Story Synopsis: 
When the Demons first invaded in the year 1830, they brought terror and suffering to the world. However, through unifying against a common foe, the nations of the world fought back. On the front line of this war are individuals possessing supernatural powers known as Gifts. 
James Hatathli is one such individual. Gifted with the power of incredible memory and learning. He has completed his yearlong training in the Coalition of Humanity's Academy and now begins an apprenticeship, far away from his native home of California. His first mission will take him into the depths of madness. Where the nightmares do not end even when one awakens.

Author Notes: 
Writing Prompts Contest #24：Cthulhu Mythos. This is set in the same world as my previous short story; The Demon’s Clockwork Heart. Although it’s not necessary to read the previous story, it will make this story more interesting if one does so. I plan to make more short stories in this world for future writing contests when possible.

Hello, to anyone who still cares enough to read this. 

Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude to the people who gave me feedback on my novel and supported me during my short three-week run. For that, I am eternally grateful. 

I kind of disappeared out of the blue without saying anything because I couldn't take it anymore. It was stupid of me to do, but here I will be trying to list my reasons and I hope you can understand.

I began to write for WebNovel after seeing their advertisement for up and coming authors to make a living off of writing. I hate myself for being so naive. Looking back on it now, it was like falling for any other scam on the internet. Stuff like "Doctor's hate him because ... " and "Sign up to win ... " Etc Etc. 

As a twenty-three-year-old university student working two jobs, the only time I could fit to write was during the hours of 12 am and 5 am. It was literally killing me to publish chapters as I began to fall asleep in class, and my performance at work got a bit sloppy. 

But for the most part, I enjoyed writing the chapters because I loved to write. I loved to publish a chapter and stalk it until someone posted a reply. That moment when the first person said something meant the world to me. Because it meant someone cared that my story existed, and for this reason, I tried to push myself to put out more and more chapters. 

Things started to go wrong though, as most things do. Webnovel's feedback system is the most depressing thing. It actively tracked how many people had my novel in their collection and how many total views the novel had. However, the only number that matter was the collections. 

The thing was, these numbers were always bugged and never gave me a clear indication as to the scale of my readers. Aside from the usual comments from return readers, the number didn't mean anything. It was like running in one spot, over and over without any clear indication to if I was making any progress. It's horrible when the work you put in seems to yield basically no results. 

I was feeling euphoric watching my collections pass 100. You guys don't know the scale to my happiness. I basically woke up my whole household in celebration.

Then, in the author's discord channel, they confirmed that everything on the interface was bugged. Yep, talk about a slap in the face. 

To summarize ... I was and still am a hopeful about making a career out of my writing. But doing it on Webnovel is ill-advised. Unless that is if you are writing a fan-fiction or another cliche 'system' novel. In that case, I believe you'll find much success. 

Also, if you guys want to know the biggest reason for my departure from WN; in the search function, look up 'Da Contract'. It's the actual web novel contract. Even if you guys don't know the lingo its fine. Just take a look through and you'll understand my frustrations. 

The staff never really cared about us authors either. They seldom gave out prizing for contests and were hush-hush about even attaining a contract. But reading through it ... this thing is a slave contract. I kid you not. Anyone who is desperate enough to sign, I give you my condolences. But it's completely and utterly unbefitting of a professional "employer-producer" relationship. 

And the fact that tried to keep the contract under wraps ... they knew what they were doing.

Thankfully, a fellow author "ink bamboo" was quick to point this out to me. Otherwise, I would possibly be still slaving away here, with no end in sight. I probably would have hung myself if all my stress ended up culminating with being presented with this contract ... 

There are so many things I want to say, but I find myself more and more depressed as I think about it. An entire month of my life down that drain ... it feels bad.

I was told to try my hand with self-publishing on Amazon with Kindle. I believe it's more worth it for me to try there. If people buy my book and like it, at least I can get immediate feedback. If it doesn't work out... well, I suppose it just means I don't have the talent for writing.

