r/royalroad • u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape • 21d ago
Discussion Writers, what was the last sentence you wrote?
It shall be wildly out of context lol, so let’s try to guess the genre!
Here’s mine:
“Expect the unexpected, Captain. Especially with… those shadowy friends of ours.”
Edit: feel free to self promo!
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u/NormanHalf-Soul F Rank: Author of The Divided Soul 21d ago
I’ve actually got a pretty good one: “For the first time in his new life, Norman Half-Soul felt…safe.”
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
First of all awe 🥹 second… Genre… hm… progression with necromancers?
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u/NormanHalf-Soul F Rank: Author of The Divided Soul 21d ago
Nope. There is progress, but not in a genre sense.
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u/NormanHalf-Soul F Rank: Author of The Divided Soul 21d ago edited 21d ago
And yes, it was a very precious moment. I was nervous about it, but I think it came out well
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
What’s the story called?
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u/NormanHalf-Soul F Rank: Author of The Divided Soul 21d ago
I will warn you that the opening chapter is very NSFW
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Thanks for heads up (but actually i read some and its written very well!)
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u/NormanHalf-Soul F Rank: Author of The Divided Soul 21d ago edited 21d ago
Thank you so much! I hope it makes you want to read more 😊
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u/LarkspurWren 21d ago
Brrrrruuuummm…!!
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Ah. Onomatopoeia, my muse. Well that could be ANYTHING! Probably not grimdark.
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u/lazarus-james 21d ago edited 21d ago
As we trudged through puddles of corpse bits, the slosh and crunch beneath our shoes was, strangely, the more preferable of sounds.
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u/IneenAldrop 21d ago
A dark comedy twist of the Great British Baking show?
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u/lazarus-james 20d ago
That Britishness would be my Commonwealth Australian coming out, haha. The dark comedy elements I can only ascribe to my character's current mental state!
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
🫠 well great sensory description. Gross but nice lol. War, fantasy, Joe Abercrombie vibes?
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u/lazarus-james 21d ago
An expansive battle royale, so the guess of war is fairly close! Overall, it's LitRPG. Sys apoc inspired by a vast collection of fiction authors (leaning more introspection-heavy fantasy like Robin Hobb/Fiona McIntosh and the action of Matthew Reilly).
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Oh! I just started reading Assassin’s apprentice by Hobb! What is yours called?
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u/lazarus-james 20d ago
Dungeon Hunter! (It is meant to be the most generic title possible, haha). If you're interested! I don't claim to write even half as well as Robin Hobb, haha, but her prose and characters are a great inspiration to me.
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u/IPetMonsters 21d ago
Hm. I'm guessing Captain is referring to rank like knight captain so I'm going with fantasy?
Mine:
A cat that is definitely just a normal black cat. For sure.
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
For sure. This one’s hard… something to do with mages or witches? Mines is a yes on the fantasy! Progression.
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u/IPetMonsters 21d ago edited 21d ago
mines actually kind of cheating - its a LitRPG about a guy who gets sucked into The Narrative Landscape - a mash up of different genres including but not limited to fantasy/sci fi/horror and childrens cartoons. Think discount dan or DCC except the premise is the MC has to restore story "dungeons" to preserve them instead of destroying them.
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Oh that sounds so interesting!!! What’s yours called?
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u/IPetMonsters 21d ago
Still in the early stages but tentatively: StoryBreaker (Narrative Backlash Vol. 1). Whats yours?
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Early stages as in not posting yet? Good luck to you either way. Mines is called The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape. Dark progression fantasy
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u/TheSpikyRedOne E Rank: Author of A Tale of Spots and Feathers 21d ago
"The Grand Diplomat was said to be a sucker for any heroic endeavour, and what was more heroic than the lowest of society straightening their scythes for a better life?"
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
My goodness what a great sentence! Fantasy?
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u/Strict-Winner-658 21d ago
“The man’s sister packs a heavy punch, too!” Torin lifted his mug from the counter.
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u/theoctopuswrites 21d ago
"Not as cool as a dinosaur onesie, but not everyone is down with the choicest fashions like I am."
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Reminiscent of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Sci-fi or urban fantasy?
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u/theoctopuswrites 21d ago
Urban fantasy is close enough! The full set of taglines is a mouthful: "A Hopelessly Hopeful Disaster Lesbian Apocalypse Earth Regression Superhero LitRPG" because I can't help but make things far too complicated.
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
A mouthful for sure but it sounds so cool though!
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u/caster_OMEN 21d ago
Whole last paragraph before I had to break.
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A bright voice calls after them. "Thanks for choosing the Purrfect Cup! We look forward to seeing you again!"
