karvenman

@SquishyMan  Shouldn't have been living in a house of glass

@karvenman didn't have to do me dirty like that dawg 

@SquishyMan Shut up, you ain't even got the bravery to actually start writing and uploading your own stories

@karvenman can't even finish my one single fight scene between some guy with energy sabre

@karvenman who thought bro 

@MeniirwastakenFUCK honestly thank you a lot. While reading this I was able to reflect on my own fanfics and I could definitely see points in time where I could increase the word count by just simply combining the contents of two chapters together when they pretty much talk about the same thing. 
            
            For quite some time I had always had a distaste for 1st person POVs since 3rd person always allowed me to just simply tell more about what's going on, stuff that a character whose POV we're reading wouldn't know. Now after reading Originium Gambit, it has opened up my views and I definitely see the merits in 1st person POVs. Like, would you believe me if I said Originium Gambit was the first book I read which had good introspection for the character whose POV we're reading.
            
            I'm currently writing a HSR fanfic but I'm taking after that I wanna write an Arknights fanfic about a Sankta mercenary. I hope I can continue having your guidance so I can improve my writing even more

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            Then… to the Arknights fanfic.
            
            I chose to write Originium Gambit in first person simply because I wanted to try it. And the reason as to why it got 88k words (on the Word document) is because well, the inner thoughts of Ivan, his explanations, and whatever he thinks are central to the story. Being a first-person story and all that.
            
            I skipped most of the world building explanations because I’d assume the people looking for and reading an Arknights fanfic would’ve known about the setting and the characters by now.
            
            With first-person stories, you can be very minute with your story telling. You can be very detailed when you are making your character describe something or describe what he is doing in detail. Or to write about his thoughts when speaking to another person, likely strategizing or other cunning thoughts.
            
            Other than that, all the other previous things I mentioned still apply.
            
            Oh and by the way, both of those stories have no ‘side story’ of some sort. All of them are central to the main plot and progresses the story every chapter.
            

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            However, I didn’t write those conversations and made it bland to the point it makes no difference from an exposition dump. Those characters have personalities, different backgrounds, and way of speaking.
            
            Integrating the worldbuilding conversation being spoken by two or more characters each with different personalities helped to integrate the exposition smoothly, as well as increasing the number of word count.
            
            This is how (based on people’s rating of my story) I got a 5 star rating on story, style, and grammar.
            
            Another thing I’d like to mention is that when ending chapters, I don’t measure in word count anymore. in the past, if the chapter reaches a certain word count, e.g 2k words or 4k words, I would stop writing the chapter entirely and proceed with a new chapter.
            
            However, I now end the chapters after a storyline has ended or a conflict within the story has been resolved. This is the main reason why I think the word count is ludicrously high for so little chapters. I dislike having to split chapters into several chapters and preferred to have them all in one go. For reference, I am writing about trench war in the latest chapter, it is currently sitting at 6k words and I haven’t even reached the midpoint of the chapter yet.
            
            Also I’d like to point out that my writing style copied ‘Blood Meridian’. I had a fun time reading that one…
            

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