Asklemmy

I want to read it. Go write it.

As someone who writes all kinds of things because they just come to me, I'd say: "Write It". My advice is backed by two ideas:

1. Only you can write the story. Your style, your delivery, the twists and turns, they are unique and only you can write it.
2. Fifty Shades of Grey got published. It's awful, the structure, pacing, research, all of it. If it can get published, then what people like and don't like can't be judged by any useful metric.

As an addition, your writing will improve as you write. Like everything, practice helps. Write the story. Then show it to people. Some people will like it, others won't. That's okay. Maybe take some feedback, edit, and share it again.

The idea can't exists until you make it.

I would also, as an aside, suggest you might want to reconsider your friendship. A friend who doesn't support a creative endeavour is perhaps not a good friend.

Write it. Keep writing. Share it with others so enjoy reading. Enjoy the process.

If you want to see the short stories I write, you can find examples here: https://ko-fi.com/blackxanthus

People will shit on your ideas a lot, it’s because of their own insecurities. Do what you want to do.

The measure of a good story isn't in a brief description of the premise, but in the actual telling of that story. A good writer could take something mundane like putting on your socks and make a funny, interesting, or thought-provoking read out of it, and a poor writer could make the most absolutely amazing thing imaginable a slog to get through.

I see nothing glaringly wrong with the premise of your story, but it's all of the other details you don't want to give away and how you tell the storf that would determine whether it's a good story or not.

So the question really is how are you as a writer?

I'm pretty sure this is at least the second time I've seen you asking this question somewhere on Lemmy, so at the very least you don't seem to have a lot of confidence in your own writing abilities.

And maybe that's warranted, maybe it's not. I haven't read any of your writing to be able to say, and even if I had, just because I do or do not personally like it doesn't mean that it's objectively bad or good, it's a matter of taste.

Start writing. Share some of what you've written with others and solicit criticism. Take that criticism into consideration and write some more. Lather, rinse, and repeat until the people you're writing for (maybe it's others, maybe it's just yourself) are happy with what you've made.

The first things you write, in all honesty, probably won't be good. As a talking dog on a children's cartoon once told me "sucking at something is the first step towards being sort of good at something" you gotta start somewhere, and unless you're a rare generational talent who's naturally gifted at writing, you're not gonna be starting from the top.

Scrolling through your history I see a lot of "do rich people do X" kind of questions. And I feel like that's sort of your way of doing research into this project.

And that's good, the best stories have some aspect to them that's grounded, that feels familiar to them in some way, that things actually could play out in real life the way it does the pages.

But remember, this is your world, your character, your story, you make the rules and while it's good to keep things grounded in reality, it's also good to ask "what if?" Even if there had never been a biracial drug-addicted rich-kid street-racer (based on some of the things you've asked) in all of recorded history, it's your prerogative to write a book based on the concept of "but what if there was?"

A lot of your questions also make me think that you're pretty young, or at least just don't have a whole lot of worldly experience for one reason or another. That's not a knock against you, that just means that you're at a great point in your life to start building knowledge and experience about the things you want to write about. Don't rely on Lemmy to spoon-feed you those answers go out and find them for yourself.

Read. Read absolutely everything you can stomach. Reading is probably the most absolutely important thing to learn how to write, how can you hope to write well if you don't know what good writing looks like? Read fiction, read nonfiction, read news articles, stories, biographies, memoirs, comics, short stories, epic novels and multi-part series, read analysis and criticisms of other writing, read theory on how to write, read new works and the classics, read about philosophy, psychology, sociology, science, art, math, etc.

And think about what you want your own writing to be like, and what worked and didn't work and why in all those things you read.

And don't limit yourself to reading. There are stories all around us- on tv, movies, all over the internet in various forms, and most importantly real life, go do things and talk to people as much as you are able. Experience as much as you can, and think about how it all makes you feel and how you'd write about it. Talk to people who have used drugs, maybe see if there's some kind of volunteer opportunity at a rehab clinic near you. Go to a racetrack, maybe work on your own car. Good luck finding an in to get direct access to the mega-rich, but there's no reason you can't try, sometimes you might be amazed at what's possible if you just ask- there's only about 6 or 7 degrees of separation between you and almost anyone else in the world, the odds are pretty good that you know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows exactly the kind of person you want to talk to if you just care enough to chase down those connections.

Learn about black culture. Learn about Japanese culture. Learn about the experiences of biracial people. Learn about the lives of people around those people. Learn from their own perspectives and from the perspectives of outsiders looking in. Learn about the rich, learn about the poor, and all of the complex interactions between all of these different groups of people and when, where, and how they all intersect.

And again, just write. The only way to learn if a story is any good is to actually tell it.

"My friend says the story is stupid and no one would want to read it."

That's not real constructive feedback. If your friend has actual critiques of your concept, that's one thing, but just saying something seems stupid is meaningless and carries zero weight.

Don't let people live their life and your life too. If you're passionate about an idea, try it and see if it works. Worse case scenario, it fails, and you learn from it and get lots of practice for your next idea. Which still might be bad, but it will almost certainly be less bad, and same with the next, and the next, and before you know it, you have hundreds of hours of practice and experience and you're creating real cool stuff.

