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yaoyueyi

Thank you very much! ^_

Title: Boundless Human World
Author Name/ Pen Name: BravelyNovice
Link to Story: https://www.webnovel.com/book/12621920606197405
Genres of Story: Fantasy
Any Specific Requests: Male character with black hair on the cover.

Thanks a lot in advance! I'm fine with anything as long as it's a cover lol.

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How does one start the process for getting considered for a contract/get paid? What are the requirements? And what is the feasibility of someone who is a brand new author with no past experience to get a contract? Does anyone know how much effort and time it would take? Can I reasonably become skilled enough and get a contract within a few months, six months, a year?

All I need is just basic living expense, and that's only like 330 USD a month here. A very modest dream, don't need to become like the Chinese Great Gods making millions lol.

TalenX

You're right on about everything. Especially the part where not having an outline can make things messy. From what I know, most of my favorite/popular authors like IET, TJSS, Er Gen, Chen Dong outline. And while I do notice some human errors on some occasions, most of the time their stories are coherent and fine. And it also helps them churn out tons of words each day because they already know what to write.

I firmly believe that outlining/planning, or deciding how the story will begin and end before the actual writing itself is the way to write, at least if I want to reach the height of say, someone like TJSS who writes 5k-10k words each day.

Even though I know that, I'm still working on it. My novel just did a complete 360 flip in direction/theme on the third chapter and it's because I didn't do a complete outline, just muddling through with chapter-by-chapter outline. But it's my first novel and I have to be shameless enough to just commit such a mistake anyway. At least I know what not to do later on. And if I'm not even able to write something that's obviously not good, I won't even have the courage to write anything at all. That thought finally pushed me to start writing even if I'm clueless about writing or it's bad.

The amount of web novels I've read isn't small. Of 80 or so pages on novelupdate of Chinese web novels, I've read most of them that had more than 200 chapters. It doesn't really help me outline or write at all though. I've been under the illusion that one gets better by reading for a long time. It was only now that I realize that there's no substitute for writing itself.

^topic.
I'm referring to this here: https://www.webnovel.com/book/10589139205070105/Book-of-Authors
Is this all we have, in English that is? I'm sure there are more but it would be on qidian in Chinese, and I wouldn't even know how to find or read them, haha.

So no new requests are being taken?

I would like to know how Chinese web novel authors outline their novels and what it looks like. Because it will definitely look different compared to conventional outlines for normal sized novel of 80-100k length like the ones the video mentions.

I've tried outlining conventionally and I'm not having much luck.

I've wasted a lot of time searching around for how-to's when it comes to writing fiction. It is an obvious response when someone wants to do something in the information age they're clueless or not good at. What do we do when we don't know something(how to write? How to tell a story?)? We google it, look up information, ask other people.

I myself have dedicated a good deal of time going through content after content of such topics and I've read most chinese web novels for male with at least a few hundred chapters translated listed on novelupdate in hope of learning how to write from them to no avail. Reading doesn't help with coming up with a story or gives you the skill to write.

Only through writing itself can one learn to write/tell stories.

Reading or any other form of media can give inspiration and stuff, but the core writing/storytelling capability of a person, that writing muscle, it only gets built up by actually writing. No amount of anything else can be a substitute.

I wish someone told me that when I wanted to write a long time ago. Would've saved a lot of time.

TITLE: Boundless Human World
AUTHOR NAME/USERNAME: BravelyNovice
SUBTITLE (by this, I mean if you want any other words, quote, etc. on the cover):
GENRE: Fantasy
SYNOPSIS

The world is vast. There are countless Great Heroes, Great Villains, Great Experts, Great Emperors, and maybe Great Gods too.

When normal not-so-great people look at these figures, most want to become one! But not everyone ends up becoming one. The road is long and filled with hardship. Luck and talent alone might not carry them all the way.

One does not become a Great-Whatever by simply wanting to be one, and no one becomes one instantly. Only through endless striving while holding an unshakeable resolve can one succeed.

Come and follow the journey of one normal young man as he walks the path to become a great someone, someday, starting today.

IDEAS It can be a person or simply a landscape? If a person on the cover then male with black hair, the eye color can be anything.

Thank you in advance!

Oh, wow. I totally didn't know when the first round was ending and missed it while I was researching topics.
Can someone tell me if I missed much or not by not being in round 1? Ha... an editor's advice and comments would've been wonderful. Not going to miss any of the rounds now.

Where does everyone get their cover? Do you guys make it yourself? What do I do if I'm absolutely clueless about it?