Writing prompts from me to you. I personally cant write well, might aswell share ideas.

TMS is now well and truly ended.
Thank you Islinda for giving this story a chance for a contract. I hope it proves well for Webnovel.
To all TMS regular readers and supporters. I won't name you individually to respect your anonymity.  With my deepest respect, thank you for your time, interaction and support.  A story can be written.  It's only when it's read that it becomes a tale. 
And I won't forget those from Tapread and Wattpad who gave Hinata and Eiji's drama a chance when it was there.  I've been blessed.
Here is an omake about its own small journey to close the curtains. 
---WPC #46 - To My Sunflower's Journey---
A moment of nostalgia as I look back to the contest that helped me form the concept for this story. Otherwise, I would've never written it.
---[[Writing Prompts Contest #46:Fall in Love with a Soldier
"Believe it or not, the only way we kept in touch was through letters. We would write to each other about our days, about our lives. They were all innocent letters, but they were amazing because it gave me an insight into how simple a person he was."
What it feels like loving a soldier?
"When you fall in love with a soldier, you fall in love with your country; when you fall in love with a soldier, nothing is set in stone on your end. Plans can and will change at the drop of a hat and planning ahead is impossible.
Though all that is true, so is when you fall in love with a soldier, you've found the best there is.
When you fall in love with a soldier, you've found someone who not only loves you more than his own life but loves his country more than his own life as well.
When you fall in love with a soldier, a kiss is worth a million dollars, and no expensive gift can compare.
When you fall in love with a soldier, you've fallen in love with someone who appreciates having a bed, running water and warm food.
When you fall in love with a soldier, you've fallen in love with not who you've prayed for, but someone so much more.
Thank you, God, for letting me fall in love with my soldier."
(Emily Richeson)https://forum.webnovel.com/d/18335-writing-prompts-contests-45-46]]---
The winner of my prompt was a book that is now on hiatus. No other entries qualified. At the time I didn't realize that having votes was the rank qualifier. So my book was instantly disqualified.
Despite not making it past the car park, so to speak, I kept this story going. I had moved it to Wattpad and continued to post chapters there.
I entered it into a Wattpad community award, and had eventually won the award for Historical Fiction, but never received the prize for it. 😆
That's okay. Knowing that my writing was enough to be a winner in a judge's eyes was cool. It won over some quality stories as well. That was a prize enough for me.
After some time, I started posting the story to Tapread where it picked up read interest there. Then I got a ping from Islinda who liked the lone chapter I had left on the book page.  
This story has been a blast to write. I'm proud of what I've been able to achieve with it. I have no regrets of what I leave behind, as I have given my best shot.
♥♥
Arigatōgozaimashita.  
Until next time. Take care.♥


Hinata longed for his Eiji to return from war. Alone in the idyllic countryside whilst other areas of Japan were torn asunder.  One day, he receives a letter from his lover filled with the scent of sunflowers and his undying love for him, followed by official news of his presumed death at Iwo Jima. Heartbroken. Yet determined to honor his promise to Eiji; to live the life they were unable to live together.

Eiji fought honorably for Japan at Iwo Jima. He fell injured in a banzai charge to be classified as dead. He recovered with the aid of an American lieutenant, who escorted him back into the mainland for espionage work. His one chance and hope of return to Hinata's side.

A controversial risk of a war story set at the end of WW2, 1945 within Hiroshima and Nagano, Japan.  Two sides of the war are shown from the individual perspectives of same-sex lovers Hinata and Eiji. 

More than a boy's love. An emotional drama, revealing the hearts and souls of people surviving America's assault. Hope from the consequences suffered at war's end.

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Super cliche fanfic tropes I will literally never get tired of... #prompts

