A good death scene really spices thing up, too.

A death :3

a GOOD DEATH not a pridictable "im like a dad to you OH im now dead" death.

a GOOD DEATH not a pridictable "im like a dad to you OH im now dead" death.

Charictors

plot
the setting ECT ECT

Rurikredwolf wrote:

Yeah someone usually has to die at least once to make it good. Main character in my book is dying regardless...

SPOILER ALERT. Thanks a lot, man.

Well, I frequent TV Tropes, so originality isn't a factor for me.  I like a story with plenty of character development, mainly. A plot with twists is nice. Problem is, I can see most twists, so putting twists on the twists makes me keep reading.

Oh, yeah, description is nice, but going on the level of purple prose makes me want to stop reading. Seriously, it's just too painful.

Lol I changed it as soon as I realized that no one cares about that plottwist anymore.

Yeah someone usually has to die at least once to make it good. Main character in my book is dying regardless...

SPOILER ALERT. Thanks a lot, man.

Well, I frequent TV Tropes, so originality isn't a factor for me.  I like a story with plenty of character development, mainly. A plot with twists is nice. Problem is, I can see most twists, so putting twists on the twists makes me keep reading.

Oh, yeah, description is nice, but going on the level of purple prose makes me want to stop reading. Seriously, it's just too painful.

Action is also very awesome too.

A good environment is really big in my book too.  A world that may not be real and it has so many different places. Another cool thing is connected our world to this fantasy world.  For examples, The Chronicles of Narnia where you have both Earth and Narnia in the same book.  Also you could make a "made up" world that is identical to ours as far as landmasses and cultures, and maybe even have the characters speak as if they are from our time.  Make up a whole new world full of islands rivers towns, cities, volcanoes, landmarks, oceans, and glaciers. Heck, go ahead if you want and mix them.

Also have many uniqe characters with their own backgrounds and personalities. Take Fallout 3 for example. It has over about 500 characters each with there own traits and past.

Have a good theme, for example Narnia (I know im using it again).  The Chronicles of narnia has so many different themes to it (mainly these themes are Christian based but its only an example.

Also add some suspense in there.  Make your audience want to read  or watch more and more to find out what will happen next or later.

Though I have to say, in every good story I've ever seen, read, heard, etc. there is always an important character who dies. Of course, some may disagree, but it's just something I've noticed in most well made stories.