Here I write a list of things that I personally look for when searching for a novel. Just some tips for others, as well as for myself if I ever write something.

What will happen if the past meets the future? A happy ending or sad ending?

Just a one shot, there will be hints of a darker theme. Read it and be amazed by my crappy writing. All original, leave a comment it helps.

[About the story]

This was inspired by the childish first story concept I developed a decade ago. 
Even though I kept the MC, some characters, and basic setting the same, the story was changed and I am in the process of developing it (somewhat a spin-off of the first story mentioned above). I am using this story as an experiment and I will use interactive mode in moving the story further and improve my writing skills.
I am currently hoping to make 3 chap a week (But each chapters takes consumes so much time as I am slow). It will be unfair to compare the release speed of a translator to these original works. 
Also, depending on the support and love of this story gets, the release speed will be increased after 2-3 months when my commitments reduce and I get a breather. 

I have a big dream story in the making and I want to use this story to gain experience and reader base foundation before attempting that multiverse story. 

[Basics about the story]

The story follows the light and dark faction background and discusses their 'affairs' from various perspectives. Mainly from someone who is in the dark faction. So most of the story is related to dark faction. I am not comfortable with this but romance is one of the core themes of the story (affairs).
The first arc may appear little slow and has some cringy stuff lol. It is just setting up the basics about the characters. It gets faster after the first 10 chapters which are the goal setting volume where the MC gets involved in a life-changing event.
So please please please read 10 chapters before deciding on this novel.

Setting: Post Nuclear War parallel Earth. Nefarion the Devil's planet. 
Mine is usually long chapters so please excuse the release rate (I know quantity rules over quality here. Maybe I should not worry too much and release more???).

[About me]
Writing is not my hobby.
I enjoy thinking about different story scenarios but never was keen on writing them down. I know my own inability of expressing a story in any form. As a person with attention and focus trouble along with increasing addiction to laziness and lack of motivation prevents me from working on this long task of writing the story I made in sentences.
I don't get support from family and friends for doing this and I don't even want to let them know I am going to write because they are not in the same page as me (I am the odd one out of the bunch wasting time on reading and stories). 
Actually, webnovel inspired me to restart writing. So I started writing this novel as an experiment. Even though I hope for a huge response with showering praises from readers, I understand the reality that it takes time to know whether I am good or not. Its just the life sometimes does no allow you to have too much time.

2018 is actually quite a bad time for me. Nothing works out to my favor (It's my fault as well lol). Maybe not the best time to start writing as well.
I realized I am quite an emotional being who finds it hards to write when tensed. Also home is not the best location for creativity lol. (A free person writing is wasting time for nothing while a busy person writing is hard working)
A lot of time wasted.
Hopefully, I will get rid of these addictions and problems of mine and find stability soon before I can promise a certain writing rate and stable release. 
Until then bear with me.

Criticize if you don't like it and support me if you think I should continue writing.

He broke free from the shackles that bound him for all these years, let go of all the relations he had, and ran away from the responsibility that had become a burden to him. 
Boian did not have many expectations other than to live peacefully.
What a pleasant dream? It's funny how a monster who should be crushing others dreams started to dream about peaceful life.

He knew he couldn't live like normal humans. Living to old age with a loving wife and giving birth to a bunch of children was not possible for him anymore. He couldn't live in isolation either due to the food needed to maintain his Heart. The deeply rooted ideology and training he received in food consumption prevented him from doing so.

He knew his very own existence did not allow him to live peacefully, yet he tried. But, everything changed when he met a strange girl in his peaceful way of living. A meeting that changed his expectations and pulled him back to the shackles, relations, and responsibility he tried to escape from but this time with no chance of escape.
It was because, she gave him the fiercest stimulant that makes or breaks a man, 'Ambition.'
He wanted to go back to where he was kicked out with his head high and beat the people who dared to look down on him. 

Even if it was the DEVIL himself.

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Author half asleep: Simply put. A poor fellow gets messed up real hard by a chick and gets thrown back into the good vs evil cliche war he tried to escape from. Whether the chick be a blessing to him or a burden to him forms the story. 


Tags: Adventure, Heavy romance [No cliche harem but there are affairs(pun intended)]. Also a lot of action later on.

I am a newbie...So be gentle with me plz..
(@Webnovel.com How do I put a cute pic under this?)

