[Disclaimer the one who wrote this chapter is the author Sinbi]
Sitting in front of his computer, a sad but sweet song in Korean could be heard throughout the quiet room.
While contemplating between whether or not SinBi wanted to play games or write, a notification suddenly surfaced on Discord.[1]
"DING!"
"Let's play some normals!"[2]
Seeing the message sent by his friend, SinBi replied with one word.
"Later!"
After replying, SinBi tabbed out of Discord onto Google Chrome, preparing to write. However, the situation hadn't ended as he immediately heard a series of 'dings.'
Opening Discord once again, words continuously flooded his screen causing SinBi to stare in stupefaction.
"Now!"
"Now!"
"Play now!"
"You're not busy at all!!"
Relenting, SinBi didn't know whether to cry or not. "Okay, just 1-2 games, I really have something to do!" Immediately sending an angry emoji[3] afterwards.
Logging into League of Legends, SinBi accepted the party invite that he had received upon going online.
Joining the party, he saw 3 of his other friends also online while deciding to join their VC.[4]
"Yo, Yo, Yo!" Entering the call, SinBi promptly greeted his friends while calling his role decisively.
"Top Lane!"
"Yeah, yeah, we already knew you were gonna go top."
After sorting out their roles, the party of 5 started a match while everyone talked about who's gonna carry or who's gonna be feeding.[5]
SinBi was quiet though because he was trying to play his KPOP on the Rhythm Bot.
As the bot joined and started playing his playlist, his friends immediately whined. "Bro...don't you have any Chinese songs to play? Why is it always KPOP that you're so obsessed with?"
"What, play songs I can understand please! English!!"
"If you wanna listen to your songs so bad, just queue it up, hmph." Not caring about their remarks at all, SinBi focused on the game.
"Camille is teleporting bot, I'm following, continue fighting, we can 3v3."
"Their jungler is in the river, I can come but I'll be late." SinBi's friend A immediately called out.
"Sivir, Sivir, no flash!"
"I have ult, keep chasing."
"Okay stunning in 3, 2, 1!"
One player after another fell on the enemy team by SinBi's team. "Okay, we win! GG!"[6]
Finishing his game SinBi wanted to log off, telling his friends that he had to do something.
"Okay, that's it for me, cya."
But his friends didn't let him off the hook. "What? You're leaving after we won? Haven't you heard of the phrase 'continue if you're winning?' before?"
"But…" SinBi had no idea what he was going to say as he already knew that he couldn't go write with his friends persuasions. And what was this 'continue if you're winning' phrase? What utter nonsense! Did he not hear of the phrase 'quit while you're ahead' before?!
Okay, letting out a slight chuckle, SinBi had to admit that his phrase was pretty nonsensical too…
"Fine…" Giving in once more, he continued to play.
What was meant to be one game that took about 40 minutes prolonged to hours after hours.
Finally after who knows how long, all his friends had to go as SinBi stretched his body while checking the time.
10:00PM
". . ." Scratching his eye while blinking a couple more times, SinBi made sure that he was reading the clock correctly.
"Well...crap." It's already this late?!?!
He still had to write, shower, brush his teeth and do some studying…
"Ugh...I'll just write 2 chapters tomorrow. It's fine."
Walking up his stairs to the restroom, SinBi took a shower, brushing his teeth afterwards before studying a bit, becoming sleepy extremely quickly.
Going onto his bed, SinBi quickly dozed off dreaming a bit.
DING DING DING DING
Loud sounds of sirens reverberated through SinBi's room.
Waking him up, he continued to lay on his bed with his eyes closed while trying to reach and find his phone.
After stumbling around for a bit, SinBi finally managed to open his phone and shut the alarm off before sleeping again.
Yet after another 5 minutes, the same type of sounds could be heard once again.
DING DING DING DING
"Annoying…" Muttering in a soft voice, SinBi finally got up and took a quick shower before scrolling through the notifications on his phone.
This was what he did every day as soon as he woke up, except sometimes he would browse his phone before taking a shower.
"Novel has been updated…"
"Novel has been updated…"
Message from Discord: "Hey are you awake?"
"Webcomic has been updated…"
Clearing it all, he decided to read the newly updated chapters of the novels he was currently reading.
Finishing them all, SinBi played his KPOP playlist once again, learning from his previous mistake not to show himself online on Discord so his friends wouldn't get him to play again. "I have to write no matter what today…"
Opening up Google Docs, SinBi re-read his previous chapter to jog his memory before writing the next one.
Except, he didn't know where to start…
Starting off a new chapter was always confusing for him, questions surfaced on his mind as he wondered how he could go about it.
Pondering for a bit, SinBi thought of a pretty emotional idea for his main character as he started writing.
However once he got into it, SinBi became unsatisfied, erasing the words he wrote down while starting over again.
He does this multiple times and sometimes more than he should, but SinBi would always be satisfied with his writing after a while.
Getting more in-depth into his writing, SinBi did some research over the fan-sites, wikiapedia[7] and digging through old chapters of the original novel to make sure that there were no loopholes with his fan-fiction.
Speaking of this, SinBi didn't understand the hate with fan-fictions at all!
Were fan-fictions not novels? Just because they weren't original ideas doesn't mean that the amount of work placed into writing one was easy.
Sure there were some novels that weren't up to par, but he knew that his was very good!
He not only spent a long time thinking and writing about his ideas, he also takes a long time thinking of new names for characters, setup and background of how his story was gonna be different while also researching and digging through the original novel's chapters so some of the ideas didn't coincide and make loopholes that were confusing to the readers…
At times, reading some of the original novel's on WebNovel, SinBi would think to himself that he puts way more work than some authors who are writing their own original story…
Sometimes, the truth may not be what it seems.
Just because someone was good or talented at something doesn't designate them as a genius or prodigy…
You wouldn't know how much effort and work they put in behind the scenes...you should always recognize them for their hard work and look beyond the conclusions that you jump to.
Although sometimes they may be true, but most of the times, the truth can oftentimes be shocking.
"Don't lose track of a gem, jumping to glitter."
...…..
Hey guys! SinBi, Rwgey, or Rum here! If you guys don't know me from the Webnovel Discords, I am the author of a fan-fiction novel called 'The Queen's Avatar.'
And as many of you may have guessed, it is a fan-fiction of the novel 'The King's Avatar.'
If you're into video games, I highly recommend the novel!! And maybe you can stop by my novel too. :)
Now with that said, this was the first time I was writing something like this so I hope you guys can bear with the awkward transitions between the third person view.
Still I hope you guys enjoyed my perspective in writing and what I think about the Webnovel community.
While reading, you may notice that there are numbers behind some of the acronyms/words, that was there to define some of the uncommon words/terms that you may not be familiar with, if you are curious and want to know what they mean, here they are!
[1] Discord - Voice Chatting Software/Program.
[2] Normals - Referring to a game mode inside the video game that was represented in the chapter.
[3] Angry Emoji - The emoji that was used:
[4] VC - Voice Call/Voice Chat. Joining a call with people that requires a microphone to talk into.
[5] Feeding/Carrying - Terms generally used in Gaming, feeding means you're trolling/doing bad. Carrying means you're doing exceptionally well, figuratively, 'carrying your teammates on your back' in the game.
[6] GG - Good Game, generally said after a round or the end of a game as a form of 'good sportsmanship.'
[7] Wikiapedia - Spelled like this on purpose, it's a variation of Wikipedia that gives information on various fan-made pages like 'The King's Avatar.'