What makes you love your fiction?

[Hoshino]

Nothing-nya.

 

[Bimbanana]

The unlimited opportunity to mocks everything MUHAHAHAHA

 

[JayMark]

I like having characters struggle to achieve goals.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

The fiction I'm writing is an amalgamation of my bizarre dreams and daydreams, plus my obsession with certain genres that I've already read all decent novels/web comics of that are currently available. So, of course I love it while simultaneously finding it cringe!

"If I want more, I need to make more myself"

 

[Golden_Hyde]

What makes you love your fiction?

It's the fact that I tore every common trope apart and reconstruct it in my own way. That's where it makes me love my fiction.

 

[velwoven]

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.

My thoughts exactly

 

[HarryGarland]

I suppose it is my characters, which are actually projections of parts of myself, which embody the hopes I have towards life. What started as a form of escapism and wish-fulfillment has now become a form of therapy.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

The storytelling skill I have.
I don't know how I'm able to do it, but people have come to me in the past about how to create stories based on ideas they have, and I have always been able to help them - no matter what the content. I'm comfortable writing in any genre too. I love fiction.

 

[MajorKerina]

When it makes me cry or I chance upon something that's just like oh my gosh that's such a cool connection between elements in the story!

 

[LightHikari]

I love my characters. They have real hopes and dreams, and I love the relationship between my MC and her dragoness. They will hurt and even cry sometimes, but they've chosen to love each other.

 

[Cookiez_N_Potionz]

I just love being creative and challenging myself with different genres

 

[Stariamer]

Everyone carries a fantasy world within their heart. I often direct stories from my imagination, and writing novels isn’t just about recording those inner tales — it’s also because it’s become so hard to find stories that truly resonate with the one I hold inside. ?

 

[CinnaSloth]

The more I think about this..
It's just about my characters. They're my best friends. They're my family.
The only difference between them, and real people.. is they can't hurt me, unless I allow them to.

 

[Sylver]

It's fantasy, I love fantasy. The lack of rules and creative influence let's me come up with whacky and hopefully inventive landscapes, architects and designs! It makes every world an experience to venture through!
Admittedly my first story serves as an introduction and a modest one at that x) but I'm hoping the variety of species and races helps add that touch to how vast the world of Monster Girls is!
For Book 2 I will be exploring ruins of the past along with current civilizations of advanced medieval times, with grand castles whose designs will be inspired by old age France x)

 

[AmbreaTaddy]

I don't know. I just have brain juices and they are flowing out. And then later I read and actually get engaged in the story, want to read the next chapter and then realize there is no next chapter because the author didn't finish this story. It's me, I'm the author. So I let the brain juices flow, and then I can read the next chapter

 

[DismaiNaim]

There's too much crap out there with child-of-privilege stories or some random weirdo gets visited by super being and becomes the chosen one.

I wanted to write about a nobody who has to grind his way up to take down the evil empire. No chosen-one bullshit, no, you gotta earn it.

 

[Jax.A.River]

Writing has become my replacement for DMing D&D since career based moves broke the group up. It's basically a sad 1 person session of D&D thats very well documented. Fun though, except when the characters make me cry.

 

[RavenWulfgar]

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.

Since the fiction I produce these days comes from the tabletop games that I play solo, I find that getting into the mind and persona of your main character really helps.

Now, I'm still pulling stuff over from my Substack so there is so much more on the way but, here's the thing, whatever you think of the writing, if it helps, I'm not at all in love with it myself so there's that. Still working on it for the past 34 years.

It's the fact that, in the case of The Nocturneverse (a game of Night Shift: Veterans of The Supernatural Wars using Vampire: The Requiem, World of Darkness Second Edition and Mage: The Awakening as setting/lore) I get to be the haunted cowboy warlock riding around on a Harley, taking weird cases, performing acts of magic but always afraid to because...every act of magic is a chance for Paradox. I get to be the vampire frontman for a gothic rock band known around the world.

I got to be in front of that crowd when I bridged Symphony of The Damned to them when the guitar's chord hummed and the piano played and that voice sang out to a crowd singing in unison:

"The stage is set
the altar gleams
a thousand voices
chase my dreams

their breath,
their heat
it feeds the fire

a hunger grows
a dark desire

The strings cry out
The drums decree..."

