What's the smallest thing that could change your entire storyline?

[Conqueror_Quack]

What's the smallest thing in your story that, if removed or altered, could change your novel's entire plot? Will the entire world in your story be doomed, or will it remain the same as in the original plot? Will the protagonist be happier if that small thing is changed? For example, in the anime AoT, the entire world almost got destroyed because of the events that led from a girl releasing a pig from a farm.

You can go wild advertising your story by linking it here just make sure that you talk about atleast most of the questions or in general.

 

[Eldoria]

What's the smallest thing in your story that, if removed or altered, could change your novel's entire plot? Will the entire world in your story be doomed, or will it remain the same as in the original plot? Will the protagonist be happier if that small thing is changed? For example, in the anime AoT, the entire world almost got destroyed because of the events that led from a girl releasing a pig from a farm.

You can go wild advertising your story here just make sure that you talk about the questions atleast in most of them or in general.

Well, if my FMC hadn't pursued the last tyrant of the Rose kingdom in the ancient ruins, then the world wouldn't have experienced a historical amnesia apocalypse where the victims could move on after being forced to forget the history of brutal oppression.

But if my FMC hadn't pursued the last tyrant, the world might have remained dark, the victims would have suffered severe trauma and other tyrants would have emerged.

The world has never been more peaceful without the memory of trauma even though that peace was illusory and paid dearly with blood and the erasure of memories related to the tyrant and the tyrant's executor (Marry El Rose).

Moreover, the only reason Marry stopped being the world's judge was because she became a single mother to a little daughter after the world experienced a historical memory apocalypse.

Now Marry clings to a simple dream:

“I don’t want to be a saviour, a heroine, or a goddess of judgment… I just want my daughter to laugh every morning.”

 

[rainchip]

If my characters all went to therapy the plot might never have happened. Lmao.

 

[Our_Lady_in_Twilight]

At one point a couple of stray cardamom pods fell into my protagonist's backpack. Thus began a chain of events that ultimately saved the kingdom.

 

[Conqueror_Quack]

If my characters all went to therapy the plot might never have happened. Lmao.

A huge chunk of stories here can be summed up like that.

At one point a couple of stray cardamom pods fell into my protagonist's backpack. Thus began a chain of events that ultimately saved the kingdom.

Sounds like a fairy tale

 

[A-Random-Writer]

Had my protagonist not gone on a field trip he would be alone and sad.

 

[rainchip]

A huge chunk of stories here can be summed up like that.

It's messed up too. Why can't we ever write them happy.

 

[Conqueror_Quack]

Had my protagonist not gone on a field trip he would be alone and sad.

Then why choose the third and sixth option?

 

[Our_Lady_in_Twilight]

Sounds like a fairy tale

Yep, I'd probably call it character driven queer fantasy, but there's a lot of fairytale motiffs baked in by design :)

 

[A-Random-Writer]

Then why choose the third and sixth option?

For my other story

 

[Conqueror_Quack]

For my other story

Oh

It's messed up too. Why can't we ever write them happy.

It's possible in man vs nature stories or slice of life ones where you have to bring in environmental factors or other things like a competition and etc

 

[Jerynboe]

If my MC hadn’t accidentally become a braindead meat suit for an isekai protagonist, he’d have almost certainly died and been eaten by an army of ghouls. The only person likely to have survived that would be the book one antagonist, and only because he has a 1/year resurrection that would also turn him into a fish person.

Oh. And arguably the last member of the main cast to join up would still be… I’m gonna go with extant as my word of choice, because she never would have been resurrected from being a ghoul. So instead she’d just be desperately holding onto her fading sense of self as the instinct to kill and eat all living things attempts to drive her into an insane, endless feeding frenzy she’s only barely able to hold off through magical self medication.

Other surviving members of the cast who joined after ghoul island (in book 2) would be… slaves. Yeah mostly slaves with varying but extensive trauma.

 

[Anemic_Vampire]

I can't believe that the ducky is making one sensible writing thread after another. I thought you were a troublemaker like me, but you're actually a good duck.

 

[Dawnathon]

The protagonist will be screwed at the end as it didn't happen

The phrasing feels weird, but I get the spirit of it. It's brought up as a lingering doubt in the FMC's head that if she opened up to a certain character even a week sooner than she did, it would have led to

Spoiler

the subsequent murder attempt being successful. She had only just become strong enough to barely survive as a frozen severed torso, and she had to pull out every trick in the book just to make it out that well. Had anything happened sooner, her story would have ended then and there.

The worrying part is that she had been considering sharing her personal secrets sooner, but due to hesitation she only got around to it later on. It's one of those things that's harrowing to realize just how much worse things would have been if not for that delay.

 

[L1aei]

I didn't vote... my current stories attached to this account are fanfics, so I already have minor events that caused the rifts. My older novels, though... I dunno if I wanna include them into this mix because it's been years and I'd have to reread them just to know what all had happened.

 

[LiteraryWho]

I tend to write my stories with a certain level of inevitability baked into the grand plot, often even including the part where the protagonist/POV character is involved, though for one of them, if my character had just let a certain thing go he, well, he wouldn't have been involved in the story, at least, though I can't say it would have worked out better for him.

 

[Zinless]

Reincarnated into One Body

 

[FRWriter]

Reincarnated into One Body

Only half as good.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Mine's consumed by some Eldritch horror.

 

[MFontana]

What's the smallest thing in your story that, if removed or altered, could change your novel's entire plot? Will the entire world in your story be doomed, or will it remain the same as in the original plot? Will the protagonist be happier if that small thing is changed? For example, in the anime AoT, the entire world almost got destroyed because of the events that led from a girl releasing a pig from a farm.

You can go wild advertising your story by linking it here just make sure that you talk about atleast most of the questions or in general.

The entire multiverse could collapse from a disruption in the balance between worlds, and the Elements, Life, and Death.

If Morrigan (Her game-character's name) didn't face the intense trauma of her past, all life in Elaria will end (it still might anyway, only time shall reveal the true fate of the worlds).

In truth, there are a number of causal events that all need to occur in order for the balance of the Great Cycle to continue as it must to sustain the multiverse of my "shared universe", and some of them are as small and mundane as a young woman walking down the street on a particular day, at a particular time.

Chance encounters.
Synchronicity.
Fated Coincidences.
Relics and Remnants of the past.
Lost Echoes giving birth to New Legends.
All things shall come together in the end.
Even the darkest of times can give birth to the brightest of lights;
So long as the fires of Hope continue to burn in the hearts of men.

"Go forth into the unknown, Brave Adventure, and know this; If you can match my Resolve you will succeed."

If you want more, you'll have to read and find out, along with everyone else who reads.