Advice for JP WN-like writing

[Koukiri]

I want to write a one shot and it should look similar to a Japanese web novel translated to English. That means it's more dialogue drive and paragraphs consist only of few sentences, with two newlines spacing between paragraphs. In normal English books, you'd see paragraphs separated by a single newlines, which makes everything look like a block of text.

As for why I want to adopt this writing: I just read these kind of stories and I like to write something I'd read myself.

However, because it should be a one shot, I want to get some help on condensing background information, I want to avoid info dumping and make the one shot mainly about the current plot.

Is it possible to get help for these kind of things? Paid/Unpaid?

The reason why I chose ScribbleHub: I've seen novels that looked similar to Japanese wns, in fact, I initially thought those were translations but it turned out that they were originals.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

What exactly do you mean by "one-shot" - a short story, a stand-alone novel, or something else?

 

[Wlel]

What exactly do you mean by "one-shot" - a short story, a stand-alone novel, or something else?

Probably a one short story

 

[RepresentingWrath]

What exactly do you mean by "one-shot" - a short story, a stand-alone novel, or something else?

A finished story that isn't split into chapters and is around 5k words long.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Probably a one short story

Then you have your answer - the JP novel format basically IS standard short story formatting, but extended into a long light novel usually. Just look for short story writing techniques - or find a bunch of short stories by authors you like or who are well-known for short stories (e.g. O. Henry, Robert E. Howard, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, or more recently, Dennis Etchison, Stephen King, etc.) and study what they do.
A short story just gets right to the bones of the issue and leaves off any meat not needed to tell the story.
You even cite one big gimmick - short paragraphs, often handled as dialogue between the characters.
Add in just enough detail that the reader should be able to form a picture of the scene, and you're haflway there already.

 

[DismaiNaim]

I would recommend that you learn how to flesh out the scope. If you have too much going on, then you can't get into details that you need to to properly tell the story. If you have too little, you find yourself writing filler, which is NEVER good.

It's one thing I've gotten way better at lately. I'm actually writing an ongoing series with chapters that average 4100-4300 words, with the shortest one being 2200 and the longest one waving at 6000. I would invite you to take a look at how I manage the scope in my earlier chapters vs how I've been doing so recently. Let me know your thoughts, and I'll take a deep dive into yours.

Both of us would might actually learn something, who knows? If you're interested, https://www.scribblehub.com/series/967246/a-place-to-bloom/