(Currently under lot of irl work: On pause)

In the end, the three of them went to another store in order to purchase a set of suitable clothes for Seiji.
Although Chiaki seemed dissatisfied, time didn’t allow for her to continue picking clothes for Seiji, so she could only compromise.
Seiji and Mika both felt that the clothes Chiaki had picked out were pretty good.
After buying herself and Seiji a matching set of clothes, Chiaki also bought some clothes for Mika—despite the latter’s vehement protests—and forced Mika to accept them.
After returning home.
Seiji opened the [gifts] option in the system and discovered that he had received 8 points from the clothes Chiaki bought for him in addition to an item card!
[Full recovery card—Encouraging Heart].
According to his system’s explanation, this card contained the feelings of beautiful girls who had encouraged him to return to his spirited and energized state again. After using this one-time item card, his physical energy and mental state would be instantly restored to its peak!
‘Wow, isn’t this the full-recovery medicine… the ultimate potion, Elixir!?’
Seiji widened his eyes in surprise.
Upon closer inspection, it seemed that it wouldn’t cure any external injuries he had. Instead, it would restore his physical energy and mental state… but even so, this was still quite powerful!
It was akin to a divine medicine—if he used it at a critical junction!
Seiji considered why this item had appeared. Upon mulling over the matter, he concluded it was probably related to seeing Yui Haruta.
After he saw his sister, both Chiaki and Mika were quite worried about him and even encouraged him. That was why this item had appeared in his [gifts] menu.
‘Thank you so much, Chiaki. Mika, you as well… this card must also contain your feelings.’
Seiji truly felt grateful towards the two girls.
In addition to this, 8 points was quite a considerable sum to him. He had now stockpiled 35 points.
[Academics—writing activation card] only required 30 points, and he was now able to exchange for it.
He unhesitatingly made the purchase!
After making the exchange, as usual, a new card flashed into existence. It depicted a moving shadow, which was swiftly writing something while sitting at a desk. The shadow’s movements seemed to flow smoothly and beautifully; it flourished its pen majestically with each stroke.
Seiji lay on his bed and observed the card for a little while longer before taking a deep breath. He was bursting with anticipation as he finally used the card.
The card turned into a flash of white light as it pierced into his brain.
Once again, Seiji steeled himself for the uncomfortable learning process… 
After an indeterminate length of time, he finally regained consciousness.
‘It’s still a little painful, but I’m getting used to it.’ He rubbed his aching temple as he leaned up from his reclining position and rose from his bed.
Seiji then walked to his desk and took out the thick notebook he used for writing his diary. He seated himself on the chair before he began writing.
The moment his pen touched the paper, a wondrous sensation poured out from within him.
He was able to visualize a scenario in his mind.
A crimson full moon hung overhead while a young man in extravagant white clothing rested on the edge of a skyscraper’s roof. He clutched a broken sword in as he gazed thoughtfully at the night sky…
Seiji’s right hand started writing at a furious pace; it almost seemed as if he wasn’t the one controlling it.
Every stroke was swift and precise—his writing speed was top-notch, and each word flowed smoothly out of him onto the page!
Seiji continued working his imagination. A girl in a red gothic dress appeared on the roof of the skyscraper directly opposite the boy and slowly unsheathed a pair of twisted longswords—seemingly carved out of bone—from her dress…
Words unceasingly appeared on the page as Seiji wrote in his preferred style, breathing life into the concept in his mind.
Writing swiftly… Finished!
Seiji flicked the pen exaggeratedly as he finished writing the final word.
‘That was… wonderful!’
He inwardly praised his newfound ability as he reread his own words.
Amazing…
The words he had written in his notebook perfectly described the image in his mind in just the right style he desired—mysterious yet romantic in addition to containing a hot-blooded yet cruel fight scene.
This [writing] ability that he’d activated was too powerful!
If a normal person had tried to write this scene, it would probably turn out to be at only the embarrassing level of a middle schooler’s fantasy.
But after Seiji gained the [writing] ability from his system, this scene would make a reader feel passionate as if their blood was boiling; it was like the words on the paper could come to life, assisting the reader in visualizing such a moving, interesting story!
Thanks to his otaku experience from his past life, Seiji was certain that his current writing level already reached that of a story like "5 Centimeters per Second" from his previous life. Even a normal slice-of-life story would give readers the feeling of that type of moving story!
*Cough cough.* Perhaps he was exaggerating a little too much?
But ever since he activated the [fighting] card, he’d obtained martial arts capabilities which seemed to be at the peak of what a human body could achieve, so it only seemed natural that activating the [writing] card would give him such amazing writing skills… right?
After all, Seiji’s [academics] stat had already surpassed 50 points thanks to his incessant grinding in school!
In summation, his current writing level was more than adequate to write something like a light novel.
The only obstacle that remained was the limits of Seiji’s own imagination.
Since [writing] only improved his writing ability and not his imagination… To clarify, it only helped him write down whatever was in his mind, but it didn’t have the power to create the entire story and its characters for him.
He would need to come up with his own story, world-building, character settings, background, and so on. Only after organizing his thoughts was he able to write them down and create a final product.
That was how it worked.
Seiji could feel his blood beginning to boil already. In fact, he could barely restrain the urge to begin writing his own original story; but first, he still needed to check his system.
As he expected, new options appeared in his system, just like when he’d previously activated the [fighting] card.
The [writing] subsection was a new addition to his [academics] menu, and it contained options such as [self-creation], [imitate another author], [studying writing techniques]… and so on.
His [actions] now included [write an essay], [write a poem], [write a story], [write a song]… and so on, with various prerequisite stats.
New [items] appeared as well, including [speed writing card—writing with a pen in each hand], [cryptography—encryption techniques], [writing on the computer—typing]… and so on.
Seiji browsed his new options.
‘[Writing on the computer—typing] is the next one I need to aim for, or it’s going to be inconvenient if I can only write on a notebook.’
Although his newly acquired writing skills were undisputedly amazing, there was still something strange about it—he had to put pen to paper in order to utilize his newfound skill.
System, why were you so inflexible?
In this day and age, leaving aside other types of stories, light novels would always be typed on a computer, and publishers also used digital editions.
Of course, the most popular method right now was to post your story on the internet, hoping to get published after gaining popularity and being chosen by a publisher.
Even though using a pen to write seemed romantic as well as unique, Seiji would prefer to directly type out his story as it seemed like a waste of time to write a story on paper then type it out again.
However, the [writing on the computer—typing] card required 55 points.
Hey, wasn’t this was more expensive than the ability cards under the [fighting] tree!?
Seiji subtly felt as if he’d fallen into his own system’s ploy…
55 points seemed like a lot, but with his [gifts] and additional [actions] now available to him, it should be easier to grind than before, right?
So let’s test out the new [actions]!
Seiji mulled it over before he ultimately decided to pick [write a story] from his actions menu, which had a prerequisite of 40 academics and 25 communication, and began writing the story in his mind.
‘Yep, let’s make the story’s title "I’ll die if I don’t become handsome!"’

