What makes your fiction worth reading at least once in a lifetime?

[Eldoria]

Please explain the reasons, whether it's the originality of the story, the uniqueness of the premise, thematic depth, characterization, worldbuilding, style, etc. The compelling reasons why your work deserves to be read at least once in a lifetime by potential new readers.

 

[LightHikari]

It has a dragon mommy who captures the main character, frees her from suffering, and makes her part of the hoard. If that's not enough to get you intrigued, then nothing will.

 

[CinnaSloth]

My only compelling argument is, "-Cause I really, really, REALLY want you to".

It's a silly piece of work, with an odd story, and lots of twisted world building,. I enjoyed writing it., but I can say wholeheartedly, it is very niche, and definitely not for everybody; So, I can't say, with complete honesty, it's worth reading at least once in a lifetime.

 

[just_darkjazz]

Nothing. Read something better.

 

[GwynLordofTinder]

Well written superhero action that's just as horny as the genre ought to be, but doesn't fade to black during the sex scenes.

Amaranthine

Cait just got hit by a truck. The truck didn't make it. Yesterday, she was just a (more or less) regular girl who had never had a problem that wasn't her own fault. Now she might be the toughest thing on the planet, but in a world that seems like...

www.scribblehub.com

 

[Worthy39]

That's a tough question to answer without sounding pretentious or cheesy. I'd say I did a really good job writing the action scenes, and I think I've made some characters people would find enjoyable.

 

[Exiled_From_Earth]

I fear I'm a bit late to this thread, but I'll bite because this is an interesting question and one I think about too much.

I don't necessarily think that I even write things that are inherently "worth" reading, but I do mainly try to write things that I find compelling in the hopes that others will find them compelling as well.

Because of this, my current series (and the only thing I've posted on this site) began its life as a thought experiment: "What if a sci-fi story had no metal structures or technology in it?" and then spiraled out from there into something that became compelling to me because of the questions it raised: "How would wars be fought?" "How would space travel work?" "What would the politics be like?" which led to deeper (more pretentious) questions like "Should wars be fought?" "Should we even travel to space?" "What type of person even views themselves as fit to govern?" and at that point, I just couldn't stop writing my story.

In short, idk if I have something worth reading, but I definitely found it worth writing because it let me explore some ideas in a way that I wouldn't have gotten to otherwise.

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1857436/the-rusting-a-grim-hopeful-scifi-drama/

 

[Lakstoties]

Well...

I don't know of many stories that are set a 1000 years into the future Earth, after a very advanced, global cyber/bio-punk society gets T-boned by magic showing up onto the scene. After a few cataclysms to shake things up, the day to day has settled to something akin to the 2000's with common magic, background super science, and adventure just beyond the city limits. Adventuring is considered a viable career path, since someone has to check in on those ancient ruins to make sure nothing has wandered in there, and the local police and fire department aren't touching that with a 10-foot pole. Also, various races akin to common fantasy exist... Because they are the descendants of populations of people who were all about consumer-grade genetic modification, that all got isolated due to the magical chaos for a few generations.

The story starts out with a down and out mage school drop out, that gets visited by his ghost-bound-to-a-magic-sword brother, and subsequently gets figuratively and literally dragged back into adventuring by his brother's party. The crew has to get the mage back into fighting shape to go after the latest Dark Lord, that beat the mage's brother in the last confrontation. A big long-term, overarching goal, so there's plenty of slice of odd (life) diversions to go around to support the seasonal story arcs. Also, there's an adventuring reality TV show that happens to chose the same area the brother's party are basing themselves out of, and the producers are taking advantage of that for the ratings.

Between the whole thing being structured like an anime (13 episodes a season) with a classic 90's kitchen sink science fantasy approach, it's also a literary paraphrasing and abstraction of my lost decade between 25-35. So, a story where most characters are in their late 20's and early 30's.

Generally, it's just an odd duck in structure, style, and prose. It'll never see any proper publication. So, if a new reader just likes finding weird things to check out... Here's one: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1847295/aint-a-hero/

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

The Deity Entertainment Network (DEN)

Its a unique take on the saturated Isekai/system genre (with smut chapters labeled so you can skip those parts.)

-My MC is an Old man 83
-His system is helping him repair what is broken on his body not powering him to become some godlike figure. (yet...will be a long time to get there)
-He acts and is treated like an adult in these worlds, not like a teenager
-I am using lesser know worlds, my own OG world, or in the more popular worlds he is playing lesser known characters.
-He world hops fairly frequently to keep the writing fresh.
-The higher being who is watching over him is a bit sarcastic and keeps the MC on his toes.
-Ornery old guys have short tempers

 

[LiteraryWho]

I'm sure this is pure hubris, but actually I think my prose is just banger after banger. Every time I reread my own work, I'm always catching lines where I'm like, "Damn, what cool, smart, probably very attractive man wrote this? Oh, that's right, this guy." I also have lots of characters who I'm delighted to come back to, and a few great action scenes. Basically, I'd argue that my technicals are well above average.

 

[Seaspecter]

Because my book has two very large and compelling reasons, which are pictured below.

 

[RMlionheart]

Fight scene and battles.

 

[DireBadger]

I speak English.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

That is not for me to decide but for the reader. What I consider worthwhile may be another person's waste of time, and what I consider trivial might be their favorite detail. I write to challenge myself, to see if I can do this or combine that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - and what did work for me may turn off some readers, while what didn't may be the biggest selling point.
But almost all reading is worthwhile to some degree (the "almost" added after seeing some "urban story" novels that use "real street language" and some of the utter crap included in the free Kindle samplers on Amazon; there were a few that really, really were not worth even the free price tag there...).

 

[pangmida]

yearning pretty boy with white hair and red eyes.

 

[Author_Riceball]

Please explain the reasons, whether it's the originality of the story, the uniqueness of the premise, thematic depth, characterization, worldbuilding, style, etc. The compelling reasons why your work deserves to be read at least once in a lifetime by potential new readers.

it isn't.

 

[Naravelt]

I'm not sure, but if you like JRPGs, you might like mine. I think it has a satisfying plot twist at the end that connects every clue from the start of the story

 

[Wenlock]

I just haven't read a single story with a premise like mine has (which is why I wrote it). The concepts of multiple hells and heavens and how problems in the mortal world are mirrored in hell. Most importantly, all characters are full of hate. They are flawed, scheming bastards that are selfish as fuck. I feel that my story telling is very similar to Hellsing with a completely different premise. So if you liked Hellsing for something other than vampires, you should give my book a shot.

 

[DaelyxLenAuphydas]

Because I can truthfully say I've never heard of a story which has the type of character arcs I have, end in the way mine does! And because Sibling! Wow sibling! And I guess because it's heavily based on a worldview and set of attitudes which I can safely say are far apart from most people. Basically, a lot of things that normally only come up for people for fetishistic reasons, which are being explored for... Decidedly not that reason.

 

[Hoshino]

You get traumatized-nya