I don't know. Jin himself is no great mastermind of uplifting stuff, as he says quite often. He has no idea how most things from the modern world actually work. If it makes sense when I get to it, it will happen, but I dont really have a list.

Well, there is a more traditional Viking cultivation story called Einherjar I have, as well as an adventure story on skyships called Stormbreakers. Both of them on are on the back burner for now, though, as I work through Beware of Chicken.

The idea of the story was a writing prompt that said "The Cultivator Fucks off and becomes a farmer."

I thought the cultivator having a magic chicken would be hilarious. And thus BOC was born.

And yes, I did read Xianxia and Wuxia stories before I wrote one. The parody comes from a place of love. I do enjoy me some face slapping and defying the heavens, even when I do poke fun at it.

As for writing Xianxia? read. Get to know the tropes, in all their glory and all their horror. Its certainly quite different to english novels I find, and theres nothing quite like it, even machine translated like a lot of them are.

From what I understand KU itself drives growth. People binge reading off KU, then getting converted to reading the newer chapters of the serial happens.

Most of it is just discipline and determination. You write every day, even if you have no motivation. There is no secret sauce, unfortunately, but 80 hour weeks are definitely in the future. Each chapter is maybe half to a quarter of what I actually write before it gets cut down.

I'm no match for pirateaba of the Wandering Inn for example (Hi pirate!) who can do 60 K words in a week, which is just mindboggling to me.

Also beta readers are your best freinds and I would like to take this moment to thank them for putting up with my schedule.

Good. Its got some good tools for authors, and has lots of content I read. What's not to like?

I don't really have a standardized process.

I tend to think of a core personality trait, and then go and add things to it that may be kind of strange. Like the arrogant cat loving carving, or the lazy fish being good at math. As for side characters, most of them I try to just make them people. not exactly good or bad, but wanting to have a good life.

When I hit the best rated royal road story in a month, and I was making 5K off patreon with no advanced chapters.

It was rather a shock, if im honest.

I wanted a story about relaxation, growth, and family. I wanted something I guess "Noble Bright". Things can get bad. The world can be a terrible placce; but in the end, the good guys will win, even if it is a bit cliche.

It is, yes. Its something I have to constantly think about, and hope I manage to keep things well paced

I would say the title of second strongest actually goes to her hubby, Best Boi Chun Ke.

That said, she's certainly not somebody to sleep on when it comes to strength; lest she consume you whole.

I don't think I've managed to write myself into a corner quite yet, knock on wood. That probably will happen at some point, but luckily I've got a bunch of people helping me out to specifically avoid that.

As for a plot event I'd like to retcon? theres some stuff that happens in book 3 and 4 that I would like to handle a bit better, but thats mostly just changing when it happens in the story rather than how it happens. Which means that those sore spots get to be fixed on official release! One of the benefits of writing a web serial, I reckon.

I do have most of the story planned out, including the ending. How I get there however... sometimes things take longer than I think, so I cant give an exact answer write now. At least 7 books is the plan for right now.