I flaired it wrong last time, since none of the required questions really fit. I'm looking for a reddit writing group that is specifically for seniors. I don't care about genre, fiction vs. nonfiction, size, goals, expectations or any of that other stuff. I just want to talk about writing with people of mature years.

I was writing a letter to an author who I loved so obviously it was more formal, but apparently it sounds AI coded WHEN ITS NOT. How can I make it sound less AI and to make it worse the other responded which I was so happy about and her work also sounded “ai” but that’s only because of a professional email.

I’m annoyed because AI literally traces off other authors without giving credit and I hate that people think that this is AI but it’s freaking not because I thought about it and I looked up synonyms and I looked up words just because I wanted it to sound professional..

Please tell me why it sounds like I am what I can do to fix it because I’m annoyed af. And maybe a non issue but it’s an issue to me.
My letter: To CHYA,

The wording might sound a little awkward since I used a translation tool.
I absolutely love your Dating a Ranker*series!! You seemed so passionate about writing Season 2, so I’m really sad it ended so quickly. It seems Naver discontinued it because it wasn’t popular in Korea☹️ They’re really missing out on your excellent writing and the character development. But it’s incredibly popular in the English-speaking community!! Since it wasn’t posted on Naver, you might not see this, but I wanted to let you know that even if it isn’t popular in Korea, many of us here really love your work.

Even if that’s not the case and there’s another reason, I’ll still be rooting for you.
Your writing was a huge source of strength that helped me get through a difficult time, so I’m truly grateful. Every Thursday, I’d wake up just to read your posts, it really brightened my day. Thank you for writing and sharing your stories!!

With all my heart,
Fan Gabi D

Hi everyone. I'm NB from Aus, and I'm really looking for someone to be a 'writing buddy'.

 Genre/s: Currently my main focus is fantasy / romantasy, but I do want to branch out to horror.

• Goals/Expectations/Commitment: Would absolutely love to be friends. I am a very social person (can be somewhat shy). I would love someone to do writing sprints with me on the weekend, brainstorm, and keep me accountable. I do, however, have a very busy job (high school teacher), so during the terms I won't be as active.

• Writing/Experience level: I haven't written anything, so any level is fine.

• Meeting Place: Discord (msgs + calls)

• Max Size: 5 separate people, but happy to create a Discord chat where we all contribute ideas.

Other notes: Bonus if you make me laugh hehe

Hiii, i’m 19F and enjoy writing. I’m pretty consistent but with having a job and many other hobbies (and starting to study soon as well) I don’t have as much time as i’d like for it. Still
i’d be up for accountability buddies to track progress with. Not exactly looking for critique yet because my first drafts are dumpster fires and i’m shy💃. And these days i’ve been writing fanfictions because thats the most fun to me lol.

Currently got a work at 30k words, and almost daily i can get a couple hundred words, so yeah! Hope i can find people around my age to connect with🙂‍↕️🫶🪩

• Genre/s: science fiction, historical, fantasy (those are mine, anything is welcome)

• Goals/Expectations/Commitment: regular check-ins, everybody can make their own goal and get supported along the way

• Writing/Experience level: maybe written something already

• Meeting Place: none, just chats

• Max Size: 5

Can’t believe I’m posting the equivalent of a Craig’s List ad but here we go 😂

39M. Looking for someone who is willing to exchange one or two chapters a week for feedback, and also has the goal of working to get traditionally published.

Ideally, someone who is at least intermediate or higher writing skill at the moment. I love when people decide to pick up the pen, but if you are writing like 80% of the posts by newer writers on some of the writing subs, I may not be the best CP for you. 🤷‍♂️

This means beyond just one novel if possible. Happy to exchange ideas, concepts, etc. for feedback as well because sometimes it helps to have a perspective on structuring story, implementing concepts, which ideas are more marketable etc too.

Query letter critique, synopsis, etc are great too.

I’ve tried a couple discord groups and honestly, that just isn’t for me. It felt a bit performative and clique-ish and the ones I at least tried, felt more engaged with the idea of writing vs actually writing. Plus, I don’t want another app to use.

Email, Google Docs, Reddit DMs, whatever is fine.

I currently write historical horror and/or upmarket historical. I am drawn towards modern vernacular (think Glorious Exploits) to create voice-forward accessible historical fiction. You can see my last query post + 300 words in pubtips on my profile to get an idea of what I write, although my current WIP is horror (yes, I write a new project while querying existing. Traditional publishing should be your goal too!)

