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    Show me your retcon skills.

    During a story arc, when I write my character's reasons for investing in and building a workshop to produce certain exotic or civilian goods, I usually include one or two historical references to justify it. However, when I let my friend read that arc, he pointed out that these reasons felt...
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    What's the smallest thing that could change your entire storyline?

    If my MC hadn’t been caught by his sister while hesitating to flee his arranged marriage, he could have lived a far more carefree life with his first love and their children. But that also doomed his father scheme in the worst case scenario as his rival can secured this good marriage as his...
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    How does your protagonist achieve peace?

    1. A status quo that everyone can be satisfied with. 2. His family, friends, subordinates and his subjects. 3. People who try to take/rob things from him, his acquaintances. Or in some cases, even his own allies and loved ones when their interests conflict with those of his other loved ones. 4...
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    Story sharing.

    Gain and Loss. I intended to write this as a "Seven" fanfic at first, but after a bunch of rewrites I decided to make it fully original instead. So basically, it's an isekai into played game with heavy kingdom-building vibes, set in a high-medieval European-style fantasy world (think feudal...
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    How did you start writing fiction in your early journey as a new author?

    Back to 2013 (when I was 13 years old), I got my first smartphone. During that time, watching Lets Play *insert game name* videos were my main type of hobby. Then my favourite youtuber back then had a video about Touhou and I felt in love with this verse. Soon, I started to find its doujins but...
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    Writing Currency balance in my world (Need Help)

    No, more gold does not mean fewer 0s in the currency. It always depends on how much the thing you used as currency existed in the market. For example, the Spanish suffered from gold inflation, which crumbled their economy, as they had so much of it while they did not produce enough civilian...
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    Writing Handling extremely sensitive subject matter in fiction... how?

    When I write about these issues, I usually include a character who criticizes those actions. For example, when the main character’s affair with the first female lead is exposed (he is married to the second female lead), even though his marriage to the second heroine is a political one and he’s...
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    When did you start writing?

    15. Usually writing in my notebooks in my mother tongue as a hobby.
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    Do you ever go back and re-write old chapters?

    After one or two months, when my mind calms down after the hype it felt when wrote those chapters :v But mostly, it is to add filter to fix the pace and paragraph structure.
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    What is your story ACTUALLY about

    TTo find the answer to these two questions: How much interference in another person's life is considered acceptable? And does a greater good require self-sacrifice?
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    What makes your fiction unique?

    Economy in a late medieval marchiatry society that havd crewed gender ratio (man to women is 1 to 25). Like how famine would be much more political and cruel as the ruling caste chose who to live and who to starve as this is also a demographic emergency.
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    Do you have a 'main theme' for your stories?

    The build up for a counterattack is just so good
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    How to shift Perspective in First-person perspective novel?

    I think it depends on the pace of the story and the purpose of shifting to that particular point of view. Since the novel I used to write involve many battles, I often used the first-person perspective to describe and tell the reader what is going on but not let them have the full grab of...
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    Writing What is the lore in your fiction?

    In an alternate timeline during WWII, Japan and Germany made significant advancements in biological engineering and psychic theorythrough their inhuman experiments. Despite their progress, these achievements could not alter the course of the war, and eventually, their research fell into American...
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