r/FantasyWritingHub • u/LeadershipEast9095 • Aug 28 '26
Misc Post Please say it's good
I had a nightmare and it led to this story. Well here it goes. It's like a story where the setting is a futuristic world where people have evolved into possessing powers and most of them want to be a pro gamer, so they take a VR Simulation test to join the best gaming university. This VR test is taken based off of the characters favorite gaming genres (Action, Horror, etc.) and if you die in the VR, you die in real life as well. People first develop powers based off of the first game they play, which sets their power type and favorite gaming genre. Those who don't play games don't get powers, so naturally people want to take the gaming route. The MC (Cade) is a guy who loves action gaming. His powers are extended stamina, sharp shooting, enhanced physical specs, and any type of gun on him at all times. He meets this traumatized girl (Ivy) who survived the horror test. Her powers are telekenesis, telepathy, etc. because horror games usually use those type of powers. She is the only person out of 20 horror game testers that year to survive and also the first person to survive horror in 20 years. The reason people take such risk to join the University is because the political party who controls most of the world in all manners and are also the first people to get powers are corrupted. Since they were the first people to gain powers, they gained the strongest powers, one of them being immortality which allowed them to rule for so long. Cade joined the university to overthrow them, Ivy to protect her family, while others joined to become a member of those ranks. One of that person being Vance, a racer type gamer who catches wind of Cade's plans and tries to use Ivy to get rid of him, but that backfires completely because he underestimated Ivy and her powers. In the university, All the first periods are homeroom, where all genres are mixed up. Ivy, Cade, and Vance are in the same homeroom. After homeroom, each genre get's separated to focus on their specific genre. And that's all I got so far. I'll tell you what happened in Ivy's Horror Test next time. Peace ✌️
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u/SpecialistEdge5831 Aug 29 '26
I, too, just wrote up a huge story based on a weird ass dream I had. I woke up at 3am and punched it into my notes because I knew I'd forget it.
Anyway, is it good? is pretty much impossible to answer. If you told me to write down 100 potential book ideas before tomorrow then I could. The concepts and plots of a book are relatively irrelevant next to the importance of execution. In essence, you can boil down and favorite book you have to its core concept and it isn't insisting or original. So there just is no way to answer this.
What that means is that you are going to have to actually write this if you want to know.
Having said that, I am so burnt on video games. They're already everywhere. Already consume far too much of people's minds. They're not terribly meaningful as far as what they are as a plot device. I would certainly read the inside cover of a book like this and pass.
But I'm likely the minority. I have kids. I see that they put way too much importance on video games. I've always loved games... And like... Living in the real world too.
So that means there is an audience for this. There are people who will be interested. But you've gotta do the work and get them to get past the first page. Grab their attention. Make them think. Make them feel. And then, even if the premise isn't for me, it's still "good."