/lit/ - Literature

>>22216152
Wordpad.

>>20772783
Finish the book anyways and then work on something else. You need the experience of finishing a project, otherwise you are going to keep stopping like that. The story may be better than you think and even the best authors doubt themselves years in their careers. Even if it's not that good it's okay, most debuts aren't. You're be all right.

>>20694636
Apologies but I am a "hanged" enjoyer.

>>19903931
Hey OP, I've been learning some Japanese lately, let me help you out. It says something like: mo-otsu-aruto, uhh... to-i-uu... uh.. "small forest" FUCKK

>>19862434
I was pgoneposting, sorry bro.

>>19393503
It does make sense. There's a Bradbury short story called "April Witch" that deals with a similar issue from a different angle. A witch will lose her powers if she falls in love with a human. Here's a link: https://ghostbin.com/fLlPk

Your plot could be good. Your witch has to decide the value of her powers. She is threatened by most of her options. Is it possible for her to lose her powers and lay low with regular people, or will they find out who she used to be? Will the coven come after her for betrayal? Her loophole plan could of course go horribly wrong. There's a lot of possibilities there.

Give special consideration to how the magic works. Is it important to the narrative and generate conflict because the characters want to avoid its consequences? Will they be forced to use magic to get what they want and lose something in the process? Do you want characters to just wave a wand, say nonsense and then someone turns into a frog without any blowback? Think about why the coven values these powers so much, why they're willing to sacrifice four teenagers to do so. Is the problem really just the four girls, or does the protag have another problem with magic?

Some publishers will be picky about topics and say things like "witch stories aren't in season now sorry pal." I have no idea if they are right now or not, but here's how you could make it work anyways. For example, let's say the witches are the familiar aspect. Perhaps the witches are in a setting or have powers you don't normally see. Maybe the witches work undercover: park rangers, journalists, who knows? Maybe they're out in the wild west, on a Mars colony. Or you could go the Brandon Sanderson route and just throw giant crabs into the story. In genre fiction if the combination is compelling enough you can get a good hook. You don't have to reach for some bizarre juxtaposition. If it was writing it, I might put the witch in Reconstruction Era Southern US and just make some nice literary Southern Gothic without incorporating extremely fantastic creatures.