I guess try not to be cringe would be my advice, put the story first, don’t just try to force feed the audience your politics, try to show the effects bad policies are having on your world rather than just having characters going on diatribes about the way the world should be. Subtly is much appreciated.
Read actual history. Too many fantasy authors do zero research and their worlds feel completely intellectually empty as a result. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman is a great starting point if you want a huge overview of 14th century life - black death, church schism, endless wars, nobility, peasant revolts, marauding bandit armies, castles, princesses, it's all in there.
Nothing will make your book suck more than not doing research, and yes, that applies to both scifi and fantasy.
village x is inhabited by the barbaric race of Y. they cannot use magic. they are a strictly patriarchal society where men command and women obey, their ranks are established by physical prowess only.
princess Z is the daughter of the chief and despite the young age, she is stronger than all the male warriors of her generation. despite so she doesn't receive any special treatment compared to other women of the village. and she is below the ranks of the warriors she defeats in duel.
she confronts her father about this. he tells her, like he did many times already, that her confidence blinds her. beating some young warrior is a little thing. the reason why a warrior train is to hunt and to protect. the world outside the village is full of scary things stronger beyond imagination. she is not strong enough. women don't need to hunt and the warrior protects them so they don't need to train.
princess Z concludes to be unjustly undervalued by the men that want to hold the warrior ranks in the village. so she decides to run away to reach the capital of the humans to carve her own future.
she eventually reaches the capital with no water or food left and she has no money. she looks for food around until she finds a tavern. there the pissed owner shoo her out yelling at her if she wants to eat she need to bring the money.
Princess is convinced that with her strength she will find out a job fast. but she discovers that humans use tamed beasts, golems, bullshit. for physical labor, OR generally, humans don't trust her race. she is out in the streets at night descend.
she is noticed wandering around alone at night and get ambushed by a bunch of thugs, they want to kidnap and sell her. she defeats some but one of the thugs use magic bullshit that paralyze her. and at this point they mock her and her strength she had pride in.
this is the lowest point of this character and the point when the protagonist comes to save her.
you can either make princess Z meet the protagonist at this point and have a flashback explaining her story during her redemption arc OR find a reason to have the protagonist visit her village first, get him involved with her that she wants to leave the village with him, but father oppose OR another reason and this doesn't happen. so she then runs away
princess Z later join the protagonist party because: no choice and because she wants to become stronger. she experiences situations that effectively make asses her power, better.
during the redemption arc, some warriors of the village went to search her get to pinpoint her locations and find her. they will tell her that her father wants her to return to the village. if she refuses her father will come to search her personally. she is now stronger and fucking pissed that the only worry of her father seems to be not her safety but to have her caged in the village again. so she and the protagonist go to face her father.
at the village, her father challenges her in a duel if he wins she stay at the village. if she wins she is free.
they fight and the father is impressed at how strong her daughter has become.
they both need to go all out. princess Z claim that she will win she cannot be caged in the village again because she has a mission to finish (with protagonist) this is the climax. even so, she loses the duel.
resigned to face her fate that she will go to the village again. father repeats that the reason a warrior train is to hunt and to protect. she found people she cares that she wants to protect. so she must continue to train and don't let these people down. after doing so he passes her his dragonbone sword.
I thought of this in 5 minutes should be redpilled enough. this is my max spoonfeed capability. make all the changes you want. I hope that harem has still free slots.
Oh so you are working on a Litrpg // Progression Fantasy story? If so the first thing is to have a strong system, then story, then characters haha.
As for redpills... They should come naturally, but if you want to make a point while writing, just find something you find funny/absurd and express it while writing. For example, make a character do an action/reaction based solely on anothers race/gender and be absolutely wrong, cause people aren't simple, nor reduced to only those aspects.
For something more specific, you could try to have a Guy with a team of monster guys that shows up from time to time haha, like a reflection of your own hero, but gay. Since I assume there will be harem elements (haha), don't really explain him much, just point out that there are OTHER people out there doing similar stuff for the same reasons as the main character. (You can even play it up for laughs)
It's a sub genre of fantasy, basically it's a fantasy setting with a gaming/tabletop twist. The "focus" of these type of stories is more on the hero getting stronger over time (grinding, unlocking stuff), rather than an overachieving plot (saving the world from evil king).