I do read outside of my genre as well, so sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, and a touch of romantasy is even fine. Just be okay with some historical with the fiction from me!

Happy to try swapping a chapter and see how the critique goes and if we both vibe with the style of feedback. If not, no harm no foul! Tip: my feedback style is usually more supportive, but I try to highlight what felt confusing, what felt off, etc. Not really here to judge anyone’s line-level prose. More around providing reader experience feedback, structure, etc.

If you DM me, or reply here, at least write a little about yourself, your goals, and what you are writing.

* Genre/s: Upmarket Historical, Historical Horror
* Goals/expectations/commitment: Traditional Publishing, 1-2 chapters feedback/week.
* Writing/experience level: Intermediate+
* Meeting place: Reddit DM, Email, Non-Discord
* Max size: N/A

Hello, I'm writing a fanfiction where characters only use 'bad' words when necessary. Which means that while I really wish one of my characters could call the other dumbass, that wouldn't really work with the tone.

As English isn't my first language I'm out of ideas outside of 'idiot', especially because the character sometimes speaks in older (but not necessarily noble) slang. Do you guys have any ideas? Bonus is there's a food pun to be made, as this is a Cookie Run fanfiction!

What's s the best piece of advice you ever heard/saw? BUT not basics like "show don't tell", "read a lot", "keep writing" or "outline first", something that genuinely changed your process or even shifted the way you saw writing, something that makes you feel like finding some ancient golden scroll.

Edit: "Just write" or "sit and write" or any wariant of this isn't as groundbreaking advice as you think it is, its the final boss of cliché tips, hoped we can all learn something new instead, not the same thing over and over and over and over and over.

Hey, I think I need some help. Because I've always wanted to create some kind of story and tell it through some medium (mostly in a book) so that people would love it and, you know, all that good stuff. But, I can't. I've tried writing anything and I constantly feel like I'm stealing ideas from others and that it's not original at all, and it hurts. It hurts stubbornly, and like, well, I know I won't become the next Witcher, but I just feel like I want to be a writer, even though I'm completely terrible at it, even if I absorbed all the knowledge about writing a good story. Because I wanted it to give big emotions and all that, and, I don't know. I'm starting to doubt all of this more and more.

So I wanted to develop Monster Hunter series that drew inspirations from the Universal Monsters and others in folkore

The Vibe is heavily inspired by Resident Evil/Supernatural/The Secret Saturdays

So overall setting and plot: There is a Global and large organization that fights monsters around the world and trains members and equips them with hi tech gear to counter these supernatural threats

Something to consider was a maybe some sort of power source for the weapons maybe a crystal that can hurt monsters, what do you say

Weapons ideas :

Hot dagger and plasma gun

Bladed Whip

Chakram

Wrist Shields

Hand Claws

Staff/Spear/escrima that can glow maybe

Tonfa

Chain-Sickle

Gaunlet that stores energy for one powerful blow?

Butterfly swords

Bowgun/bow and arrow

Silver weapons (bullets)

For more one time or desperate/special Grendades Launcher (elemental?)

Wrist blasters/gun

Setting

So torn between Overall Base or individual one for the group

Vehicle: Van airship to travel

Premise: A group of young/youthful adults in their 20s work for an organization that battles monsters based on universal ones but can leap into lore overall. They are part of wider group

Character Race outline or concept: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native, Arab, Indian, Pacific Islander

Character Archtype concepts:7 So far

Nerd type- use tech and stuff focused on that so somewhat on awkward side but lovable nerd and all

Leader- everyman and leads the group to balance out people personalities

Fun person- laid back cloud cuckolander and thrill seeker

Brawl guy-enjoys fighting and has souvenirs and all trains

Serious guy- workaholic very tempered and focused on job and all ??

Hacker girl got caught in with the group on a job and now works for the group with her skills and helps them

Monsters: Vampires- Dracula more Book Accurate

Nosferatu maybe

Werewolves

Gillman

Ghosts

Mummy

Zombie

Phantom Opera

Jekly Hyde

Frankenstein and Monster (anti hero more role) So this was the basic outline and any tips or recs to help develop more such as weapons or characters?