Translator note: Apologies to the readers. This series is currently on hiatus. We ask for your understanding!
A 30-year-old Chinese NEET is reincarnated into the body of an otaku that choked to death on instant noodles. As he comes to grips with his new life, he realizes that this world is subtly different from Earth. The denizens of this world are far better looking, and this new world also possesses futuristic technology as well as mysterious Yin Yang masters! 
After reincarnating, he realized that he was endowed with a miraculous game-like system, which enables him to increase his own stats and transcend the limits of the human body. This system even has a game-breaking ability to save and load in real life!
In this new world that’s akin to a 2-D game, he just wants to enjoy life and head for a glorious future... However, he is quickly embroiled in a complex plot. Can he unlock his true potential and utilize his system to break the shackles that confine him and discover the truth about his previous body’s circumstances? 

A man walks up to the middle of the arena. He seems quite confident as a small smirk gives him an arrogant air. With a flick of his wrist, a huge engine appears from the white veil converting the mysterious object of the tournament.
The host does his job well to hype up the crowd.
"And now! This contestant is a talented and blooming student at the University of Georgia!"
The University of Georgia is the only university in the capital of Keltc[1], and though some especially smart commoners are allowed in, they typically never manage to graduate for a number of reasons. 
"His work has once managed to win the prize for most innovative experiments and his work is often praised by the professors teaching this young lad."
If this kid is publicly appraised for his work then his father must have some connections as a businessman.
"Only 20 this year and already dubbed the small genius of Georgia! He has now presented himself in this new tournament, how lucky we are!"
Marguerite rolls her eyes, which doesn't escape Mathys who laughs at the unexpected behaviour.
He brings out a flask, and inside the flask is a few litters of milk. Marguerite tilts her head slightly at the odd sight and asks herself what could possibly be made with milk. Her interest is greatly spiked.
He takes another flask which contains a clear liquid. The host asks him what is contained inside and he answers that it's a secret. Marguerite has an inkling that it could either be water or vinegar, but she doesn't see the use for water in this case.
He heats up the milk and does a series of tasks, and with each task, Marguerite's eyes widen even more. She becomes excited as the crowd becomes more and more bored.
In the end, he pulls out a weird blob with an odd colour from the solution of milk and vinegar. Marguerite can hardly believe it, this guy just made casein plastic!
The others look at his blob with odd looks at first, but what he does next finally brings out a good reaction from the crowd.
He starts to mould the plastic into very fine sculptures: animals, flowers, birds, you name it.
As the crowd admires his artistic skills, Marguerite is more amazed at his ability to figure out the chemical formula to make casein plastic without a guide. She feels her heartbeat become stronger and stronger as his fingers glide across the milky figures.
This man, he is the one!
The tournament continues for a while after that, and Marguerite fell in love with 3 other people: a woman making a water filter, a man boiling water without heat by reducing the pressure, and a child making a homemade bomb. The homemade bomb made her especially worried and surprised, but she felt that these concerned were not worth overlooking such talent.
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Marguerite has decided to kidnap the 4 men she found in the middle of the worthless other contestants that presented themselves. She found it interesting how none of them was the winner of the prize, the first guy, who's name is Martin, went on a rampage about how none of them understands the art of his science and the beauty of his worldview. Marguerite found him quite eccentric but didn't let it bother her, a genius is a genius in the end.
That same Martin is actually currently yelling at everyone present in the room with him, complaining about the indecency of today's youth. Marguerite walks in laughing herself to death out how a guy younger than her[2] talks like a 50-year-old grandpa yelling at his mischievous grandkids.
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Dummy chapter surprise party!!!!!'
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[1] You could then assume that Keltc's capital is named Georgia. but that's just a guess
[2] mentally


