/lit/ - Literature

>>21970690
>https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/67568/a-knight-of-valora-serenity
From the blurb, your story sounds exhausting. Like, these days if I see a story I want to see something concrete. Your description doesn't seem interesting at all. If you want to be generic, you at least need to sound fun or entertaining. This just sounds like something demanding a time investment that MAYBE will give something back, and it will definitely not be something I haven't seen hundreds of times before.

In comparison, an average LitRPG on RoyalRoad, even in its most cliche set-up story, will at least give me some numbers going up or entertaining cliches. An OP MC beating up arrogant nobles, flexing his insane power against normies, progressing through sheer bullshit and coincidences...These things are cliche because they are ENTERTAINING.

A Knight of Valora's decription sounds like a blind date - you might get something that will not leave you disappointment, but risk-reward calculation just works against you.

GIVE ME SOMETHING INTERESTING. Where's your hook? Just look at this seriously and critically:

>Adah Phenric took a vow to protect the world from any threats when she took an oath as a Knight of Valora. All was well until she and her team were sent on a routine mission to hunt a monster, but things go awry and Adah finds herself to be the sole survivor. Unconvinced her comrades are dead, she ventures out into the world to uncover the reasons for their disappearance. Coming in contact with a mysterious merchant, her investigation leads her to uncover a plot that threatens the world and discover the nature of the Goddess herself. Armed with nothing but her wits, friends, and a bit of magic, Adah commits to bringing the culprits to justice. For duty binds all.

You are an average reader. You've probably read at least some stories, can recall most genre tropes without issue. Would you pause your search for new stories to read if I saw this? A random story blurb that offers the generic experience? Not even certaintly that it is competent as no one has commented or rated it before?

Some female knight is a part of X group. She goes to do a thing and things go awry. Some random characters are missing. Some things might be afoot. Then generic ending statemenet. Seriously, would you give a story with description like this the time of your day? It's tofu of stories. Utterly bland.

Don't know what to tell you, do something controversial. Commit to an idea that might please some readers and antagonize others. Even a story where the MC is a wilful cuck would have more chance to succeed because it stands for SOMETHING and offers a distinct experience. It doesn't need to be original, just not utterly generic.

Like, unironically ask ChatGPT for ideas and how compelling blurbs for stories sound. It might actually explain it to you better than me.

>>21812436
You are welcome to name stories that you think should be there instead :)

>550 words today.
I fucked up yesterday, got distracted by inane shit, should have been reading, outlining and writing at least few hours. I'm not getting this amount of free time anytime soon before being old, for fuck's sake. Fucked up today as well, but yesterday at least I had people to distract me, today it was mostly me. StayFocused app for Chrome is a godsend, you literally can't access pages or turn the app off once you use 'Nuclear' option. Highly recommended (but you still are going to find ways to procrastinate, but it turned my productivity up easily 2-3x times)

Anyway, I think I need to spend more time out of my house in the library, I just bought a small laptop (used Chromebook from Sweden bought for pittance) and this shit is amazing for writing, I can sit anywhere and just open it up on my knees. Even the weird keyboard is easy to get used to. I can even write in while taking a bus.

This is it, I'm going to grind hard. Only 3k into my NaNowrimo goal, even though it's 13 day of the month already. Now I can crank it up to the limit. This is a working month. The best part about the laptop is that I can't do anything serious on it, as even writing in googledoc is kinda laggy. I'm FORCED to be productive. Going to spend 3-4 hours a day writing this week, will give my impressions later.
Wish me luck.