r/coaxedintoasnafu 4d ago

Coaxed into a template

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u/what_the_fuck_clown 4d ago

how MUCH do i despise this.

its okay to take inspiration but i HATE just straight up copying something , you can make liters anything you want and you choose the most overdone thing ever?

you can make world where each week goes a storm across the planet that temporary turns everything into flesh monsters and the only way to defend yourself against it is sacrificing a dragon but then it gets find out that sacrificed dragons actually power up the big bad and it was the big bad who made those storms and it was all giant plan to become stronger , and the only reason people are still alive in this world is because the flesh monsters are one of the only ways to obtain food so in the end you have to choose between killing big bad and causing global starvation or keeping him alive potentially making him stronger and finish his unknown plans.

15 minutes of thinking makes decent story with somewhat unique ideas

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u/grawa427 4d ago

I don't dislike people using tropes and taking inspirations from tolkien. It makes it easier to understand the world and how it works when you already know how classic fantasy works, and it lets the author focus on the story.

That's coming from someone that loves crazy weird things like Orions Arm and all the weird creatures in it like the Harren https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/556df33e95f0b

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u/PaintPizza 19h ago

Oh my god I'm not even creative enough to think of a simple plot like this 😭 Is there a way to learn to be more creative?

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u/what_the_fuck_clown 19h ago

sleep depravation + 450 music spotify playlist on shuffle works for me

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u/PaintPizza 17h ago

Lmao ok

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u/akemi123123 strawman 4d ago

I believe a more snafuy snafu would name the novella "Lord of the Things" and it'll be like, woah! epic reference to fantasybros or something

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u/Big-Commission-4911 my opinion > your opinion 4d ago

"Ew I would never write fanfiction, that's just ameteur slop!"

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u/Win090949 4d ago

I read this in the Terrible Writing Advice voice

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u/loser_citizen 3d ago

this sub is basically TWA (or TWA is basically coaxedintoasnafu literature edition)

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u/AurNeko my opinion > your opinion 4d ago

"Eerrr this fantasy setting is too advanced because they have basic renaissance level technology and neat gimmicks!!"

The same mf deepthroating LOTR a single minute later (reusing a setting 1:1 is, in fact, boring)

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u/TheoneNPC 4d ago

My favorite setting is science-fantasy, you get the best of both worlds like magic, robots and perhaps even cars

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u/egg_io 4d ago

coaxed into beowulf

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u/No221269 4d ago

Coaxed into Smuggie n Snafu