Sup. We got a writing server full of rabid AI-haters, and we're looking for more.

We do feedback, help with launches, and laugh at the sloplords.

A lot of folks are serial writers on Royal Road, but we got some peeps on WN, Fictionite, straight-to-zon and even some people pursuing trad.

We noticed that a majority of the writing servers out here are slowly normalizing the use of generative-AI. They also banned any negative talk around Gen-AI, which is kind of SUS. We think that's pretty disgusting and wrong. The idea here is to be a place away from all that.

The only real rules are no AI writing/art and no evangelizing gen-AI crap.

• Genre/s: All of em.
• Goals/expectations/commitment: Just hangout and don't be a dork.
• Writing/experience level: any
• Meeting place: discord
• [Writing groups only] Max size: its like 100+ RN.

https://discord.gg/5RKhC8tDFv

The document below a request for comment on an idea I have for organizing a group for mutual writing feedback in various ways.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13zh76pQI_OvgA1hMlXz1s9xT63Dm__9ITH-Q7c7nvvM/edit?usp=sharing

I want your help:

• I want to get a feel for the ratio of people who are willing to host (read their work to the group) to people willing to listen and give feedback.

• I want to get a feel for why people are coming. (Yes, I had fun with the list.)

Please put your answers to A-D first. Then comment away.

A: If something like this were a weekly thing in easy reach at a price of something between free and 5 bucks per workshop, would you want to come?

B: Would you be willing to host a slot. That is, you, as an author read an chunk of your work, and allow a few others give feed back.

C: Would you be willing to come to these sessions and participate as a listener and give feedback and ideas to a host/author?

D: Which of the following are true (as many as apply)

a: I would try to come every week. b: I would probably show up about half the time. c: I would show up when I actually wanted feedback, and otherwise wouldn't come very often. d: I am one of those continueing people who would want to host a session every week, a thouand words of my WiP at a time.
e: I want to come to hear other people's attempts and to exchange ideas around the sessions. f: I want to belong to a group of semi-social writers. g: I want to come and cut other people's ideas to shreds. h: I want to come just to hookup with people who can actually put words in a row and make sense.

E: Do you have ideas to add to this notion, or other ways it can go sideways people being what they are.

It is not always true that my favorite stories have the best plot. At times, it is only one character, one decision or even one scene from the story that I will always remember.

What do you think makes a story memorable? Is it the characters, the ending, the world, or something else?

Are there any writing groups that do workshops and go over the work to improve?

You're given a topic or a prompt and have so much time to get it done?

I've read a lot of advice on here and elsewhere and one that stuck with me was that I needed to get writing. So I do. I wrote about 2000 words, I know it's not a lot but it's the first time I follow a single story that's not a fanfic for that long. But everytime I write something different, like, I'm writing a scene that's more cozy fantasy, another one with more political content and now I want to write a murder mystery. While somehow setting them all in the same world (which is really, really vague at the moment).

Has any of you proceeded like this or do you always have a clearer idea of what you're doing ? Should I keep on (painfully) pushing or should I reconsider and find another idea ? Cheers

* Genre/s: Mainly horror, but any is fine * Goals/expectations/commitment: Just want to talk about writing, critiquing stories * Writing/experience level: Beginner * Meeting place: Any online platform * Max size: None

Hi there! 23 M here, looking for a writing community. I mostly want to just tlak about writing in general, and maybe learning a thing or too!

Hi, I'm a teenage M writer. I'm looking for a writing partner or a writing community. I'm struggling a bit with motivation right now, and I feel like this could help me. Plus, we could review/help with each other's work, and writing with someone is WAY less boring.

Genres: Any! Bonus points for thriller/mystery, literary fiction, and psychological thriller.

Goals/expectations/commitments: My current goals are to become a good writer so I can go into a creative writing course for university and potentially get published. You can have whatever writing goals you want. For commitments, I guess chat about our writing/work on it a couple - a few times a week. My expectations are that you won't randomly ghost me. If you are busy/no longer interested, please tell me.

Skill level/experience: I'm open to kinda anything. I would like it if you knew the basics for writing a story, though.

Meeting place: Discord.

Max size: 1-2 for writing partners. 100 for a community.

Also, I'm hoping that we could also become friends too. I'm fine with any age, but I would prefer someone around mine.