Nagsimula ang lahat noong nakaraang buwan, eksaktong anniversary ng pagka-publish ko ng Devil's Ultimatum sa Wattpad. 
Umaga iyon, naglalaro ako ng rank mode sa Mobile Legends. Tuwang-tuwa ako kasi sa akin ang First Blood at ang first three kills ng team, nakalahati ko rin ang buhay ng turret sa top lane. Nagdiriwang na agad ang kaloob-looban ko sa ganda ng simula, sabi ko pa nga, "Balik Epic na ito at ako na naman ang MVP, as always."
Mid-fight para akong psycho na humahabol sa mga low HP na kalaban. Sa isipan ko pinagtatawan ko sila: "RUN MOTHERFUCKERS!" Gigil na gigil kasi ako sa mga kakampi ko eh. Ayaw kasi nila ng support, ang gusto nila tank. Sinasampal ko lang sa kanila ang kills ko. Imaginary bitch slap.
Hanggang sa na-ambush ako, pota ayun, shutdown; at doon ko narinig ang boses.
Katulad ng naghihingalong tinig ni Angela noong hinanap niya ang amang lumikha sa kanya, ganoon nito hinahanap ang kanyang ina.
Hanggang ang isa ay naging dalawa tapos tatlo, hindi tuloy ako makapag-concentrate kaya in the end, MVPatalo at nalagasan ng star.
Buong umaga akong hindi mapakali, pakiramdam ko kasi kilala ko ang mga boses na iyon pero kanino?
Ilang araw pa ang nagdaaan, unti-unting dumarami ang mga bumubulong. Lahat sila humihiling, nananalangin, nagsusumamo pero bakit sa akin? The hell!
Naintindihan ko lang ang lahat nang mayroong isang tinig ang bumanggit sa username ko.
Kaya pala pamilyar ang mga boses nila. Sila ang mga tauhan sa on-hold kong mga nobela at mga istoryang nais kong isulat—na hanggang ngayon ay nasa isip ko lamang.
Nakakapraning isipin. Akala ko sa kwento lang nangyayari ito kasi, paano nila nalaman na fiction character lang sila, at ako ang may gawa sa kanila?
Agad din naman iyon nasagutan ng magsalita ang isang lalaking boses. "Hindi ba gumawa ka ng writing prompts? At sa prompts na iyon, nakakausap ka namin?" Si Edgar! Ang bida sa Engkantuhin na nilathala ko noong Okctober 2013 at natapos noong December 2015. Unang libro pa lang iyon at may dalawa pa.
Tama, naaalala ko na. Dalawang taon na ang lumipas noong nagsulat ako ng ganoon prompt. Bakit nga ba tumagal nang ganoon ang pahinga ko?
"Naadik ka sa ML. Kaso talunan ka naman." Si Laurence, shet! Isa siyang tauhan sa Devil's Ultimatum na nilagay ko sa Wattpad November 2013. Hindi pa ito tapos dahil nawala sa isip ko kung ano ang isusunod.
Napailing ako, pota ang sakit pa rin magsalita ng animal na 'to. Kaya love ko eh.
Bigla akong nakaramdam ng tuwa. At hindi ko namalayang lumuluha na pala ako. Hindi ko naman kasi akalaing hahanapin nila ako. Sino ba naman kasi ako? Ang  baba kaya ng tingin ko sa sarili ko. Isa pa, hindi ko naman sila naririnig noong una kaya akala ko... wala lang.
Salamat. Salamat at muli akong nabuhayan ng loob na buksan ang laptop ko at i-type ito.
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Prompt: One day you suddenly start hearing muffled voices and the amount of them slowly increases. Eventually you find out that they are praying to you and that they are people in stories you have created! Somehow they gained sentience and discovered that you created their world.
Theme: Story of My Life

Writing prompts na kinopya ko sa Tumblr. Minsan may sense, madalas wala.

Naglalaman ng mga spoiler tungkol sa mga nobela ko. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

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NOTE:
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Hey! What's up, folks?
It's a-me, M̶a̶r̶i̶o̶ ThinWhiteWalrus!

I recently got a message from one of the devs? I presume, in Wattpad. They asked me to use this platform. Admittedly I haven't been writing much, so I thought I might as well write something here.

In this book I'll write a bunch of one shots. One shots are basically a story written in a single chapter. This requires a lot of writing prompts, which I'm hoping you guys can send me!

Occasionally if I find interesting prompts on the Internet I'll fill the book with some stories myself.

Warning: I'm no professional author, so if you see some mistakes feel free to correct me! 

I'm still not too clear on how this app works. Is there a comment section? If so, comment writing prompts for me to write! It's all (obviously) free. I'm not gonna ask for money or anything, don't worry.

Right time for me to go write. Thanks for reading!

Some contact info:

Wattpad: ThinWhiteWalrus
Discord: QueenHolmes #7798
Instagram: @shannon.potato

This is a collection of One Shots!
Looking for writing prompts, so send them in!
I will write your prompt free of charge! 