Imperious Edge will continue, but not here. Not in this depressing hellscape. 

To my frequent readers, I am sorry, deeply and truly sorry that I have let you down. I can only hope you understand my choices. I often end my chapters with a bow, and to that, I give you my final respectful gesture as I sign off here. 

Perhaps it's asking too much, but I hope you guys would care enough to support me in my endeavours to becoming an amateur author. When I publish my first Volume, I will update this. 

Again, thank you and best wishes to all your future endeavours. May they yield more fruit and success than this. 

Forever yours, 

-Vincent-

WN is crap. They're slave drivers and made me question why I was wasting my time here. I'm sorry, but I just can't sit here and take it.

Rambling of a starting author - 
Hi, I'm Kiboli and this is a novel I wrote a year ago but haven't updated so far because I got stuck with studies. I'm writing this for sake of writing and not for contests or other ideas in mind because I know my level so if there any mistakes do forgive me. I'm not a native English speaker so a friend I met online helped to edit this so I'll be thanking him here and I'll try to get better in future chapters.my schedule will be a at least a chapter a week but there will be extras. thanks for hearing my rambling and please enjoy the story next...

Once a carefree NEET, Then a Peerless cultivation expert, Ye Chen now arrives at the Continent Of Zyndaria, Another cultivation world but this time in a body of a mediocre youth. With a heartbreaking past, Will he able to achieve his goals and stand on the summit ? 
Together with an indomitable will another Story BEGINS..........

TMS is now well and truly ended.
Thank you Islinda for giving this story a chance for a contract. I hope it proves well for Webnovel.
To all TMS regular readers and supporters. I won't name you individually to respect your anonymity.  With my deepest respect, thank you for your time, interaction and support.  A story can be written.  It's only when it's read that it becomes a tale. 
And I won't forget those from Tapread and Wattpad who gave Hinata and Eiji's drama a chance when it was there.  I've been blessed.
Here is an omake about its own small journey to close the curtains. 
---WPC #46 - To My Sunflower's Journey---
A moment of nostalgia as I look back to the contest that helped me form the concept for this story. Otherwise, I would've never written it.
---[[Writing Prompts Contest #46:Fall in Love with a Soldier
"Believe it or not, the only way we kept in touch was through letters. We would write to each other about our days, about our lives. They were all innocent letters, but they were amazing because it gave me an insight into how simple a person he was."
What it feels like loving a soldier?
"When you fall in love with a soldier, you fall in love with your country; when you fall in love with a soldier, nothing is set in stone on your end. Plans can and will change at the drop of a hat and planning ahead is impossible.
Though all that is true, so is when you fall in love with a soldier, you've found the best there is.
When you fall in love with a soldier, you've found someone who not only loves you more than his own life but loves his country more than his own life as well.
When you fall in love with a soldier, a kiss is worth a million dollars, and no expensive gift can compare.
When you fall in love with a soldier, you've fallen in love with someone who appreciates having a bed, running water and warm food.
When you fall in love with a soldier, you've fallen in love with not who you've prayed for, but someone so much more.
Thank you, God, for letting me fall in love with my soldier."
(Emily Richeson)https://forum.webnovel.com/d/18335-writing-prompts-contests-45-46]]---
The winner of my prompt was a book that is now on hiatus. No other entries qualified. At the time I didn't realize that having votes was the rank qualifier. So my book was instantly disqualified.
Despite not making it past the car park, so to speak, I kept this story going. I had moved it to Wattpad and continued to post chapters there.
I entered it into a Wattpad community award, and had eventually won the award for Historical Fiction, but never received the prize for it. 😆
That's okay. Knowing that my writing was enough to be a winner in a judge's eyes was cool. It won over some quality stories as well. That was a prize enough for me.
After some time, I started posting the story to Tapread where it picked up read interest there. Then I got a ping from Islinda who liked the lone chapter I had left on the book page.  
This story has been a blast to write. I'm proud of what I've been able to achieve with it. I have no regrets of what I leave behind, as I have given my best shot.
♥♥
Arigatōgozaimashita.  
Until next time. Take care.♥


