/lit/ - Literature

>>21983476
>>21983542
Webnovels are case study in the phenomen of authors writing the same one story all the damn time. You know why? Because every one of them is deeply flawed in some way. Stupid characters. Lack of compelling story and power progression. Boring world-building. Lack of theme or topic to bring it all together. Unoriginality.

People keep writting the same one story not because they are good, but because all of them are bad. They want that ONE story that will be good, in all of its aspects.

Why do you think Mother of Learning didn't spawn dozens of imitators? Oh some tried, few cases, all unsuccessful. Because the ONE story of this idea is already written and is great or at the very least average in all of its aspects. There is nothing you can genuinely improve upon in a visible way. So there are no copy-cats. The idea has been exhausted, every attempt at imitation ends with visibly vastly inferior story.

The same with 'Magic School' idea that has been around for decades. I've several dozens of books based on that, none of them getting it quite right. I don't know if the concept just died off, forever unfulfilled, or there was one great Magic School story that was the one story to end them all. But it's likely.

>>21319618
>random romanian guy autistically commits to create a fantasy world based on DnD
>starts writing a story in it just to give the setting a run, maybe flesh it out a bit
>The story mogs every other webnovel at the time
>Ten years pass and still only few stories reach its level of quality

Dangerously based.

>>20392405
>that's unbelievably fucking lame
No, because it makes sense within the story and is an amazing rational twist that makes total sense within the story.

If you want to know what actually happens:
It turns out that no, just like Protagonists believed you CANNOT turn back time, nor loop it. Nothing could do that, Time Travel is just impossible. But you know what's possible? Gods creating an incredibly advanced divine artifact and using imprisoned immortal Dragon Cthullu as a hardware platform to create a copy of the planet and then run it again and again in a loop under incredibly extreme time dillatation. And then using special planar occurence to power it up and shove in a soul of a chosen individual who checks all the 'goody two shoes and talented enough to be hero' to train and learn in the simulation for decades or centuries if needed to fulfill one task OUTSIDE of the simulation once it's over.

And you know what's the best part?

Gods weren't the ones that did this THIS time, because they are fucking gone who knows where, and Angels panicked when facing an incredibly dangerous situation that would destroy the continent, so they debated and chosen one average good guy with position to learn as much as he could and then tricked him into agreeing to enter the simulation in a sub-optimal time for looping. And then inside the simulation an unlikely situation happened, which made an edgy, resentful teenager loop as well. Which should be a big no-no as someone like the protagonist would never pass the psychological checks to be allowed to become powerful. And this more or less is what happens in the story. The proatgonist is the ultimate underdog trying to not only discover all of this, but also avoiding permanently dying, as he is actively hunted.

It's of course simplified a bit, but that's pretty much the plot of Mother of Learning. Pretty cool, in my opinion. Liked it so much I read it three times already. It's called one of the best webnovels for a reason.

Just finished reading this on RR, thought it was pretty good despite a few problems. What do I read next? Already read shit like Cradle, Mage Errant, Skyward, Red Rising, and Stormlight.

>>18649284
Mother of Learning is alright.