What makes you love your fiction?

[Eldoria]

What makes you love your fiction?

Me: This is a long-held desire of mine that I've only been able to fulfill after years of being merely an observer/reader. I want to write fiction that represents my conscience.

 

[Bartun]

Everything.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I like the characters, the setting, the plot, all of it.

 

[Naravelt]

Yeah, same here. I like everything, characters, plot, the world.

 

[MFontana]

If I had to pick only one thing, the setting.
It's the culmination of every story, campaign, and adventure my friends and I have been a part of over the years.

The characters would be a close second, as I pour a little bit of myself into each of them.
My hopes. My wishes. My dreams. All to bring them to life on the pages.

Ultimately, though, it isn't about me; but what the readers bring to the stories as well, and how the stories may impact their lives or inspire them in ways we can all hardly begin to imagine. That, in truth, is what I like most about fiction in general.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

I just like exploring the different options in my fanfics.

Since my MC is not a teenager, but an old man, I can look at the situation/world through a different set of eyes.

How does he perceive the world differently from the original MC or protagonist? How do others treat him differently? How do these interactions change the start of the story? How does that snowball into a brand-new story?

 

[Rhaps]

I'm a pretty philosophical person, beside the plots and the characters, I always write to answer a question.

For my first novel, it is to answer "What is humanity?".

For my WIP, it is "How can you love something you grew to hate again?"

 

[AnEmberOfSundown]

Getting to realize a protagonist who's been taking shape in my mind for decades and watching her grow and overcome.

Also, her supporting cast is basically my psyche shot through a prism, so getting to write their arguments and bickering is fun.

 

[CinnaSloth]

Friendships.
Knowledge.
Adventure.
Stories.
Love.
Adoration.
Success.

Disassociation.

 

[DeepWater]

It's mine. All mine.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Being able to tell people, "Yeah, it is that easy."

 

[hell_yeahMylike]

I love writing my story because I've been planning the story for 8 years, but I still haven't gotten around to writing it into a novel. I want to tell the story of the protagonist in an isekai world, where the story is more human than the typical man protagonist.
THIS IS FANTASY

 

[CrimsonGenius]

Because big lasers and giant monsters go roar

 

[Hush25]

I really wanted to say something funny here, but the need to be philosophical won out...I love that moment an idea springs into my creative (brain) space, and along with it, a rush of excitement and this inexplicable desire to tell the story that manifests around it. I love to escape to a boundless world where I have the power to shape everything in a way that sends tingles of joy through me (the only other time I've felt like this is with my horses). I think storytellers are born, not made. We see the world vividly in terms of narrative and want to share this with others.

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My Master is Too Dramatic
Secretly, I'm a Cultivation Genius

 

[CrimsonGenius]

Hmm I misread the title. I thought it said what makes you love fiction.

hmm…. Answer still stands. Have big monsters maybe a death ray in the future.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

It can be kind of sexy, never says "no" and always begs for more...

 

[hell_yeahMylike]

I love writing my story because I've been planning the story for 8 years, but I still haven't gotten around to writing it into a novel. I want to tell the story of the protagonist in an isekai world, where the story is more human than the typical man protagonist.
THIS IS FANTASY

But even so, I have no experience in writing novels. Sad?

 

[IIY]

We suppose it'd be the characters.

We enjoy describing our protagonists as "dumb idiot losers" but that isn't really the whole picture—far from it!
They are wonderful, warts and all. We're excited that one of our upcoming works will have something like ten of them to juggle. People are odd, and sad, and ideologically complex, and their motives amuse.

Though, the idea of "a story" itself intrigues us. That tends to shine through also, we hope.

 

[CheertheSecond]

I wouldn't have written my fiction if there is actually a fiction out there that scratch my itches.

In short, my story is the one for me.

 

[Bartun]