I have been twisting and turning my brain for a while, attempting to figure out ideas for a story, I’m a little bit of a sucker for romance stories so of course, both will have a love interest or multiple .
I have a few ideas in mind but I don’t know if they are good enough or which one sounds more, lets say, interesting? Let me know which one you like the best and if it needs any improving?
Romance/Fantasy/Mystery:
You: a girl who can experience the emotions of others while trying to solve a tragedy that occured in your life, will you be able to control your emotions?
What It’ll Contain:
2 Love Interests
Full Cc
Point System
Gem Choices - (Only for bonus scenes and support the author)
Overlays
Maybe Art Scenes?? (If I have enough money )
Choices Matter
Rom-Com:
You’re competing with your rivals to become well-known rockstars. Singing is second nature ever since they both caught feelings for you. Now the real game begins. Who does your heart truly belong to?
What It’ll Contain:
2 Love Interests
Point System
Gem Choices
Female Mc / Two Male LI’s.
Overlays.
Advanced Directing.
Limited Cc
Let me know which one sounds best or what I should add to it!
I also had an idea to put these plots both together, but I wasn’t sure if it would be too much, let me know if you guys have a thought on that too?
I’d love to hear everybody’s opinion, it will help me out loads.
Reason why I prefer this story plot the most is, because I love fantasy, romance and mystery. Also out of my experience and knowledge (I am here since 2018/2019, writing also since 2018/2019) Rom-Com is very difficult to write. And I am seeing more and more singing stories lately. Of course you may choose the other plot, but I prefer the Romance/Fantasy/Mystery one.
What I like to see improved (out of my POV):
please don’t do more than 1 LI, I don’t like to choose (and dump the other);
CC doesn’t matter to me, but please don’t CC the whole MC’s and LI’s family. If the story is about MC and LI only, CC only the MC, only the LI or both, but please no CC for the whole family. Why because I don’t care how grandpa looks like when the whole story only is about the MC and LI.;
Point System doesn’t matter to me at all.;
Gem choices, yes please, only for bonus scenes and support the author.;
Overlays and art scenes. My advice: If you have fantasy with eye color changing and lots of overlays, don’t CC or do limited CC and make it clear for the readers why you don’t CC or do only limited CC at the end of the story OR beginning of the story. (See my story ‘Cat Paws And Wolf Claws’ by AngelWings for example). Also you don’t need to have money for art-scenes there are artists on this forum who’d like to make some art-scenes for free if you follow their rules and ask them friendly.;
Yes, choices also matter to me. We don’t call this game Episode Interactive for nothing. The name says it already, it’s an interactive game to interact with the reader. You don’t need to have life changing choices in every episode, but at least add choices into your story. With choices I mean at least 3 or 4 choices in an episode (and those what to wear choices don’t count as a choice for me.)
Hopefully I informed you well, and if you need other advice don’t hesitate to ask me over here on this forum by PM or at IG (if you have Instagram) by DM @angelwings_1983.
To be honest, it would help if you told me a bit more about the plot. For instance …
Mystery Romance :
What is the tragedy that occured in the MCs life?
Why does the MC have these powers?
Is the MC’s tragedy something that recently happened or something that happened a while ago but the trauma is becoming more and more apparent as the book starts?
How does the tragedy affect the MC?
What changes in the begining of the story for the MC to need to start doing this, or does the story start while she’s already been doing it for a while like Dexter for instance, but in that case what changes to make it more interesting than the previous emotion experiences stories?
This has a solid plot from what I can see, but what matters is what you do with it, not how it sounds in the begining.
I love it when a story isn’t forcing me to choose one person … However I wouldn’t mind only one Love Interest if there was an option to not end up with the LI but still be happy (not like the, you either end up with the LI, love of your life and live with him/her, or you choose this free option and you end up alone and miserable)
Thankfully from what I can tell you won’t make it so you have to pick gem choices in order to get enough points to win. I’ve seen some stories do that.