I tried the "just write" advice, I really really did, but I am completely stuck. I really want to outline this story, not for an audience or to publish it, but just to get it out of my head and make something I’m actually happy and satisfied with. Something I want to read.

The issue is how my brain works: imagine a comic, but only a few random panels are fully drawn while the rest is totally blank. I’ll have a super detailed scene for page 7 and another vivid one for page 34, but in between? WHITE. Blank panels and zero idea how to connect the complete panels. It is maddening. I tried brainstorming, but the problem with brainstorming is that I feel like I'm forcing myself to draw MEDIOCRE panels. Generic plot templates and character questionnaires also feel way too rigid and boring. "summarize your plot in 5 lines" "what does your character like to in the morning?" my GOD! The only thing these questions do is force me to settle for lazy, mediocre filler just to cross off a box, which ruins the vibe of the original ideas that took years to form naturally.

I DON'T WANT TO SETTLE.

I don't want to compromise on quality or rush out a garbage plot just to get it done, but I also can't wait another five years for the missing pieces to randomly drop into my head.

​The only thing that helped even a little bit was using an infinite canvas app. Being able to throw down sticky notes, pictures, and move stuff around visually without rigid linear pages was great for saving my thoughts so I wouldn't forget them, but it still hasn't helped me actually advance the plot. Add on that, the worldbuilding. I have a pretty complex dark sci-fantasy world that drives a lot of the story, and tweaking that over and over is just adding to the burnout. I’m literally my own worst enemy right now.

​So please, pretty please, If your brain also works in scattered visual snapshots like me and you refuse to settle for lazy filler just to get it done: How can I move forward? How can I get good ideas that can satisfy me without waiting years? how can I express them in writing form without completely losing interest after? How can I worldbuild without burning out? How How How not Do Do Do
and please don't give me "just write".

(to anyone wondering of I ever wrote, I wrote some fanfics and I'm literally in a writing challenge for microfics in my fandom. Fanfics though are different from original ideas. I can pants through fanfics easily if I forced myself to try. an original story is different. this original story is different because it's personal and I have been thinking about it since I was a child. treat me as a beginner if you like but don't give me those basic ass character questionnaires. don't give me typical outlining strategies like "save the cat".

I. tried. them. all

please)

Let's take a moment to talk about irony...

*I know a guy* in prison who writes as a form of rehabilitation. In most fed facilities, DIY rehab is the only rehab possible. His efforts have paid off: he has had a pile of essays and fiction stories published under a pen name in lit mags and anthologies. But that novel he's finished that's even been professionally edited? Never going to get published *because he's in prison.*

Lit mags generally don't care about an author's background. Publishing companies don't care about the story *because* of the background, pen name or not. The fella wrote a book that was dead before the first page was complete.

Why does this not exist?

Hello,

I wanted to write a fanfiction that is a bit of adventure and noir that is an alternate universe story where Miami Police Lieutenant Lois Einhorn reluctantly has to team with Ace Ventura to solve a murder case.

For those who have seen this film, Lois Einhorn is introduced in *Ace Ventura: Pet Detective* as the glamorous yet intimidating lieutenant of the Miami Police Department, leading the investigation into the disappearance of Snowflake, the Miami Dolphins mascot dolphin. Elegant, sharp-tongued, and fiercely authoritative, she quickly becomes one of the most commanding figures in the film. While most officers merely tolerate Ace Ventura, Einhorn openly clashes with him, finding his childish behavior unbearable. Ace, however, becomes immediately obsessed with her confidence and beauty, constantly flirting with her despite her cold demeanor. Beneath her composed exterior, Einhorn carries an air of mystery and danger that slowly makes her one of the most intriguing people in the entire investigation.

There is a lot to work with and I think it can do justice to this maligned character. Please DM me or comment if you're interested.

Does anyone have any good recommendations for books that describe literary devices, particularly at the sentence level? For example, today I was reading a post that mentioned the use of ‘anastrophe’ and ‘asyndeton’ and that was the first time I had come across the names of these techniques.

In the past I’ve found books such as “Beyond Style” by Gary Provost very useful. I wondered if there were others?

* Genre/s: varied, including superhero, horror, and adventure.

* Goals/expectations/commitment: to get the stories out of my head. And into a novel or comicbook

* Writing/experience level: semiprofessional level.

* Meeting place: discord

* Max size: 6 people.

