To Those That Write Regression Novels...

What is it like to write a regression novel?

Whether they go back once or they go back multiple times, is it hard or easy to write?

I'm saying this because I am currently on my journey to revamp old novels I have abandoned like this one: Level Up – To Break All Limits I Have | Scribble Hub. And I intend to keep doing this.

And when I finish this one, I intend to rewrite another one that I posted on Webnovel to be a Regression Novel

MakBow said:

What is it like to write a regression novel?

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One thing that always bugged me about reincarnation and regression stories is the psychological factor. Yeah, psychologically, your character must keep their somatic dissonance under control, okay? Their psychological age, no matter how much they have either accepted or resigned themselves to the change consciously, no longer aligns with their biological age; years of accumulated experiences in their chronological progression of life have trained both the good and bad habits, trauma responses, and muscle memory. Their core impulses have exceeded the younger body's physical capacity. Without conscious regulation (aka: retraining), the mind will continually demand performances the body cannot yet sustain.

MakBow said:

What is it like to write a regression novel?

Whether they go back once or they go back multiple times, is it hard or easy to write?

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I'm not a regression fiction author, but I've read a lot of regression fiction and found myself satiated. So, I have no intention of writing regression fiction.

Regression fiction may be a popular trope, especially in Korean web novels. However, if you don't add an interesting and unique plot twist... you might just end up rewriting the regression trope like hundreds of other regression fictions. So, my advice:

1. Find the originality of your regression fiction!
2. What makes it relatable to readers?
3. What makes your regression fiction stand out among hundreds of similar fictions?

Eldoria said:

I'm not a regression fiction author, but I've read a lot of regression fiction and found myself satiated. So, I have no intention of writing regression fiction.

Regression fiction may be a popular trope, especially in Korean web novels. However, if you don't add an interesting and unique plot twist... you might just end up rewriting the regression trope like hundreds of other regression fictions. So, my advice:

1. Find the originality of your regression fiction!
2. What makes it relatable to readers?
3. What makes your regression fiction stand out among hundreds of similar fictions?

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Well, the idea is for it to be similar to Shadow Slave in a way where people in different countries are forced to play a game called God's Game.

Where angels have descended from the realm above to use them for entertainment, every month, having them fall into a dream where they face different challenges and when they awaken, they keep those powers.

The end goal being a single wish of anything you want, no matter how absurd and the MC's goal is the get rid of his regression ability after a while, having first wanted to wish for his dead parents to return, and you slowly see him descend, being relatable and human at first, but slowly becoming more alien and cold for the reader.

His regression ability always sends him back to the start, no matter what, so it's like Re Zero, but Subaru has to always go back to the point when he was first summoned.

Of course, there will be a system to make people feel familiarity, but it won't be the most important thing, rather, how the MC slowly changes and becomes null to death, becoming more like Al from Re Zero

My novel isn't true regression since he would be defined as transmigrating, not reincarnating. However, instead of a visibly old man's body, he has a middle-aged man's body, due to some cosmetic clean-up by the gods involved. He starts the story with his internals still mostly broken, but slowly, he is given repairs to his body that are letting him get back to a semi-balance of normal.

Since he is still an adult, I don't have too many issues with how to write him, though if he was 83 becoming a 5-18 year old (or younger), you could have some Rudius Greyrat issues coming up. Not just the 'we are both biologically 15 so it is okay?' ones, but the I am more mature than maybe even my own parents and know better even though I am now only 7 ones.

Those are the morally questionable ones, and if you should write them, explore the issue in your writing and not just gloss over it, it could lead to some good character development.

Juia_Darkcrest said:

My novel isn't true regression since he would be defined as transmigrating, not reincarnating. However, instead of a visibly old man's body, he has a middle-aged man's body, due to some cosmetic clean-up by the gods involved. He starts the story with his internals still mostly broken, but slowly, he is given repairs to his body that are letting him get back to a semi-balance of normal.

Since he is still an adult, I don't have too many issues with how to write him, though if he was 83 becoming a 5-18 year old (or younger), you could have some Rudius Greyrat issues coming up. Not just the 'we are both biologically 15 so it is okay?' ones, but the I am more mature than maybe even my own parents and know better even though I am now only 7 ones.

Those are the morally questionable ones, and if you should write them, explore the issue in your writing and not just gloss over it, it could lead to some good character development.

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Oh, don't worry, everyone is an adult, nooooo Diddy. Although the character development will be more like character regression as he slowly loses himself to his regression ability, once being full of personality into a cold machine that will do anything to get rid of his regression ability, discarding values he once had, wondering if he should bother having attachments, stuff like that.