Roast your own story!

GeriatricTools

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this is may be off topic, but come here to poke fun about how bland, over dramatic, cliche points your stories might go from time to time, or just how weird your characters are, or just anything you find not so satisfying in general as an author. (Or just to advertise your story, you’d know... *cough* *cough*)

I’ll go first, since my story is the easiest to find gripes with. (You don’t have to put down your story like I do... )


With a harem protagonist who instead of being painfully oblivious, straight up actively avoids having a harem, comes a story where the love interests’ backstories can be summarized to three paragraphs. Ace, your resident rich d*ckhead with raging emotional trauma that fill the supposedly light hearted story with angst, three love interests that can be thrown into stereotypes as childhood friend, tsundere cold character and sporty tomboy with a sexy body made to appease the fan boys. Despite this, the author still hasn’t wrote enough fan service other than the beach scene.

Boasting... a series with lots of stalking!
A first season that is generally rushed until readers may be confused!
Murdering the fourth wall repeatedly! (In one chapter)
And an author who always don’t plan ahead before writing and makes the even worse mistake of being shamelessly proud of admitting it!
 
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CupcakeNinja

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this is may be off topic, but come here to poke fun about how bland, over dramatic, cliche points your stories might go from time to time, or just how weird your characters are, or just anything you find not so satisfying in general as an author. (Or just to advertise your story, you’d know... *cough* *cough*)

I’ll go first, since my story is the easiest to find gripes with. (You don’t have to put down your story like I do... )

[I don’t want to be a Love Rival]
With a harem protagonist who instead of being painfully oblivious, straight up actively avoids having a harem, comes a story where the love interests’ backstories can be summarized to three paragraphs. Ace, your resident rich d*ckhead with raging emotional trauma that fill the supposedly light hearted story with angst, three love interests that can be thrown into stereotypes as childhood friend, tsundere cold character and sporty tomboy with a sexy body made to appease the fan boys, yet the author still hasn’t wrote enough fan service other than the beach scene.

Boasting... a series with lots of stalking!
A first season that is generally rushed until readers may be confused!
Murdering the fourth wall repeatedly! (In one chapter)
And an author who always don’t plan ahead before writing who makes the even worse mistake of being shamelessly proud of admitting it!
You bastard i love that premise but i dont even see any chapters for the story. Go to hell. I may or may not return with a roast of my own story sometime later, btw.
 

Suryae

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My story only exist on my head and may never see the light of day.
 

ArcadiaBlade

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My story conisist of bad grammar and the author never updating a chapter because he's too lazy to write one and instead trying to find excuse to not write or writing a new one when he doesn't even finish the last one.
 

tiaf

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My story has few chapters and the period between the updates is so long that readers will think it’s abandoned. It’s cheap comedy and the sentences are unnecessarily complicated sometimes.

To boot it, the word count is rigged. One to two hundred words are just names and another hundred are the following said/thought/stated/etc. in each chapter.

My characters are silly and don’t act their age. I try to put in a lot of fan service, but it still ends with angst. I abuse my characters and my story abuses my readers.
 

Yorda

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My story is one of those otome game villainess settings.

Does everyone in the entire story need to have child-parent problems? Why does everyone have emotional problems and serious insecurity issues? Dammit. A bunch of moody teens and young adults, the lot of em. 7 Chapters in and only 2 out of like 11 main characters have even debuted! The ball is rolling so slowly it's growing moss. My current MC might appear to be smart, but she's actually just stupid, anxious, paranoid, and cowardly. And the character who I actually consider smart is the antagonist who effectively screws everyone, even themself ... Where's the f**king backstories?
 
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Assurbanipal_II

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"My current MC might appear to be smart, but she's actually just stupid and cowardly."

:blob_reach: To be fair, that is really hard. I have never in my entire life read a character about which I could say "I am impressed, he/she is smart". In popular literature at least.
 

Yorda

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"My current MC might appear to be smart, but she's actually just stupid and cowardly."

:blob_reach: To be fair, that is really hard. I have never in my entire life read a character about which I could say "I am impressed, he/she is smart". In popular literature at least.
There was that one time you commented that my character was probably competent enough to successfully run away. However, we'll see in hindsight how stupid she really was when I write more chapters! Moar chapters!
 

CupcakeNinja

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My Sister The Villainess

Ahem:
....what a goddamn waste of time. Instead of the short lived incest story it was supposed to be, it ended up a cringe session led by a genocidal, milf-loving, drug addicted cult leader who IGNORED THE LITTLE TREE'S FEELINGS FOR OVER FIFTY CHAPTERS!

The story? A shit show full of chaos. The MC? Legit insane. So far he's ordered the beheadings of hundred of people. Kidnapped a king by rolling him into a blanket--twice! Got high and tried to smoke said king as a giant blunt with the king's own son....because everyone was high as ball. Not to mention he nearly dropped a fucking massive ball of water on thousands of innocents which would have killed them all. And ended up being PRAISED. Like what the fuck? There is basically no goddamn sense in the story other than "no matter what, we suck the ghost of this dude's cock"

Such a disappointment. What a waste of potential. Why anyone even bothers to read is beyond me.

Should've stuck to writing porn. Ain't even any incest yet smh.

MFKER JUST DICK DOWN YOUR SISTERS ALREADY, DAMMIT!
 