Marguerite is oblivious as she folds Arthmael's body into beautiful silhouettes. Following the familiar choreography, she dances relentlessly.

Grand Jete! Penche! followed by a series of graceful pas de chats. All concatenated in front of the enthralled emperor.

When the music reaches the outro in a full stop, Marguerite falls gracefully on the floor in a pose. She stays there and waits for the king to tell her she can leave.

She stays on the ground for a long time but hears nothing from him. Wondering if she did anything wrong, she wants to lift her head to look at the king's face, but quickly remembers the warning he gave her. If she disrespects him any further, who knows what he might do to her.

She suddenly feels her chin being lifted, her eyes meet the hazels of Demian. She forgets to breathe and falls from her pose onto the floor. She doesn't have time to regain her senses before two strong arms lift her off the floor.

She is about to question him on his weird behaviour when her mouth is suddenly covered by his in a kiss.

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Marguerite is very talented. She has a beautiful voice, a great passion for music and various talents in the arts. Unfortunately, her bright future gets compromised when she is forced to leave her world to fulfill the wish of someone else. Marguerite wanting to go home as soon as possible, accepts. However things turn out quite unexpected for her.

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I have been receiving lots of complaints about my story. I will address some of the issues here,
1. Your first few chapters are very poorly written.
I agree with that, I started writing as a new author not as a professional one. I am a bad story writer but my creativity and Imagination won't ever lack and stop me from writing something new and interesting. As I will move further and improve my writing skills, I will re-write them to improve reading experience.
2. This is a childhood fiction and very slow.
I mentioned this earlier, I will be writing a novel not a short story. The story will be slow-paced as I depict the life of a ninja at least from the information I perceived from watching and reading Naruto. So, if you like a fast-paced story where MC drastically increases his power level in every chapter than this novel is not for you. I will also give screen time to some less known characters as I will write their story as a Side Story. You ask me what's the point of a Side Story? I will write them because I feel they deserve some attention as they are a part of plot and need explanations for their behavior and actions. They are not some mindless bots who do so because the author wrote them in such a way to continue the story. Although, this is a fan-fic, but I want to practice in writing a complete novel and this is a start for me. I won't drop this novel.
3. No harem. What's the point of story if MC gets too Op and just kill around?
I am writing a Action-Adventure novel not a harem romance. If you like harem (well, I like too) then this story is not for you. The MC won't chase girls in Naruto. Well Naruto is a world of Ninjas killing each other and I will depict it as such. I can't appease each and every person's expectations.
4. The behavior of some of your characters seems forced.
Well, if you watch Naruto then most of character's behavior seems forced. I am not sure if anyone of you have noticed it, but my OC names describes their personality and behavior. How many of you haven't seen an anime where a female character throws a tantrum for no reason. Also, I am still learning writing an emotional impactful scene.
Thanks for using some of your time to go through this. If you have anymore issues just write them here and I will add them later. As we move forward, the addressed issues will be removed from here and new one's will be added. So, be patient and stay with me and thanks for your support.
ALSO, A BONUS CHAPTER FOR ALL THIS RANTING.

A medical student died because of negligence of the authorities. Later, he is granted a second chance in life with some boons. But being an Otaku and Naruto fan, he chooses to live in the chaotic world of Naruto.
The story will follow canon for the initial part with a new plot. Major changes will reflect in the later part as our MC grows up. The story has strong AU elements and the power scaling is ramped up to explore various foreign elements in Naruto. Everything in its entirety will be a part of the Naruto series with details and speculations of my own.
This story is my original creation, and I post it on Scribble hub and Webnovel. You might find a few initial chapters on Royal Road. 
Note:- The starting 40 chapters or so have poor grammar and various mistakes since I was a new writer back then and lacked experience. But I am working on editing them.