There is a subreddit about it too, quite decent (as smaller, more niche communities tend to be).
There are a few good books (The Cradle Series), web novels (Defiance of the Fall), and even mangas with this idea in mind (Like "The Gamer" Manwha, or "Solo leveling only")
Well, red pills at their most basic form just mean "stone-cold reality" right? If you want to have a red-pilled story, you want to stay far away from the usual rainbows and unicorns in fantasies. You have to show how harsh and unforgiving real life actually is (hero doesn't always win, people actually die, people are always sefish, etc.). It's red pills like these which makes the A Song of Ice & Fire series so refreshing.
Sounds like a cross between This Giant Papier-Mache Boulder Is Actually Pretty Heavy and Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment, with a bit of Galaxy Quest thrown in.
Where are you going to be posting this? Because from my own experience in posting online novels. A lot of my readers are more fans of the type of things that SJW types / propagandists would find abhorrent.
It's a little refreshing, but it can get weird too.
I didn't realize that you wanted to get self-published. That's pretty cool.
In terms of the service, it looked fine when I was looking into it during a period when I wanted to publish my own work. Unless you had any issues with Amazon as a whole, which I assume you don't since you're considering it, then there's nothing that stands out as a bad thing that they offer.
Unfortunately, Amazon has chosen to get rid of light novels if they contained lolis in them. So I feel it's only a matter of time before they start going for more and more anime related material.
I don't know too much about services that are cheap. I'm pretty sure that a fair bit of legitimate self publishers have costs associated with them. But if it's just ebooks, then it's probably not too high. I'm not sure, but feel free to private message me if you want to talk more about it. This is a topic that I enjoy looking into.
have a fes black slaves owned by blacks who are then freed by white saviours. Have the black slaves thank their white saviours and become their servants.
Have the freed slaves learn how not to be savages from their white mast...saviours.
I guess try not to be cringe would be my advice, put the story first, don’t just try to force feed the audience your politics, try to show the effects bad policies are having on your world rather than just having characters going on diatribes about the way the world should be. Subtly is much appreciated.
Read actual history. Too many fantasy authors do zero research and their worlds feel completely intellectually empty as a result. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman is a great starting point if you want a huge overview of 14th century life - black death, church schism, endless wars, nobility, peasant revolts, marauding bandit armies, castles, princesses, it's all in there.
Nothing will make your book suck more than not doing research, and yes, that applies to both scifi and fantasy.
Show, don't tell.
village x is inhabited by the barbaric race of Y. they cannot use magic. they are a strictly patriarchal society where men command and women obey, their ranks are established by physical prowess only.
princess Z is the daughter of the chief and despite the young age, she is stronger than all the male warriors of her generation. despite so she doesn't receive any special treatment compared to other women of the village. and she is below the ranks of the warriors she defeats in duel.
she confronts her father about this. he tells her, like he did many times already, that her confidence blinds her. beating some young warrior is a little thing. the reason why a warrior train is to hunt and to protect. the world outside the village is full of scary things stronger beyond imagination. she is not strong enough. women don't need to hunt and the warrior protects them so they don't need to train.
princess Z concludes to be unjustly undervalued by the men that want to hold the warrior ranks in the village. so she decides to run away to reach the capital of the humans to carve her own future.
she eventually reaches the capital with no water or food left and she has no money. she looks for food around until she finds a tavern. there the pissed owner shoo her out yelling at her if she wants to eat she need to bring the money.
Princess is convinced that with her strength she will find out a job fast. but she discovers that humans use tamed beasts, golems, bullshit. for physical labor, OR generally, humans don't trust her race. she is out in the streets at night descend.
she is noticed wandering around alone at night and get ambushed by a bunch of thugs, they want to kidnap and sell her. she defeats some but one of the thugs use magic bullshit that paralyze her. and at this point they mock her and her strength she had pride in.
this is the lowest point of this character and the point when the protagonist comes to save her.
you can either make princess Z meet the protagonist at this point and have a flashback explaining her story during her redemption arc OR find a reason to have the protagonist visit her village first, get him involved with her that she wants to leave the village with him, but father oppose OR another reason and this doesn't happen. so she then runs away
princess Z later join the protagonist party because: no choice and because she wants to become stronger. she experiences situations that effectively make asses her power, better.
