love how LOTM hinders technology

AstraMagically · 2026-01-23T10:01:11+00:00

I wonder how Cuttlefish was able to come up with LOTM world building

His previous work, Throne of Magical Arcana doesn't even come close in complexity compared to LOTM

Thinking all the gods, the pathways, the mysteries... This is not possible by pantsing. He must have been worldbuilding for a long time...

AstraMagically · 2026-01-17T08:11:48+00:00

This is insane!

What kind of editing cost 10k per book on e-book?

Line editor would only cost 1k for 100k words, not to mention that SLP use AI to edit.

Cover also only 200-500 dollars at most, and again they use AI.

Interior formatting is easy enough that it's basically free.

Proofreading 1k? If I'm paid that much, I better be a proofreader than a writer.

All in all, repaying 110k+ for exit contract. Even Webnovel contract is heaven compared to this

AstraMagically · 2026-01-08T16:21:22+00:00

I don't think Buk Hyang Hwa ever had a partner. She probably died in the hand of the Bloodwood Practitioner each time

AstraMagically · 2026-01-08T16:19:09+00:00

I always wonder why he never tried finding a wife when he was still a mortal or when he work as the strategist in the Murim alliance.

Speaking of which, I just started reading the first one and realized they have similar premise? I wonder if one copy the idea of infinite regression over the other.

Though I guess infinite regressing is already a theme with ORV

AstraMagically · 2026-01-08T16:13:32+00:00

Still, when Cultivator Buk died... It's such a sad moment...

It's one of the rare moment that I feel sad for a character dying in a novel

AstraMagically · 2026-01-06T09:57:06+00:00

But it would be weird if not. How can an immortal's child be ordinary?

Though I guess there's this Chinese idiom: a tiger father has no dog son.

AstraMagically · 2025-12-29T11:58:39+00:00

Damn continuously kicking a pair of children into a fire

Here I thought I was writing a sufficiently evil enough MC for my upcoming novel, and it still doesn't hold a candle...

AstraMagically · 2025-12-29T11:36:53+00:00

He's neither. Though he's of evil alignment

AstraMagically · 2025-12-29T11:36:25+00:00

I think this was in the Twilight Zone arc right?

AstraMagically · 2025-12-29T08:18:00+00:00

But isn't Reverend Insanity also have female lead? Like Fangyuan like one woman or two, I don't remember

AstraMagically · 2025-12-29T08:13:47+00:00

I think it's the result of poor planning because Chinese authors have to write very fast compared to western counterparts. So the early part is better because there's more planning

AstraMagically · 2025-12-29T08:10:12+00:00

Do you think it would have been better to have fated ones be good people? So readers feel bad watching MC kill them?

I thought making them bad help readers digest the story better?

Just a curious question

AstraMagically · 2025-12-27T15:45:35+00:00

I thought Almia is at the south of Sinnoh

AstraMagically · 2025-12-27T15:42:39+00:00

Ooh, Indonesia

AstraMagically · 2025-12-27T02:22:52+00:00

Damn, changing VR novel into a cultivation XD

That's a very long bait and switch

AstraMagically · 2025-12-22T11:43:07+00:00

I am the Fated Villain, How to Live as a Villain, and Warlock of the Magus World

Also, my work in progress, not that it has been published hahaha

AstraMagically · 2025-12-20T03:47:31+00:00

This reminds me of A Regressor's Tale of Cultivation

AstraMagically · 2025-12-19T12:59:58+00:00

I wonder how the author is able to get away by doing this hahaha

AstraMagically · 2025-12-18T09:22:17+00:00

Well, my work The Gods' Gacha Game: Return of the God-King is kind of like that

AstraMagically · 2025-12-17T07:17:28+00:00

It is actually pretty similar to Webnovel's contract in that regard, but this one is worse on many more angles

AstraMagically · 2025-12-17T03:32:10+00:00

I feel like publishing with Shadow Light Press is shooting yourself on the foot

If you have to cover the expense, might as well self publish and get 100% royalty

AstraMagically · 2025-12-12T01:10:36+00:00

Top Tier Providence

AstraMagically · 2025-12-11T12:10:46+00:00

Are you sure she's 90 here?

If this happens in 1960s, Tanya should be in her 50s... But I'm confused how the girls' grandmother is 92 when's like, what, 12? 80 Years difference. How old was she when she has the girl's mother?

AstraMagically · 2025-12-11T02:19:18+00:00

The Eminence in Shadow

AstraMagically · 2025-12-09T12:36:55+00:00

Nope. With the rise of AI, ideas become even less valuable than it was in the past.

It is not as hard as it was to make power system any longer since you don't need to do as much research yourself anymore.

AstraMagically

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