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I've seen too many CN webnovel titles, I admit it. So, let's make more. There's a reason that those overly templated optimized synopses exist, and the reason is that CN readers are notoriously "overread", basically read too many stories to not care about uniqueness in prose, but care just enough...

Everyone knows that there are three POVs, of which two are used in fiction a lot: 1st POV and 3rd POV. These POVs can be used in different ways, be they omniscient/limited, objective/subjective, or reliable/unreliable. The use of POV is usually an authorial preference, and how it is used often...

Ordinary writers don't think about symbolism that much when writing, and yet even the veteran critics can find it in those ordinary writer's writings. Master storytellers use symbolism deliberately, and yet even the critics can't find what that symbolism in their writing really means. Some...

Pacing in storytelling is defined as "the speed or tempo at which a story unfolds". As readers, we all can see when the story stalls or goes too fast according to our guts. But, as writers, we can't seemingly find out why reader A said it was "glacial" and reader B says it's"perfectly paced"...

When asking about how storytellers write their stories, there's informal agreement that plot divides in two: character-driven and plot-driven. But everyone has that threshold where one becomes the other. Now, the questions: 1. What is a character driven story? How it differs from plot driven...

In my roast thread, I am always ranting about good opening chapters having good ratio of sequential "context, character, content" going on in them. The part I forgot to ask about is, what do you think those three words mean? I'm genuinely never asked anyone about this. So: 1. What is context...

A) Can you explain why one kind of description works in action-adventure, and fails in romance? B) Can you choose to withhold visual detail to emphasize emotion instead without losing momentum? C) Can you describe a place that reveals character without mentioning a single emotion? If you can...

So, I've made the redesign. It looks amazing compared what I have now. I'm pretty much set at the second option, but I want to hear your thoughts.

Prologue You awaken to chaos—murmurs clashing, trinkets jangling, and the occasional cackle of some mad immortal haggling over smut with another equally deranged entity. You try not to listen, but they’re loud enough to drown out your own thoughts. Begrudgingly, you open your eyes. Welcome...

Are you one of those brave souls who believe your manuscript is teetering on perfection but still wake up at 3 a.m. knowing deep down it’s a disaster? Good. You’re my favorite kind of writer. I’m here to roast your work—scorch it until the ashes look usable. Think of me as the Gordon Ramsay of...

Prologue It was an ordinary Thursday. The print must flow, the day job must "day job," and writing creativity was getting unceremoniously sucked into the purgatory called real life. As usual, I found myself shoving acrylic sheets into the UV printer with a mild sense of time efficiency. You...

That's my teaser for a guide that will be posted tomorrow or day after, given how writing the ending and the editing process will go smoothly. For now, discuss this question.

I like the pre-cooked kidney beans on sale. Other types of beans are either damn too long to wait them to become soft or has that strange metallic taste from staying too long in the can. My country doesn't eat beans a lot lol.

My dreams today were weird and they gave me a thing I'll call "assimilation problem", it's like a trolley problem but it's body horror. Here's the scenario: Four girls fuse together using a ritual to create the ultimate female to fullfill their wishes. Then, using the ultimate body, Ultimate...

I force-fed the first chapter (where his backstory is) from my webnovel and asked ChatGPT to make Ichiro's favorite music playlist. I think it did well. Try it for yourself! I like that 50% of songs here I at least listened more than once.

I'm just curious, got inspired to write in POV of supporting character and wrote it today. Think of the first part as synopsis and second part as prologue.

I was accidentally thinking about LOTR, and realized that the population density of that world is sparse. Freaking Mongolia levels sparse. Taking to account the movies it looks like there's 50k max people living in that Europe long continent. Sure, it can be said that's just overlooked and only...

https://www.udio.com/songs/5Y7UnJBbzFQG7myrHgnWVW Sounds perfect, especially first 1.5 minutes. Ranting time. That's what too much too much real life work makes people do, instead of writing webnovel which is stuck at the climax they spend 3 hours making music instead because there's no words...

"Profanity is the crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker" Do you fucking agree or fucking not? If yes, then why you don't use it, if no, then why you fucking use it?

For managed democracy.