Warning:-I don't own Naruto or any related stuff except my MC and Original characters and jutsus. (Yep, there are lots and lots of original jutsus in the story.)
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There is a thing experiencing Webnovel authors go through after learning how to write through basically people online insulting your story, and that's the feeling of 'how to pace' their next chapters.

At first, writing is a passion for an author they do on the fly. However, once they get serious and learn all they need to know about their story's genre, their drive for perfection causes them to write a lot less.

Writing itself becomes a chore as expectations from your reader and your own make you subconsciously think you're back in school. This is a normal reaction considering your hobby has become unpaid work...

However, there is a way to overcome this! Well, at least if you're writing Action-oriented story with lots of people punching each other, and that is by NOT GIVING YOUR CHAPTER A NAME!!!

Now I know what you're thinking: "Come on, stop messing with me, Love4NovelGuy. How can not naming your chapter do anything? My new chapter I put work in is part of my story and needs attention!"

And that's where you're wrong. The moment you start posting on a chapter by chapter basis, you've already made it hard for yourself to invest in your own story. Sometime after writing the chapter and posting it you'll forget what you even wrote in it.

The best way to overcome this is by telling yourself that you'll only stop writing and name chapters after you've gotten to a satisfying climax to all those chapters you've written before the 'satisfying end'. 

I know, you're probably doubting if my mental trick will even work. But you know, the first lesson to mental tricks is BELIEVING IN IT! You can't expect things to fall on your lap and motivation isn't something you find, try motivating YOURSELF.

Now that you've thought of a story and want to get it out on page... Well, do it. Go 'barf' all your ideas into the first draft of your story, leave it alone for a few days, then reread it to see if you made mistakes.

Editing is a major part of storytelling when your writing and there is no author who had wrote a masterpiece on their first draft. Get over any mental hang-ups you may have before following this advice.

The reason why I said this works best for action oriented stories is because 'fast pacing' is what audiences want in such a story. Unless it's a special moment where you're characterising using something complicated, your base pace should be fact unless your writing an 'Adventure' story.

In Mushoku Tensei (Jobless Reincarnation), it may seem like an action story considering the magic system is introduced early in the story. However, it is more accurate to say the magic system was used to make the beginning half of the story more 'slow'.

What I mean by this is that having characters standing around talking to each other or doing things that don't build tension may be considered quite 'static' for those who like action, but someone wanting to immerse themselves into the fantasy world he was transported would be more interested.

This is what I mean by 'slow pace', and what I mean by 'fast pace' is having the MC tackle one problem after another to get where the next fight is. Though I may be describing them separately, most longer stories tend to switch things up every now and then to keep the reader's investment in what happened.

Now, since I've already gave a lesson on the basics of pacing and how to write an action story, let me now dive in a little into exposition. Don't worry, this won't take long to explain. I'll be quick about it.

Basically, ignore everyone who says "show and don't tell" since you are writing a wordy story where the narrator tells the reader everything. The only thing you need to do when writing exposition is to MAKE IT INTERESTING! I don't know why everyone has a problem doing this. I mean, even info-dumps can be interesting if the character giving it is also being fleshed out through interactions while doing it.

New pieces of information that are going to be relevant later need to be balanced by what you're giving now. Don't think your audience are idiots by letting them infer things. That's what is usually called 'subtext' by readers who want intrigue.

The lines from a character can differ in the amount of information they give. For example:

Calling a character 'Queen [Insert Name]'  would be considered too straightforward. What would be a better way to introduce a character and let the audience infer by themselves is calling a character 'Your Majesty' before describing an old woman with a demeanour that seemingly demanded authority.

However, this is me rambling on and you should be courageous to write your story whether good or bad no matter what insults come your way. No good story is built in one day and editing is always an option if your grammar is so bad it burns eyes.

Just take a look at me, I wrote a story that took forty chapters to fully understand and still strived to improve it by editing a bunch of times until I finally got it to a level that contends with my newer works.

Good luck and be sure to ask if you want another Analysis with your own choice attached~ :)

(Cover by Darkstar Dust)

This is a story I worked on ages ago that has been refined and edited by adding foreshadowing to events while also simplifying the power system better than before. This story can be considered a prequel to An Adventure Beyond Greatness as it takes place years prior to the events of that story.

Short Synopsis:
After retiring from the battlefield, my life became empty and lifeless. The regrets of my past haunt me in my sleep. Then a change occurred, a King from another world summoned me to fight for his kingdom, but I died even before I could give him my answer. Now, after a fake God allowed me to reincarnate (albeit imperfectly) with my memories intact, into a world filled with magic and swords.