during the redemption arc, some warriors of the village went to search her get to pinpoint her locations and find her. they will tell her that her father wants her to return to the village. if she refuses her father will come to search her personally. she is now stronger and fucking pissed that the only worry of her father seems to be not her safety but to have her caged in the village again. so she and the protagonist go to face her father.
at the village, her father challenges her in a duel if he wins she stay at the village. if she wins she is free. they fight and the father is impressed at how strong her daughter has become. they both need to go all out. princess Z claim that she will win she cannot be caged in the village again because she has a mission to finish (with protagonist) this is the climax. even so, she loses the duel.
resigned to face her fate that she will go to the village again. father repeats that the reason a warrior train is to hunt and to protect. she found people she cares that she wants to protect. so she must continue to train and don't let these people down. after doing so he passes her his dragonbone sword.
I thought of this in 5 minutes should be redpilled enough. this is my max spoonfeed capability. make all the changes you want. I hope that harem has still free slots.
Oh so you are working on a Litrpg // Progression Fantasy story? If so the first thing is to have a strong system, then story, then characters haha.
As for redpills... They should come naturally, but if you want to make a point while writing, just find something you find funny/absurd and express it while writing. For example, make a character do an action/reaction based solely on anothers race/gender and be absolutely wrong, cause people aren't simple, nor reduced to only those aspects.
For something more specific, you could try to have a Guy with a team of monster guys that shows up from time to time haha, like a reflection of your own hero, but gay. Since I assume there will be harem elements (haha), don't really explain him much, just point out that there are OTHER people out there doing similar stuff for the same reasons as the main character. (You can even play it up for laughs)
It's a sub genre of fantasy, basically it's a fantasy setting with a gaming/tabletop twist. The "focus" of these type of stories is more on the hero getting stronger over time (grinding, unlocking stuff), rather than an overachieving plot (saving the world from evil king).
There is a subreddit about it too, quite decent (as smaller, more niche communities tend to be).
There are a few good books (The Cradle Series), web novels (Defiance of the Fall), and even mangas with this idea in mind (Like "The Gamer" Manwha, or "Solo leveling only")
Very very easy to express the important of self defense, and by extension individual sovereignty, in any given fantasy setting.
Well, red pills at their most basic form just mean "stone-cold reality" right? If you want to have a red-pilled story, you want to stay far away from the usual rainbows and unicorns in fantasies. You have to show how harsh and unforgiving real life actually is (hero doesn't always win, people actually die, people are always sefish, etc.). It's red pills like these which makes the A Song of Ice & Fire series so refreshing.
Sounds like a cross between This Giant Papier-Mache Boulder Is Actually Pretty Heavy and Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment, with a bit of Galaxy Quest thrown in.
An isekai, huh. Give it some value for people that are over-exposed to the genre.
Hah, yes, but now I have to wonder how much of a porn it is, which can either be a problem or guaranteed sales.
I'm glad you care enough to try to give it some depth. Some groups really desire the depth, but futa fans are alien to me so I couldn't say.
As long as you have a passion for your project throughout its creation, parts of you should show up in it, including some redpill beliefs.
Where are you going to be posting this? Because from my own experience in posting online novels. A lot of my readers are more fans of the type of things that SJW types / propagandists would find abhorrent.
It's a little refreshing, but it can get weird too.
I didn't realize that you wanted to get self-published. That's pretty cool.
In terms of the service, it looked fine when I was looking into it during a period when I wanted to publish my own work. Unless you had any issues with Amazon as a whole, which I assume you don't since you're considering it, then there's nothing that stands out as a bad thing that they offer.
Unfortunately, Amazon has chosen to get rid of light novels if they contained lolis in them. So I feel it's only a matter of time before they start going for more and more anime related material.
I don't know too much about services that are cheap. I'm pretty sure that a fair bit of legitimate self publishers have costs associated with them. But if it's just ebooks, then it's probably not too high. I'm not sure, but feel free to private message me if you want to talk more about it. This is a topic that I enjoy looking into.
have a fes black slaves owned by blacks who are then freed by white saviours. Have the black slaves thank their white saviours and become their servants.
Have the freed slaves learn how not to be savages from their white mast...saviours.