forum Things You Want MORE Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @HighPockets group

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I want more characters in fantasy books who are like…idk cryptid scholars or something. Not just knights and royalty.

I have a blacksmith! How original.

I also have a mentally impaired wizard.

On my most recent project the protagonist is a buff girl who earns money by brawling and working on the docks.

I have two orphanage workers, two hunters, two bartenders, a bookkeeper, a noblewoman, a woodcutter, and a handful of fae royals.

Oooh I have a lot of fun fantasy characters.
A farmer who becomes a blacksmith’s apprentice, a bartender, a city guard, a dragon caregiver, a dragon caregiver who loses his job and starts working at the tavern instead (he also researches dragons and writes on the side), a healer/field medic who also dabbles in making his own drugs, and a librarian who used to work alongside their father who is a fishmonger. I also have a princess and her retainer, but the story doesn’t center around them.

Cool! I’ll have to describe the jobs I have later.

I feel like my character jobs are kind of varied. In my main project I have a former pirate, a prince (very original, right?), a chimney sweep, a healer (who also does a lot of research on the side about the different types of powers and how they work).

I've got a blacksmith, fishmonger, general surgeon, tailor, Huntress, and a former miner/safecracker for the mafia.

A teacher, Elementalists, blacksmiths, butcher, apprentices, hunters, farmers, traders, fishermen, sailors, a witch, miners, ambassadors, an Emperor and that’s all I can think of at the moment.

hmmmm. Bounty hunter, Potter, Ambassador, Assassin, Healer, FBI Special Agents, mob enforcer, physician in a pleasure house, Voodoo Priestess, Tech Heiress/Genius, Mechanic, Med Student, Club Patron, Potions Master, Apothecary, and the like

Med student. Interesting.

HISTORICAL ERAS I NEED MORE BOOKS ABOUT:
~Vikings
~That One Time The Dutch Went Crazy Over Tulips
~Industrial Revolution
~Medieval Ages
~Russian Revolution
~The concept of blockade runners used during the Civil War.

• French Revolution
• Reign of Terror
• The War of 1812 (legit have only read 1 series that takes place during it)

FEUDAL JAPAN

Y’know I was thinking of having Japanese elements in Project the Great and Powerful.

FEUDAL JAPAN

JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY TIED IN WITH SENGOKU JIDAI AND COMMON THEATRE PRACTICES?

Y’know I was thinking of having Japanese elements in Project the Great and Powerful.

slams 10 million notebooks of notes on Japanese culture on table.
I'm ready.

FEUDAL JAPAN

JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY TIED IN WITH SENGOKU JIDAI AND COMMON THEATRE PRACTICES?

GASP

YES PLEASE???????

Y’know I was thinking of having Japanese elements in Project the Great and Powerful.

slams 10 million notebooks of notes on Japanese culture on table.
I'm ready.

Fabulous…

It'd be neat to have some more YA books about sports. I know there's been more recently, and I read a softball one last fall, but it'd be cool to have more.
Like, I know that Mary Sue isn't like those other girls, but you're saying she doesn't play volleyball, basketball, lacrosse, OR softball, and never has? And isn't in band, theatre, origami club, robotics, whatever?! Unrealistic. Maybe it's because I went to a small K-8, but almost every girl was in at least one sport, and a lot were in drama or band or choir.

MORE! FRIENDSHIPS! PLEASE!

It'd be neat to have some more YA books about sports. I know there's been more recently, and I read a softball one last fall, but it'd be cool to have more.

Face it, you just want something like Haikyuu or Free! I certainly wouldn't complain.

Oooh yeah. About the team itself rather than MC becoming a total star. Because let’s face it- those plots are terrible for the most part.

Oooh yeah. About the team itself rather than MC becoming a total star. Because let’s face it- those plots are terrible for the most part.

They especially annoy me because ONE GREAT PLAYER DOESN'T CARRY THE TEAM!
For a team to be good, everyone has to pull their weight. And no one is perfect at everything involved in their sport.