Which is more difficult: Writing a new chapter or rewriting an old chapter with a more immersive approach?
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As a reader, someone might use judgment about a character's actions based on their values and beliefs about how actions "should" be performed.
As authentic characters, they act based on the "current state" of their world, based on their personality, beliefs, values, and even their trauma.
have a good day today. 
MeowDoria, I need your help~.
Well, I was so engrossed in reading and writing feedback for a new author that I lost track of time.
It's time to get back to write my fiction. Marry and her little daughter are waiting for me...
"My goal is to create peace and justice." (Pain)
"Are you kidding me?! You destroyed my village, killed my master, my sensei, hurt my friends." (Naruto)
"Then tell me... what is your goal?"
"I'LL KILL YOU... then create peace in the shinobi world."
"How noble of you. What about MY family, MY friends, MY village? They were destroyed by Konoha! Is it fair that only you can preach about peace and justice?!"
"..."
Wow... I just got a 1.5 rating on R*
I wonder... does someone read a few pages before rating or read at least 1 volume?
Someone's amazing if that person can judge fiction from just a few pages. Great!
As an author, we see fiction as vivid images in our memory.
As a reader, we can only perceive fiction through the narrative provided by the author.
Writing fiction is like a communication effort, conveying the author's imagination to the reader through narrative.
Thanks for supporting me on that thread.
Living prose breathes with the reader's heartbeat.
Oh... now I might know why these people keep putting feedback request threads outside the feedback section.
Because feedback threads placed outside the feedback section will appear in the forum trending on the SH homepage.
Conversely, feedback threads in the feedback section will not appear. It's a bug.
I agree with a fan... as a teenager, you tend to care about Naruto's idealism. But as an adult, you tend to understand Pain's realism.
In the real world, the realities of geopolitics, nations, and war more closely follow Pain's logic, especially regarding the deterrent effect.
Write POV based on your character's voice. Let your character's soul guide you as you narrate what your character is doing 'right now' in their world.
If readers say, "protagonist 'should' have done this or that..." Congratulations! You've created an authentic character that even readers found unsettling and irritating.
"Good prose is like a windowpane." - George Orwell
I stopped reading shoujo not because of the cliche tropes. It's just that... I hate it when the FMC gets taken by a random guy even though the fictional premise uses "family" labels: mother-daughter, father-daughter, brother-sister, and the like. I may be childish, but when reading fiction, I treat the FMC as my daughter. My feeling of my daughter being taken by someone else is too uneasy.
Captain Reynard the Idealistic Knight
The relationship between author, fiction, and reader is like a symbolic contract. The author provides a narrative to the reader. Readers know the narrative is "fictional," but they are willing to be bound by the "lie" to achieve a sense of experience.
Reading fiction means allowing the lie to "hypnotize" you. So, you can experience the "truth" of the sense of experience the author has crafted through narrative.
Love, loss and regret are emotional fictional themes.
Narrating a child's first POV is one of the most difficult challenges in writting. Why?
Because you need to "lower your intelligence" to the child's level. You can't use literary prose to narrate characters, worldbuilding, and plot.
You need to lower your language to be simple and imaginative, appropriate to a child's psychological development. So, the POV feels authentically child's voice. -
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