JamondAroth That's not how copyright works, my friend. Intellectual copyright is asserted the moment a work is created, without needing to be filed with the government. If it can be proved that someone owns intellectual copyright on a work (aka they can prove they wrote it), they can pursue copyright infringement in court. So all they're saying is you have to write your story entirely on your own, and not use copyrighted material from other authors.

Hope that helped! :)

    Chapters 2, 3 and 4 have now been released for The Jade Gate.

    Also had to change the rating from G to PG, maybe in the future it becomes an M. Seems like I can't write a child friendly story. 🤦‍♂️

      #16KingdomBuilding

      https://dynamic.webnovel.com/book/11728173806493505

      Synopsis: Albert Hawk never thought that one day, the faction he created would turn into his biggest enemy! Everyone always said, the strongest would rule the world, but this quote wasn't always true! He was the strongest in the continent, everyone afraid to him, and anyone who disobey him will die. But! Everyone who forced to submitted to him hate him to the core.
      Then, they start to make a plan to betrayed Albert. They make a grand scale ambush and success to injured Albert till he didn't have much hope to survive!
      Suddenly, a beautiful woman come and tried to save him. Albert and this woman just an acquaintance. They never close to each other or have any intimate relationship. So, Albert wondering, why would she helped him?

      Is there a limit how much you can submit for this contest? Or can it be a small many chapters as you want? I don’t get how this works

        Synopsis
        Harper Martin woke to find the last seven years hadn’t happened. To prevent her death and those of her loved ones, she prepares to meet the end of the world. The magic virus means the fall of technology, can she amass enough power to survive among the magic users of the south, the dragons of the north, or the vampires in the east?

        Does this sound interesting?
        I think it qualifies for world building?

          discord_jones
          It sounds like an interesting world. Just note that World Building and Kingdom Building are two different concepts. World Building simply describes how an author constructs their setting. All novels have World Building.

          Kingdom Building on the other hand means that the MC is literally developing some kind of state usually with a fixed geographic territory or setting; such as a city, country, nation, dungeon, colony, fleet of space ships etc.

            I'm currently working on a take on typical VRMMOs set in America, not sure where it's going yet but it's going. First chapter will likely be up tonight, for those interested. (Tonight in Central Standard, GMT -6)

              Vgnette oh by the way read your story I even wrote a review, it was nice.

                Vgnette my instincts tell me your going to win this. Just my opinion no one get mad. :)

                  MasterRabbink so why don’t they write more chapters? Wouldn’t that increase the chances of winning? They don’t look at the writing quality’s but the amount of stones they get?

                    This is my story, I hope you like it.
                    https://www.webnovel.com/book/11737011605504505/31506849660466147

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                    Chun Xiaoli was no different from the dreamy men and women, who with their sweat and effort sought recognition for their hard work. She had already entered the world of "men", had civil engineering and now took her Masters in Administration, with her hard work and sweat she built a company with considerable fame in China, she was nominated as the entrepreneur of the year! Finally she was being like those heroines she'd read about in her teens, she had it all, a brilliant career, a loving family, trusted friends, and a man she loved!

                    She was the hero of her own story!

                    Everything was perfect in the life of Chun Xiaoli, until a knife crossed her chest and took everything!

                    When Chun Xiaoli awoke, she found herself reincarnated in a novel she read when she was young, "The Emperor pampers his diabolical consort!"

                    This is a typical Xuanhuan style web novel, set in Ancient China, the main protagonist is the cold and calculating 2nd prince who was considered the weakest of all five princes who competed to take over the imperial throne of the Zhou Empire.

                    The typical plot the hero makes of pig to eat the tiger, that kind of thing. This 2nd prince who hitherto is not interested in power, he falls in love with a simple and humble girl, the daughter of a general's house. That is a woman from another world that transmigrates to the body of the deceased daughter of the general's house, she was a teacher of literature and history.

                    So like every typical plot, the girl wakes up prettier, smarter and with divine ability, like literature, philosophy, painting and the main one was her aura of cultured person from another world. Of course we can not forget that she received a golden finger, that an old grandpa who will teach her cultivation!

                    Why would it be female FL without a good crop ?!
                    ML has the treasure of his mother's family and FL has an old Taoist grandpa!
                    A perfect couple, made by Heaven!

                    The plot is very good and beautiful, the second prince becomes emperor, after facing his brothers, killing some, exiling others and allied with the rest, the old emperor dies and the suffering imperial concubine, ML's mother, becomes the empress widow ... blabla.

                    The emperor makes an engagement with the FL, which is already so strong, that it begins to release pheromones and attract other men, the support MLs, who are handsome, rich and influential men.

                    Then begins the second part of the plot, which is the new Emperor running after the FL, than she refuses to have a marriage with a man who will have a harem, then flees all the time and meets with the various ML support .

                    But the emperor does not punish her only more and loves her as if she were a precious jewel, in the end the two marry and the emperor bans the law over an imperial harem.

                    What a beautiful ending! What an interesting ending!

                    Just forgetting a little detail .... The second prince had a bride, who was imposed by an imperial decree by his father, who belongs to a retired military family, whose patriarch is the emperor's best friend.

                    So what happened to this bride? Of course she was the villain of the plot!

                    How would FL be the prettiest and the best, if not the villain scum to compare ?! How would ML prove his love for FL if there was no villain to punish ?!

                    Then as she no longer had to conquer her future husband, which she was forced to marry, soon she began to focus on FL, thus becoming the most hated villain of the entire novel!

                    In the end she had a horrible death! She was thrown into the midst of hungry men, she was raped and then used for dinner!

                    The name of this tragic villain is Ling Mei, formerly of the Ling military family.

                    Now Chun Xiaoli is this poor, foolish villain!

                    "Fuck, I your grandmother, don’t need of an man for to live a good life!” Chun Xiaoli said with resolute eyes.

                    This is a novel in which villains will reign supreme!

                      ThyUnknownSaint

                      It's a pretty much a popularity contest. If you want to win, you need to have a group of readers who will vote for your story. Personally, I write for enjoyment and to challenge myself.

                        LawCol This story I'm writing to have fun too, I like to write this genre that is opposite to ordinary FL. I like to put my characters against the patriarchal "heroes" of Xianxian.

                        I do not expect to win, if I win, I'll be lucky.
                        Thank you for your opinion, that was kind of you.

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