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My character didn't suffer any physical harm. She just fought in a space version of the Vietnam War, came home, and immediately went through a space version of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Could you check the beginning of my story？ https://www.scribblehub.com/read/2327493-tide/chapter/2327678/

I think that's perfectly fine. We can imagine that in a spacefaring civilization, each planet is relatively independent and self-sufficient, which would make it well-suited for a feudal system. Feudalism is essentially a kind of contracting system, isn't it? However, on a single unified planet...

You can draw inspiration from the names of techniques in the most famous Chinese xianxia and wuxia novels — that will give you the most authentic Chinese flavor. For example: Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms (降龍十八掌). The name implies the user can subdue dragons, which is certainly very powerful...

From the perspective of novel writing alone, I think there is almost no need to set up currency-related matters in great detail. When you mention currency in a novel, as long as what's described isn't particularly conspicuous (for example, people are bartering, which suggests the region is...

If this passage were to actually appear in a history textbook, it would be a colossal mistake... I am someone living in China, and here I interact with both Chinese and Japanese people. Interestingly, the impression I get from Japanese people, Japanese society, and Japanese culture is not...

If we go by the modern world map, then the protagonist of my most recent story is a Ukrainian of Norwegian descent.

Basically, communism and cyberpunk are antonyms. Everything in cyberpunk is built on the foundation of capitalism. In a communist country (well, it's hard to imagine how a true communist country could exist independently in the midst of a bunch of capitalist countries), we wouldn't see the...

I once wrote a similar story. The main character was a mage, and the other character was her companion. The two of them shared a portion of their senses, so the mage could directly feel her companion's battle through her own senses.

Based on my personal writing experience, in third-person narration the author can just as naturally enter a character’s inner thoughts and sensory perceptions. That’s why I usually choose the third person. I only consider the first person when I want to pull off certain narrative tricks rooted...