How to Start an Isekai Story
Isekai, or “second world,” stories are a staple of light novels and webfiction for many reasons. They start with a natural hook that makes readers interested, and...
Telling Stories
Isekai, or “second world,” stories are a staple of light novels and webfiction for many reasons. They start with a natural hook that makes readers interested, and...
Since actual Japanese sources on writing light novels aren’t easy to find in English, I am sharing translations of some of the more interesting articles I have...
Since actual Japanese sources on writing light novels aren’t easy to find in English, I am sharing translations of some of the more interesting articles I have...
Last week, I did a series of posts trying to come up with a new definition of what a light novel is. And among the definitions translated...
Over the past three days I have looked at the different ways people see light novels. From the Japanese point of view From the non-Japanese point of...
For this little project, I went through many definitions of what a light novel is, both from Japan and from the non-Japanese world. And I have to...
Previously, we looked at how some Japanese try to define what a light novel is. Now, this time we’re going to look at how some non-Japanese have...
Defining what a Light Novel is seems to be like trying to grab a greased pig – it’s messy, hard to pin down, and you can never...
There are a few less common manga genres that probably deserve more attention than they get, and one of these is the Exploratory Manga. Now, when I...
Shosetsuka ni Narou! (Let’s Become a Novelist) is Japan’s oldest and most popular webfiction site, and continues to be a place where publishers find their next hot...