Discussion Do most MCs have ADD?

Discussion in 'Novel General' started by Sangnz, Sep 26, 2017.

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  1. Baddiez

    Baddiez Well-Known Member

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    I think you mean got the shit beat out of them repeatedly lol.
     
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    Allowing some random guy to transmigrate into his body.
     
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    Ignus Philosopher of Flames

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    I've seen this to many times.
    If the author spends the time to really develop the world and plot, the story becomes to slow paced and boring.
    He speeds it up, hitting all the high notes, and it becomes plot devices.

    Getting the balance just right is hard.
     
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    You've read too many trash xianxia/xuanhuan. Next time try to read a good quality xianxia/xuanhuan such as renegade immortal and throne of magical arcana
     
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    Asf 《《The aria of souls》》

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    Its like shura's wrath, where an imposible quest to save his pet companion life was going on with a time limit.. and the MC is doing something else happily without a care or any sense of urgency.
     
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    Fallout 4. You spend more time farming and building settlements than looking for your son.
     
  8. Sangnz

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    Its hard to know what's trash before reading it, and a LOT of the more popular stuff is borderline at best, and reviews often swing in both directions making them somewhat unreliable, I have stumbled into good ones, quite enjoying Pivot of the Sky atm, a good example of a non braindead MC who doesn't flipout at the drop of a hat or pointlessly generate enemies by insulting everyone.
     
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    I've seen a lot of authors fall into exposition dump territory which people tend to call world building, far to much unneeded explanation occurs and the super bad ones repeat info a lot, I realise it is probably hard to balance it out but so many novels would be so much better if they cut out 50% of the so called world building. But the authors often get paid by the word so overly descriptive phrasing, spending 2 chapters to lay out the cultivation system (and they repeating it every 100 chapters) instead of spreading it out over the course of the story and lets not mention the inane half chapter descriptions of the beauties that always inhabit these tales.

    Really I think a lot of authors should write shorter more focused stories 500 chapters max better if its 2-300 but they all want to write these epic 1000/2000+ long stories that just end up with repeating plot points forgotten characters and what amounts to a story reset when the move on to the next plain of existence.
     
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    Most authors would do everyone a favor and stick to an easy to understand cultivation system in alphabetical order, numbers or maybe a color of rainbow or something. The reason the author needs to repeat the cultivation so much is cause I no one is going to remember if Flower Destruction Emperor is higher or lower than Sovereign Magical Unicorn God. Neither do we have any clue what they even mean.
     
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    CountryMage [XSanguine8] not my blood...

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    Everybody knows Unicorn God's [Unicorn Star Strike] would completely wreck Flower Destruction Emperor, just saying....
     
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    I guess that's probably why they died and someone actually competent got reincarnated into their body. Unless the competent one also becomes incompetent and the cycle repeats.
     
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    CountryMage [XSanguine8] not my blood...

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    This is the real reason so many of these MCs have incest feelings, they know they aren't actually related to those hot sisters and cousins, though the ones that make moves on the underaged ones and moms are creepy.
     
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    Agreed. Meanwhile, there are people who actually like that sort of thing
     
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