What makes your fiction unique?

[Cardon]

Adult magical girls are so rare, they are mostly side characters or appear in parody one-shots, and even then they are like 24 at most instead of 30.

 

[Bald-san]

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?

At first my MC is inspired of Tony Stark, and then Ruphas Mafahl and then Klein Moretti and then the Everynight Goddess design wise. Well, she's and amalgamation of my random bullshit

 

[ShrimpShady]

It hasn't been written. That's what's unique about it. You can imagine anything your heart desires

 

[PancakesWitch]

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??

premise, genre, tropes, none of that matters
what makes every book unique is the author and the meaning and emotions they place into their writing
those that write something without passion or soul will create slop that reads and sounds the same as a million other things
meanwhile, something writen with passion, no matter how cliche the tropes, genre, and tags used to create it are, will always come out as authentic.
i am not saying its impossible to write something without passion but you will grow eventually bored of it and drop it, and I am not saying that something with passion will be a good book, that's subjective after all, and even with all the passion in the world, without the proper techniques and knowledge, it will come out as bad anyway

 

[Jerynboe]

As a harem litrpg isekai fanfiction with a system, the bar is of course quite low. However, I’ve gone out of my way to do two specific things. The first is just me trying to avoid a common pitfall, the

1. The characters my MC meets, both the ones he sleeps with and the ones who he almost certainly never will, actually have personalities that persist beyond their introduction. One of the characters my readers have really latched onto is the giant hideous rat mutant who is simultaneously a giant hulking combat monster, a cinnamon bun, a genius, a self hating pile of trauma, ASL representation, and the most brutally pragmatic killer in the cast. MC has to work hard to remember how dangerous she really is because she so very clearly needs a hug 90% of the time.

2. I based my Litrpg system on TTRPGs much more than most do. As in, I actively play with the relationship between player and player character. Curtis is a modern dude PILOTING Emrys the drow pirate sorcerer. They have extremely different skillsets and personalities, and “autopilot” acts differently from “normal Emrys” for reasons that most of his friends don’t fully understand. He actively rolls to see how well he does whenever he asks autopilot to do something he can’t do himself, leading to things like embarrassing himself when he tries to aura farm. He can also override autopilot completely when “stunned” or the like, allowing him to trade being totally immobile for being… well, a modern CPA instead of a magic pirate.

 

[OniYukidesu]

Well... I wrote a Saga.

 

[Fairemont]

Adult magical girls are so rare, they are mostly side characters or appear in parody one-shots, and even then they are like 24 at most instead of 30.

Im writing a story about adult magical girls! Lol

 

[Joyager2]

Certainly not unique to the genre, but unique to me: I've really been trying to work on Le Guin's 'elfland accdent' and to experiment with sentence length and composition. How much information can I fit into a single sentence before it's way too unwieldy? Is there a way I can write a sentence that, even though it should be difficult to parse, it's not? It's all a big experiment.

 

[SouthernMaiden]

Certainly not unique to the genre, but unique to me: I've really been trying to work on Le Guin's 'elfland accdent' and to experiment with sentence length and composition. How much information can I fit into a single sentence before it's way too unwieldy? Is there a way I can write a sentence that, even though it should be difficult to parse, it's not? It's all a big experiment.

Interesting. I am also a huge le guin fan!

As a harem litrpg isekai fanfiction with a system, the bar is of course quite low. However, I’ve gone out of my way to do two specific things. The first is just me trying to avoid a common pitfall, the

1. The characters my MC meets, both the ones he sleeps with and the ones who he almost certainly never will, actually have personalities that persist beyond their introduction. One of the characters my readers have really latched onto is the giant hideous rat mutant who is simultaneously a giant hulking combat monster, a cinnamon bun, a genius, a self hating pile of trauma, ASL representation, and the most brutally pragmatic killer in the cast. MC has to work hard to remember how dangerous she really is because she so very clearly needs a hug 90% of the time.

2. I based my Litrpg system on TTRPGs much more than most do. As in, I actively play with the relationship between player and player character. Curtis is a modern dude PILOTING Emrys the drow pirate sorcerer. They have extremely different skillsets and personalities, and “autopilot” acts differently from “normal Emrys” for reasons that most of his friends don’t fully understand. He actively rolls to see how well he does whenever he asks autopilot to do something he can’t do himself, leading to things like embarrassing himself when he tries to aura farm. He can also override autopilot completely when “stunned” or the like, allowing him to trade being totally immobile for being… well, a modern CPA instead of a magic pirate.

Love this. So often the harem members fall into flat stereotypes. I have no issues with harems, or multiple partners. BUT they need some depth

Also I too enjoy ttrpgs, and they are often overlooked in litrpg.

premise, genre, tropes, none of that matters
what makes every book unique is the author and the meaning and emotions they place into their writing
those that write something without passion or soul will create slop that reads and sounds the same as a million other things
meanwhile, something writen with passion, no matter how cliche the tropes, genre, and tags used to create it are, will always come out as authentic.
i am not saying its impossible to write something without passion but you will grow eventually bored of it and drop it, and I am not saying that something with passion will be a good book, that's subjective after all, and even with all the passion in the world, without the proper techniques and knowledge, it will come out as bad anyway

I agree. Something written with passion will show a unique authenticity

Space pirate livestreamers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Space pirates are rad.

 

[AnEmberOfSundown]

My protagonist channels both divine radiance and primordial entropy. Not in a "dark vs light, good vs evil" way, but as complementary forces she struggles to balance within herself. She worships the Everlight while simultaneously being a Shadow Singer. That is, someone who can weaponize chaos and darkness.

