Do your worst!...literally.

[Straw he/him]

Once I considered writing a story about a farmboy that gets inducted into a cult. The cultists then perform a ritual that invades his mind with a being called Pale and then wipes his mind. The farmboy is returned to his previous life during which he discovers that he has gained the power to create and manipulate ice and decides to use it to hunt down and destroy a dangerous cult that is threatening the safety of his village. Unfortunately for him he starts having strange visions, hearing voices, and his body starts getting flat, cold, hard, and sharp. The voices and visions eventually consolidate into a strange, floating figure that exists in his mind that seems to be a humanoid figure made of ice that calls itself Pale. The farmboy finally hunts down and murders all the members of the cult while Pale begins to be able to control the farmboy as the farmboy's body becomes almost inhuman. As the farmboy kills the last member of the cult Pale reveals that the farmboy's transformation is complete and proceeds to ascend into the being shown in the visions. For the last few chapters of the book the farmboy is trapped in his own mind and is forced to watch Pale take over the kingdom and rule tyrannically over it. The last scene is Pale murdering the farmboy's parents. This final act of cruelty drives the farmboy insane causing the book to end.

After I finished planning it I realized that no one would want to read something that dark.

[Kynedath]

On 12/16/2016 at 7:26 PM, Straw said:

Once I considered writing a story about a farmboy that gets inducted into a cult. The cultists then perform a ritual that invades his mind with a being called Pale and then wipes his mind. The farmboy is returned to his previous life during which he discovers that he has gained the power to create and manipulate ice and decides to use it to hunt down and destroy a dangerous cult that is threatening the safety of his village. Unfortunately for him he starts having strange visions, hearing voices, and his body starts getting flat, cold, hard, and sharp. The voices and visions eventually consolidate into a strange, floating figure that exists in his mind that seems to be a humanoid figure made of ice that calls itself Pale. The farmboy finally hunts down and murders all the members of the cult while Pale begins to be able to control the farmboy as the farmboy's body becomes almost inhuman. As the farmboy kills the last member of the cult Pale reveals that the farmboy's transformation is complete and proceeds to ascend into the being shown in the visions. For the last few chapters of the book the farmboy is trapped in his own mind and is forced to watch Pale take over the kingdom and rule tyrannically over it. The last scene is Pale murdering the farmboy's parents. This final act of cruelty drives the farmboy insane causing the book to end.

After I finished planning it I realized that no one would want to read something that dark.

Dude! That sounds really cool. () I'd read it.

[agigabyte]

A story about a ten year old member of Project Freelancer (I may or may not have been ten).

Also, a horrendously bad story I wrote at age eight, I'll find and post it tomorrow. 

[Droughtbringer]

On 11/24/2016 at 7:39 PM, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Ooohhhhhhhhhh Eragon. I remember the first time I read that book.  I was 15 and also inspired by Paolini's success when I wrote Renegade Sorceress (which is now at the bottom of a garbage bin, for some reason  )  though I did get a little annoyed when I saw that he'd named one of his rivers Anora, which was one letter off from my Enora River. 

ERAGON!?!?!? That was when I first wanted to be an author! Lets see...Starting in Woods while hunting (check) Farmer (Check) Discovers magic in aforementioned woods (check) Dragons (check) Dwarves in South (Check) Elves in North (check) Giant dessert (Check) Evil King (Check) Half-sibling (Check) True Names (Check) Random Story Teller Person (check) 

The protagonist wasn't a Male though...

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Did I tell you lot about that time my mates and I had a roleplayin session called Jew Hunting? Two factions, Nazis and Jews.

You know the rest

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

33 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Did I tell you lot about that time my mates and I had a roleplayin session called Jew Hunting? Two factions, Nazis and Jews.

You know the rest

Spoiler

Seriously. That is horrible. 

[Kobold King he/him]

2 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

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Seriously. That is horrible. 

 

They talked about playing Cowboys and Indians but worried that might be offensive.

Edited January 14, 2017 by Kobold King

[CarolaDavar she/her]

I once had started writing about three deers, that lived in a little meadow. Soon, their meadow burned down, so they had to go to the outside world. Two of the deer's little siblings died because they were hit by cars, and the three deers had this really weird love triangle, and after alost a storming month is when I realized is was dumb and no one would actually read it.

I also tried writing a story with seven main characters before. . . Let me just say, I was not prepared. 

These are two of so many. . . . .  .

