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I second pangmida. I don't think I have ever read a cultivation/Xianxia where a "western" system is in place. Usually the go to plot armor for those stories is some type of ghost/soul in a object(coin etc) that teaches the mc how to cultivate. Well that and almost them always starting out with...

First time hearing those terms. Usually when talking about magic in a story I am going with the low magic vs high magic distinction. For those of you who don't know those terms low magic means magic users and magic items are rare. Magic is almost like a legend that some people don't believe...

K.I.S.S. - Keep it simple stupid If you have to have a philosophical debate in order to justify having a tag on a story, then that tag shouldn't be on there. The tags aren't there for you. They are for the people who are trying to decide whether to read your story. All a person is doing by...

Wish fulfillment to me is when in a story everything goes in the mc's way. A lot of the comments here are focusing on harem and more eastern stories. So let instead look at a western term. To me a wish fulfillment story is a "mary sue" story. Be a it female or male lead. It is a story where...

Synopsis should be the general idea or theme of your story. It should introduce the main character and his/her world/quest/path. Whatever your "hook" for the story is should either be mentioned or hinted at in the Synopsis. Think of the synopsis as a sample to encourage someone to read the...

If you are reading free stories on the internet written by amateurs and haven't accepted the fact that they will be dropped at any point in time I don't know what to tell you. Its just the way it is. Its also the reason I don't "tip" or pay for advance chapters. Also the worse isn't just...

I think someone forgot to tell some people that rule since I've been seeing a lot of chinese stories translations lately. Always fun to figure that out when the story suddenly starts talking about how great chinese food or they start listing the reasons why chopsticks are the superior eating...

I don't see why couldn't you just have the person who created/worked on her insert a personality matrix or something along those lines. You know a code that says you must act in this certain way or this is your default personality that can be then be grown from.

First off the follow the author point. I don't think I've ever followed an author on this site or any others. I have remembered certain author's names, usually for bad reasons so I can avoid them, but outside of that its the stories that are the focus. Now I think you are skipping a couple of...

Male. I'm an immersive reader. I always like to imagine myself in the character's shoes and ask, "what would I do here?"

I would say life force (how long you will live). So getting blasted by a normal attack can heal over time, but a soul attack can not because it is something that will damage how long you have to live on earth. You could translate this to diseases as well. Perhaps if someone takes too much soul...

It depends on what the focus of the story is. If the story is focused on fighting/battling then an overpowered character is a negative. However, if the story focuses on something else like character's personality or building something then him being overpowered is not as bad. "You can judge a...

Borderlands. Jokes and humor were good in the beginning when I was a teen, but now it just doesn't hit the same.

Approach the issue with the idea of roads and bridges. What does a road and/or bridge do? They connect two points together. So make a general idea of the major plot points/events that you want in the story. A good general way to do this is to come up the basic idea for each chapter/arcs you...

I think you need to think about the scope of the goal. Remembered eternal is quiet a grand ambition but how great of a story do you have to write to have that done? So the book you mentioned how well is it remembered? If you were to walk out on the street and ask someone about the book would...

Depression and porn addiction. Just look what happened to the North Korean soldiers once they got internet.

Don't pay attention to other stories view counts. Don't compare yourself to someone else. A while back ago I got a message from an author asking me if I was really reading a certain story. Both his story and this other one were fanfics from the same source. He was comparing view numbers and was...

"Watch her age like a poor human?" So in this situation is the mc not a human or mortal? If he is not then its not watching her age but aging with her. Otherwise if the mc is human and the girl stays a vampire, then she will just watch you age and decay. Makes me think of Lord of the Rings with...

Diablo. Cow and unicorn secret realm/portal.

Be careful when using character sheets. So some people suggest to make characters sheets for each individual main cast character. Information can range from age, powers, likes/dislikes, and even favorite food. These sheets really help when you want to question how a character would react to a...