Also, sometimes ideas are good, but you currently lack the skill to execute them well. That just means you need to increase your skill level. An idea that fails badly when you first start out, might turn out fantastic 5 - 10 years down the road.

Film directors/writers sometimes talk about this, where they had an idea or a script for a movie that they wanted to make, but they didn't have the budget and necessary experience to do it justice early in their career.

TL;DR Your friend's "feedback" is worthless, if you're really passionate about this idea, go for it. Worst case scenario, you gain a bunch of experience trying to make it.

Yes, give up on your friendship

I'd like to read it! Also, your friend doesn't sound like a friend at all.

Don't give up but definitely don't work it to perfection. Also comic book with multiple races is gonna stress your drawing ability to the max.

Well I can say with some certainty that no matter what your idea is, something stupider has made it to print in Marvel or DC probably both.

On top of that, I've found that people tend to be more critical of things they perceive as amateur efforts, even if the quality is the same. If you watched a movie scene by an incompetent director and catch a mistake you'll probably be derisive, but put the same mistake in a movie by a renowned director you'll probably wonder if it isn't intentional and serves some artistic purpose and might not react as negatively even if it is genuinely a mistake.

For your issue what I would say is that you should consider what you want people to find compelling in your story and then ask yourself if this detail serves that vision. Its possible your friend is reacting to something undercutting the draw of your work, but it is just as possible they just aren't getting it. Seek more opinions if you want to understand how others are reading it, but ultimately you have to trust your vision.

"Friend". You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Listen here you stupid moron.
Do whatever the fuck you want with your life (provided you don't hurt anybody.).
If you want to write a book about something, do your homework, talk to whoever you think you should but in the end, do only what YOU think will make you happy.
There are mfs out there who send in AI slop to scientific journals and still get published & cited.
Stan-fucking-lee introduced us to a bunch of superheroes. He did what he loved well before anybody took notice. You do what you love, regardless of what your stupid friend says. Your friend should warn of dangers, yes. But your friend should be by your side to hold you, in case you fail.
Just one thing, always endeavour to be the best at what you do. If you want to bake cookies, be the best cookie chef of your time. If you want to suck ass, be the best at sucking ass. If you want to be the best superhero writer, be the fucking best superhero writer.
Now stop wasting your time listening to dim-wits on the internet like myself and go work on your dreams.

This is just a premise. It's all in the execution. No premise is stupid or great in itself. Any premise can be made great or stupid by its execution.

Superhero origins are usually the grounding of the character people use before the spring off into the supernatural stuff. Batman deals with grief, the Ray loses his father, green lantern is presented with a choice to uphold some virtues, wonder woman is trying to protect her family and home, Constantine has regrets, X-Men deals with bigotry, Spider-Man has unearned power, etc.

Tell the story you want to tell, but consider why you want to tell it the way you want to tell it and if it will reach the people you think will be fans of it so you can keep making more.

You posted the same thing last time with no ethnicities. Just make it if you want to.

Always give up. Never persevere. Lol jk obviously you should write it!

If it sucks who cares? And if it doesn't then hell ya brother! Besides, writing is like any other skill in that it takes practice. So do it.

I think your friend is stupid and should give up.

I'm starting to write a comic book too. My daughter invented a super hero and the name was just so perfect that I felt like I had to expand on it: "Princess Superspeed Girl". I've got like four or five stories written in my head that I've workshopped with her as bedtime stories.

So I'm writing it for my daughter, but I'm kind of a perfectionist and only marginally talented, so it's very slow going.

Anyway, I think you should write yours. The stuff you said about it here doesn't specifically pique my interest, but you were also pretty vague about it, and the execution matters as much as the premise.

It's important to create things. Not just for other people to see it, but for your own sake, just for you to have created it. There's value in that.

Who are you writing it for? Are you writing it for other people, or because you enjoy it and want to do it? If the former, I'm sure there's people out there who would read it, even if your friend is a bit of a dick. If the latter, what does it even matter what other people think? If you're enjoying writing it, it's time well spent regardless of what happens afterwards.

Do not give up.

You can only become a better writer by writing. Also your friend should be more supportive. Lastly, I'm sure a story like that will have no problem finding an audience.

The story is only stupid if you don't write it well. Think about how Raider of the Lost Ark stays the exact same without Indiana Jones. It sounds stupid, but what makes the story good is the characters and how they interact, their motivations and goals, the journey they take.

You can take any classic story and explain it in a stupid way to make it sound bad. Star Wars is about a kid being radicalised by a crazy old guy and committing acts of terrorism on government buildings, and the vice president is actually his dad. Sounds kinda dumb, but it's one of the most iconic stories of the 20th century.

As for your own idea, I don't see what's stupid about it. Batman's parents were hella rich and he's awesome.

Anyway, I recommend Brandon Sanderson's lecture series about writing Fantasy and SciFi, its on his YT channel.

Don’t listen to your friend. Do it!

No.

How can you write your next comic book if you don't get a finish on this one first ?

Just do it.

Never give up

Because you didn't mention what the powers were, I definitely want to read it. It sounds interesting.