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I would argue that the top lists of RR or webnovel (never been on wattpad) are even worse than SH. Especially LitRPG or some meta-cultivation... It's popcorn novels for a readerbase that wants to read popcorn novels which is why they are seen a lot in the top lists, which in turn makes many...

In general, the overwhelming majority of images you find on both google and wallpaper sites aren't for free use but under copyright. Even more if it's high quality ones. 99% of wallpaper sites also just use stolen work of others and republish it. It doesn't matter what they write on their page...

If you don't want to "force the OP" onto the MC, you can also go the alternative route of "his old knowledge makes him understand the true meaning". The usual "the magic language is japanese and only the MC understands it". Or the rather popular "magic works like code and he was such a great...

My next story. Always my next story.

It's a bot-driven copy of novelupdates that just goes through the sites and copies all the chapter links back. So in the end, it's just free advertisement and weird - probably faked - statistics :D

Getting a million underaged subscribers on youtube to sell them overpriced junk and gambling mechanics.

protecting your virginity.

Then you can't introduce them in a scene or two and make them memorable at the same time. If you use archetypes, then use them. If you don't use archetypes, then take your time. But you can't have the cake and eat it. Going by your goal, restructuring the story seems like the best course of...

It's the way I write. I have a main outline for the central theme and the important events that have to happen and I more or less have the core cast and their role down. And that's that. I have characters who became much bigger characters (both for me and the readers) than I had planned and I...

Here is one thing: if you write a harem story, then you write to an audience who already knows their archetypes. There is a reason, that a lot of harem feature different hair colors and that you see a lot of the same hair color combinations though the more standard works. That color coding is a...

I have a love-hate relationship with the movie: The scientist in me enjoys all the struggle "talking science to people without scientific background", the short attention span, the fact that people will often reach different conclusions than people with more insight, or even just the different...

There is an allmighty disembodied entity that hears every word you say, monitoring each step step, and reporting it to the overlords in the shadows. Even worse, it'll brainwash you into thinking it's doing you a favor, pushing unnecessary things into your life, draining both your money and your...

While I agree that a lot of things can feel really lazy, it's the easy way to make the MC look awesome. It's the same as "nobody else can find the murderer", "nobody else has that really cool cultivation power", "10 million people played that MMO but only that one user decided to use skill X...

But those worked because they complemented the storytelling. The story was build around that. And I won't say "don't do it". If you want to do it, then go for it. But "I don't want to rewrite chapters that don't work" isn't a good reason. It's the opposite of "trying to make something great"...

While Tarantino loves to do such stuff, it's picked because it makes sense as part of the story. He has a story that is crafted around that idea and the storytelling reinforces that theme. If you force stylistic choices because they are cool, you might end up like Shyamalan instead. Honestly...

I plan backwards and write forwards. Every story I try has a theme and a certain message it wants to say. Which defines an ending I want to achieve. From there, I go backwards to define which events need to happen so that the ending makes sense (e.g. the MC needs to learn X or see someone he...

Congratulation! You learned how to concentrate =)

Even Tolkien used ancient tropes to write LOTR. Let alone 80% of modern fantasy that is directly based on Tolkien... It's not that easy to plagiarize something. Having the same story arc or the the same scene beats doesn't fall under it. You can literary go and write the same story with...

One problem is also that we are discussing webnovels. And most webnovels are targeted toward people who want to get away from stress and problems and just want to switch off their brains. Hence, the majority of these stories concentrate on wish fulfillment or at least happy ends where hard work...

From another thread: Each chapter should give your reader some kind of new information. Hence, it's best to use that info-dumping bit by bit to move some parts in your story.