/lit/ - Literature

>>23366732
The bigger problem is that most GOOD IDEAS are really just gimmicks or single thoughts for a character or scene. But then they have absolutely zero clue beyond that. There's no story. And their idea is usually something along the lines of "What if GENERIC PREMISES BUT THE HERO IS ____." It's enough of a HOOK to maybe catch an editor's eye as they have to sort through pile after pile of this crap but there's no thought beyond that. No goal. It'd be like if JRR wrote his big fantasy "As what if regular was a short fat guy who would rather eat" but then had zero plot, zero moral, zero events and the hobbit and the dwarves never mad any progress for a dozen volumes.