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

7 hours ago, CarolaDavar said:

I once had started writing about three deers, that lived in a little meadow. Soon, their meadow burned down, so they had to go to the outside world. Two of the deer's little siblings died because they were hit by cars, and the three deers had this really weird love triangle, and after alost a storming month is when I realized is was dumb and no one would actually read it.

The love triangle bit may have been a mistake, but stories about forest animals in peril have been done well, and have become popular before. (Mind you, I've never seen The Animals of Farthing Wood—I'm a real baby when it comes to animals getting hurt in fiction. I even had to close my eyes during that scene in Ant-Man where the lamb gets killed.) But the fact that Farthing Wood was popular in its time, and is still remembered fondly today, proves that there is an audience out there for that kind of story. 

Edited January 14, 2017 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[Quiver he/him]

24 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

The love triangle bit may have been a mistake, but stories about forest animals in peril have been done well, and have become popular before. (Mind you, I've never seen The Animals of Farthing Wood—I'm a real baby when it comes to animals getting hurt in fiction. I even had to close my eyes during that scene in Ant-Man where the lamb gets killed.) But the fact that Farthing Wood was popular in its time, and is still remembered fondly today, proves that there is an audience out there for that kind of story. 

I saw that show when I was a kid. I had the VHS tapes.

That thing was dark. Looking back at it now - a ragtag group of survivors making their way to a mythical promised land, while being pursued by their enemeis... well...

...And I have a bunch of ideas, and I'm never sure if they are good, bad, or the type of things which shouldn't see the light of day. But I bother people with them in PM's anyway.  So... here's one I thought was goofy which I'm batting around lately:

A typical, fantasy, fairytale princess get's kidnapped, as typical, fantasy, fairytale princesses are wont to do.
Her kidnappers are aliens, doing the alien abduction thing that they are best known for. 
Genre mashup hilarity ensues.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

On 1/14/2017 at 1:57 PM, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

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Seriously. That is horrible. 

lets just say we've done alot of things

[Physicist of the Cosmere she/her]

My very first story has a premise that everyone says sounds really cool: Elves and other mythical/fantasy creatures in the modern age. The problem? My execution stunk more than chull dung. My protagonist has that cliched life where they move around a lot and her parents were super secretive, but she didn't suspect any secrets. Then her parents get randomly attacked by redshirts  members of the villainous organisation, and she gets rescued by an elf that was apparently keeping an eye on her. She takes everything remarkably calmly, not freaking out, questioning anything, nope, she just shrugs it off because the story's gotta keep moving. She finds out she's half elf and half human, which again, she never suspected until then, even though towards the beginning I specifically wrote someone teasing her for her pointy ears. All of my characters were so two-dimensional, you could get a paper cut from them. There wasn't one main villain, just a whole bunch of baddies that wanted to destroy the elves because they thought they were evil because reasons. The elves have magical powers, and for some reason, my protagonist has several very powerful abilities, despite only being half elf and having absolutely no training. And then there was that snippet I wrote where she and her romantic interest both date other people to make the other jealous. At the same time. And they both end up developing feelings for those people as well as each other. If you haven't guessed it by now, I've deleted the manuscript.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

On 06/02/2017 at 5:23 PM, Physicist of the Cosmere said:

My very first story has a premise that everyone says sounds really cool: Elves and other mythical/fantasy creatures in the modern age. The problem? My execution stunk more than chull dung. My protagonist has that cliched life where they move around a lot and her parents were super secretive, but she didn't suspect any secrets. Then her parents get randomly attacked by redshirts  members of the villainous organisation, and she gets rescued by an elf that was apparently keeping an eye on her. She takes everything remarkably calmly, not freaking out, questioning anything, nope, she just shrugs it off because the story's gotta keep moving. She finds out she's half elf and half human, which again, she never suspected until then, even though towards the beginning I specifically wrote someone teasing her for her pointy ears. All of my characters were so two-dimensional, you could get a paper cut from them. There wasn't one main villain, just a whole bunch of baddies that wanted to destroy the elves because they thought they were evil because reasons. The elves have magical powers, and for some reason, my protagonist has several very powerful abilities, despite only being half elf and having absolutely no training. And then there was that snippet I wrote where she and her romantic interest both date other people to make the other jealous. At the same time. And they both end up developing feelings for those people as well as each other. If you haven't guessed it by now, I've deleted the manuscript.

read rick riordan. He has some interesting things.