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...
Five Old Writer’s Tricks that Never Fail to keep Readers Reading
The greatest criticism you can say about a story is that it’s boring. But have you ever wondering why that’s such a criticism? Why is it that...
March 29, 2021
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How to Make a Romantic Comedy (From the Light Novel Research Institute)
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...
How to Write a Romantic Comedy Light Novel (from Novenaro)
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...
Do All Light Novels Share the Same Plot?
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...
What is a Light Novel? Part 4 – Rob’s Definition
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...
What is a Light Novel? Part 3 – Laying out the Perspectives
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...
What is a Light Novel? Part 2 – The non-Japanese View
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...
What is a Light Novel? Part 1: The Japanese View
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...
The Crazy Tricks Club sneaks into Audible!
Those kids from the Crazy Tricks Club have done their best trick yet! They’ve managed to sneak into the world of audiobooks with the release of the...
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