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Yeah, but as seen above, that would only work for comedy. As standard formular it would make all the heroes way too similar...

Because they wouldn't be that different from each other. And the whole idea of such a theme is to make each person easily recognizable. You hear the sin and you can imagine the person behind it. But for Ten Commandments? The "Thou shalt not steal "-hero? Shouldn't that be all of them? The...

It's probably one person who clicked on your novel (1), opened the first chapter (2), and never came back... :blob_ghost:

My second story in a year or so :D

With all the gender-bender girls love isekai going on, I'm probably a female mantis, mating with another female mantis, before we eat some poor male mantis as midnight-snack afterwards. So yeah, seems fine to me :D

Not only can the author think about it for hours or days, but they can also use google. There are a million genius strategies for anything out there. Just pick one and write the story beat so that you can use it...

Let side-characters have good ideas, too. The biggest problem is more often than not, that the MC knows everything and always the best solution and even his bad ideas still beat the braindead enemies. So just write a story, where not all plans are succesful first try. And where some...

Not really. Isekai stories do just fine and make enough money. We will see other genres/tropes that get overhyped for a few months, but isekai will just do fine as a popular genre on its own... The only change will be that isekai will become part of a story and not be the story themselves. If...

I mostly use SH as test before going to RR and alike. So it still stands. Actually got that point from multiple sources, so I have to see how I work with that. I don't have that many system messages right now, so it's mostly a presentation decision. Though boxes for the sake of boxes might put...

He means that Singapore is missing which should be at the southern end of Malaysia. Can't confirm it though. No readers from there...

Good to see we are all on the same page :blobrofl:

Interesting insight. No system for the MC was a conscious choice due to the story flow. Though it is to be seen whether the slow but steady approach works with LitRPG or if the audience is less forgiving compared to isekai. But the main point is: Are people that set on blue boxes fur the system...

Just for the fun of it: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/343115/beyond-those-lights/ Let's see what the oracle thinks :D

That's what big publishing does. That's the reason we have genre conventions and obligatory scenes. Those will help you write a story that on a fundamental level will work. Something with a beginning, a middle, and an end where all the needed notes are hit and the reader will - without deeply...

Hmm. I never really had problems with endings but that might be because I start with the central theme of my stories. Most tightly written stories use a simple (what if) question as the central theme and the ending is just the answer the author wants to give. I think the reason a lot of people...

"Just writing whatever" is also part of training your craft...

Anxiety is normal. It shows that you care. The best way is to accept that anxiety and use it to push yourself further in your craft. Try to find a way to tell the story in a way, you yourself enjoy it. And then believe that the right audience will find and like it. Don't try to write for that...

"Writing is not an art, it's a craft." A lot of early writers wait for their inspiration, for the moment everything clicks into place and flows. But 95% of writing ist just hard work. Learning the rules, learning story structure and tropes, writing as blue collar job without any artsy...

Hold the hand out of a driving car. Now imagine that Force working on your entire body. But times 100... With enough speed that is like running against a wall...

Webnovel is based in Hong Kong, so they'll sense it when there is something to be disliked. Also they belong to the Qidian group, so... yeah, no chance they wouldn't listen. There is a simpler reason than anything: nobody cares. As long as nobody reports it, nobody will remove it. And it takes...