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RushNflush Since: Nov, 2016
#1: Nov 24th 2016 at 4:18:08 PM

I'm currently in the process of making a story that involves a young magician who's the last of his kind (or maybe...? If not I'll just add some justifing back story on how he's not the only one lol) ( the protagonist), a princess who's part dragon but is in either denial or unaware of it...not sure which will make the story interesting (she also serves a different kingdom compared to the dark dragon lord) and a Dark dragon lord I'm trying to make this story iconic, original, easily understood but still interesting without it seeming indie but also just from the jist of the characters does it seem interesting? What would you add and change, why?

edited 24th Nov '16 4:21:48 PM by RushNflush

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#2: Nov 25th 2016 at 6:07:39 AM

I would start with making the setting an actual fleshed-out setting—that makes things iconic, just look at Discworld and Lord of the Rings with its related stuff—rather than what I presume is going to be just a series of cardboard cutouts for your characters to exist amidst of. Then I would create the characters from scratch and make them into actual characters rather than a series of traits (before you say anything, that's how I made my characters, writing a short scene that nobody ever will see for each of the traits of theirs that I thought important).

Getting to where you want is not the easiest thing ever. Originality is hard to achieve nowadays unless you work really hard at it and know what you are doing. Getting a work that is iconic ... well, I'd say on your first try it's close to impossible, especially if you are aiming for it. As for being "indie", everyone has their own style, what you need is to find one that works well for you and not worry about whether or not it's "indie".

That said, you'd asked if the story appears interesting upon looking at the characters. Having looked at them, I have to say that the answer I have is "whatever". As in, they're not descriptions of characters, they're just singular traits that don't really tell us much. If you want people to tell you how interesting your characters are, then give us the descriptions of characters or a snippet of a scene that shows them being themselves.

Here, take this link:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13518198940A33780100&page=1

It leads to the (currently not very active) hero critique thread. It is not exactly the same as what you are trying to do, but I want to make the point with descriptions: people take a lot of time and words to describe their characters because that's the only way for others to have enough information to actually help. You do not need to do the exact same thing they are doing, but it definitely would help if your description of a character was closer in length to theirs rather than just a few words with truly nothing that you gave us.

Also, capitalisation. Either "Dark Dragon Lord" is a proper title and you capitalise all of it, or it's simply the name of the character's occupation and you capitalise none of it. Capitalising just "dark" makes you appear inept. Punctuation seems to be a bit of an issue too, to be honest, and while I am aware that some people do write as if they barely could when on internet forums but write properly when writing their stories, this is a forum specifically about writing and writing-related help and you seem to be a newcomer here, so this adds up to the rest of the stuff and makes it harder for people to believe that you aren't just some random kid who writes out of boredom and will fail anyway.

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