Random novel

[Love4NovelGuy]

I want to write a low effort, spiritually fulfilling novel that can help me feel whole… but I’m unsure what to do since I suck at remembering stuff without a plan and need something simple.

Maybe not a Xianxia since that would take too much thinking on move names and region name plus remembering faction names/etc. I need a really simple premise that’s maybe contemporary.

Maybe I should randomly write a title and base the story on that. I don’t know… what would be the most spiritually fulfilling way to go about this? I just really don’t want to make a plan where I remember locations and move names.

wondering if anyone had tried this before. Being an architect writer but gardening a story because they feel suffocated by their planned out novels.

would like some personal opinions if that’s possible.

 

[vaurwyn]

I tried but it didn’t work. I was stuck worldbuilding too much and the novel I was writing was getting too complicated and hard to write, so I decided to start another “simpler” project that I could use to relax.
I still had a solid overall plan on what the story concept was going to be, but not much more. The Mc didn’t even have a name until 5 minutes before posting.
It turns out I care a lot about the quality of my works, so as soon as I had written a few paragraphs and had gotten invested, I started thinking about how to make stuff make sense, researching stuff on the internet and planning everything out.
Now that novel has become the most challenging story I have ever tried to write.

I think that if you want a simple story, you need to plan a simple story. If there are things you don’t want to plan, then make a story where you don’t need to plan those things, instead of hoping that not having one will turn out okay.
Stories like Sunflower : [A sunflower based litRPG] don’t need info like names or kingdom politics, so do something similar. Stay low stakes, find a simple concept and focus on a few character interactions.

P.S. low effort and simple are not synonyms, so the only way to be low effort is to stop caring and just put in less effort.

 

[FoxxieFox]

Person walks to the gas station to get breakfast.

 

[JayDirex]

I want to write a low effort, spiritually fulfilling novel that can help me feel whole… but I’m unsure what to do since I suck at remembering stuff without a plan and need something simple.

Maybe not a Xianxia since that would take too much thinking on move names and region name plus remembering faction names/etc. I need a really simple premise that’s maybe contemporary.

Maybe I should randomly write a title and base the story on that. I don’t know… what would be the most spiritually fulfilling way to go about this? I just really don’t want to make a plan where I remember locations and move names.

wondering if anyone had tried this before. Being an architect writer but gardening a story because they feel suffocated by their planned out novels.

would like some personal opinions if that’s possible.

1. Keep it on Earth. No world building.

2. Make the problems interpersonal so that the issues are about people.

3. It had still better be interesting, original, and entertaining. And life altering for the MC.

 

[ProjCRys]

I want to write a low effort, spiritually fulfilling novel that can help me feel whole… but I’m unsure what to do since I suck at remembering stuff without a plan and need something simple.

Maybe not a Xianxia since that would take too much thinking on move names and region name plus remembering faction names/etc. I need a really simple premise that’s maybe contemporary.

Maybe I should randomly write a title and base the story on that. I don’t know… what would be the most spiritually fulfilling way to go about this? I just really don’t want to make a plan where I remember locations and move names.

wondering if anyone had tried this before. Being an architect writer but gardening a story because they feel suffocated by their planned out novels.

would like some personal opinions if that’s possible.

The best I could think of is a slice of life novel.

Low effort being based on your experiences and interactions with people (you can limit the number characters so you don't have much to remember).

And Spiritually fulfilling if you include many happy mundane scenes (for example going to school, chatting with friends and going to karaoke). If you want to challenge yourself as your Main character is the 'only character' then portray his daily life in a fun and interesting way (here's an example: learning how to interact and becoming a bit awkward in doing so || or maybe they're a bit of a lonely Otaku whose sollace is to buy merc, he could compete with others like him on whose going to buy the limited edition first before it runs out).

For location, it's best that it's set on their hometown. There's no need for an adventure if you want to remember different locations that are far from each other. Although having the character move from one place to another is somewhat inevitable (if you can write the story in few places or even one, and managed to make it interesting, I would be very impressed) you can make the locations as simple as possible (for example: if on earth then something like the mall, grocery store, a bar is already good enough || if it's a slice of life fantasy then a marketplace, a nearby village, a forest might be good but you still have to come up with the name but you still have the choice to limit the size of your story's world.)

About the rest like plot, setting, theme and others would be up to the author. You can search for reference but I advise you to not basically copy and changing it up a little since it's basically like plagiarism or a knock off.

That's all I can say for now and you are free to not follow them if it isn't to your liking. Anyways, I wish you luck in your path of a becoming a great Author. ?

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Use people you know, change one or two letters of their names, and give them the lives you know they've always wanted or the lives they deserve.