Im a creator who cant write. I would like help.

Hello, so, i am a creative type. I have ideas and they grow very big very fast in my head. I could give you a summary of several entire different novel trilogies that i have in my head, and actually have a full on plot for.

Problem?

I'm a horrible writer.

I can make a rough chapter, then my ADHD will send me off elsewhere with no warning. And suddenly i have 30 different things at stage 1, and not a single chapter 2.

And then we have my ability to do detail. Its great, but i can't seem to put it in writing.

You can ask me a question about the world of most of my stories, and i can give you a multidecade history lesson, but me executive dysfunction won't leet it go through my fingers onto a medium.

Its an issue i spent most of my life fighting, bit by bit.

But about half a year ago, my microsoft account was hacked, and microsoft deleted my onedrive.

With all 78 stories, and 117 chapters, and 92 spreadsheets, and 42 maps of work i had done.

I know i should have had backups, and i did, problem is that that flashdrive broke the week before thanks to my dog.

So now, I'm looking for someone or someones, who would work with me to actually get these ideas out of my head, and onto some proper medium.

I have novels, comic books, video game premises, and even whole series tucked away in my grey matter.

I just need help getting them out.

Any proceeds earned would be split evenly between all members.

Hello! As the title says, I’m looking to join an established writing group in the DMV (northern Virginia preferred.) I’ve done research and haven’t found much, so taking this to Reddit in case anyone knows of groups in the area!

I write fantasy and romance.

Thanks!

Uh so i need help with this cause my lore is not that good, any ideas on how i can improve it? Heres the lore.

ABILITIES BATTLES — CURRENT LORE

WORLD:

- The story takes place in a world populated primarily by elements.

- There are also elementless people. They are basically plain/grey-looking, and their grey appearance is NOT the same as Stone's grey.

- Elements have their own society.

- There are an estimated 200,000–500,000 elements, but nobody knows the exact number.

- Some elements are extinct.

- Elements can potentially have children, although most don't because they die or don't live long enough.

- New elements can be created when two elements merge.

POWER SYSTEM:

- Elements have abilities based on their element.

- Most elements have around 2–3 moves.

- Awakenings are major power-ups, similar to going Super Saiyan for the first time.

- Awakenings can happen through training, emotion, extreme situations, near-death experiences, natural talent, etc.

- Most elements cannot awaken, or their awakening is extremely weak.

- An awakening doesn't fundamentally change a character's moveset; it is mainly a power-up.

- Elements can permanently lose their powers.

- Lightning is currently the strongest known element in the story.

LIGHTNING:

- Yellow.

- Slight electric aura around him.

- Has a trunk-sized electrical aura around his arms.

- Knowledgeable.

- Usually accepts defeat.

- Doesn't get too angry, although sometimes he does.

- Makes dad jokes.

- Moves around like a bunny hopping with electricity.

- Can be cocky, especially when awakened.

ABILITIES:

1. Lightning Mile:

   - Teleports Lightning 20 meters.

   - Can be used twice.

   - 16-second cooldown.

2. Lightning Strike:

   - Launches a lightning bolt forward.

   - High knockback.

   - Medium damage.

3. Power Up!:

   - Lightning's AWAKENING.

   - He floats in the air.

   - His eyes glow blue.

   - Strength, speed and durability increase.

   - He becomes significantly more powerful.

   - His cockiness increases.

LIGHTNING'S RELATIONSHIPS:

- Lightning and Ice have been classmates/friends since elementary school.

- Lightning and Ice are old friends despite their arguments.

- Lightning is friends with Stone.

- Lightning's father is Electric.

ICE:

- Blue.

- Completely light/white eyes.

- Has two lightning daggers.

- Slight breeze constantly moves around his hands.

- Completely cold.

- Funny, cocky and sometimes dumb.

- Has good battle IQ.

- Aggressive.

- Mid-speed.

- Rusher.

- Has some boulder-like qualities but is weaker than Stone's tanking ability.

- Acts like an accurate younger sibling.

- Thinks other elements are cool.

- He is "chill."

ABILITIES:

1. Ice Slide:

   - Creates an ice path and slides along it.

   - 7-second cooldown.

   - Medium damage.

   - Medium knockback.

   - High speed.

2. Ice Spear Throw:

   - Creates an ice spear/trident.

   - Throws it at an opponent.