Long Synopsis:
This is about a flawed protagonist who only knew to rely on others and not socialise who gets a second chance to change himself in order to live the life he aimed for in his past life. The narrator isn’t exactly trustworthy since it is purely in his bias perspective while other perspectives given by others fill in the blanks that he either leaves out or twists to suit the situation.

The story itself can be considered a parody of Isekai’s classic tropes which are given a sense of reality as time goes by. As there exists no ‘Demon Lord’, there is also no black and white, only characters opinions and counter-opinions throughout the story.

Author: 314 (Yang Chen)
 
After you confirm what genre and topic you wish to write about, it's now time for you as an author to design your settings and write the overall planned outline for your plot. As for why I'm putting these two elements together, that's because these two elements are deeply interconnected and inseparable.
 
When you're writing the overall outline, this is basically coming up with the story's plot. As you write the outline, what you're actually doing is fleshing out the details for your setting.
 
When you're writing a story, of course, you need to first consider where your story will happen, when it happens, who it happens to, and what type of person it happens to. As the story progresses, you also need to consider who the main character will meet in the story, what time and place he or she meets them at, along with who's stronger and who's weaker than the main character…
 
This is why by the time that you're finished with your overall outline, the world's background, various factions, levels, special abilities, treasures, all the important characters… and such settings will be naturally completed during the course of outlining.
 
The reverse is true as well. If you first work on designing the detailed settings instead, then you'll basically end up with an outline for the story's plot and how the main character grows over the story as well.
 
Of course, there's still some differences depending on which angle you start from. However, newcomer authors like you don't need to worry about this. You can simply create based on your personality and whatever you prefer. It doesn't matter whether you start from the settings or the outline. You can even do both at the same time.
 
For newcomer authors like you, there's only five points that are critically important for you to understand.
 
1.      Having an overall outline isn't absolutely necessary, but having one is always better than not having one
 
Theoretically speaking, even if you didn't prepare an overall outline, it might not affect the progress of you writing your novel at all. There are some authors out there that simply write whatever comes into their mind and go with the flow.
 
Of course, this is all just a best-case scenario in theory. For the great majority of authors out there, once your story's plot exceeds your planned outline... 

Your outline will help your story stay on track in the early stages, but once you reach the mid and late stages, all sorts of problems often appear, such as too many plotlines all at once, self-contradictory plotlines, or writer's block…
 
At such a time, authors will typically regret not creating a more detailed outline, but it's already too late now. Actually, overall outlines have more uses than you think.
 
Since webnovels are typically longer than normal novels, they take much longer to write as well. Typically, it takes an average author several months or even longer to finish writing everything in their overall outline. By the time that they're finish writing everything in their overall outline, most authors will have new ideas and insights into what they want to write. Once they combine their new ideas with their original outline, in a way, this gives them two sources of inspiration. It's basically the equivalent of two people working together, and on top of that, these two people know exactly what each other are thinking.
 
It's easy to see how this can be helpful in improving the quality of your novel.
 
Apart from this, while creating an overall outline, the author can also discover many topics or problems with the settings and correct them in time.
 
To give an extreme example, if you're having a great difficulty with writing your overall outline and don't know what to do with your own plot, this proves that there's a large problem with your plot. You should either make major changes, or delete this part of your plot entirely.
 
So, newcomer authors definitely shouldn't overlook the uses of having an overall outline. No matter if you have a good or bad outline, a simple or a detailed one, as long as you have one, that's good.
 
What needs to be noted is that only outlines that have been written out truly count as outlines.
 
Even if you as an author have a very detailed outline, and even if you've solidly memorized every single plot point in your outline, any outline that hasn't been written into your novel doesn't count as a true outline. That's because when you actually start writing, you'll discover that what you finally end up writing will always have differences from what you envisioned.
 
2.      You need to finish your outline, but it doesn't need to be complete
 
Thinking about your outline is equivalent to thinking about your novel's plot. You need to consider both the beginning and the end. You also need to think about everything that the main character experiences from the beginning to the end of the story.
 
If your outline isn't finished, but only half-finished, you won't even be able to predict the storylines that come later, which will cause you to have difficulties writing your plot once you finish the beginning stages. This is basically the same as not having an outline at all.
 
Still, there's no need for us to make the outline as detailed as possible from the very beginning, with so many specific scenarios for all your plots. The reason for this is quite simple—none of us know just how long our novels will turn out to be in the end.
 
A story that's written with the intent of becoming a commercial product needs to be sufficiently long enough right from the planning stage. The longer your potential story, the better. But actually, how many words it finally ends up with depends on how well your story performs.
 
