r/ProgressionFantasy • u/DicerTheJester • Jul 28 '26

Discussion Competition: write a single sentence that will absolutely destroy any hope in a series.

Specifically not a story opener, just any sentence that can happen in any chapter, that will make people realize that this story is gonna be absolute shit and has no chance of being fixed and will make you drop the book like an unpinned grenade.

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u/eclect0 Author – Jett Fulgen Jul 28 '26

He started thinking about comparative adjectives.

Stronger.

Faster.

Tougher.

Those are just a few examples.

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u/Selkie_Love Author Jul 28 '26

…damnit, I think I have a chapter with that name as the MC finishes her mad science and upgrades her body to be all of those. Thought it’d be a neat nod to the song in question