Then the mic is thrust out over the first couple of rows and the crowd erupts as I held that microphone over them and heard them sing with the music the band was performing

"This Curs-ed Song Belongs To Me...."

The entire arena sang the outgoing stanzas while I stood there, watching them, listening to them for a change.

After forty years, I stood there on that stage, hair wet, shirt long-since gone, leather pants, combat boots, guitar slung across me.

I didn't utter one more vocal to that song.

After forty years, they all finally got it.

It's not my song.

I didn't write it for me.

I wrote it for them.

My gift to them.

Finally, I played the most blistering version of the song's lead that sends it off, good and proper.

The song ends on a single guitar and piano chord.

I stand there and watch thousands of cellphone lights and lighters go up.

The show is closed.

This never gets easier, does it?

...That's what I love about it. I get to be a rock star, a planetary explorer, a pit-fighter, a journalist in the 1920s, A Wild-West Gunslinger Set In The Dark Tower Universe by Stephen King, a hacker on one final run. I never look at something and say "Coulda Been Me..." when I can bring out dice, pen, paper and a little set of rules and say "It will be me today, son!"

...then I get to make it your problem.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Since the fiction I produce these days comes from the tabletop games that I play solo, I find that getting into the mind and persona of your main character really helps.

Now, I'm still pulling stuff over from my Substack so there is so much more on the way but, here's the thing, whatever you think of the writing, if it helps, I'm not at all in love with it myself so there's that. Still working on it for the past 34 years.

It's the fact that, in the case of The Nocturneverse (a game of Night Shift: Veterans of The Supernatural Wars using Vampire: The Requiem, World of Darkness Second Edition and Mage: The Awakening as setting/lore) I get to be the haunted cowboy warlock riding around on a Harley, taking weird cases, performing acts of magic but always afraid to because...every act of magic is a chance for Paradox. I get to be the vampire frontman for a gothic rock band known around the world.

I got to be in front of that crowd when I bridged Symphony of The Damned to them when the guitar's chord hummed and the piano played and that voice sang out to a crowd singing in unison:

"The stage is set
the altar gleams
a thousand voices
chase my dreams

their breath,
their heat
it feeds the fire

a hunger grows
a dark desire

The strings cry out
The drums decree..."

Then the mic is thrust out over the first couple of rows and the crowd erupts as I held that microphone over them and heard them sing with the music the band was performing

"This Curs-ed Song Belongs To Me...."

The entire arena sang the outgoing stanzas while I stood there, watching them, listening to them for a change.

After forty years, I stood there on that stage, hair wet, shirt long-since gone, leather pants, combat boots, guitar slung across me.

I didn't utter one more vocal to that song.

After forty years, they all finally got it.

It's not my song.

I didn't write it for me.

I wrote it for them.

My gift to them.

Finally, I played the most blistering version of the song's lead that sends it off, good and proper.

The song ends on a single guitar and piano chord.

I stand there and watch thousands of cellphone lights and lighters go up.

The show is closed.

This never gets easier, does it?

...That's what I love about it. I get to be a rock star, a planetary explorer, a pit-fighter, a journalist in the 1920s, A Wild-West Gunslinger Set In The Dark Tower Universe by Stephen King, a hacker on one final run. I never look at something and say "Coulda Been Me..." when I can bring out dice, pen, paper and a little set of rules and say "It will be me today, son!"

...then I get to make it your problem.

There's a website called Suno that is designed to turn text like that into actual music (using the accursed evil known as AI to do so, so tread with care... :D)

 

[RavenWulfgar]

There's a website called Suno that is designed to turn text like that into actual music (using the accursed evil known as AI to do so, so tread with care... :D)

I've done four songs that way so far. I know there are people opposed to AI whether it's the inclusion of a song or an image but I don't care. If someone has that much of a hangup about it, this is stuff I'm doing from my games. I'm not hiring an artist and a band for an anthology of stuff that comes from my game.

Not my hangups.

Not my problem.

If my foot lands somewhere, it lands.