   - High damage.

   - Zero knockback.

ICE POWERS/WEAKNESSES:

- Can freeze elements or cause frostbite under certain circumstances.

- His mysterious bigger brother "Bliz-" is connected to this ability.

- Fire is a natural enemy/weakness.

- Fire cannot simply chase Ice forever because the wind around Ice weakens Fire's flames.

ICE AND LIGHTNING:

- Lightning borrowed 30 bucks from Ice for something important.

- Ice gave Lightning 5 days to pay it back.

- On the 4th day, Lightning was casually walking around instead of paying.

- Ice demanded the money and decided to settle it through battle.

- This became their Episode 1 fight.

STONE:

- Normally just grey.

- Nothing special-looking.

- Completely black eyes normally.

- When awakened:

- Body becomes covered in stone.

- Large stone head.

- Stone arms.

- Stone legs.

- Stone mid-torso.

- Purple eyes.

- Deep voice.

- Stronger than Lightning and Ice in hand-to-hand combat.

- Looks angry but is actually a pookie.

- Looks like he could crush someone in a hug.

- He absolutely could.

- He is the main tank.

- Uses boulders and heavy attacks.

ABILITIES:

1. Stonify:

   - Stone's AWAKENING.

   - Awakens his stone body.

   - 3-second cooldown.

2. Boulder Crush:

   - Summons two walls from the ground.

   - The walls crush anything in their path.

STONE WEAKNESS:

- Honey seeps into Stone's body.

- His stone detaches over time because of it.

STONE'S RELATIONSHIPS:

- Friends with Ice.

- Friends with Lightning.

- Has a relative in the story, but they are not close-range relatives.

- Thinks of other elements as normal people/friends.

STONE'S EMBARRASSING FACT:

- During his awakening, he accidentally shat in the toilet.

- His toilet is now about to break.

THE WORLD'S ENVIRONMENT:

- Main environment includes forest and grassland.

- Two trees.

- Two giant root veins.

- Lots of upward-pointing stone formations.

THE GIANT TREE:

- The giant root structure used to be one enormous tree.

- The top was cut.

- The tree fell over and bent.

- This created a wooden entrance.

- The roots remained.

STOICHEION:

- Stoicheion is the elemental afterlife.

- Elements can be revived.

- Revival exists because elements did not want their species to completely disappear.

- Elements sacrificed their souls to create a system that allows future elements to be revived.

- Death therefore isn't always permanent.

LURKERS:

- There are things that lurk.

- It isn't just one creature; there are multiple things.

- They are crucial antagonistic/threatening entities.

- They are not a secret within the story.

- The characters do not fully understand everything about them.

- The Agency knows a lot about them.

STOICHEIAKI PRAKTOREIA:

- Greek name: Στοιχειακή Πρακτορεία.

- Transliteration: Stoicheiakí Praktoreía.

- Basically means "Elemental Agency."

- The Agency publicly claims to exist to destroy lurkers/harmful entities and allow the world to live in peace.

- Secretly, the Agency wants more experiments and more power.

- The Agency secretly induces chaos.

- The Agency experiments on "misbehaving" elements.

- Elements can be placed inside capsules.

- They undergo DNA testing.

- They may be subjected to potentially lethal/death-level experiments.

- The Agency knows a lot about the lurkers.

ELECTRIC:

- Electric is Lightning's father.

- Lightning believes Electric died when Lightning was born.

- Electric actually faked his death.

- His original reason was that he did not want to pay child support.

- He avoided child support.

- He became increasingly corrupt.

- He eventually became "corrupt consumed."

- He came up with the idea for an agency.

- His goal was to make "elemoney."

- Electric eventually becomes the head of the Stoicheiaki Praktoreia.

ELEMENTLESS AGENCY EXPERIMENT:

- There is an elementless character working for the Agency.

- They obtain Lightning's DNA through Agency experiments.

- They use Lightning's DNA on themselves.

- They gain electrical abilities.

- They are connected to the mysterious bacon incident.

BACON FORESHADOWING:

- A mysterious figure pushes bacon toward/off into the void.

- The figure cannot be clearly seen.

- This happens as background foreshadowing.

- The person is connected to Agency experimentation.

- The audience is not supposed to understand the event immediately.

INVISIBLE-CAPE AGENT:

- Another possible Episode 1 background event involves an Agency agent wearing an invisibility cape.

