[CONTEST OVER] JNC Original Light Novel Contest
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@igounfazed said in I Shall Survive Using Potions (Light Novel) Vol 9 licensing:
@Lily-Garden said in I Shall Survive Using Potions (Light Novel) Vol 9 licensing:
@igounfazed well ... you could always write it for J-novel Club's light novel writing contest 😉
hmmm... No... I am nowhere good enough for something like that. I don't mind embarrassing myself, see below url, but competitions are just not me. And there is a lot that goes into writing that I just don't have. If it were a legal document, or even a formal document, I would put it up there with complete confidence. But a story? I don't have what it takes to provide the "filler" a story needs.
Could you write like a legal document? Like an isekai court drama told entirely in formal documents? I would be curious if that would be possible...I've read stories told entirely through letters before, so it might be worth a shot...
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heyyy do you guys read all the content in the submissions and form your answer or just part?
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@Lily-Garden said in I Shall Survive Using Potions (Light Novel) Vol 9 licensing:
@igounfazed said in I Shall Survive Using Potions (Light Novel) Vol 9 licensing:
@Lily-Garden said in I Shall Survive Using Potions (Light Novel) Vol 9 licensing:
@igounfazed well ... you could always write it for J-novel Club's light novel writing contest 😉
hmmm... No... I am nowhere good enough for something like that. I don't mind embarrassing myself, see below url, but competitions are just not me. And there is a lot that goes into writing that I just don't have. If it were a legal document, or even a formal document, I would put it up there with complete confidence. But a story? I don't have what it takes to provide the "filler" a story needs.
Could you write like a legal document? Like an isekai court drama told entirely in formal documents? I would be curious if that would be possible...I've read stories told entirely through letters before, so it might be worth a shot...
hmmm.... if you read the linked story and still think it's was good enough to suggest something else, I thank you for the vote of confidence.
I think I initially misunderstood your suggestion. If I understand what you are suggesting correctly, I think you mean: A legal story told through a court transcript? As if I were reading a stenographer's recording of a court appearance or trial?
District Attorney (DA): Your honor, my intent... What I would like to make clear to the jury while questioning the victim, is where the defendant, Mr. Smith, was in relationship to the victim's location. I unders....
Attorney for Defendant, Mr. Stoks: (interrupting the DA) Your honor, this line of questioning was... has already been done. Three times I might add, and each time my client's location hasn't change, nothing new has been added, and it's all been asked of and with the same witness! All this is doing is lengthening my client's stay behind bars, away from his family; who have come here each day and are here now, while the DA does what? Get the same answer? To show the same thing?
Justice Globerman: Ok.... That's enough. DA, either you move on, or I will move this case on without you. I'm going to bring the jury back in, and you either move on with your questioning, call another witness, or end your case. One of those will be done.
DA: Yes, your honor.
(((in my mind, I envision the DA saying no further questions of this current witness, and bringing in the defendants sister as a witness against him, who saw everything. Meaning the actual story would start from here, in a Q&A fashion.)))
Is that what you meant? It still feels empty to me.
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@igounfazed You say you "don't have what it takes," but how do you think people acquire writing skills they lack? No one is born a great writer; it's something they become by writing. A LOT. If every writer gave up because they weren't as good as they wanted to be, no one would ever write anything. You don't have to submit the story to the contest if you don't feel comfortable, but I would strongly encourage you to continue working on it anyway. I'd be glad to help if you want, too. There may be better writers than you out there, but none of them can tell YOUR story. Only you can do that. As a writer, you can fill the story full of things you love, and create something that suits your tastes perfectly. If you write something you enjoy, I guarantee there will be others out there who will enjoy it, too.
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@igounfazed lmao. You nailed the court room talk with all those pauses and rephrasing mid sentence. Reminds me of when Leonard French reads court transcripts. I read it all in his voice.
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I finally finished my first version of the story. Total of 93k words, over 12 weeks. Average of 7.75k words per week. I am exhausted, but I made it.
I have a month left to edit it before the final submission deadline. Time to
murderremove half the character cast who bloated the story.I felt this quote for this story quite profoundly. "expect 80% of the ideas to happen after you start writing, and 50% of those you start with to be wrong" (source)
I really had no idea what kind of story I was writing until the final chapter.
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Running out of time.
Arg!
I am still trying to make my shortened story readable. On the plus side—I have finally decided on an ending that I like. -
@jazzyjeoff good luck!
I don't think I have enough time to finish my story by the deadline this time. Hopefully I'll have it finished by the next time they do the contest 😉
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Aaah! Wow, I just discovered this forum! I was searching around on the web for any news other than the official site on this contest but couldn't find any except for Justus R Stone's vid. I'm at about 91k words but have had my story done for over a year. The announcement for this contest literally came out the day before my birthday as I was wondering what to do with this story. I have been editing and rewriting endlessly for the last 6 months and i'm almost done. I think I have found all of the plot holes but I'm running out of time for grammar and revision! I'm giving it all that I've got now that exams are over but I don't think I'm going to have enough time for someone else to read through it. However I think that I do have a good text to speech app! Wishing everyone good luck as I pull multiple all nighters to try and get everything wrapped up! The title of my work is called Soul Shifters I'd like to think of it as a YA fantasy/ shonen but with a poc female protag.