Hinata longed for his Eiji to return from war. Alone in the idyllic countryside whilst other areas of Japan were torn asunder. One day, he receives a letter from his lover filled with the scent of sunflowers and his undying love for him. Followed by official news of his presumed death at Iwo Jima. Heartbroken. Yet determined to honor his promise to Eiji; to live the life they were unable to live together.

Eiji fought honorably for Japan at Iwo Jima. He fell injured in a banzai charge to be classified as dead. He recovered with the aid of an American lieutenant, who escorted him back into the mainland for espionage work. His one chance and hope of return to Hinata's side.

A compelling risk of a war story set at the end of the Pacific War, 1945. Two sides of the war, on Japanese soil, are shown from the individual perspectives of same-sex lovers Hinata and Eiji. 

More than a boys love. This story is an emotional drama, revealing heart and souls of people surviving America's assault on Japan. The consequences suffered at war's end.

***Now Statement:
Well this isn't a short hiatus at all is it?

Well unfortunately I bit off more than I could chew. I started this story a bit naive in what I thought I could handle at the moment. You see, I started my freshmen year in college like 2 weeks ago and it wrecked me emotionally. Living away from home, heck, living in a new environment, has been frying my emotions. The sort of scheduled way of life is helping though! Not with my writing though (As you could probably tell).

Anyway, just wanted to vent for a bit (This format is very therapeutic). A new chapter as well as the other changes to the previous chapters flying in on Tuesday.

***Previous statement:
I'm taking a short break from writing new chapters for this story to see if I can make the story better. This will take a few days, but it will help me write new chapters.

In regards to the contest this story was submitted to, eh, probably just going to drop it. I mean who needs free publicity? (cries). Oh well!

Some guy dies and gets transported to another world with a weird, robotic voice named, "System Good Follower" in his head. This is it! This is his time to shine and become the greatest hero this world has ever known. Except... he's not supposed to do that... And the system is bad. And he never wanted to be here in the first place.

Whelp, I guess this is the end (for now at least). I remember back two months ago when I was writing my first work, the fanfic for Chojusen, I said something along the lines of  "I want to be known as the dumb dumb Author who finishes his novels and doesn't quit just because he "fell off..." And as I reflect on the decision I'm making right flipping now, I'm just as disappointed in myself as you guys. It's just, I'm not quitting because I fell off, rather, my lack of taking off in the first place is what's destroying what little motivation I have for writing this novel.

I don't know if you can understand what it's like to watch as the days go by and your work never makes any progress. What it's like to see other novels take off while yours is abandoned. Now, hopefully I don't offend any other authors on the site with words like the ones I'm throwing around right now, if your novel has taken off its more likely than not that you are competent as a writer and your work is deserving of its attention. I'm probably just coming off as a whiny bitch for being unsuccessful in my first venture as an original writer and to an extent, even I agree with that sentiment. It's just, I what to express myself in as open a manner as can be and realizing my frustrations through writing like this is what I feel helps.

I'm pretty sure I contributed in a large part to why my novel is so unpopular. I mean I started off with a message to everyone that it wouldn't be updating for a while and even after coming back I had to take another stop to go to Cuba. I give my own novels sub par review scores and even admit that I have no confidence in them. To anyone with even a modicum of logic, these are red flags and I'm not surprised that many people have turned away from reading.

However, for the last two or so months I've released almost 200,000 words and 112 chapters. And for the better part of those two months It's felt like I've been writing for no one. Sure the view counts update by the everyday and my collections count increase as well. But it's truly depressing to see only three or four comments per chapter; even though they are extremely appreciated. Honestly, if it weren't for the two or three people a see coming back every day — even if it is just to say "thanks for the chapter" — I wouldn't have made it for this long.

