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Dark fantasy is about looking at ourselves, society and humanity, along with its darkest/worst sides, and facing them to find what it means to be “human” in a broken world.

I believe a good mystery narrative should be fair in providing narrative clues through foreshadowing and scattering subtle hints; so both the protagonist and the reader have an equal opportunity to uncover the mystery.

Instead of inserting a new chapter to patch the plot hole, I pasted the transition chapter (x') into the old chapter and merged the old chapter (chapter y) with the old chapter above it (chapter z) into one combined chapter (chapter yz). So, chapter x' = transition chapter (new); chapter yz =...

Why not create your own trend? If you're just writing for fun, it's better to write fiction that aligns with your artistic vision. This is just my opinion, but writing fiction that doesn't suit your taste is hard, and meeting market demands is even harder.

A description narrative is considered "decoration" or empty setting when its presence or absence doesn't affect the story and/ or simply adds to the word count. Therefore, every descriptive narrative should have a functional purpose and/ or add "value" to the story.

In mainstream fiction, mothers are generally just the background of the story or the 'victim' who motivates the protagonist's growth. In my fiction, the mother is the subject of history, the bearer of the fate of the world, the protector of her child and the main protagonist as a center of...

Honestly, aside from pacing, characters and world building (including the power system) are the story content I consider as the last resort when giving feedback. Why? To analyze story content, reviewers have to read many chapters (at least 10k words, I think) to analyze the coherence of the...

Essentially, in action scenes, especially fights, I tend to narrate the impact of the fight on the characters and the environment to show the consequences of the stakes at stake and maintain tension rather than simply narrating the fight moves. Readers are more likely to sympathize with your...

Oh... thank you for revising my fiction's grammar. I haven't checked it yet... and I did consider fixing it, especially after noticing the inconsistent use of past and present tenses. :blob_teary: But right now, my energy is being consumed by revising the narrative structure in the latest...

What a sweet scene... a little daughter fell asleep in her mother's arms in a creaking rocking chair on the terrace of the wooden house accompanied by the mist and valley breeze.

Hmm... this cover is honestly beautiful. But for some reason, I prefer the old style. This is just my opinion.

I'm a former mainstream isekai reader. I've read many titles. But it's precisely because I've had my fill of isekai tropes that I've been inspired to write my current subversive fiction. As an author, I probably wouldn't write isekai. But as a reader, I've enjoyed isekai.

I believe presenting information and mystery in fiction is like peeling an apple. Readers can taste the freshness of the apple as they peel it slowly.

Trust me! If you focus on engagement every day, you won't enjoy the creative writing process. Now I care more about the quality of my writing. That's not to say engagement isn't important, it's just more of an external factor. Meanwhile, writing quality is an internal factor that we can control.

Some people are good at drawing. Some people are good at telling stories. And in the middle there are a few people who are good at drawing and telling stories. Good job!

I tried to rewrite the lore about the fantasy ideological concept conveyed by the narrator through an info dump into a children's fairy tale narrative through the dialogue of a mother and her little daughter. But my head immediately became fuzzy; it was so difficult to simplify the complex and...

Dude... your paragraph is gigantic, it's bigger than my phone screen. If this were a fictional narrative, I'd suggest cutting it down to shorter paragraphs for easier reading. Lol

Critiquing fiction is easy, criticizing narrative is easy, and criticizing our own writing is also easy. Anyone who reads a story can easily find something wrong with it, whether intuitively or rationally. What's difficult? Providing and implementing concrete solutions to improve the...

So why not use the atmosphere to represent the character's emotion? This way, the environmental descriptions aren't just empty settings but have emotional meaning. For example, when the protagonist stares at the sky in a dark room, she's not just seeing a dark sky, but rather reflecting her...

In the context of first POV, white space syndrome usually occurs because the author focuses too much on the character's internal thoughts rather than interacting with their environment. The solution is simple: narrate your protagonist actively interacting with the environment and use the...