Treasure Found in the Dumpster that is Google Drive
Jun. 11th, 2025 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daydreaming_knightWas messing around in my extremely unorganized Google Drive, and I found an old doc from three years ago. It was about an idea for a generic shonen battle type thing, crazy thing is that I actually had a good amount of stuff written there compared to most of my other old ideas (it's about 5 pages, the doc is 1.15 spaced since that's just the default for Google Docs).
Premise is pretty basic, it's a fantasy world and the continent the story's set on has a big guild system doing missions. There's also some little summaries of story arcs, a main antagonist is mentioned in a few summaries but there's literally no details other than "they exist". There's also the main four, we got outspoken and confident protag boy, shy and quiet main girl, older brother type, and elegant and refined noblewoman. Protag boy and main girl have more lore in the docs and I'd like to keep them around, the other two don't have as much and might get replaced/major overhauls.
One surprising thing is that a fair chunk of the doc is lore/worldbuilding, since I'm normally more of a "let the silly little dudes in my mind interact" person. There was a ranking system for guilds but I might scrap that, just not feeling it for some reason. The guild system also holds some events, one's an annual event where they recognize the accomplishments of each guild, the other's a tournament held once every other year (because you can't have a shonen battle thing without a tournament arc). The main character's guild also had some lore, it's in a mountainous town with the guild's base being inside a mountain (think Wigglytuff's guild in PMD but a lot bigger, the place is practically a labyrinth). Guild throws a festival in town on the first day of fall, local fair vibes.
I'd really like to revisit this old idea and flesh it out. First step is to find a better way to keep things organized than Google Drive. Then just write it and find some place to most it, most writing sites I know of are more for fanfic than original stuff. I don't think this would ever be published traditionally, I don't have the confidence for this and while I'm normally the kind of writer that struggles with reaching high word counts this still feels like a project that would be on the longer end. So I'll have to find some place for original stories but that's gonna be a good ways off.
Premise is pretty basic, it's a fantasy world and the continent the story's set on has a big guild system doing missions. There's also some little summaries of story arcs, a main antagonist is mentioned in a few summaries but there's literally no details other than "they exist". There's also the main four, we got outspoken and confident protag boy, shy and quiet main girl, older brother type, and elegant and refined noblewoman. Protag boy and main girl have more lore in the docs and I'd like to keep them around, the other two don't have as much and might get replaced/major overhauls.
One surprising thing is that a fair chunk of the doc is lore/worldbuilding, since I'm normally more of a "let the silly little dudes in my mind interact" person. There was a ranking system for guilds but I might scrap that, just not feeling it for some reason. The guild system also holds some events, one's an annual event where they recognize the accomplishments of each guild, the other's a tournament held once every other year (because you can't have a shonen battle thing without a tournament arc). The main character's guild also had some lore, it's in a mountainous town with the guild's base being inside a mountain (think Wigglytuff's guild in PMD but a lot bigger, the place is practically a labyrinth). Guild throws a festival in town on the first day of fall, local fair vibes.
I'd really like to revisit this old idea and flesh it out. First step is to find a better way to keep things organized than Google Drive. Then just write it and find some place to most it, most writing sites I know of are more for fanfic than original stuff. I don't think this would ever be published traditionally, I don't have the confidence for this and while I'm normally the kind of writer that struggles with reaching high word counts this still feels like a project that would be on the longer end. So I'll have to find some place for original stories but that's gonna be a good ways off.