Even back when I was writing the other novel, where I would get things about the canonical story wrong or when I made a decision that didn't sit right with some of the readers, getting mean/harsh comments would be infinitely better for my motivation — and I'm assuming other authors as well — than just silence.

Well, that's enough of that nonsense so here's what I've decided to do. Writing this novel, even before I began publishing, is grating as I feel no confidence in my skills as an author and that has only further declined with how little interest the novel has amassed over the two months. It's gotten to the point where I literally write to meet the quota I set up for myself of 1 chapter a day and for bonus opportunities like power stone incentives. (Wait this is still rambling! Sorry...)

Anyways, the problem with motivation is more impactful than you guys can imagine as I literally know what to write next and how the story should progress, but just sitting before my computer and trying to type for what I've already doomed to failure causes distractions to magically manifest; like when you have homework and just so happen to find a dozen videos you'd much rather watch than do your duty. 

Thus, I'm deciding to not "drop" the novel and only put it on hiatus for now. Maybe if I become less whiny in the future and my career as an writer doesn't tank, I'll return to continue updating the story… But for now, I think I'll move on to enter in the webnovel weekly contests and write stories that gain an actual audience. If all else fails, I can somewhat confidently say that I'll return to this story eventually as I'm done with its outline and whatnot. The only thing I ask of you is to forgive me for wasting your time like so many other authors who don't finish their work and to remember that I'll eventually come back to finish what I started; maybe not now or in a year but eventually, I'll come to finish this story… 

P.S. I'll be writing under another pseudonym for a while, else the bad reputation I just created might come to haunt me if I do get successful. So, if you're still a "fan" of either me or this story, sorry you won't be able to find what I'm working on for now… (The characters I write might be dense and stupid, but I think this shameless move is the most pragmatic.)

Don't forget to delete your old reviews and give this novel new 1 star reviews. Though I'm shameless and cowardly, I'd rather not waste other people's time; at least not now that I'm discontinuing production for this novel. But... have some fun with the 1 star reviews, like call me misogynistic and transphobic (you'd know why if you read all the chapters). If anything, we can make my action of quitting, a fun little game, and upvote the most satirically on point roast.

Follow the adventures of a boy named Jam on his journey to gain a purpose. Thrust onto the world of cultivation because of the silly encouragement of his foster grandmother and his ridiculously one-track-minded self, Jam's adventure is bound to be full of action, comedy, and self discovery. Hopefully, his stupidity will be cured before it affects his life too badly.

-----

Here's my cringy first attempt at a hook, so let me be more straightforward with what this will turn out to be~

A "dense" MC in all the wrong ways, who's OPness brings Xianxia protagonists to shame.

Some wacky situations that exploit the density and idiocy of the MC, which will inevitably shape his future self.

A band of overpowered companions that follow Jam in his journey to find purpose, with only a single love interest (for now, and probably forever~)

-----

[Current] Schedule: Hiatus...

[Relationship] Goals (End the week's rating with):

100 Power Stones = Extra chapter (Week of January 7, 14)

150 Power Stones = Extra chapter (Week of January 21)

Hi, everyone! Linodo here!

So how did you all think of the first book of "When the Lilyflower Blooms..."? I know, I know, it's a little short for a first book, but what I wanted to do was to just introduce the main characters and give all of you a small taste of the new world I wanted to write. I promise the next book would be longer and more defined. 

Like I said in my synopsis, this is my little side project until I finish my main story, "Spirit Immortal." It has been tough, writing a daily series, working a day job and trying to start a new story from scratch. So, you'll have to bear with me about the inconsistent releases. I'll try to post once or twice a week, but it really depends on how much workload I have. Eventually, when Spirit Immortal ends, this new story would become my main work and it'll take over Spirit Immortal's daily schedule, but for now, I'm just having fun writing it. 