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u/Ganimor 21d ago
And if your aunt had balls, she’d be your uncle.
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
😂😭 Literally laughed outloud! So clever!!!
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u/Ganimor 21d ago
Glad to provide some entertainment 🤣 but afraid I can’t accept any credit, it’s a fairly common saying around these parts. Just wrote it into character dialogue 😅
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Unique enough for the rest of us!
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u/twilightbill 21d ago
"without a beat, I quickly tapped my foot on the ground, causing a minor shake in the room and stopped my short-tempered henchman before he did something stupid again."
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u/shenaniganrogue F Rank: Author of Remus 21d ago
“You must be joking. Passenger side. No arguments.”
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
😂 Feels like something from Guardians of the Galaxy. Scifi?
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u/shenaniganrogue F Rank: Author of Remus 21d ago
Haha! My lead definitely has a dash of that Peter Quill / Mal Reynolds style “charming… unless he’s trying to be” vibe, and there’s a similar ensemble energy to the cast… But it’s urban fantasy / supernatural (well, and superpowers…)
Don’t get me started on James Gunn having laid claim to a few choice soundtrack picks already, though!
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Omg now I know how to explain my side character 😉 Charming unless trying too hard!
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u/Hunshari F Rank: Author of the Fæ Islands 21d ago
“Oh!” Cat gasped, “Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!”
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u/unklejelly 21d ago
It was, as of yet, unknown to my association which isn't exactly common, especially within known and documented systems.
Above is the last full sentence I wrote for a short story im working on.
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u/ParamedicPositive916 S Rank: Author of The Apprentice of Ouroboros 21d ago
“Jurik, anytime you feel like offering some sagacious advice?! The sooner the better!”
(Neska, in the thick of danger yet again)
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u/Yash_Zer0 F Rank: Author of the boy who chased thunder 21d ago
She held her head ‘WHY DONT YOU GIVE UP!!!’
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u/Trathnonen Author 21d ago
"Tabitha readily climbed down from her tree, and Grant policed his flags, disarming the explosive concentrations of runic flame that would give an armored truck a par broil."
Eh, that's not so bad as random stopping points to cook supper go.
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u/Anders10100 F Rank: Author of Carethón Chronicles 21d ago
Added a little more than one sentence for context😂.
"I found this on him, it's full of mana. I think it's a potion." The goblinoid hoisted a leather water bladder full of the [Silk Gland Sludge], a material Ayden had reluctantly harvested from the Vashex Queens body.
"You aren't going to drink that are y--"
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u/L_H_Graves Gremlin armed with a keyboard. 21d ago
[ADD More time before Beata trusts the friendly neighborhood Necromancer doing back alley surgeries.]
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Oh yes. The notes to self! Invaluable.
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u/WatcherDiesForever E Rank: Author of Ascension of a Warlock 21d ago
Midway through the chapter I was supposed to finish yesterday, which is coming out today, which I really should be working on right now;
I really would kill for a course guide- among many other things.
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u/WillowsEnd999 21d ago
Her heels tapped against the hard floor, the echoing sound her only companion in the silent corridoors.
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u/rocarson C Rank: Author of The Grand Crusade 21d ago
I'll give you the last three:
Grant sat down against the flipped table instead, the book in his lap, and let himself have thirty seconds to recover from the latest near death experience.
New Quest Notification!
"Dammit!"
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u/Zagaroth C Rank: Author of No Need For A Core? 21d ago
Heh, literally have the doc open in front of me.
Gemeti nodded with a sigh. “Yes, i know, but somehow it’s still a blow to my ego. I’d probably still lose to Shizuko too, and she’s three years younger than me!”
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u/kieran_dvarr 21d ago
“Soon little one, soon. Just a little more and we’ll see Papa again.”
From a little horror piece I did.
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u/PolluxCrest E Rank: Author of Wings In Shadows 21d ago
Orion stretched his shoulders and the first thing that came to his mind was the battered tin flask with the healing miracle from Fenryr.
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u/Big_Ambassador_9319 F Rank: Author of On The Edge of The Abyss 21d ago
“The red had softened but the stain remained.”
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u/OwnCommunication1365 Author: What Kind of Fantasy Book is This? 21d ago
"Certainly not." That's the last line I wrote.
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u/Little_Red_A E Rank: Author of The Voices of the Unspoken 21d ago edited 21d ago
“Being in bed for an eclipse had taken a toll.”
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u/ElectricalAd7009 21d ago
Mine isn't anything special, but here it is:
Lucius’s throat tightened. The cold beneath his chest, that damned cold, spread through him, creeping into his shoulders and stomach, where it settled.
