POWER FANTASY - Terrible Writing Advice

A new challenger has appeared! The Love Triangle faces its most powerful foe yet, the very essence of power in stories, Power Fantasy!


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[cking]

In America, it’s the love triangle
In Japan, it’s the love polygon
In fan fiction, it’s the love family tree

[kamilgrela]

Power fantasy can be best used in games, where your performance is directly caused by your knowledge of the game and ability to play.

[oboretaiwritingch.]

Disappointed you didn't mention one thing about power fantasy: how lack of self-awareness hypocritical it almost always is.
You fight one-dimensional greedy, power hungry, rapists villains, yet the *entire point* of the story is that the protagonist gets wealth, power, and girls for free without any efforts.

[TupocalypseShakur]

Stan Lee once said "What's the point of making someone faster than a comet, more powerful than a locomotive if you don't care about the person inside the suit."

[solllarque]

I'm going to write a book using all of your tips

Just you wait...

Just you wait...

[tlotpwist]

"There once was a boy named Askan, living in the small village of Ivythorne.

He wasn't the Chosen One, was of average intelligence and didn't hid any secret power.

So, as expected, no one embarked him in any adventure to save the world, and the kingdom of Restinpith was destroyed by the Dragon invasion."

Finished my book, i'm happy i avoided a bunch of tropes on the way.

Gotta start thinking about a sequel now

:p

[kingtysonsworld]

Oh no, even Terrible Writing Advice has been forced to hoard TP. Boys, we are not gonna be able to TP houses for Mischief Night this year.

[jrheiselt]

Yes, the American way. Why have a training arc when you could have a training MONTAGE!

[Apt]

God, that scale comparison is just perfect.

[ralphize]

My mind is plagued by blank slate characters the audience is supposed to “relate” to that have every girl in a 100km will fight over. They infect my dreams and I can’t escape

[Overlordough]

Terrible Writing Advice's Ego has reached critical mass. If it is not destroyed soon, all life in the TWA universe will be consumed by their Ego's monstrous hunger.

[engelhaust]

"joyless exercises in pseudo-intellectual snobbery" god thank you for summarizing the entire adult fiction genre in a way i never could

[franziska]

"you withered tenured fossil" how is no one talking about this

[naterk]

"Only losers stick to the moral high-ground"


Obi-Wan Kenobi wants to know your location

[LendriMujina]

But the real question: _could Love Triangle Man defeat Mary Sue?_

[hunterkiller]

My trooper is a Mary Sue living in a weird power fantasy story in my Star Wars Battlefront 2.

[gabrielb]

Watching a steamroller flattening pavement is really satisfying actually.

[arandomzoomer]

The worst part of this is when you make a D&D character like this. A character who is like a self-insert of you but better and more attractive, and then whining whenever your character fails.

[Somber_Knight]

Beware, everything he says must be taken with a not a grain, but a salt mine.

[thathorsefromhorsinaround]

“Power tends to corrupt, absolute power though just makes everything absolutely perfect!” - Some puffy old man a few hundred years ago or something