If your story is incredibly popular and performs well in the market, then we can consider writing it for as long as possible. However, if your story obviously isn't popular with readers, then you can consider ending your story in a timely fashion at an appropriate point in the plot so that you can think of a new story instead. That would be a wiser decision if you wish to become a professional author.
 
Of course, when you're only in the outlining stage, it's impossible for you as a newcomer author to know how readers will react to your novel. Precisely because of this, you need to have a flexible writing plan. What this means is that you should have an outline that's detailed in the beginning and general near the end. For the beginning of your story, you should have as detailed an outline as possible, while for the middle and especially the later parts of your story, you only need some general ideas. All you need is to consider the overall development of the plot so that you know what direction to take your storyline in.
 
For example, maybe you planned that the beginning of your novel will be approximately 80,000 words, and you've prepared a 4,000-word outline for just the beginning. In that case, your outline for the next 80,000 words, the middle of your story, might only need 3000 words, and the meat of your story, another 240,000 words, might have an outline that's less than 1000 words.
 
Of course, as you continue writing your story, you should constantly update your outline as well. You should complete your outline for the next 80,000 words before you finish writing the first 80,000 words.
 
3.      Your settings need to be constantly updated

Just like writing an outline, you should first come up with the basic settings before you even begin writing, which includes your world background, main character's personality, power levels, and so on.
 
More specific settings, such as a powerful artifact that appears in the story, can be added as you write your story.
 
Unlike an outline, you don't need to fully plan out all of your settings at the very beginning. It's perfectly acceptable to think of new settings while you're writing.
 
However, newcomer authors need to note that while it's okay to come up with new settings as you write, you should write these settings down and add them to your outline or settings document as you write.
 
This is to help yourself check your own settings later in the future. Otherwise, a novel that reached over one million words and has lasted for one year or longer might cause you as an author to completely forget about something you wrote before in the past. It's even quite common to make a mistake when writing about the items that the main character possesses. Yet, there will always be a sharp-eyed reader or two that catches the author out in a misstep.
 
If you have a very detailed document on your settings, not only will you be able to greatly reduce your own plot continuity errors, you'll also be able to look through your settings whenever you have writer's block and find some inspiration in a side character that you have already forgotten about or some item that was mentioned before but never used again.
 
4.      It's better for your settings to be cliché
 
Here, this means the systems and names that you use for your settings. For example, the names and levels you use for a martial arts society.
 
Many newcomer authors will mistakenly think that using already existing well-known settings will make their novel seem too cliché, causing them to want to be as "unique" as possible. These authors will use their imaginations to come up with all sorts of fictional vocabulary words, which in their minds will make their novels "stand out." These newcomer authors don't realize that this is the worst possible way to write a novel. In the great majority of situations, this will have the opposite effect from intended.
 
A new original novel that you write should be a new interpretation or story about some specific genre or story type. How to make your novel stand out depends on the conflicts you create in your story and how the main character resolves them. As for coming up with new vocabulary words and names for your novel, even if you make them sound really cool, or make some modified slang words, it's almost never a good thing for you.
 
The reason for this can also be understood in my article about how to write the beginning of your story. By doing so, the author is placing more burden upon the readers to understand a larger amount of information.
 
There will always be other already existing words that you could have used, which are easily understood by all your readers. Instead, your readers now need to spend their time and effort on reading your explanations. Obviously, readers aren't here to read your technical manuals or info dumps. The more explanations that you have in your novel, the lower your novel's appeal and flow will become. But, if you don't add any explanations for your self-created words at all, the readers won't even understand what's going on.
 
This is why newcomer authors should avoid this useless type of "creativity" as much as possible. You should simply rely on settings that all readers are familiar with instead.
 
5.      The storyline should be pushed forward by using conflicts
 
Many newcomer authors will often develop writer's block when planning their outline or working on their novel.
 
Sometimes, this is because the author has made their storyline too messy. But most of the time, it's because the author feels like there's nothing to write about, or doesn't know what they should make the main character do. The author has no idea how to continue their own story.
 
In order to deal with writer's block, or in other words, how to push your storyline alone, the answer is actually incredibly simple.
 
You can answer this question using only one word – Conflicts!
 
Actually, the critical element of all webnovels can be summed up into one word – conflicts. For example, leveling is the desire or need of the main character to become stronger, which is a conflict between the main character and his or her own current weakness.
 
And since there is a conflict, you must resolve the conflict. And so, your main character wants to cultivate to become stronger, which means he needs to travel around the world in order to find cultivation methods…
 
All sorts of conflicts will both push forward your storyline as well as create numerous climaxes for your readers. It can be said that how you design your conflicts is the very foundation of writing any novel, not just a webnovel.
 
