In my story, each of my 3 protagonists have a quest. One character tends to take down the villain who took his best friend from him and burn their planet down, one character just wants his parents back and doesn't want anything further to do with the rebellion, and another plans to imprison the villain and perhaps help the planet survive without what that villain is taking from the other aliens. Is this a good quest? Or could i make it better in any way?
So we begin with Orpheus in the Underworld. If the video doesn't end with Galop Infernal I shall be disappointed. Yes, the hero can be against existential forces instead of an enemy. But it's harder to write well. Without a cackling villain twirling his mustache, the tension has to be developed through the protagonist's internal growth, which is harder to show on the page than an evil overlord with his army of eldritch creatures. Man against mountain works, but it's harder to write than man against wizard on mountain.Galop
I would say, at best a genre fiction has quests. But not every great story is genre fiction and even in genre fiction there are plenty of narratives that do not have to rely on quests. Sure, you can try to frame every motivation as quest, but doing so makes the term hollow and meaningless and it would still fall flat for stoic characters or flat arcs.
my favourite quest is the repeatable on saturday when I go buy donuts.
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In my story, each of my 3 protagonists have a quest. One character tends to take down the villain who took his best friend from him and burn their planet down, one character just wants his parents back and doesn't want anything further to do with the rebellion, and another plans to imprison the villain and perhaps help the planet survive without what that villain is taking from the other aliens. Is this a good quest? Or could i make it better in any way?
I'm here for it
Yeah! Mass effect shoutout! :D
So we begin with Orpheus in the Underworld. If the video doesn't end with Galop Infernal I shall be disappointed.
Yes, the hero can be against existential forces instead of an enemy. But it's harder to write well. Without a cackling villain twirling his mustache, the tension has to be developed through the protagonist's internal growth, which is harder to show on the page than an evil overlord with his army of eldritch creatures.
Man against mountain works, but it's harder to write than man against wizard on mountain.Galop
I would say, at best a genre fiction has quests. But not every great story is genre fiction and even in genre fiction there are plenty of narratives that do not have to rely on quests. Sure, you can try to frame every motivation as quest, but doing so makes the term hollow and meaningless and it would still fall flat for stoic characters or flat arcs.
Does being exiled count as a quest?
2:06 Which portion? (My quest is to troll every writing channel on UA-cam.)