Hi, fellow book readers! I’m a writer to-be who is writing a fantasy novel.

So my question is: what would you like to see more and less in a fantasy novel? Storylines that excite you or bore you? Character developments that would be unexpected or something that’s traditional is still hot? More smut or less smut?

Any ideas are welcome ♥️

Ps. Although reading latest fantasy books myself, I wanted to hear from “professionals”: who read it for fun and not analysing every sentence like me 😅 aka actually feeling it end enjoying it.

  • Madmorda@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Less nonsense names. Like Sir Eldenefijerburi went to the little town of Grimfirnutsbadde to buy some sunretretten for dinner. That’s unfortunately pretty common in fantasy, and I think it needs to be taken down like 3 notches lol.

    More adventure in the adventure. I feel like a lot of characters “fast travel”, which in some contexts is fine. But sometimes it’s used to make them jump from town to town to move the story along without actually going through the journey

    • Long-Spot7011@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Omg, so true! That’s why it’s soooo hard to choose names for the characters 🫠 But I completely agree, I hate it too. It makes the story less relatable, and much harder to talk about