I’m curious, how would you include full CC and art scenes? Unless the art scenes include everything except the MC or the people you need to customize. I remember playing a story that had ugly characters, allowed customization so I made them acceptable, only to find out the art scenes kept them ugly and didn’t change anything about their appearances, and the art scenes weren’t even good
Thank you, that’s a blessing!
Rom-Com:
Okay so you’re competing with your rivals. What kind of rivalry is it? Like pure hatred and “I have to be better than that j*rk” or is it “Hah, I bet you can’t sing as good as I can” tease?
You should always remeber that a good story idea means nothing if you don’t make the story good. For instance, the rom-com idea isn’t the freshest one, I’m sure a lot of people already made stories that are about singing and/or about enemies to lovers, but what matters is how you make your story interesting to the reader and how you present it, how you capture the action, the emotions, how good you write, etc… etc…
Yeah I agree I just rushed the description as I was doing something when I posted this thread, whichever one I decide to go with, I will most likely change the descriptions anyway they were just temporary
I was thinking to add a choice, so maybe if you wanted to full cc for example, you wouldn’t be able to play with art scenes or if you wanted to play with art scenes, you would only be allowed limited cc
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Yeah I definitely wouldn’t do that, I’ve seen stories do that before aswell and it really angered me and I stopped reading so trust me, I feel your pain and everyone elses so thats most likely the last thing I’d do.
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The tragedy would most likely be the loss of the MC’s parents for example, they were murdered and she would be trying to figure out who they got murdered by. Another option is maybe they disappeared out of nowhere and she tried to find out how. One more option is maybe she suffered from abuse as a child from both her parents which led her to going through the foster care system.
I am currently trying to choose between these ideas, I wasn’t entirely sure if I was gonna do this plot, both merged together or the rom-com as I wanted to hear everybody elses opinion first, so I’ve mainly only planned the title, description, the different endings and made the main characters and also some side/background characters.
Due to her tragedy or tragedies you will see the mc slowly develop a unique power of empathy that allows her to see a person’s emotional aura. If she is focused or stands close to these people she will also be able to read their thoughts and feel their emotions. Basically what I’m currently thinking is that when she was young, she struggled to control her emotions after she lived through some pretty dark times in her life that affected her alot mentally, when I say mentally I mean it affected the way she showed, controlled and felt her emotions, so point is she was gifted with a second chance to make her life better when given these powers.
Hopefully if the readers lead her on the right path by making her choose the right choices, she will learn how to control everything better, the powers obviously won’t go completely nor her mental issues but she will be used to them, so it doesn’t bother her so much at the end.
At the start of the story, you will see a scene where she is writing in her journal/diary.
At the end, she will be reading her journal or lets say her book, (Yes, she ends up publishing it as a real book and she gets successful/famous for it.) to her children, that will be the best ending you will get in the story if you have a fair amount of points.
Hopefully that answered your questions about the powers and her trauma, if not you can keep asking if you wish to !
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With one of the love interests it will be more of like a competitive and cold rivalry, so they tease eachother, similar to what you said but he will warm up to her slowly until they get closer and closer and they end up becoming bestfriends
The other love interest will be competitive too but in a more flirty and friendly way, so he isn’t as cold as the first love interest is.
They all end up getting closer and start a band together but once feelings start to appear, she has to choose between the two, whichever one you choose, the other love interest will still have a happy ending except with somebody else, this will also happen with the romance mystery story.
Also I hope everything I said makes sense, I’m really exhausted while typing this so I may have made a few errors while typing or maybe I didn’t answer everything but if I didn’t don’t be afraid to ask again, English isn’t my first language either so that may just make a few things worse.
I usually don’t like more than one love interest when the main genre is romance, but I can definitely do with it for the fantasy/mystery you’re bringing in.
