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A large-scale calvary battle would be quite a crucifying sight.

Use canva. It makes making book covers easy and it's also free. As for criticism about your novel cover: 1. The 3D-like font of the title suggests that it's some kind of surreal sci-fi setting, such as virtual reality setting or cyberpunk. If that's the kind of story you're going for, that's...

One word. Bad. Explanation 1. The entire thing is written over. There is practically no space left. 2. The font chosen is hard to read. Particularly the name of the author. 3. The choice of font transparency is bad. It makes the text hard to read and near impossible to see when it's small or...

Ai-chan oftens gets stopped by research. Ai-chan has OCD, so Ai-chan researches things excessively and that caused a blockage in Ai-chan's mind where it's a spiralling effort of research, research, research until Ai-chan gave up on writing the scene.

Better than Ai-chan for sure. Ai-chan takes an hour just to get the eyes look just right.

Naginata. That's why Ai-chan went to a kenjutsu dojo to learn how to wield it.

Beyond 40k it's without a doubt a novel. Some using older definitions would define novella as something even shorter, such as under 22k words.

Congratulations, but A novella is a fictional piece between a short story and a novel with anywhere from 10,000 to 40,000 words. There’s an even narrower story option—the novelette—that has a word count between 7,500 and 17,000 words...

It is a charming first attempt. To be honest, it's bad, but compared to other people's first time, this is better than most. It is fine that it's bad. Everyone's first attempt is bad, one day you will look at this and feel embarrassed on your own. Now, don't worry about anything else and just...

Don't pick up the soap!

None. Ai-chan has accepted that Ai-chan is too busy to write regularly and does not put unrealistic expectations on the self. Though Ai-chan does try to write at least 200 words a day, if time and situation allows.

Fairy tales are basically just folk tales adapted for the younger audience. It usually has magic and fantasy creatures, where the original folk tale would have depictions of sin and depravity not suitable for the younger audience. If you're a kid, you probably don't want to know the original...

This contest was long concluded. You can write it, but you can't enter the contest anymore. Alverost also seems to be inactive lately, otherwise he'd have unpinned the thread.

Wait, this feels like deja vu. Has this happened before? Or is it just Ai-chan's precognitive superpower acting up again?

Wait a minute, what do you mean 'til the time you speak English'? Ai-chan has the title Rising Author. But then again, Ai-chan hasn't uploaded for almost 2 years and Ai-chan uses this site as experiment for Ai-chan's writing. So maybe Ai-chan isn't going to be the best evidence.