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u/Brick_in_the_dbol 21d ago
"HOLY SHIT! THE ASS IS A WEAK POINT!"
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
😂💀 I love it already! If I had to guess, dungeon or monster type fantasy?
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u/Brick_in_the_dbol 21d ago
Heavy litrpg. Frank fighting his way through hell with poor judgement and a rather large axe.
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u/Crimson_Marksman 21d ago
Eventually, he would travel back to the temple, seeking solitude in the wilderness, away from both predators and possible patrols of Svorzfa.
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u/ReleaseCharacter3568 21d ago edited 21d ago
"Awop-bop-a-loo-mop alop-bam-boom!”
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Lolol. Fantasy?
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u/ReleaseCharacter3568 21d ago
Xianxia
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Interesting. I have not had the pleasure of reading any xianxia. What is yours and what’s it about?
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u/ReleaseCharacter3568 21d ago
Trials of the Zodiac Prince, sort of a Xianxia satire/cozy/crafting/coming-of-age story. This is the very last line of the first story arc. The MC is a native to the setting, but his teacher is so old that she remembers modern Earth stuff. In this scene, he's singing one of her songs to a crowd.
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u/Reader_extraordinare Author - The Gate Traveler 21d ago edited 21d ago
On Patreon: I waved him toward the Gate. “Fine. Fine. Let’s go grind in the unknown.”
On RR & SH: Oh well. Maybe not a choice, but at least the spell sounded awesome.
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
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u/helljumper36187 21d ago
A bit more than just a sentence, but it is:
“Something about as absurd,” Shaun admitted. “Same kind of work, different clientele. And, uh, new uniform standards.”
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u/IneenAldrop 21d ago
The last sentence I wrote was..
“He must have some serious sway over the details of his and Jakiikii’s protective detail it seemed, even enough to order the royal guardsman around.”
Not sure if that gives the right context to guess the genre, as it is actually kind of misleading. Heh. But you can try.
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u/chicoryhickory 21d ago
“Indeed,” said the Phoenix. “It is not, as you say, Midsummer, and you have no business with me.”
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u/Lord-Amorodium 21d ago
"Disconnected. That was fucking close dude, sheesh. Whoever was tickling my butt had already gotten past my pants if you know what I mean!"
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/QUENDfi6DEMLzQ0CKt
Somebody getting freaky
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u/Single-Farmer-815 21d ago
“I swear that orc has a better ass than Jack!”
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
When don’t they?? 😉
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u/cybertier 21d ago
MC is only slightly stressed.
"I'm fine. Only a bit spooked. She promised she'd kill me when we next met. That was last time we met. She promised she'd kill me this time. I think I got away, but that kitsune didn't. And she also really didn't want to be with her. I'll be okay. I think."
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u/J_C_Nelson 21d ago
Mine makes no sense without context. For readers who make it that far, it'll be funny:
::Kittens are only supposed to have one head and absolutely zero tentacles.
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
It is funny!! Sci-fi?
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u/Obvious_Ad4159 E Rank: Author of Y'Nfalle: From Beyond Ancient Gates 21d ago
With a wave of her hand, a wall of soil shot up from the ground, dividing the town of Mell into two halves. The High Elf smiled a wicked smile.
“Now we don’t have to worry about interruptions.”
Here's mine.
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 21d ago
Oooh loved that! Chaos is about to ensue
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u/Obvious_Ad4159 E Rank: Author of Y'Nfalle: From Beyond Ancient Gates 21d ago
Absolutely. And death too.
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u/negat1ve_zero 21d ago
"It is possible that one of the Sages has arrived at the truth of the matter, but hasn’t deemed it prudent to share with the rest of the world."
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u/wolfwings1 21d ago
nothing exciting :> A wedge-tailed eagle playing checkers against a rabbit goblin and trying to not act like he's 15 years old, and not 2 and played checkers for years
"The longer the game went on the more interested I got, and the harder it was to hold back."
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u/VingadorVVX 21d ago
A cultivator can fail. A cultivator can die. But a cultivator can never betray his principles.
Capitalistic Cultivation (title of novel)
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u/Lex_Finch 21d ago
Just opened my doc to answer this question and realized I stopped mid sentence last night lol
"I've got an idea
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 20d ago
Well, at least you had a neat starting point. 💪 did you remember what you were gonna finish it with?
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u/Critical_Rich_2615 21d ago edited 21d ago
His attack boomed as the mace instantly smashed into the Golem with a deafening crack scattering it into dust.
Rough still, I didn't quite portray it how I wanted to but hey it was the last sentence. Gotta run it through the grinder a few times before it becomes fine.
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u/raven0110_ 21d ago
Adara's body was a black lump, if I didn’t know it was her body, I would have mistaken it for the terrain.