An Ember of Sundown explores how someone carries that kind of paradox inside themselves without breaking, especially when the world keeps insisting those two parts of her can't coexist. She's hunted by the very order that should protect her, torn between the divine connection she craves and the shadow powers that have kept her alive, trying to prove she's not a monster while sometimes needing to become monstrous to survive. The story asks whether you can embrace both the light you aspire to and the darkness you've needed and still be whole.

It's set in Exandria four centuries before Critical Role, so there's established worldbuilding in the background but absolutely no prior familiarity required. So "fan fiction" in that it uses an established setting but doesn't require fandom to appreciate. Really screwed myself on that one.

 

[CanOfTuna]

Its an otome isekai where the mc actually kills people (looking at you resetting lady)

 

[Ral_062]

Everyone in the world suffers as much as the MC, they're also just as important as the MC and sometimes they have their own story to tell.

With one of its main theme being "Humanity often destroys what they don't understand"

 

[TinaMigarlo]

perhaps its best if I give an example of IRL. I get a lot of "eh? weird take" on things. Example. When Columbine massacre happened I was out the truck stop for my regular coffee all night time, and it was *the* buzz of conversation. Everyone knew the basic plot line. two kids were picked on by chads and stacerys. becvasuse they were off kilter and their meds went sideways on them... there we go. There were a lot of interviews, with "regular kids" talking about how weird the two were. nothing about how they did anything to anyone, though. Just... different. A number of kids admitted, they were picked on a lot.

my take on it? "maybe, if those kids didn't always beat them up and humiliated them for fun for years? they wouldn't have gotten shot."

boy, did i catch hell for that one. told them. I wouldn't do that. I don't condone it. but people should keep their hands to themselves.

so, some older guy. loudmouth type. he goes on and on, how they dunked kids heads in the toilet. boy, that was funny. I asked, why. "because they were weird, and they were geeks! that's why!"
"Maybe you shouldn't do that."
"Ah. Fact of life. Its a normal thing for kids to pick on other kids. why did those weirdos have to shoot the place up."
so I asked. "so, you got picked on too. you got your head dunked in the toilet too, right?"
he laughed. "oh hell no. I was one of the cool kids. not some weirdo."
so I told him. tell you what. you're drinking a lot of coffee. you're going to have to p!ss eventually. I'm going to follow you in. I'm goping to dunk your head in the toilet. after all? its a normal fun part of growing up. you missed that. I want you to experience all that fun, you missed out on. and don't worry. Its completely normal for it to happen. don't get mad, just grow up and deal with it."
he laughed, i was making a funny joke. well... everytime he stood up, I stood up too. I told him. I wasn't kidding. He? wouldn't go to the restroom. he ended up leaving. (I have a good poker face)

a lot of times, I'm the only one or one of the only ones... who looks at it the way I do. I try to put *that* into my writing when I can. that odd view.

columbine: a year later, there wa sa show. what schools were doing to prevent it happening again. every school had an anti-bullying campaign. But? it was performative noinsense. kids interviewed, explained. The cool kids? just run around in groups. pushing and smacking any kids they think are weird. "you better not ghet any ideas about doing that!" basically? picking on the unpopular kids, to get them to be scared to shoot the school up.

which is highly ironic. they got shot, because they were picking on kids and hitting them for fun. Now? They doing iots MORE, to the same kids! are... they TRYING to get it to happen again? the hell is wrong with people.

follow the logic of this one:
do thing X... get shot for it.
response:
do thing X twice as much? to prevent getting shot again.

i do stuff like this all the time. the weird take that I can't for the life of me, understand why everyone else doesn't see the simple logic I do.
I'm weird, I'm crazy, I'm... all kinds of names. I prefer the term eccentric, but I could be biased. see, comedians? present these paradoxes and logical fallacies and present them to you as jokes. you laugh. I present them as serious, when I write. well, when i can sneak something in.

there's a 7-11 down the road. Been open 24 7, 365 since the day it opened. It has 850 dollar Krieg locks on the front doors. Best money can buy. Question... why?
I guess me and that comedian, would have fun sharing a beer.
and that, is the story of how I'm unique. hey, you asked.

 

[gaylolis]

the world run on vibes instead of plot coherence, not sure if its unique though

 

[Envylope]

All of my main characters have some piece of my retardation. They're my little retards who I love.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

Each story is crafted from a dank sub-section of my retardation-plagued brain.

A romantasy where I let the memes fly and my own passion for tropey slop comes alive for everyone who didn't ask to see into my day dreams.
Then we have an epistolary psych-horror - The Yellow Wallpaper meets American psycho, but it's a zombie apocalypse diary of some random millennial trapped in a zoomer's body that increasingly becomes more cringe and more very sane in the head. (Spoiler: like me, but reverse)

I am cringe and I am free.

 

[OtherSlater]

I personally enjoy my use of historical fiction. 2010 is an interesting year to explore. The start of a new decade n all that!

Adult magical girls are so rare, they are mostly side characters or appear in parody one-shots, and even then they are like 24 at most instead of 30.

Dude I already love the premise, and your cover is awesome!!

 

[mythosandmagic]

Lightfall’s Edge is an epic fantasy shaped by cosmic origins, ancient covenants, and worlds guided across the span of ages. It explores the rise and restraint of power on a mythic scale—where gods, kings, and civilizations are bound not by conquest, but by the responsibility to guide without control. Vast histories unfold alongside intimate moments of mentorship and choice, revealing how entire worlds can turn on a single act of patience.

 

[DismaiNaim]

That would be a spoiler.

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??

That would be a spoiler. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

 

[Rachel_Leia_Cole]

I treat goblins as an actual culture with long and storied histories. They aren’t cannon fodder, or inherently evil. They are librarians, machinists and freedom fighters. I even have a “goblin politics cheat sheet “ for my later books ?