Four story anthology Fantasy Xianxia Comedy Supernatural Slice of Life Horror
[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]
[participant in #NaNoWriMo]
Preface:
This fiction will contain four different stories set up as a challenge for myself and to get better at writing. The challenge for royal road writathon is a 55.555 word goal while the nanowrimo challenge is 50.000 words.
Reader suggestions is turned on, feel free to point out errors I missed and I'll fix them up!
Chasing sun, napping softly:
Cultivation/Xianxia genre.
Some parts will poke at the ridiculousness of the Xianxia gerne.
We follow the life of a magical fox monster, who doesn't like how the cultivation world works. Said beast seems to have more knowledge than is usual for normal magical beasts.
In it's infinite wisdom it decided to search for the main character of the cultivation world to have a cozy and safe place beside him.
Our fox will act as a "wise beast" to coast along on the main characters rise to greatness, all for peace, happiness and that amazing napping spot in the sun.
The challenges for myself with this story:
Writing in first person.
Comedic effect between talking vaguely and sounding wise.
The cost of heroism:
A story more centered around fights and mental health of hired mercenaries/heroes.
The world is infected with an eldritch corruption. Humans are trying their best to explore and clear out wilderness and the dungeons hiding in them to establish new cities.
Lords seek for hired hands to do the professional work.
Thanks to the setting, the story will show how awful pasts are the norm and how pragmatic people became thanks to that.
People exchange their sanity for riches, fame and gods acceptance. Interpersonal relationships change drastically and quickly.
The challenges for myself with this story:
Writing grim scenes/imparting a feeling of how grim the world is.
Writing fight scenes.
Showing different mental states.
Describing their influence on people during fights, walks or even after successful or failed campaigns.
Who will be the next powerhouse? :
A story about a gaming show, it's host Staan and the different participants.
Stereotype characters, stereotype backstories, silly challenges and quizzes.
The winner of those challenges gets powerups for their power system.
Be it magic, ki, psychic power or anything else imaginable and unimaginable to reach the power of gods.
The challenges for myself with this story:
A softer tone for storytelling.
Making the reader smile and enjoy themselves.
A different try at slice of life story.
I was left behind on earth as my family conquered another world and enjoys riches, but that's okey because I got a cheat too! :
Stereotypical Isekai story parody twisted into an Urban Fantasy story.
The challenges for myself with this story:
Writing over the top and overdramatic scenarios/scenes
Writing in first person.
Walking into stereotypical scenarios and making them more dramatic/giving them a twist.
Different type of humor.
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Chapter Selections
1. Part 1 - Chasing sun, napping softly
2. Part 1 - The cost of heroism
3. Part 1 - Who will be the next powerhouse?
4. Part 1 - I was left behind on earth as my family conquered another world and enjoys riches, but that
5. Part 2 - Chasing sun, napping softly.
6. Part 2 - The cost of heroism
7. Part 2 - Who will be the next powerhouse?
The Merge
I lived most of my life as a NEET. Avid prepper, i was living in a bunker, trying to run away from society when it all happened. The town i live in suddenly got transported, in time, space or across parallel universes, who knows. All i know is that the world i am currently in, is not the world i used to know. Everything is wild and hostile but i refuse to die. Like a cockroach, i shall adapt and survive.
8 169In Umbra Hasta
A blue marble floated in the unending void. On that marble, billions went about their lives, unaware that somewhere else, something had changed. Some requirement was met, and suddenly, a new type of energy saturated the universe. A mother closed her car's door and lifted a bag of groceries in an arm before vanishing into nothingness. Across the world, a teenager disappeared mid-word from a conversation with friends. In eastern America, Captain Octavius J. Asher of the US Army vanished from a mountain trail with no witnesses. People all over the Earth disappeared simultaneously. Such a thing would normally cause mass panic across the globe were it not for the fact that there wasn't a single person left on the globe to panic. Congratulations! Your universe has joined the System. Note: I wanted to read another litrpg apocalypse novel but couldn't find one. Thus, I decided to write one. The MC will be strong for a human but insignificant on a cosmic scale. No destroying worlds with a spell on chapter 25 in this novel. He will face challenges and be forced to make hard decisions. This serial now on hiatus for the time being :( Please rate and review. Constructive criticism is welcome!
8 163The Fairy Squad Princesses: A Magical Awakening (Book 1)
It's finally freshmen year! Serena, Crystal, Ivy, and Kristy are officially high school girls! The besties reunite with their longtime guy friends who are now sophomores. After school, the group decides to go check out the new Fruitlicious Smoothies store's grand opening. Unfortunately, they aren't prepared for what happens next! The teens come face to face with four malevolent witches who call themselves the Vortex, and their two tagalongs: a spiky-haired warlock and a big green smelly ogre. In the midst of nearly being destroyed, a mysterious woman emerges and saves Serena and her friends. Who was that woman? Why were those evil troublemakers on Earth? Well, what are you waiting for! Open the book and begin the magical journey.
8 56The Hand of Sigmar. A Warhammer Fiction.
Adebar von Bolstedt was a normal young Aristocrat once. Third son of the middling von Bolstedt line of Altdorf, capital of the prestigious Empire at the heart of the Old World, but when a quarrel with his brother escalates he decides to leave his pampered home, and soon finds himself stranded in the countryside. When confronted about his presence he claims to be led by the God-King Sigmar, but with the name of the Protector of Mankind come his responsiblities. Soon Adebar finds himself tasked with ridding a town of a mad killer, and settling some lethal family quarrels.Word from the AuthorGreetings! The Hand of Sigmar plays out in the much beloved Warhammer Fantasy setting (owned, of course, by Games Workshop). Do not fret, however, as I've made it a point to make the story digestible even to the uninitiated, and maybe even be a good introduction to the setting. This work will be shorter overall, partly because its born out of a sudden passion, partly because I thought I'd try my hand at a more comfortable story than the grim darkness of the 41st Millenium (psychotic murderer and fraudulent holyman included). Depending on how this does and my time allows more adventures may be coming.While I cannot claim the places, concepts and gods etc. mentioned within as my own, the story and all characters flowed from my own fingers.
8 101CarmIvy Oneshots + Imagines
There is not a lot of content for this ship or Carmen Sandiego in general so I'm contributing some. :) Feel free to make requests.Obviously, I don't own any of these characters.
8 117Armor
Isabella, future queen of Gardia, unlike any lady of her time, is no damsel, but a fierce warrior. Though respected by men and shunned by women she fleetingly wonders what it would be like to fall in love.The Head Knight of Jaria, enemy nation of Gardia, Aiden has resented women for most of his life and relishes in the fact that his job keeps him out of their conniving clutches.What happens when war threatens and stoic Aiden meets the formidable Isabella? Sparks fly in more ways than one.Cover by DemeterLucy
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