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Wulin_Jianghu What inspired you to write?
Who is your role model author?

I'll answer on the first two.

1. Inspiration was from all the stories that saved me from being six feet under. Books can be havens, but only if I can experience them.

2. All authors and writers who are able to open my mind to another view point.

There a murderous writing hamster in my brain. Kinda like Ratatouille, but for writing trash stories instead of making 5star fancy foods. I can't help it, sometimes the hamster just takes over. Or else it runs stir crazy.

Role model? My favorite fafic writers? I think there's a lot of amazing content out there that may be even better than traditional media but doesn't get the attention.
I enjoyed authors like Roald Dahl, while known for creative and great meaningful children's books that don't dumb or reduce things down just bc it's meant for children (Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) his adult content is quite gruesome and reflective of deeper humanity( The Lottery).
On the flipside, Edgar Allen Poe started out writing comedy but found his 'grim' content to be more popular.
Jane Austen OG Queen, forever stan.
Currently, I'm inot contemporary Japanese authors like Ruth Ozeki. But I've always been into poetic meaningful, maybe even too 'mundane' authors that focus on magical realism, slice of life, a realistic tragedy like Murakami, Franz Kafta, and Khaled Hosseini.

There's also always anime, games, and manga- where a lot of good storytelling goes under-appreciated under the guise of pop and otaku culture. Unlike my 'novel' reading choices, I like my manga to be more adventurous/fantasy.

My current novels are 1. an Otome Villainess girl parody/SLice of Life introspection/Historical Fiction. 2. Lord of the Flies inspired survival piece digging into the dark side of humanity.

Great topic OP.

Many of the authors here are inspired by other authors in this Webnovel. Isn't that a good sign?

Wulin_Jianghu.
I don't have a role model but I do have a person who inspired me to write a teacher and I don't mean teacher in symbolic sense I actually mean a teacher during primary school I wasn't in much this caused me to fall behind and made me focus on the things I'm good and that wasn't English i always got failing marks in English and I gave up on the subject but one day we had to write a chapter of a book that we were reading when I finished writing I remember a teacher who read and said it was "really good" I suck at English but a teacher still thought that my writing was good after that everytime I had a chance to write I enjoyed it

A book I'm writing is
What is it like to be a Knight

heyitsbluejay That's awesome. I wonder if you ever showed your novel to your teacher?

When I was a kid, I dreamt of publishing story books until adulthood hit me hard. But now I'm back at being that kid again, so much hate for this world, I'll create my own!

What inspired me to write: A manga and anime called Naruto

Who is my favorite author: Tolkien, I guess, but I'll never surpass him

What's my current work: A fantasy series called "Mages of the North", a rare mixture of magic and the 17th-18th century.

Dalton_Reutlinger
yayyyyy Tolkien! That's awesome. Keep on writing!

SilentMild Not a bad idea, you can always create your own world in your writing! All the best for you!

Wulin_Jianghu Yeah, I definitely will

Katy_wiwi
That's really cool.
And what is your current novel?

Kugane Maruyama.

It's Overlord that is the first LN I read and it inspired me to write too.

EleAxis
Overlord is a great LN.
On the other hand, I was inspired to write because of the terrible quality of some LNs. In particular, Kenja no Mago lit a fire in me because I felt like I could half-ass a novel better than that crap.

Short answer: It was EPIC.
Long answer: A few years ago I was in some kind of harem craze. After watching and reading so many harem stories where the MC never choices a girl or only choices one, I had an insatiable hunger for harem stories where the MC marries all the women in his harem. I was obsessed with finding the perfect harem story, where no girl got left behind. Soon I became unable to enjoy any story that didn't have a harem in it. My obsession got out of hand and I wanted to read stories with bigger and bigger harems where no girl got left behind. My search for big harems brought me to Webnovel and that was how I found out about this site. I soon stumbled upon a fanfic called Endless Path : Infinite Cosmos and I gave it a try after finding out that it had a big harem. Needless to say, I was blown away by it. It did not just heal my harem obsession, but it also awakened the desire in me to write my own story.

Rainbow turtle. He/she is a translator, not a writer, but the level of grammar was really top notch that ended up wanting to write smoothly like that. I even ended up taking BA English on college because of my passion to be like them. So, yea..