Also will fill this book in with my own stories ;)

On watt pad... i will be uploading a different novel! Im not interested with the idea that i had with this one... so i will also upload it here! It will be: *drum roll please* "paper and quill"! I will find interesting story prompts from tumblr writing prompt blogs and writing-prompts from instagram! I probably won't post much... but it might be interesting! Im still a noob at writing so I don't think it will be great, but you might enjoy my ideas

I sighed as I read the reviews being posted on my novel, I hovered my mouse and click on my profile to see any improvements.  Seeing the number of people removing my book from their library and the reading stats of my book went down, all of my books weren't good enough to be noticed by everyone. If not noticed, they aren't good enough to read.
 
This gives me more low motivation. 
 
 As an underrated writer, I knew that I can't force anyone to like my books. I want to be known by the people that I write great stories. I went back to my home page and saw the ranking of writers, how nice it to be on top one. I rest my hand under my chin, looking at my profile. 
 
 A low-ranking writer like me that has fewer views, comments is impossible for me to notice by thousand novels in this writing community I joined in especially.. all of them are talented. 
 
 
I stood up from my seat and headed outside and took a deep breath. The wind gently rustles the trees and few cars beeped on the road and subtle chatters of students that passed by my apartment are heard, I rested my elbow on the railings of my balcony and looked at them.
 
 Dreaming to be a known top writer is impossible to me, I tried to make and come up with interesting stories but all of its stats, views are down.   I went back inside, heading to my laptop to shut it down. I went to my living room, few empty cups of noodles are piled on the side of the table, papers scattered all over the place. 
 
 I glanced down and picked a paper. It reads, "WIP BOOKS and WRITING PROMPTS" 
 
 WIP BOOKS: 
 -UNSOLVED CASE: FELICIA
 -CONSPIRE WITH THE DEMON BEAST
 -THE MISADVENTURE OF ALEXANDER HUGHES 
 
 
WRITING PROMPTS: 
 -School Idol Girl Died because she is annoying to her crush
 -House For Rent's payment: Souls
 -Scaredy-cat male protagonist is inside the book he is reading. 
 -trapped in a world that has a lot of phobias. 
I scoff and shake my head, a bit disappointed with the writing prompts I made and my WIP books. All of them aren't good enough for my readers. No one likes them. Even the reviews they gave are 2. Some are 5/5 but I knew they didn't read it and just skipped the chapters.
 
 
 I gathered all my papers and piled them up, I put them on under my mini table. I grabbed my phone and put the paper under the mini table. Creativity and my words aren't good today, I don't want to make half-baked chapters. 
 
 Playing games, watching some shows on the television could make my mind relax and not let myself stress about writing. 
 
 "This player is smart, playing this game. Having tactics, huh?" I said as I'm multiply beaten with another player on the game. 
 
 Tactics...Player... 
 
 I quickly got up, went to my room and opened my laptop. I opened a new document and started to type on my laptop and a smile tugs on my face. 
  
 From the novels I've read, it's always smart players in a game.
 How about... I put it as me. I'm a smart writer that is experienced and known to be a top writer in a writing community and the writer wrote writing prompt about writing a story that could have an impossible ending or.. an endless ending. 

That would be the gist of the plot.. but I'll make a few changes. 
 
 I stopped on thought and looked at the calendar. When a writer wants inspiration to write, it says to work somewhere other than writing space. It would help the writer to have creative words in mind. 

I looked back to my laptop and started to type. 

BOOK TITLE: A Writer's Deadline.

"Write before the deadline or lose a life span" that's what Shane Hiroki thinks. Being a top writer is what Shane Hiroki wants to be known for. After receiving a notification from The Scripturient's League, Shane joined and become a member of low-rank writers. 

Shane and his team compete with other talented writers with their daily quest where they have to meet its requirement and deadline or else the members of the team would  lose a life span and lose its points. 

Will Shane survive the competitions and become a top writer? 

This book is highly related to writers. The book includes racing word counts, timed- word mini games, and etc. Just a reader? Read this and you'll know the struggles of being a writer and who knows.. Because of this book, you want to be a writer.. or not.