As for a more detailed analysis on how to design your story's conflicts, please read my intermediate-level article on the topic. For newcomer authors like you, you simply need to understand this concept, and know that you should keep coming up with new conflicts whenever you're having trouble keeping up with your own storyline. Try finding potential conflicts from plots, characters, and items you've already used, or forcefully introduce a new element into your story that creates a new conflict.
 
This can be said to be one of the most basic techniques of planning your storyline.

If you’re confused about how to write a popular webnovel, perhaps this book will be able to help you out. 

This book contains articles written by the best editors in the Chinese webnovel industry. There are introductory guides, intermediate guides, and assorted topics, with different numbers of guides in each type. Each week, we’ll be publishing three guides. If you believe that these guides are useful, please let us know by leaving your reviews. We can adjust the update rate based on your feedback.

Author introduction:

314 (Yang Chen): He is China Literature’s general manager, Xiaoxiang Academy’s general manager, Qidian’s head editor, China Webnovel Literature Committee member, Jiangsu Province Webnovel Author Committee vice-chairman, and a qualified expert on all internet literature. He has discovered many popular topics and greatly helped the industry to expand, along with having personally advised many top-tier authors. He is from the first generation of webnovel researchers. Yang Chen started working in the webnovel editing industry in 2005, and is highly skilled at summarizing and analyzing the business theories behind webnovel literature and is famed for his outstanding creativity in the industry.

 Small Team Leader（Zhou Binglin）：Small Team Leader is a high-ranked general manager for China Literature, as well as the head editor for chuangshi.qq.com. He is originally from Guilin, Guangxi.

Small Team Leader is a top-ranked editor for original novels as well as a veteran web novel expert. He has helped to discover countless popular topics as well as frameworks and has advised numerous platinum-ranked authors. He’s also one of the first generation of web novel reviewers as well as authors.

For everyone who kept up reading this mess of a story.... 'Thank you.'
Just I had probably been telling everyone, this was a story I had made on a whim and I'm still pretty much a complete amateur. I had only actually started seriously writing something just at the end of the summer. This novel was the first time I had tried writing an erotic novel. It was basically my testing ground.
I had actually wanted to write something else but I thought 'Why not?' and wrote this story up instead just to see what would happen. This story blew up more than I would've believed.
I had only barely thought about it through but I put everything I could to try to make a realistic world-building. I thought I did a pretty good job... for an amateur at least.
Though this is where a problem came about.
I had made my story way too complicated.
I had underestimated the complexity and knowledge base needed to make this story into a real success. This resulted in me completely used up all of my chapter stock that I had for this story. I had to keep writing every day just so I could make my deadlines of a chapter every two days.
This resulted in me making pretty lackluster chapters and probably a lot of mistakes. I think you guys noticed right? Due to me having to make a chapter every two days, I had no time to really overlook any of the chapters that I write. I used Grammarly, but that is it. Otherwise, it was basically a 'draft', but I had to publish it anyway.
But it seems I had reached my limit.
I writing here to tell you guys that I wish to take a break from writing this story.
I had used all of my brainpower to at least complete the end of the volume I had envisioned but I have no confidence to continue the rest of the story.
.
That is why there will be an indefinite hiatus.
.
Until I feel like I can do better, I'm not gonna continue the story. I will have a larger stock of chapters fully edited at hand when I do.
Instead, I will be writing an easier story for my small brain to handle. It's gonna be non-erotic just so you know. I don't have a title yet.
I might still update erotic chapters of 'What if' chapters of sex scenes between all the female characters that had appeared in the story to date from time to time. No promises though.

Anyway, I want to thank you guys again for supporting my efforts in creating this story.
May I see you guys again.

It is the year 202X, this is an Earth whose history is slightly different from our own. However, it was that 'slight' difference that changed life on the world as we know it.

Daniel Foster is an ordinary young man born in a time where young men and women, who come of age, can receive a System tailor-made to their potential. When it was time for Daniel to receive his, the one he received was called: the Ero Masseuse System. 

Through clearing certain conditions unique to them, people can level up their Systems. As you might have guessed, through completing many erotic conditions, Daniel is able to level up his System. For a young teenaged boy, such a System is usually a dream come true.

However, for the sake of Daniel's goal, Daniel felt only deep disappointment with what appears to be a weak System. Wanting to vent, he told his best friend all about his true feelings. While laughing at his predicament, 'she' also pity for her disappointed friend. Wanting to do something, 'she' offered a surprising proposal.

“…..Hey? If it’s okay with you, you can practice massaging. With me that is.”

“….Huh?”

From then on, Daniel's fate had changed completely.

(*) indicates erotic scenes without penetration.
(**) indicates erotic scenes with penetration. 

*I do not own the image.*
*All rights go to their respective owners.*

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