. You are going to walk away and use this excuse to just abandon your story because
IT. IS. TOO. HARD.

You wanna admit you CAN'T do it, that's fine. I've abandoned stories by admitting I failed. I have never quit a story because it was too hard. They are all too hard. Writing is Effort. Writing SUCKS. Writing is PAIN. You will NEVER get as much fun out of writing as you put in.

Hey, guess what? You know those guys with the ripped abs and the body like a greek god? They SUFFERED for those bodies. None of them got that way by doing the EASY THING. You want your dopamine hit, there are much better choices then being a writer. You wanna be a good writer.

LEARN YOUR LIMITS.

You learn your limits by exceeding them and FAILING.

You do not learn your limits by GIVING UP.

Now did you FAIL to write the story because you CAN'T...
or
Are you just giving up because it's too hard?

Don't answer.

I don't care. The answer doesn't matter to anyone but you. There is nobody to impress. There is nobody to convince. Pretending to be a writer and claiming to achieve things you didn't won't impress anyone or help you. You don't need to change my mind about you. I will forget this post as soon as I hit Post Reply.

YOU need to know the answer because the answer is important to you. IS THIS A LIMIT?

Or are you just lazy?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I'm getting tired of people telling me they are getting tired.

LISTEN UP, WELP.

This shit isn't new. ALL OF THIS happened before. The internet only made it more common. Dear GOD, I remember going to my library and saying, I'm gonna start here at A and read to Z. Why? Speed reader. I just read fast. Your average book took me a day.

The overt sexuality is new, but otherwise, the story is the same. LitRPG is a bit new, but the story is the same.

Picks something. ANYTHING. It's been done.

How to be a wizard. The MC finds a book in a library about how to be a wizard and becomes a wizard. I mean, Jesus fuck, you think THE SHIT on SH is lame? YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING UNTIL YOU READ THE FICTION OF 1970's AMERICA.

Penny dreadfuls used to refer to stories you could buy to read that were a penny, and they were DREADFUL.

Your idea, whatever it is, has been done before. Not only has it been done before, but I bet the Simpsons did it as well.

The question isn't, is your story old? It's a good story people want to read, it's been done before. Making something different doesn't
mean it's worth reading. Don't write something new. Anyone can write something new.

Here.

Melfum was a turnip. He could shoot spaghetti out of his nose. Santa asked him to have sex with his wife. The End.

It's "NEW", but would you want to actually read 350 pages of this?

You wanna be a real writer? A REAL WRITER? Here's what you do...

You start BASIC. You write something that has been told a thousand times. Write Little Red Riding Hood, seriously. Not as a joke, but SERIOUSLY and you make it compelling and interesting. BECAUSE IT IS POSSIBLE. I've read basically a retelling of the story, not updated for modern audiences, but as a goddamn horror story. AND IT SCARED THE FUCK OUT OF ME.

And it was basically... A girl going to see her grandma.

Your story has been done before? YES. It has. So WRITE IT. And FAIL or SUCCEED. But you do it because THAT IS HOW YOU GET BETTER.

Right now, I'm writing a very ambitious story. It involves time travel and the multiverse. Any writer will tell you, DON'T INCLUDE TIME TRAVEL OR THE MULTIVERSE. Why? It ruins the stakes. No stakes, no story. Very few time travel stories have been done well. Guess what? I'm writing it anyways. You know why? BECAUSE IF I DON'T, HOW WILL I EVER KNOW MY LIMITATIONS?

You wanna give up on your story because it's been written by other people. Why? It's TOO HARD. You can't write it because IT IS TOO DIFFICULT TO WRITE A GOOD STORY IN A CROWDED FIELD.

Loser.

You lost. You gave up. You failed. You'll never be one of the greats.

And that's fine.

Not everyone is going to be one of the greats. Not everyone is going to be Stephen Fuckin' King. I'm never gonna be. I'm most likely gonna fuck up my story. You know what? I'd hate myself even more if I didn't try. Because when I've finished it, I can go, "I learned from that. I'm much better writer for biting off more than I can chew and failing."

But I'm going to FAIL. You? You're gonna give up. You are going to walk away and use this excuse to just abandon your story because
IT. IS. TOO. HARD.

