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  • Joined Sep 19, 2020
  • CailinMatthews

    I'm having this confusion because I literally can not write the first one here (I don't want to go into this point). So naturally I switched to something else. And my universe is like this:

    There are two universes, which fight against the demon universe (quite generic but its content is anti-mainstream). The MC of the first book came from the lower plane, and this book tells of his journey and his destiny that changed the world. The second book is broadly the same, except that the MC was born in a different universe. Then the third is about someone who unites these two universes in one flag to fight.

    The war ended, and billions of years passed. The post-war world was "dead", there were no more strong cultivators. Hence, the first book MC revived this world with his power. This is where the fourth book begins, about mortals who struggles to live in a world that belongs to cultivators. The fourth book is the climax of the universe, the turning point and the beginning to the end of the story. Since this is the climax, I consider it the best novel I can make.

    And the fifth is the epilogue, the first book's MC final journey, to carry on the legacy of other characters.

    To be honest, I experienced all of this because I couldn't move on from the first book. The fourth book may be a masterpiece, but I feel no love for it, not even with the second and third books. I didn't feel like I was at my best, and my soul as a writer felt less conveyed. I can't write anything if like this, even just 2000 words is hard.

    It's not as simple as I have to write the second one, I can write it easily, but so that I don't lose my direction and confidence. Whichever book I'm going to write later, I don't want the shadow of the first book to haunt.

    Thanks for your words, I will take hiatus to find my own way.

    • Lol, I'm even didn't earn 100 views in one day. So... noone is reading my book?

      • My problem is like this. I have an ambitious idea to create a universe containing 5 titles. Each of them has its own uniqueness, but it has something to do with the others. Then, seven months ago I started writing the first novel of my universe, but for some reason, I couldn't continue it.

        Therefore, I wrote a replacement, one of the 4 titles in the plan. And now, I chose the fourth title, it has a very different world from the first 3, but really affects the last one. Here I am confused, do I still have to continue this fourth title, or not? Because I want to build readers' feelings on the most important characters, and if this is the case, just as the reader has gotten spoilers of the previous series, and leads to less emotion? In simple terms, I'll write in the 4-1-2-3-5 sequence.

        I can drop my current novel (4th), then start writing the second one from scratch, I choose the second one because it has nothing to do with the first. To explain, the first three are similar to WDQK, BTTH, and TGR trilogy, then the rest is a whole new world with a completely different focus. So, there are two classifications in the universe in chronological order, the fourth and fifth being after the first three. Thus, is writing the timeline in order the right thing to do?

        I'm so confused, please give some of your advices.

        • What kind of editor you need?

          • There are a lot. You know Doomsday Pillar? Heaven Smitting God Emperor? Tales of Dragon's Mortal? These are made by Indonesian author. And if you want novel in Bahasa, then why not change the content language?

          • aligtz92
            Nope, my first work got 800 views in first day instead (that's a lot for me). Well, although the first day was easy, the rest was difficult, even now I only got 100-200 views per day (because the story itself). If your story is great, it will be famous soon.

            • Edit those chapters first, so you have a stockpile, then publish it one by one. Trust me, it's decrease a lot of deadline pressure

            • I made a novel in my first language, because it was not in accordance with
              the market (in my country), just few people read it. I found a more suitable and large market, and it was the international server.

              Here is the problem, I can't write in English, my grammar isn't that good and the time it takes to write is tripled. So I started to learn English, every day I struggled with articles and so on, but according to my calculations, it took 4 to 6 months until I'm capable for it. That was too long, therefore, I found another alternative, Google Translate, of course I don't just copy and paste, there is an editing process which takes 2-3 hours for one chapter.

              So I wanna ask, what do you think about this edited google translate? can I translate like that, or have to wait another 4-6 months?

              In addition, this thread is created that way

              • Because majority readers are females. And yeah, it's really hard to write martial art in this bulk of romances (atleast in my country server).

              • I have found an image that I want to use as my novel cover. And I don't want to take any risk of being sued. So I wanna ask, is it safe to take image from Pinter*st account named Png tree, (because it says "free download" and "free royalty").

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