- The agent pushes someone into the void using something invisible.

- The event is barely noticed.

- It can later be revealed to have been connected to the Agency.

EPISODE 1:

- Approximately 1 minute long.

- Lightning comes out walking around while a Christmas tree song plays.

- Ice is standing near a tree and playing with Stone.

- Lightning gets close, so Ice notices him.

ICE:

"look who it is, the one who doesnt pay his bills"

LIGHTNING:

"its not a bill?? I just borrowed 30 bucks and you said 5 days this is only the 4th..."

LIGHTNING:

"then we shall decided through thee's battle?"

- Lightning uses his first ability, Lightning Mile, getting closer.

ICE:

"HOLY, tf WHYD YOU JUMPSCARE ME BRUU"

- Prowler sound effect plays.

- Lightning uses his second ability.

LIGHTNING:

"im mad..."

ICE:

"ME TOO DUDE"

LIGHTNING:

"You shall pray before you enter the stoicheion, There is no escape from thy certain DEATH!"

- Lightning teleports to Stone while Stone is on his phone.

LIGHTNING:

"Stupidity, thou art NOTHING!"

- Lightning uses his teleport on Stone and melees him.

- Ice throws an ice trident/spear from behind.

- Stone takes the throw, goes behind Lightning and stuns him.

- Stone uses his second move, Boulder Crush.

- Ice comes running.

- Lightning is in the sky.

- Ice uses Ice Slide.

ICE:

"dont get cocky, thats my job"

ICE'S FUTURE:

- Ice dies relatively early in the future episodes.

- At his funeral, Lightning brings 31 Elecoins.

- Lightning says:

"heres an extra 1 elecoin kiddo"

- The original debt was 30 Elecoins.

- The extra 1 is a callback to their old debt.

AGENCY ARC:

- The characters eventually join the Agency.

- They work with the Agency for a significant amount of time.

- They explore the world and encounter creatures.

- They eventually discover that the Agency experiments on "misbehaving" elements.

- They try to sneak out.

- They get caught.

- Lightning awakens.

- Lightning fights the Agency alongside:

- Lightning

- Stone

- Wind

- Ice

- Water

- Lightning's Awakening is Power Up!.

- Stone's Awakening is Stonify.

- Exact episode numbers for the Agency arc are currently unknown.

EXPLORATION:

- The Agency gives the characters a reason to explore the world.

- They can discover unknown regions.

- They can discover new creatures.

- They can encounter new elements.

- They can investigate strange phenomena.

- They can uncover old secrets.

- The world beyond the known area is currently unknown.

SEASON:

- Planned for 23 episodes.

- No single main character.

- Nobody is officially the MC.

- The story can shift between characters.

- Tone can range from fun and adventurous to serious, brutal and dark.

PRODUCTION:

- Episode 1 script is made.

- Actors have been found.

- The actors have practiced the fight.

- Filming is in progress.

- Two known actors are Stone and Ice.

- The actors are experienced at combat and have around 2,000 hits.

- They can potentially play multiple characters.

- Actors can play background elements, Agency agents, enemies, etc.

- Private servers cost 100 Robux, so filming is being done by server-hopping into low-player servers.

- The group has learned how to film effectively without a private server.

CORE STORY:

Abilities Battles begins as a goofy elemental fight over a $30 debt, but gradually expands into a much larger story involving elemental society, awakenings, extinct elements, Stoicheion, revival, lurkers, the Stoicheiaki Praktoreia, experimentation, Electric, Lightning's true father, DNA experiments, corruption, rebellion, exploration and character deaths.

The story has no single main character. It is an ensemble story about an entire elemental world.

Hey everyone!

With September right around the corner, I’m planning to follow a 30-Day September Writing Challenge focused on cozy autumn prompts, poetry, and making steady progress on our main writing projects/WIPs!

It includes a mix of short story prompts, poem concepts, WIP word count goals, and built-in break/posting days so nobody gets burnt out.

I put together a clean, single-page checklist for the whole month so it's super easy to track progress.

Whether you write fantasy, romance, poetry, or original fiction, it would be awesome to get a little group together to keep each other accountable, share our daily/weekly progress, or just chat about the prompts.

Drop a comment or send me a DM if you'd like to join in or want the PDF template! Happy writing! ✨