You wanna admit you CAN'T do it, that's fine. I've abandoned stories by admitting I failed. I have never quit a story because it was too hard. They are all too hard. Writing is Effort. Writing SUCKS. Writing is PAIN. You will NEVER get as much fun out of writing as you put in.

Hey, guess what? You know those guys with the ripped abs and the body like a greek god? They SUFFERED for those bodies. None of them got that way by doing the EASY THING. You want your dopamine hit, there are much better choices then being a writer. You wanna be a good writer.

LEARN YOUR LIMITS.

You learn your limits by exceeding them and FAILING.

You do not learn your limits by GIVING UP.

Now did you FAIL to write the story because you CAN'T...
or
Are you just giving up because it's too hard?

Don't answer.

I don't care. The answer doesn't matter to anyone but you. There is nobody to impress. There is nobody to convince. Pretending to be a writer and claiming to achieve things you didn't won't impress anyone or help you. You don't need to change my mind about you. I will forget this post as soon as I hit Post Reply.

YOU need to know the answer because the answer is important to you. IS THIS A LIMIT?

Or are you just lazy?

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Well, It's quite simple...

You know that story the OP is shitting on? I'm writing it. Right now. You wanna shit on my story? You go right ahead, But I'm gonna tell you my opinion of your opinion right back at you.

Like I said in the very first line:
I'm getting tired of people telling me they are getting tired.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Well, It's quite simple...

You know that story the OP is shitting on? I'm writing it. Right now. You wanna shit on my story? You go right ahead, But I'm gonna tell you my opinion of your opinion right back at you.

Like I said in the very first line:
I'm getting tired of people telling me they are getting tired.

 

[melchi]

Melfum was a turnip. He could shoot spaghetti out of his nose. Santa asked him to have sex with his wife. The End.

It's "NEW", but would you want to actually read 350 pages of this?

Some kind of vegitales doushinji? How is that new?

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Reborn as a Used Condom in the Evidence Locker Under the Bridge in the City Where Trolls Don’t Live Under Bridges but Unicorns Masturbate With Used Snack Wrappers

 

[melchi]

Turnip nose noodle santa attack!

 

[Lloyd]

I want to try that last one.

 

[KrakenRiderEmma]

wow, now I really want to read that story about the turnip who shoots spaghetti out of his nose and cucks Santa, but I’ll take batshit original and hard to read any day over “done before but written well”

 

[georgelee5786]

Oof

 

[T.K._Paradox]

So i was blabbing about looking in a trend from outside it, and then i reread the OP.

My two cents of practical frigging whining amounts to this:

We are beyond the age where anything realistically new can happen. Like, almost if not every setpiece, location, game mechanic, isekai excuse, you name it? Someone has done it.

And there a Trope or something called Shakespeare Did It First.

Yeah age of originality is dead. Where we're at, is the Age of Remix.

We take existing conventions, and set them together to create a scene that hopefully has never been shown before, or if it has, we decorate it with our own voice to create something new.

If you want to quickly become unique in a regard, try to play with the convention a bit. For example, in a thread about System Or No System I suggested an idea of having someone fail to jump over a small gap because their jump skill is bad, never mind that they could clear the gap in a hearty sprint, let alone an actual hellsdamn jump.

I haven't seen stuff like that be done, but then again I haven't been looking, and it gives me so so many ideas. (im keeping the main one im ideating about to myself so i dont get called a copycat when i eventually do write it cause i inspired someone else first. This post is also proof of concept)

If you want, you can.... reincarnate as yourself. with exactly the body you died in. And everything. (well okay maybe without the injury or illness that killed you but ..)

You make some fair points about the concept of originality being far gone, but I am going to have to disagree.

A concept for a story needs inspiration of course, and inspiration comes from an outside source.

For example Tolkien's books were inspired by Anglo-Saxon myths and traditions mixed with quite a bit of inspiration from Norse mythology.

Now at what point did his inspiration start becoming his own original ideas?

It is when he took these ideas and applied them to his setting and made them fit.

Originality isn't the problem here, it is the format of many of these stories that do the corporate thing of throwing the same thing at you til you get sick and tired of it.

 

[Jailbreak571]

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