DekuKurohi
What would a combination of ZUN and Nasu be like?
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Any longrunning story or expanding universe with many different title under its belt is gonna have a problem with power scaling. (Especially unplanned story)
I know a good deal of stories here have some actions going on and therefore some sort of power scaling that authors have to deal with.
I also know that a good deal of those goes for hundreds of chapters or a sequel or two, which means a lot of texts, a lot of story development and probably more than a few change in status quo/heroes/villians/goals/etc. and that's a high risk of ever increasing power level.
From author's perspective obviously that's something you wanna avoid or manage. It'll risk breaking the suspension of disbelief (Specifically if there's no real precedence for the power creep beforehand) or devalue the previous climatic achievement. Now you have to make sure that didn't happen, and hopefully not contradicting anything you already established and not make your story a complete mess or have unengaging stakes/killing tension or reader's investment.
There are many way to allivate that so let's talk about it. Gonna use my stories as example. They are all interconnected so this technically counts as something longrunning.
Honestly speaking my first published story is a bit high on the power scale (Characters are technically continental-level), but I have an ending planned for it there isn't actually problem with it when I first publish it with no other story to compared to.
My second story is set in a parallel universe with completely different setting/era so it doesn't exactly continue from the first one so there's need to compare the stakes.
A side story to one of the first story's prequel is where power level was quite low, with the one character from the main story appearing and completely dwarfed the main cast in strenght and therefore acting as the main antagonistic force that really keeps the tension going.
Basically the way I'm dealing with my penchant for coming up with new stories that I'm very adamant to all be in the same 'verse (Which is a recipe for inevitable power creep) is to make sure each story have entirely different perspective/setting each time, and with prequels/side story keep the power level way lower than the main story so to not devalue it, and actually try to use the disparity to make the main story seem more impressive.
I feel like I'm starting to forget what I'm talking about halfway through talking about my own story but whatever.
Anyway yada yada talk about how you deal with this and shill your stuff and answer the poll.
I know a good deal of stories here have some actions going on and therefore some sort of power scaling that authors have to deal with.
I also know that a good deal of those goes for hundreds of chapters or a sequel or two, which means a lot of texts, a lot of story development and probably more than a few change in status quo/heroes/villians/goals/etc. and that's a high risk of ever increasing power level.
From author's perspective obviously that's something you wanna avoid or manage. It'll risk breaking the suspension of disbelief (Specifically if there's no real precedence for the power creep beforehand) or devalue the previous climatic achievement. Now you have to make sure that didn't happen, and hopefully not contradicting anything you already established and not make your story a complete mess or have unengaging stakes/killing tension or reader's investment.
There are many way to allivate that so let's talk about it. Gonna use my stories as example. They are all interconnected so this technically counts as something longrunning.
Honestly speaking my first published story is a bit high on the power scale (Characters are technically continental-level), but I have an ending planned for it there isn't actually problem with it when I first publish it with no other story to compared to.
My second story is set in a parallel universe with completely different setting/era so it doesn't exactly continue from the first one so there's need to compare the stakes.
A side story to one of the first story's prequel is where power level was quite low, with the one character from the main story appearing and completely dwarfed the main cast in strenght and therefore acting as the main antagonistic force that really keeps the tension going.
Basically the way I'm dealing with my penchant for coming up with new stories that I'm very adamant to all be in the same 'verse (Which is a recipe for inevitable power creep) is to make sure each story have entirely different perspective/setting each time, and with prequels/side story keep the power level way lower than the main story so to not devalue it, and actually try to use the disparity to make the main story seem more impressive.
I feel like I'm starting to forget what I'm talking about halfway through talking about my own story but whatever.
Anyway yada yada talk about how you deal with this and shill your stuff and answer the poll.