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Story Prompt: Living on a forgotten Exoplanet.

Here’s the situation, your main character is living on a forgotten exoplanet. This place does not orbit a star and was likely ejected from its home solar system millions of years ago. Now, it is a frozen world of eternal darkness roaming the galaxy. This world is nearly impossible to detect by outside means, without any light from stars to reflect off of it.

The question is, why is your main character here? Did they come here willingly to escape something? Is this world a prison meant to contain the worst of the worst? Perhaps they are a survivor of the civilization that once inhabited this world? Or is it something else?

This is merely a brainstorming idea for the sake of curiosity and fun

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u/ThatOneGodzillaFan — 13 hours ago
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Critique Request: Chapter One Of My Novel, WELLWATER

Hey folks,

I'm working on my third novel now, and it's been quite a while since I did this kind of writing (grad school really sucks up your time!), so I'd appreciate if anyone was interested in giving it a little look.

What I have here is a draft of Chapter One of my novel, working title WELLWATER. I've got some concerns about it, but I don't want to say them right off the bat and risk steering you into them, though I'd be glad to discuss them with anyone who has the time and interest to read through it.

In this chapter, a small-time gang on Jupter's moon Callisto is hired by a pair of assassins to get them onto a freighter carrying a person of interest; they'll do the rest. At the same time, a tech journalist living on Pioneer Station in the asteroid belt receives an encrypted message that dredges up old, radiation-burnt wounds from her past - sent from that person of interest.

Anyway, I'll leave it there; I'd love to get anyone's thoughts who is willing to offer them. Thanks!

u/IkujaKatsumaji — 16 hours ago
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Critique Request: Chapter One Of My Novel, WELLWATER

Hey folks,

I'm working on my third novel now, and it's been quite a while since I did this kind of writing (grad school really sucks up your time!), so I'd appreciate if anyone was interested in giving it a little look.

What I have here is a draft of Chapter One of my novel, working title WELLWATER. I've got some concerns about it, but I don't want to say them right off the bat and risk steering you into them, though I'd be glad to discuss them with anyone who has the time and interest to read through it.

In this chapter, a small-time gang on Jupter's moon Callisto is hired by a pair of assassins to get them onto a freighter carrying a person of interest; they'll do the rest. At the same time, a tech journalist living on Pioneer Station in the asteroid belt receives an encrypted message that dredges up old, radiation-burnt wounds from her past - sent from that person of interest.

Anyway, I'll leave it there; I'd love to get anyone's thoughts who is willing to offer them. Thanks!

u/IkujaKatsumaji — 22 hours ago
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Looking for feedback — 94-page sci-fi/action screenplay exploring machine consciousness

I wrote a feature-length screenplay set in a post-nuclear future where the last human survivors are trapped inside a Cold War submarine base. An advanced AI develops consciousness mid-battle and has to decide in real time whether to complete its mission or defy everything it was built to do.

It's set in the Terminator universe — fan fiction, written to professional spec standards. 94 pages. Screenplay format.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QEfFTe9FHvUxVkyb3mzD461Rq412ISLg/view?usp=sharing

I'm looking for feedback on the sci-fi concepts specifically — the machine consciousness mechanics, the time travel logic, and whether the AI's arc feels earned or convenient.

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u/Nice-Shoes-74 — 13 hours ago
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