Hey /lit/, I have started working on a dark fantasy story. I still don't know if its going to be short or long but at this pace it might be huge.
What do you guys consider to be do and don't in fantasy? More specifically what gets you interested and what immediatly turns you off?
>>8134684
>More specifically what gets you interested and what immediatly turns you off?
Turn on's:
When the writer is inspired by an unknown force to relinquish all the benefits of social life and pursue the materialization of the Symbol the muse has let him see
Turn off's:
When the writer comes on 4chan to ask other people how he should write the novel he thinks he should write, 'cause you know, he'd be great at it, he's so smart, besides he's been writing in the basement so long, reading so many DARK FUCKING FANTASY stories, oh he's dark, you know, real dark, like you wouldn't even understand, and, I mean, he's also part of a huge demographics for insipid and tasteless works of literature that do not demand the will to widen the soul, and just sort of tell these tales about what you could be dreaming about if you where also a destinyless neckbeard regulating his faps per hour to fill in a fake routine to fill his mediocre hours of breath and pulse
>>8134684
Good:
>well-written, interesting prose
>well though-out, interesting imagery
>complex, multi-faceted characters
>some level of content or meat
>complex, interesting plot
Bad:
>weird, offputting names for stuff
>sex of any kind
>shockjocking
>cliches
>chosen one trope
>killing off characters all the time and pretending that that makes it interesting
>>8134737
i actuali wanto make yu writ
im a little dobby thesa deis
just leave for chan deer anon
>>8134684
>I have started working on a dark fantasy story
why?
you already know it's going to be shit
>>8134768
Because he's either a genrepleb or a cynical profiteer.
>>8134768
Why not? I'm having fun writing it and if I'm happy with it once I'm done I can publish it
I know this is 4chan and you're all into this "being edgy and cynical is cool and makes me superior" mentality but to me this is a great chance to explore an area of my writing that I have never explored before
>>8134774
By dark fantasy I just meant that it is medieval, has magic and is bleak, is that better?
