Royal Road advice!
Added 2025-03-25 00:08:20 +0000 UTCIt's time to get Lucky Rabbit submitted, and I always struggle with how to describe a story, and what categories to put it in.
Here's my description so far:
When Pandy meets Truck-kun, she never expects to be catapulted into the world of her favorite otome video game, Gacha Love. Then, rather than becoming the hero, the villain, or even a background character who could safely eat popcorn while watching the show, she takes over the body of a rabbit. Not just any rabbit, but a mildly undead rabbit who's meant to become thoroughly and completely dead when her young master is killed before the events in the game even begin! Pandy has always had truly, terribly, cosmically bad luck, but now she'll have to find a way to keep herself and her new friend alive when the whole world is literally out to get them.
Expect slice-of-life elements mingled with (mostly) low stakes action. Humor and low-key romance, no naughty bits. Weak to strong MC, but one who doesn't really want to beat things up, because it's a lot of effort and seems really rude.
By the author of The Broken Knife and Legendary Farmer.
What else do I need to mention, and how? Do I need to tell people it has a lot of kids in it? How do I do that? π¬
I have Fantasy as the genre, but is it funny enough for Comedy, too? (It's okay to say no.)
As for tags...holy cow. I think this is it, but what do you think? Unlike Kaz, Pandy wasn't born as a non-human, and won't remain one all the time, so I'm not going with that. What do you think?
What else would help you decide if you want to read this?
Comments
That pretty much squares up with what I was thinking. I'm just not a comedy writer, and no matter how hard I try, it always end up more serious than otherwise. Though at least Pandy has a lighter PoV than Kaz! One of my pet peeves is humans-in-other-bodies being tagged as non-human. If they spend the whole time striving to return to being human, and have a human viewpoint, they're human! That's part of why I resisted having Kaz be human, and made him turn back as soon and as often as possible.
Elizabeth Oswald
2025-03-26 01:07:27 +0000 UTCFor the comedy, I feel like Lucky Rabbit is on the fence for me to classify it as comedy. Although I think the focus is more important than the quality of the jokes. But the description sounds like it could be seen as a comedy. With the mention of Truck-kun in the first sentence, there could be the expectation of it being a Parody or Satire of the genre (or are we so far that self-awareness even comes in more serious stories?). For mentioning kids, that the story is tagged School Life and her young master should make it clear, I think. For non-human, every story I read with a human reincarnated as a monster was tagged non-human, so I would make it dependable on how much of the story Pandy stays a bunny. Although careful, if Pandy stops being a bunny fully, the readers who came for the non-human part will be disappointed.
Veldorn
2025-03-25 22:47:32 +0000 UTCHmmm... who's meant to become Actually Dead? π€ I don't know how else to say her character was about to die.... LitRPG and GameLit are goofy. I struggled with it on Legendary Farmer, too. GameLit is "Novels set in game-like worlds of any genre. Does not need to heavily focus on visual statistics." LitRPG is "Novels where linear progression, such as levels, are main themes of the story. Almost always shows stat boxes, EXP gain, and other notifications". The problem is that I think READERS have a different idea of what GameLit and LitRPG are. In LF, almost everyone had stats, but because I don't like to show them constantly, I had people saying it wasn't LitRPG, and I totally get where they're coming from. I tend to think of LitRPG as stat and number heavy, especially if they're crunchy. I don't write crunchy because I don't want the numbers to become more important than the story.
Elizabeth Oswald
2025-03-25 01:01:02 +0000 UTCI'm not really sure about "who's meant to become thoroughly and completely dead" in the description. I do like "mildly undead", that does cover her nicely. Possibly the litrpg box should be checked? I don't know the meta, whether that requires the whole world run on game logic, but she definitely has RPG stuff going herself. Or... you have gamelit checked. What's the difference between gamelit and litrpg?
Gregory
2025-03-25 00:38:27 +0000 UTC
