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Not gonna lie that it's good. But the composition is great and it actually made me tear up a bit even though I have no idea of the story so good work.

OP starts his question with "I have a question for authors who plan their stories". And then people come who say they don't plan stories. He's asking for plotters to share their experience not for pansters. I'm also a panster so I'm just lurking here wondering why pansters are answering the...

If it's a guy from our world then no problem at all. He's an otaku so it wouldn't be surprising for him to do it. That itself is good characterization. What would be the problem if he's making references and the reader doesn't get that he's making references. You could actually put author's...

Do not go back and edit. I have that problem myself. My rule is that after a page is done (I write in MS word), I allow myself only one edit pass, then nothing more until the chapter is complete. Otherwise, I will just edit and edit again while procrastinating because I don't know what to write...

Beta readers usually come if the novel already has tons of readers. People who correct grammar are very rare here in SH. Those are many over at RoyalRoad BUT, if you're having problems with grammar, then it'll be likelier that you'll get tons of complaints instead of people helping you if you go...

Yeah 1k is like the low end. Can aim 2k-2.5k which is the usual I think. You could add a lot of stuff to this first chapter. Like some background of her past life, some more trying to find her way in the forest, some hints this isn't our world (like weird plants/animals etc.) - could already do...

Yeah looks like they intended it to be an app or something. But I don't think it has an app. Or maybe they did have an app before and didn't pan out.

True, like a couple of years ago, new stories with no contracts still have a chance to be seen and get readers. Now, new stories with no contracts will just get buried. Honeyfeed and Tapas are okay I guess. Just very small readership compared to Webnovel, RR, SH.

Not a bug, but I don't know where to post it. Massive comments spam on my story with several accounts promoting webnovels some fishy website. This happened when I hit trending. I'm assuming other works on frontpage are also hit with this? I got like 50 notifs within a few minutes with all the...

Just make sure it's consistent in your story. If a guy has like general purposes magic powers (can basically do anything), then you have to be aware of that when crafting situations. Readers will react if the character is trapped in a situation he can magic his way out of but doesn't. Same with...

Oh this one is easy, cut the chapter up then drag the other part down next to it. So for example, chapter 10 is 9k, so you want to divide it into three 3k chapters. Edit that chapter 10 to be 3k, then make two new chapters with the other parts. Drag them down to be chapter 11 and chapter 12 then...

I can give you an example from my writing. Not exactly a headache but waking up from getting beaten up which you might get some ideas from. I hope this helps you.

From this, everything can be in POV of James. Actions of Tom can be perceptions of James and not needed to have his POV. As I'm reading this now, it just looks like a James POV - perhaps a bit of tweak on the last paragraph to make it clearer who owns the POV. Anyway, I think you are trying to...

So it's one scene and you're going to switch povs all throughout? So that's either going to be omniscient (hard asf to write and not that used in modern writing) or you're going to head hop in limited (which is jarring). I advice against doing it but if you really have to in one scene, let's say...

Yes, you count. Everyone of us matter in life. Don't sell yourself short--wait, this isn't what I was thinking it was about.

Yep, psychopaths are very good at understanding people's emotions, thus very good at manipulation. They're probably better at understanding and predicting reactions of people than the average person, and they do this without having personal experience. Fake it till you make it to the next level...

So the discussion here seems to have gone all over, and I'm not going to go into psychopath/sociopath whatever. I'll answer the original problem. And the answer to that is expect violent reactions when trying to portray the real psychopath. Pop culture have a view of what a psychopath is...

Oh, it's more like a wiki then? Some authors do go this route like tons of world building first and someday they'll start their book with a fully fleshed out world already. Brandon Sanderson kind of does that. Although I must say that's hard to read for the average webnovel reader. Much better...

Whatever way you do it, my advice is to make it like you're not explaining it to a reader. It's one thing for the character to introspect about his plan, but there's a tendency that it will read like the author is justifying it to the reader - this is the mistake I oftentimes commit when dealing...

Webnovels readers go by their preferences for plot depending on what they're looking for. Like discussed above, wish fulfilment usually. The point of these redo stories is because people have regrets. Revenge stories are so popular because people want to have revenge on people in their real life...