My first advice would be for you to actually balance it out and show us a connection between the MC and LI, or why the MC likes these two people because usually there’s absolutely no reason except one is a “bad boy” and the other is a “golden boy”. Something should differ between the love interests (e.g LI1 is a superhuman, LI2 is human), else, readers like me won’t see any point in having them as separate people when they are literally the same.
Second piece of advice would be for you to let the readers have a reasonable ending with the LI that wasn’t chosen eventually. If you’re using points to do this, they can remain friends or become totally distant. But don’t just dump them to the side and act like they never existed. At least, you should let us see when thr MC breaks the news to LI that she doesn’t want to be with him.
Full CC, Overlays, Art Scenes
You can do whatever you want, honestly, but if letting readers customize doesn’t mess with anything, you should totally allow us to. I don’t read stories where I don’t like the main character’s appearance. It throws me off as a reader, especially when the author has no reason.
For art scenes, I guess they add a little uniqueness to the story, but I don’t see them as anything important. The only art scenes I’ve ever really liked are those ones that are the cover because it always takes me by surprise and I love seeing that a bit too much . If you can’t afford it, don’t waste your money. You can focus on making other things better.
I’m neutral about the use of overlays, to be honest. I don’t like when it’s unnecessary, too much, or looking very off/badly edited. If you can pull it off, then you can pull it off. But you should really sit and think about it very well - am I gonna offer limited cc or no cc at all? before proceeding with your overlay ideas.
Point System, Choices Matter
I don’t know what kind of point system you would have, but if you can do it right, awesome!
Gem choices (Only for bonus scenes and support the author)
Just my addition — I spend gems on topping up points too. If the book is interesting, I wouldn’t wanna get a bad ending and would definitely invest in increasing my points. If you think it’s gonna mess with your coding, then don’t
Overall, it depends on you and how you incorporate your elements into it. Do some basic planning so you can know what you’re gonna be adding & removing.
Oh that’s smart, nice way to fix the "I won’t play the game if there is/n’t CC and also if there is/n’t art scenes
Kind of like the Witch (her name is too long and confusing to remember correctly) from Good Omens
You can draw inspiration from her, but don’t include the antichrist in it or have a person with an aura too big to read because that would be plagiarism of a good book and it’s tv show adaptation. One of the authors of the book is still alive so I would suggest against it. Lol
If she had problems with dealing with her emotions as a child, maybe it would be best to include how this changed her way of dealing with emotions alltogether, rather than just give her a power to balance it out and hey presto, it’s like the whole time she couldn’t deal with her emotions growing up didn’t affect how she is as an adult. I know you never mentioned you wouldn’t write about that also, I’m not trying to be insulting, just funny. But let’s get back on track, every hero, every power has a weakness, be it obvious and physical like Achiles heel or Superman’s Kryptonite which is a literal physical thing you can touch that harms them about their powers, or it could be something about the power itself, for instance if a person is given a power that’s too powerful there’s usually a kink that balances it out. A great example would be this tv show The Misfits where a group of kids on probation get powers. Ones power is seduction, but the kink is that she doesn’t control it, but physical contact with any person makes that person want to sleep with her, even r*** her and she can no longer touch anybody directly and when she does want to be with somebody she has to touch them to sleep with them so when she touches them there’s no way of knowing if at that point they want it or not. What I think would be good for this character, this thing that brings my two points together is this … The MC couldn’t control her overwhelming emotions so she had no option but to focus on them in order to find a way to get them in order … When she grew up, she got her powers, but because of this emotions problem in her childhood she is now lead entierly by her emotions instead of logic and she bases things on gut feelings and she only does things if she’s in the mood. She experiences a dysregulation of emotions based on the fact that sometimes she feels the emotions of others. Being guided through life by your emotions which are and always will be messy because of your power means that she often finds herself incapable of doing anything for the day becasue her emotions aren’t letting her and in order to use her powers for something useful she needs something to calm her emotions so she can act in piece. Something like that.
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