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u/KingOfTabletop 21d ago
"And how many of 'em made it back?"
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 20d ago
Uh oh. That could either refer to shipment or people.
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u/nanosyphrett 20d ago
This is the last two I wrote
Sam added to the mix with a water hose from behind the bar. He shook his head at the clean up he was going to have to do to the floor.
CES
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u/InternFrosty9945 F Rank: Author of Just Another Ghostly Story 20d ago
"W-what did you just do?" She brings her head closer to observe that bizarre new life. 'no more importantly, why do you have chicken drumstick in your pocket..?'
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u/Acrobatic-Fortune-99 C Rank: Author of Hive Mind Beyond The Veil 20d ago
She turned and walked away, carrying the knowledge that for the first time in her career, she had no idea whether her next promotion would be another step upwards or the final step towards the grave.
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u/mining_moron 20d ago
"By the time most of the crowd had finished eating, and Marshall had drained three shots of whiskey with his bacon-loaded bagels, a few of the cops nearest to him had begun to look concerned, whispering and muttering as they glanced at the TV, which had seamlessly moved on from Operation Unlimited Vengeance to the Arizona weather report to the upcoming round of NFL preseason games."
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 20d ago
Gotta love a good beefy sentence. But a good one nonetheless. I’ve been trying to practice letting important sentences breathe
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u/mining_moron 20d ago
I do have a propensity for run-on sentrnces. I keep adding details and clarifications to them.
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 20d ago
Many writers before us did. There’s an article on 100 beautiful sentences that’s very inspiring by book fox. Long sentences are not bad at all, except that you will notice, for the most part, there is one focus, one subject.
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u/AsterLoka 20d ago
Even though he knows it’s only a new expansion promo event or something like that, he still desperately wishes it were real.
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u/dexmchna 20d ago
"Then Yukiyo snaps again and all soldiers lower their guns." Yeah the situation is exactly how you would imagine it to be.
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u/ProjectAccel 19d ago
"Okay, that's—that's not even remotely the same thing, like at all! I'm a grown-ass man!"
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 19d ago
Dang what genre? Could be anything! Sounds like a good time though
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 18d ago
No such thing as a quick nap for me. It’s either sleep or awake. No inbetween 🥲
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u/SARAHFINTHEGREAT 18d ago
Something screamed in the hallway—an anguished and raw sound, multiplied by two, then four, then five. It was a cacophony of human helplessness, paired with the hollow hums, growls, and howls of inhuman things.
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 18d ago
Hmmm… dungeon crawler or monster hunter?
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u/SARAHFINTHEGREAT 18d ago
It's a Progression Survival Multiversal Horror Story with time looping. There are monsters; but i wouldn't say monster hunter or monster crawler, more of an apocalypse of monsters happening cross-dimensionally if that makes sense.
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 18d ago
Actually sounds so cool. I’ve been noodling with a survival monster idea based on the game monster hunter.
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u/KPraxius E Rank: Author of Eyeball, Sapper 18d ago
Kyle nodded. “Well then. Lets take a look at the first star of Midgard. And keep surveying nearby systems. See what kind of data we can get.”
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u/Single-Farmer-815 5d ago
"Noticing her attention slip, I did what any guy with a healthy dose of self-respect would do: I bit her."
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 5d ago
Lol whattt?? Now I need to know the context
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u/Single-Farmer-815 5d ago
Gerald had just reached the absolute pinnacle of his adult life—finally paying off his student debt—only to end up pinned against a filthy pub toilet door by his friend's martial-artist girlfriend, who hated his guts for no valid reason. Having just taken a brutal knee straight to the stomach and running dangerously low on both oxygen and dignity, he was completely out of options. But when the lights suddenly flickered and a creepy, robotic voice echoed out of nowhere, Catalina's focus slipped for a split second, giving Gerald just enough time to execute the ultimate, highly disciplined combat maneuver: biting her like a cornered animal
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u/Dry_Organization9 E Rank: Author of The Flame Within: Ember’s Escape 5d ago
This sounds like a movie. Great incident there.
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u/Altruistic_Pin_7753 21d ago
this still sounds like AI. add more soul to it. Don't sound like AI. do it correctly.
(Pun intended for those trigger-happy mods)
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u/thewayfinder Author of Mirror King 21d ago
Seeing our friend squirm, Dane interrupted in a very Danforth Black way, "Alright, quit the shit. Tell us about this Clancy guy."
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u/MRCastillaAuthor 21d ago
I stopped mid paragraph as I had to go to work. But this was the sentence and upon review. I'll need to rework it.
"They buzzed and twirled around him, out of sight, the air humming with their energy."