Yeah so I'm frustrated, annoyed and just…done. 
There will be no more prompts, I thought you guys would like them, something to read while I sort my shit out, I thought they would help me get back to writing, but after yesterday I think this is just having a negative effect.
I woke up this morning and read one comment, one damn comment! on the last post and that has affected me more than it should, enough to the point that I'm putting this up. I guess that just shows how stressed I really am. 
So for the next 24 hours I'm going to come back to this post regularly and answer any questions in the comments (Except spoilers), and after that I'm taking this post down as well as anything else that doesn't have to do with spider-man, you guys have come for that and don't want anything else. 
After all the prompts, explanations and other random chapters are deleted there will no longer be communication between me and the readers. I will not answer when the next chapter is out, where I'm at, what my head space is like, I just can't do it anymore. 
Whenever I get the next set of chapters done I'll post them and that'll be it. Maybe I'll talk to you guys then, give an author's note about writing the novel, I don't care right now. I won't be touching spider-man for a long time if ever again after this is finished. 
You can think of this novel as on hiatus, dropped, whatever you like, till the next chapters come out I won't be posting anything till then and I'll be honest and say my best guess for when the next chapters will come out is around Christmas, I just don't have it in me to get it out sooner. 
Zevren out.

Peter Parker, Spider-Man has lost it all. All he has left is his Duty. He will protect the city, till his dying breath.

Copyright disclaimer: I do not own Spider-man nor any character or works featured in this fan-fiction. All rights belong to its rightful owners, Marvel Comics, and Studios. No copyright infringement intended.


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(Longer Synopsis)

Peter Parker has lost it all, his home, his aunt, and his friends. All he has left is his duty to the city, his presence keeping crime at bay. 
A few months after the battle of New York, Peter gets by living on the streets. His only friend a red haired woman named Natasha. 
With people from his past turning up, new Super Heroes appearing everywhere and mutants on the rise, will his life continue to spiral out of control? Or will something turn him around and make him the man he always was?

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I’m writing this novel for fun so there is no release schedule. All chapters will fluctuate in length depending on many factors. I am writing an original for my main story and this is just a side project so there is no overarching plot going forwards just an imagination of the marvel landscape with different changes. 

This novel will follow the MCU timeline with changes such as the introduction of greater marvel characters and groups, fluctuation in ages, and comic alterations.

I hope you enjoy this re-imagining. 

The idea for this novel is directly inspired from me reading ‘When The Spider Falls’ over on fanfiction.net. Please go over and give that novel some love if you like where my novel is heading.

I don’t read comics too much so any ideas or extra information would be nice.

(Because people keep asking. Yes this is a Harem)

Becoming a Starter Level Author 

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If you're confused about how to write a popular webnovel, perhaps this book will be able to help you out.

This book contains articles written by the best editors in the Chinese webnovel industry. There are introductory guides, intermediate guides, and assorted topics, with different numbers of guides in each type. Each week, we'll be publishing three guides. If you believe that these guides are useful, please let us know by leaving your reviews. We can adjust the update rate based on your feedback.

Author introduction:

314 (Yang Chen): He is China Literature's general manager, Xiaoxiang Academy's general manager, Qidian's head editor, China Webnovel Literature Committee member, Jiangsu Province Webnovel Author Committee vice-chairman, and a qualified expert on all internet literature. He has discovered many popular topics and greatly helped the industry to expand, along with having personally advised many top-tier authors. He is from the first generation of webnovel researchers. Yang Chen started working in the webnovel editing industry in 2005, and is highly skilled at summarizing and analyzing the business theories behind webnovel literature and is famed for his outstanding creativity in the industry.

Small Team Leader（Zhou Binglin）:Small Team Leader is a high-ranked general manager for China Literature, as well as the head editor for chuangshi.qq.com. He is originally from Guilin, Guangxi.

Small Team Leader is a top-ranked editor for original novels as well as a veteran web novel expert. He has helped to discover countless popular topics as well as frameworks and has advised numerous platinum-ranked authors. He's also one of the first generation of web novel reviewers as well as authors.

Chapter 1
Becoming a Starter Level Author
by : 314 (Yang Chen)

Previously, in the general article on "Webnovel author levels' standards", I separated webnovel authors into five different levels. But actually, there's a hidden sixth level – total beginners that aren't even at starter level. This refers to complete newcomer authors that have zero experience and have never written a single word for a webnovel.

