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    • Serah

      Pens Down, Swords Up | 剣と魔法と学歴社会 〜前世ガリ勉だった俺は今世では風任せに生きる〜
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      Serah

      New chapter available!!!

      Damn. I wish there would be at least one of the fellow fans reading the web novel as well so we could discuss!

      The previous story arc was so epic, but the current is kinda touching and valuable as well.

      Just love the story so far. The moment I noticed a new chapter is available I dropped everything else I was doing and got something to drink while enjoying reading it.

    • Serah

      (Since I wasn't a saint, I decided to relax and cook at the palace.*) | 聖女じゃなかったので、王宮でのんびりご飯を作ることにしました
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    • Serah

      I Got Caught Up in a Hero Summons, but the Other World Was at Peace! | 勇者召喚に巻き込まれたけど、異世界は平和でした
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    • the green death

      Light Novel-Style Stories On Royal Road
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    • Sleepyfoxy

      New WebNovel
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      Serah

      @Sleepyfoxy said in New WebNovel:

      I’m a new author and I’ve just started working on my first story. I’d really love some feedback on the synopsis to see if it sounds interesting!

      -"The Weight of What If"
      "What if every choice you never made haunted you?"

      Ardyn Veythar is cursed with the ultimate power—the ability to see every "what if."

      What if he had stayed to fight instead of running?

      What if he had shown mercy instead of becoming a tyrant?

      What if he had died a hero instead of living long enough to forget his own name?

      The Paradox Sovereign grants him mastery over fractured time—but at a terrible cost. Every unlived life, every abandoned future, claws at his mind like a starving beast. The world bends unnaturally around him; people’s memories shift when he speaks, his very presence unraveling the seams of reality.

      Now, as the last remnants of a dying world crumble—the angel-sustained paradise, the god-corpses buried beneath the ice, the obelisks holding back the void—Ardyn faces the cruelest truth of all:

      Infinite possibilities, and none of them bring her back.

      Can a man who has lived a thousand lives ever find one where he isn’t alone? Or is peace the one path even the Paradox Sovereign cannot reach?

      From my personal point of view: not interesting.

      The power is on the one hand too strong, on the other too unrealistic. With people "understanding" more and more the "results" of having infinite possibilities it becomes more and more clear that you cannot make a good story about it. Best examples you can take from Rick & Morty which works great because of the non-canonical-stuff plus the fact how the canon stuff is strongly limited.

      You can basically continously switch premises without worries and it either turns out weird and funny or just meaningless - and the show is pointing that in great ways.

      A hero with that premises therefore will have very similar issues in story presentation and exploration. The best you can do is taking inspiration from the game The Alters. And even there you can tell how it can work and no work.

      Such a "protagonist" you thinking of will never make the cut to be a protagonist and end up more likely like Caspar at the End of Time for obvious reasons.

      This is the feedback upon your synopsis. Feedback regarding authorwise I would recommend to review the vision you have, what story you actually want to tell. The synopsis is a paradox itself, which is a niche gimmick not many will appreciate.

      Overall it is lacking vision to a proper endgame and rather gets shot off right away. From a light novel perspective the core sounds like you want to get something close to The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior yet not the same. But without an interesting hook, you end up like Caspar.

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      campfire cooking
      • dennisambler

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      K

      There are currently 16 volumes out in Japan. JNC has licensed and translated 15 of them so far. V16 came out 12/25 in Japan, so it's likely that JNC is already working on licensing it.

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      campfire cooking
      • dennisambler

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      @dennisambler Overlap has nothing to do with the webnovel of Campfire Cooking.

    • H

      Honest question. Why does J novel club request web novel take downs while at the same time haveing a web novel discussion forum?
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      @Travis-Butler said in Honest question. Why does J novel club request web novel take downs while at the same time haveing a web novel discussion forum?:

      When a new approach is tried, there’s rapid progress- remember expert systems? - and it looks like the last 10-20% will fall shortly, the basic approach is proven, right? Only it turns out that after you’ve got the basic approach, you have to deal with the edge cases it doesn’t cover - and they multiply, not geometrically or even exponentially, but fractally.

      Don't I know it... In a distant past that is no longer, I was a PhD student trying to break just the last little obstacles in teaching computers to understand images and match edges and corners in similar images. Today the intro to machine learning 101 is to create a reliable neural network that recognizes numbers.

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      The ideal sponger life - volume 15
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      LurkingMcLurk

      This is not a web novel discussion.

      J-Novel Club do not comment on licensing negotiations. It will begin translation when it begins translation.

    • Mugen

      J-Novel Club Original LN Contest Preparation
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    • M

      A small question
      light novel • • MohNovel

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      H

      You should try Amazon KDP

    • Everbright

      Is A Pale Moon Reverie an ogoing series?
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      Everbright

      @Geezer-Weasalopes Damn, thanks for following up on that and then going to the trouble of letting me know!

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      Death mage who doesn't want a Fourth.
      isekai tensei revenge • • goz976

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      Windsagio

      I really don't understand any hate on the translation, it seemed just fine to me (granted it might have gotten a copy pass)

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      This topic is deleted!
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    • S

      Writing a webnovel -style story and where to post it...
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      Rahul Balaggan

      Hello,

      Just a friendly reminder about linking to self made stories, and general posting restrictions on spam.

      Forums rules: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3237/j-novel-club-forum-rules

      Thank you

    • R

      Message to all TLRS
      knowledge • • Ruby Eye

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      SomeOldGuy

      @Ruby-Eye Without context, you have to go with stock translation. Google says:
      "If you hit the fire arrow with the minimum power, you can remove it. Please don't move."

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      Foreign Text
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      SomeOldGuy

      Google says, "What are you doing, you kid!! What a punishment!"

    • Leona Nakimuli.j781ere

      check it out
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      Rahul Balaggan

      Hello,

      As previously mentioned, https://forums.j-novel.club/post/273384 since the spamming has gone on I have muted your account for 7 days.

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      Title: PRIMAL
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      myskaros

      @Allen-Wull-9a1twb2 Since you kept posting without responding to me, I have muted your account for 24 hours. Please consider whether you want to be a part of this community or not. If you continue the behavior you've been exhibiting since you started posting here, you will be banned.

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      Vampire High (Ongoing)
      • Allen Wull.9a1twb2

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      Rahul Balaggan

      Hello,

      Please refer to the forum rules, specifically rule #4 as it related to spamming.

      I have left the topic open if anyone wishes to read the story, and left the opening post, and the post linking to the story.

      Thank you

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