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Non-serious question: Can our stories be disqualified for being to sad? I'm struggling to edit through the tears.
I wanted to write a comedy... Why did it end up like this... 😭
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@Parity comedy & tragedy are two sides of the same coin
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With the holiday, I finished
murderingediting out like half the characters. There are now officially, no more bad guys. And the ending is that much sadder for it.I discarded over 20k words, and wrote an extra 5-10k to round things out. This is my first longer story, but I think the ruthless editing really helped. I'm happy where the story is now. Well- I'm as happy as I can be when I'm tearing up at the ending. If half my own attachment to the characters is communicated, this should be a half-decent story.
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Doing some of my own writing made me realize why there are so many isekai stories that only barely make use of the protagonist's otherworldly origins. Even if it's not necessary to the plot, it makes it a lot easier to justify explaining how the new world differs from our own. Like, if everyone rapidly regenerates from injury using an unconscious form of magic like hitpoints from an RPG, an isekai character could point that out to the reader easily as they explore the magic system themselves. A native from the world is less likely to comment on it since it's just a natural part of life for them.
So be it. That world wasn't an isekai 25 years ago, and I'm not going to make it one now.
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@LeavesCat There's always the "token disabled background character used only as an excuse for exposition" gambit.
I waved to Jerry. As always, he was dressed like he was still at work. He worked in construction, despite his disability, and not only wore a hard hat even while not working, but these hand-crafted boots with toes reinforced with metal. Unlike normal people like me, poor Jerry was born unable to regenerate. People like him could heal from little cuts and bruises, but it took forever, and they couldn't even grow back something as trivial as a finger or toe. We all tried to be considerate of him, but it seemed like every week we had a new story to tell of how someone nearly maimed him.
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@Gamen I figure I can work most of it into fights as long as I keep my own rules consistent. The bigger problem is explaining the fact that the planet has a radius of galactic scale. Effects of this include:
- The sun is a magical phenomenon that circles the country, rather than orbiting the planet. It brightens and dims to create day/night, and seasons are based on how physically far away the sun is (their version of the seasonless equator is the center of the sun's orbit). To an isekai person this would be super weird, but to them it's just the sun.
- The horizon at eye level is over 10 million miles away. Effectively, the only limits on the distance of your vision are physical obstructions (trees, hills), and how good your eyes are. The planet is not flat, but functionally it may as well be.
- The very fact that the planet is not an enormous black hole implies some magical fuckery. Since their own planet laughs in the face of the laws of physics, local understanding of gravity is heavily colored by magic.
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@LeavesCat said in [SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!] JNC Original Light Novel Contest:
The horizon at eye level is over 10 million miles away
Dear lord... What in gods name... That's over a hundred times the size of Jupiter... Over ten times the size of our sun... And that's just the horizon..? My brain hurts just thinking about this... Next you'll say it's actually a Matrioshka World, and that would be the real mind breaker cherry to top it off.
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@Parity said in [SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!] JNC Original Light Novel Contest:
Next you'll say it's actually a Matrioshka World
That is actually one of the potential explanations behind the gravity situation that I considered. If the surface is a (relatively) thin shell while the interior is hollow, surface gravity could be reasonably normal. That's not the route I'm planning to go, but still. There could easily be caves the size of planets.
Effectively this is a consequence of kid me thinking "wouldn't it be cool if the planet is cosmically gigantic? You'd need FTL spaceships to cross the ocean! After all, with a normal planet, high-level RPG protagonists should be able to move at such high speeds that a normal planet would run out of space real quick (see Goku, who I didn't know about at the time)." Originally I intended to have multiple suns orbiting the planet (which is technically still true, but they're far enough away to appear as stars), but I realized that there was no way to get a consistent day/night cycle that way. Instead, various regions will have their own style of light source... or be permanently dark. Not that any story arc I have planned will travel too far away from the sun's influence.
Anyway, the thoughts from back then collided with "why are unwanted harems so goddamn popular? I'm a much bigger fan of the power couple trope. Fuck it, I'll do it myself!"
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FINALLY I have the ball rolling again, and that's even after my PC kept having to have Windows reinstalled so I got a new one in the end. I eventually figured out how to get through the parts of the story I was stuck at and this anime season doesn't seem to have much I'm interested in so that will help too.
I'm averaging around 750 words a day now so I should be able to hit 70,000 or so by the final submission date. Will that be enough to finish off the story properly? I hope so!
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@LeavesCat
Well, people will talk endlessly about anything when they are complaining:"Oh, move to the Sunlit Kingdom!" they said. "It is warm and bright all the time, unlike life here on Dark Island!" they said. "You will never have to spend a single coin on firewood!" Now I have no firewood, the weather is cold because of some nonsense called "winter" and the stupid sun only shines for half of the time! I've been f*&%#g scammed!
"Some stupid merchant built a six-story shop a million miles west from here and now I can't see the beach on my telescope!"
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@LeavesCat Geez, that's reminding me of the Little Garden in Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kurusou Desu yo. However even it is only the size of a star.