Still, not everyone needs beginner level guides, even if they're a pure newcomer. Of course, if you're an established author who has experience writing long novels, feel free to ignore this article and move on to the next one, regardless of whether or not your story was successful. Or, perhaps you've never written long novels, but have the natural talent to write as easily as you drink water. In that case, there's no need for you to read this beginner level article anymore.

In fact, there's even plenty of newcomer authors that feel like it's incredibly difficult for them to write a short, several hundred word long essay, or to write an end-of-year reflection. But, when such newcomer authors try writing webnovels for the first time, they find their minds clearing up, with the ability to write like they are possessed, with storyline flowing out from under their proverbial pens just like a stream of water. Newcomers like these naturally don't need to read a beginner level guide like this one, either.

Those who truly need to read this article are those who put their hands at writing webnovels, but find that their minds are empty or filled with mud the moment they open up their computer documents. Perhaps you're a newcomer author who tried thinking for an entire day but only managed to write a few hundred words that even you think is garbage.

In such a case, for newcomers like you, how should you improve your writing, and write your first thousand, ten thousand, or hundred thousand words? How do you take the first step in becoming a god of writing?

I personally believe that you can try the several following tips.

1: Adjust your mentality and create a precise writing goal for yourself.

Unlike most other jobs, success as a webnovel author doesn't always come step by step. Some sufficiently talented newcomer authors are completely capable of earning hundreds of thousands, or even millions, on their very first novel. A single novel can make an author into a master, or even a grandmaster. There are also veteran authors who have been stuck at a certain level for a long time who might one day have an epiphany and find a new writing style more suitable for him or herself, turning them into a master overnight.

However, the cruel reality is, no matter if it's a newcomer becoming a master overnight, or a veteran suddenly improving, there's one condition that's an absolutely necessary prerequisite—

The author needs to already have strong writing skills. This means that such a wonderful thing is unlikely to have anything to do with you who's reading this article, as you're not even at the beginner level.

For authors who aren't even at the starter level, there's only one goal that you should be setting for yourselves. That goal is to be able to naturally write a long novel. To be more specific, there's two major goals within this goal.

The first goal is to be able to imagine and finish a story that's approximately 500,000 words. Simply speaking, you have to be able to write long novels.

This is because the natural way how webnovels work makes it so that only a longer novel can bring greater benefits for the author. The novel's ranking, influence, and author's fame are all affected by the novel's length. To achieve a respectable degree in these areas, the novel will typically need to be at least 1.5 million words or longer.

Of course, from a professional standpoint, a story written for the sake of practice doesn't really need to have that many words in it. That's because in theory, an author who's capable of finishing a 500,000-word long novel has already learned the foundational writing skills necessary. As long as such an author has a complete outline for their story, writing two or three million words will no longer be so difficult.

The second goal is to be able to write approximately five thousand words every day. Simply speaking, you must be able to write quickly.

This is because there's a huge number of webnovels out there, giving you immense competition. Based on webnovel readers' typical reading habits, only stories that have consistent updates will be able to obtain and maintain popularity. For a super consistent release, the lowest requirement is to update at least two chapters per day.

One chapter might have an average of around 2500 words. At the very minimum, they should at least be longer than 1500 words. This is why, for a webnovel author to become successful, their writing speed must be at minimum three to five thousand words per day. When calculating this by months, this means that you need to write at least 45,000 to 75,000 words per month. This is the most basic requirement.

Those are all the prerequisite conditions for newcomer authors to develop into starter level webnovel authors. At this level, the quality of your writing isn't that important. Nor is the popularity of your novel important, either. Being able to write a long novel and write quickly are the two main goals that you as a newcomer author should strive for.

Something that should be noted is that at this level, you should pay more attention to improving your own ability, rather than worrying about your story. There are no tests for you, nor are there any grades. By the time you're in the middle of the story, if you notice that you're having an easy time writing and can easily write five thousand words per day, in addition to having a clear outline for your entire novel, then congratulations. This means that you're now a starter level webnovel author.

2: Choose an appropriate genre and topic.

With the development of webnovels, there's so many genres out there already – eastern fantasy, high fantasy, martial arts, xianxia, modern, mystical, historical, military, gaming, competitions, science fiction, fan fiction…

All these genres have their own specialties, and have different popularity factors and important things to keep in mind when writing. Also, they all have different degrees of difficulty when writing them. Still, what needs to be noted is that these different genres will have varying degrees of difficulty for different authors.

Perhaps one author will find it incredibly painful to write historical fiction, while writing a mystical story is fun and relaxing for him. Meanwhile, another author might find it incredibly easy to write historical fiction, while writing a modern day novel feels all sorts of awkward for her.

Obviously, for authors that are total beginners, you should choose the easiest type of story to write for you. But, what if you don't even know what genre you should be starting out in?

Allow me to recommend a few easy genres for newcomer authors.

1: Fan fiction

Fan fiction refers to using an already existing story's characters and setting as the basis to create new stories. This is a type of story modification.

For example, you could write a story and call it "Harry Potter and His Adventures". This story could be about how Harry Potter ended up with Hermione, or how he has multiple girlfriends. This is an example of a fan fiction about Harry Potter.

What needs to be noted is that in the large majority of situations, fan fiction authors don't actually have the copyright to their own stories. Even if you wrote every single word of your fan fiction novel by yourself, you still have zero right to use your novel for any commercial purposes.

But, even so, fan fiction is still one of the best choices for total beginner authors. The reason is that they are quite simple to write.

When writing fan fiction, you don't need to think about a complicated world background or any detailed settings. Nor do you need to create a large amount of characters. Even the fan fiction's story can be inspired from the original novel. All these things, especially creating the setting and characters, are what newcomers typically have the most trouble with.

Basically, writing fan fiction will greatly simplify the writing process, directly avoiding the most difficult part of all. Without a doubt, this is the easiest way for newcomer authors to get started.

As for what story to base your fan fiction on, it first needs to be a story that you as an author have already read and are familiar with. Also, it's best if it's a story you truly love, perhaps even reading it several times over. This is the basic requirement for writing fan fiction.

On top of all that, I would recommend choosing to write fan fiction about a story whose copyright has already expired, such as "Romeo and Juliet" or "Don Quixote" and so on. Or, it would be best if you could somehow obtain permission directly from the author of the work that you intend to write fan fiction about.

Of course, even if you have no way to contact the author or obtain their permission, it's still fine to write fan fiction. This just means that you can only write for free, without earning any profits, and also respect the original author of the work. After all, for newcomer level authors like you, learning and improving your writing is the most important part. Since your novels are unlikely to be commercially viable at this stage, it's not all that important even if you write a fan fiction novel that you're not allowed to profit from.

2. Modern novels

This genre refers to novels that take place in a modern day urban setting. The city background is typically where the author has lived and is familiar with.

Compared with fan fiction, modern novels have the added difficulty of having to create your own characters. Still, it does decrease the amount of trouble you have to go to in creating a setting. Not only that, when writing character introductions, you can save a lot of effort in having to explain a lot of common knowledge, such as what a character's job entails, or their social status. Saving all this effort is quite precious for newcomers.

And compared to fan fiction, modern novels have their own advantages as well. That is to say, the author can more easily write themselves into the main character, making the storyline easier to think about. Normally speaking, all you need to do is to give the main character a special cheat, or a unique advantage, and the rest will flow as naturally as water.

For example, there's a very popular modern novel with a reincarnated main character. The protagonist has only a very simple cheat—being reincarnated to several years in the past. This is quite an easy scenario for newcomer authors to insert themselves into. Just think about it, if you can reincarnate back to the past with all your memories intact, what will you do?

Most authors can probably imagine it. If you return to several years in the past with knowledge of the future, there's just far too many ways of earning money. Even if you have zero business skills, can't remember a single stock market pick, and don't remember who won the World Cup of Soccer, at the very absolute minimum, shouldn't you know something like what company you should invest in?

Apart from earning money, don't you, the author, have any other regrets as well? For example, do you regret not treating your parents better while they were still alive? Do you regret choosing the wrong major in college? Are you embarrassed at your awkward attempts to get a boyfriend/girlfriend?

And so on, and so forth. Why are you afraid of not being able to think of plots for your storyline and making it longer?