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I'm an Idiot in Another World:

I was an idiot for writing this. The main character isn't an idiot, as he has a fully functioning brain. He sees the right choice and says, "Nah, let's just be an asshole because it's more fun!" It's thirty fucking chapters in and I still haven't gotten that little shit outside of the town. I also stopped writing the story because I realized how much I hate it because I didn't add any depth to the characters!
 

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Caninstinct:

The main character's a bumpkin virgin. The antagonist is gay. If that ain't redneck fantasy I don't know what is.

Humans are considered a superior race; carnivores are considered the violent race and herbivores are considered the weak race. Beastars copy, everybody.

It's all heavy on abstract concepts of strengths. No concrete evidence on anything. In fact, the main character has a fuzzy backstory. Fuzzy as in 'not even the author knows shit'. He's supposed to be a wolf but he's so mixed he's just considered to be a 'wolf'.

Also there's only one chapter cause' I sandblasted all my previous efforts.
 

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Undermind:

A series with some interesting ideas buried beneath pages and pages of generic Tolkien-wannabe drivel, featuring a protagonist so nauseatingly nice she makes me want to puke sometimes.

Spoilers for Book 1:

Our heroine has the body of an enormous, nigh-indestructible killing machine, so what does she do with all that power? She hangs out in a cave for half of the first book, because she just wants to be left alone and doesn't want to hurt anyone.

My protagonist proved so resistant to the needs of the plot that I had to turn to her nemesis to get the heavy lifting done. Unlike her, he has a spine. Pity he's an arsehole, and no-one wants to read about him.

When our heroine's enemies finally come knocking, and you think she'll finally be forced to show her badarse side...nope. She literally sleeps through the final battle, while her sidekick friend does all the fighting for her. Within seconds of waking up, she's once again trying to negotiate with people who want her head on a pike. It doesn't end well for her.
 
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keitaro-sempai

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"My current MC might appear to be smart, but she's actually just stupid and cowardly."

:blob_reach: To be fair, that is really hard. I have never in my entire life read a character about which I could say "I am impressed, he/she is smart". In popular literature at least.
Try mine, read chapters 19 and 20 then see for yourself if you can or not call the MC smart. At least in the spanish release a reader compared him with Kira from death note, just better.

About the roast... I'm one of those who may or may not write constantly so my story might suffer hiatus? english readers didn't feel it, but in the spanish release once there was even a 6 months gap beetween one chapter to another. May happen again depending on my test results next month.
Also, the frequent POV changes may be a little confusing
 
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Assurbanipal_II

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My Sister The Villainess

Ahem:
....what a goddamn waste of time. Instead of the short lived incest story it was supposed to be, it ended up a cringe session led by a genocidal, milf-loving, drug addicted cult leader who IGNORED THE LITTLE TREE'S FEELINGS FOR OVER FIFTY CHAPTERS!

The story? A shit show full of chaos. The MC? Legit insane. So far he's ordered the beheadings of hundred of people. Kidnapped a king by rolling him into a blanket--twice! Got high and tried to smoke said king as a giant blunt with the king's own son....because everyone was high as ball. Not to mention he nearly dropped a fucking massive ball of water on thousands of innocents which would have killed them all. And ended up being PRAISED. Like what the fuck? There is basically no goddamn sense in the story other than "no matter what, we suck the ghost of this dude's cock"

Such a disappointment. What a waste of potential. Why anyone even bothers to read is beyond me.

Should've stuck to writing porn. Ain't even any incest yet smh.

MFKER JUST DICK DOWN YOUR SISTERS ALREADY, DAMMIT!

Are you serious or joking? :blob_reach:
 

Assurbanipal_II

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Try mine, read chapters 19 and 20 then see for yourself if you can or not call the MC smart. At least in the spanish release a reader compared him with Kira from death note, just better.

About the roast... I'm one of those who may or may not write constantly so my story might suffer hiatus? english readers didn't feel it, but in the spanish release once there was even a 6 months gap beetween one chapter to another. May happen again depending on my test results next month.
Also, the frequent POV changes may be a little confusing

Just to warn you, I have very very high standards when it comes to characters claiming the title of "smart" and "shrewd". :blob_reach: And I was someone who thought about Kira as a petulant fool. Complicated ruses and counter ruses that amount to nothing.
 

Assurbanipal_II

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Oh no I'm serious. Not sure if I did the roast good tho. I'm not used to doing that kinda thing

No, not really. You have done quite well.

I am just thinking now the same about your story, "Such a disappointment. What a waste of potential. Why anyone even bothers to read is beyond me."

And I always assumed it was supposed to be something about a sister. Maybe you should change the tags. :blob_reach:
 

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No, not really. You have done quite well.

I am just thinking now the same about your story, "Such a disappointment. What a waste of potential. Why anyone even bothers to read is beyond me."

And I always assumed it was supposed to be something about a sister. Maybe you should change the tags. :blob_reach:
lt is and willl always go back to it's roots but a lot of people got disappointed cuz of the synopsis not matching the story for a while. Me too. I just wanted incest.sex with his sisters but it didn't happen for a long time
 

Assurbanipal_II

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lt is and willl always go back to it's roots but a lot of people got disappointed cuz of the synopsis not matching the story for a while. Me too. I just wanted incest.sex with his sisters but it didn't happen for a long time

The synopsis doesn't match is a nice way of saying in this case. In the advertisement industry, you would call this a fraud. But we are writing novels, so it doesn't matter. :blob_evil_two:
 
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