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What's the main character expected to do? The magic system is just a prop

Write you're reply, an elegant answer to your question by a prompt. Write your reply to your character, why are they important? What ideal makes them different? How do you feel? Do they feel the same?

Don't write? Seems pretty easy tbh

The showcase forum is a couple clicks away, if you want judgement

There's a lot of people who read fantasy and want to write their own, but can't be anything other than the MC in their own mind. Good riddance imo

A sentient bike exists, with a dutch accent. He peddles around america pleading the case for cyclists as a way to avoid the total heat death of the sun. Plot twist, some dude in a truck coals him hard, and the protagonist must now bike on the sidewalk with limited vision.

That seems fair

Thats a difficult path, imo. What plot can others agree to if your story is simply ego-driven

https://mythicscribes.com/community/threads/stories-containing-too-much-world-building.12932/#post-181409

Why bother with a consensus? Write it if you're able

Pointing out the desire to build a world instead of a story seems helpful in the most direct way. I don't think I need to offer a strategy other than pointing out this problem, as I know it the idea to get caught up in world building instead of narrative isn't fun to read. As for the...

A big problem I see in the amateur writing community is the attempt to make a world instead of a story. Massive amounts of world building with a story being secondary. It's like there is a fixation on how a world exists but neglect story. Just daydreaming

Honestly read some philip k dick. Not everything in your world has to be explained, but shown. A lot of people get caught up in how to describe their world instead of telling a story in it. Write a story not an encyclopedia

A better person would stab me to death and deny everything

You're lack of imagination is your ruin. What next will you pass? If anything