As for the specific details, those are quite easy as well. For example, if you intended to sell off everything you owned back in the day and take out a huge loan to invest in one specific company, what would your parents say, and how would they react? How would all your other friends and relatives react as well? Who would you try to borrow money from, and how would they respond? What's the specific process of investing in a company, and what procedures are necessary? What if the company you invest in temporarily loses value after you invest in it? Would your parents complain at you and tell you to retract your investment? And how will people react after the company you invested in suddenly does super well and you make a huge profit? And, what will you do with the money…

Just this one storyline arc about investing in a company has plenty of content to write about even simply by following the natural process of how people would act. And if you use that as the foundation and intentionally write some conflicts, such as how the protagonist discovered that his friend who he wanted to borrow money from is actually investing in a different company, how he pretended to have a casual attitude when opening up an investment account made the investment company female employee misunderstand him to be someone really rich, or how people scoffed at him after investing in a company and he made a bet…

Wouldn't you agree that all these related events can add plenty of content to your story? Not only that, it shouldn't be all that difficult even for a newcomer author to write such a story arc.

Even if you're one of the few who feel like you lack imaginative prowess, and you don't have the confidence to create interesting scenarios and conflicts, well, there's still one more advantage of writing a modern story—you can borrow ideas from plenty of sources.

The most direct sources of all would be television dramas, especially those set in the current day. This should be easy to understand.

Apart from television shows and movies, there's also hot topics in society, the news, or local gossip and family conflicts… These are sources that are easy to overlook or maybe often considered boring. But actually, it's quite common to make some modifications and write them into your own novel and borrow from such sources.

This is why, from a certain standpoint, modern novels are the easiest novels for newcomers to begin with and to write a long story about.

3. Imitations

Imitation type novels aren't a particular genre, but they can belong to any genre. While this may seem rather contradictory, it actually means that a newcomer author could try selecting one of his or her own favorite and most familiar novels and imitate it. This isn't limited by genre.

Imitation could be shallow, or it could be a close imitation as well.

To give a theoretical example, perhaps the original story has a main character named Zhang San, who's the son of the sect leader of Green Castle. Your imitation novel could try having a main character named Li Si, who's the son of the sect leader of the Wudang Sect. The original story had Zhang San falling off a cliff and miraculously surviving while also obtaining a book containing a miraculous cultivation technique. After he successfully powered up, Zhang San was sent by his father to go undercover in the Demon Sect, where he fell in love with the Demon Sect leader's daughter. Your story could try having Li Si being ambushed while cultivating and becoming seriously injured, but miraculously having a great breakthrough in cultivation due to overlapping coincidences. Afterwards, Li Si went undercover in the Demon Sect in an effort to investigate who ambushed him, and fell in love with the Demon Sect leader's granddaughter…

This type of imitation requires even less creative effort from the author compared to fan fiction. From a certain standpoint, this is really cutting it close to becoming plagiarism. Yet, it's still undeniable that this is a usable method for newcomer authors to improve their own skills.

But, please note that this type of writing style is only suitable for practicing your writing. If your story is too much of an imitation, it'll be impossible to even make it public. That's because unlike fan fiction, even if you don't use it for commercial purposes, you've still plagiarized and violated the original author's copyright. It might even spoil certain plots from the original story and affect its sales and popularity.

That's why this type of learning via imitation, in principle, isn't really one of the better ways to learn. More accurately speaking, this is the final way to learn available to total beginner authors that have failed at attempting all other self-training methods.

In normal circumstances, after half a month to a month of imitation practice, the author should have some more insight into writing. The author can learn how to design storylines and write descriptions. At such a time, the author can stop trying to imitate and begin developing a completely original novel on their own.

!! Thankyou !!

You've found my story! Thank you so much for reading. This is something new I am trying. Something about me is that I have a weird obsession with writing prompt books and writing prompts in general. They can be from Pinterest or websites, or anywhere really. It is a way to get writing practice and it is just generally fun for me. 
Although this work is more of a sandbox for me, I hope you have fun reading it. My only stipulations are that my works all take place in winter (i.e. Christmas time) and of course they cover the given prompt(s). I know that it is past Christmas as I am writing this, this is such a fun time of year for me. I have always enjoyed writing stories about this time of year to this is going to be a place I can come all year to just go all Hallmark until my whole heart is content. 
Once again thank you for taking this crazy journey with me. 

Merry Reading! 
D.E. Adams

This is just me (DE Adams) doing holiday and other prompts for fun.

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