Do leave some comments or even a review if you like the novel. If you think that there are some things that need improving, feel free to leave a comment on the chapter! I'll try to rectify it as soon as I'm free. 

Alright! Hope you enjoyed this first book! I'll see you again soon!!!

In a modern world where magic and status boards exist, twenty-three-year-old S-Class Archmagus Aria Saciustrum found herself in the morbid situation of joining her country’s own Dungeon Dive expedition. A researcher at heart, Aria didn’t like the idea of slogging away in the dirty depths of the petrifying dungeons that spawned all over the world.

However, her scientific mind trumped her own feelings, and she forced herself to join her country’s first S-Class Dungeon Dive. The allure of finding a treasure or a discovery that could shake the foundations of human society was too enticing to just walk away.

So… Aria dived deep into the Dungeon, alongside her friend the S-Class Healer Yvette, and yes, her efforts had paid off. The S-Class party did manage to find a groundbreaking discovery. One that would shake the foundations of the world and would haunt the nightmares of everyone living on Planet Earth.

Just… It wasn’t what Aria had hoped for...


New chapters every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at GMT+8 0100

Hello so I decide to write a story to fill in my free time. But I do have to warn you I am new at writing so don't be surprised if my plotting and description of the story is horrible. 🤦🏻‍♀️I do apologize and my schedule is very busy so I will most likely have weekly chapters if not less than that. Please don't hate on my horrible writing skills, like I said it is just for fun and for experience 💁🏻‍♀️but I do hope you like some of the story but another warning is I might even start over because of somethings I don't like about the story and everything. So finally please please please forgive me for all the horrible excuses I have. Thank you and try to enjoy 😊 

P.S I have really short chapters cause I have a busy schedule. But I will try to give a new chapter every week or so

A story about a girl who was a singer but had went through a hard time and decided to jump off a building. Then she realized that she had not died and found herself an a much better and prettier body. Now she has to solve the mystery on how she became this way and what happened to the girl that originally owned the body. (I am still unsure about the plot and how everything goes so I do apologize)

Hello so I decide to write a story to fill in my free time. But I do have to warn you I am new at writing so don't be surprised if my plotting and description of the story is horrible 🤦🏻‍♀️ I do apologize and my schedule is very busy so I will most likely have weekly chapters if not less than that. Please don't hate on my horrible writing skills, like I said it is just for fun and for experience. 💁🏻‍♀️ but I do hope you like some of the story but another warning is I might even start over because of somethings I don't like about the story and everything. So finally please please please forgive me for all the horrible excuses I have. Thank you and try to enjoy 😊

P.S I have really short chapters cause I have a busy schedule. But I will try to give a new chapter every week or so

I started this story for seeing my write skills, but it might change depending if I decide to continue this story.

I might not be good at writing, so I apologize in advance if this story is crappy.😅

I'm writing this based off of my imagination, so if this reminds you of a novel, please do tell me and I'll check it out and try to fix it.

If you have any advice of criticism for me, feel free to tell me!(Plz don't be to harsh on the criticism...😓)

If I do plan on putting this story to a stop, I'll make sure to put it out there be for dropping it. This also applies to temporarily pausing the story.

I might not be able to do a steady update schedule, but I'll work hard and try to change that in the future!

Update: Very sorry if the chapters are short, I'll try to make them longer in the future. As of making my first chapter, I realized that even after typing for a while, the word count only reached 333. Basically meaning, typing takes a looong time.

Update 2.0: I reeeeeeeally admire those authors that are able to publish so many words. Not that I didn't admire them before...

free short story writing contests

Awake in a Nightmare

Imperious Edge

Tales Of Zyndaria

To My Sunflower

The Good Follower System

Divinity Jam

When the Lilyflower Blooms...

Falling Down

Falling.

Worlds of Opposite Fortune

People search free short story writing contests also like: