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Web Novels and their Core Elements (Part 2)

In the last week's article, we briefly touched upon web novels and discussed in detail about the elements that are crucial in making any novel a success. This time, the element of focus is "CHEATS". 

Cheats refer to the main character's special or unique advantage over everyone else in the story. There are a variety of ways in which cheats can be expressed in web novels. For instance, an ancient technique book, a powerful teacher, an incredible physical body… any type of advantage can be termed as a cheat. However, CHEATS can be categorized into the following four categories:

Treasure-Type Cheat

As per this cheat, the main character or the protagonist might obtain a special or unique item, such as an alien spaceship, a computer from the future, a magical pill left behind from some ancient immortal, or a pair of eyeglasses that can magically see through anything…

Ability-Type Cheat

According to this, the main character might have a unique ability, such as invisibility, passing through walls, flight, mind reading, or creating gold. With this, the protagonist is able to manipulate events, instances or even people.

Natural-Born Type Cheat

The main character might be super talented in a certain area, or have an excellent family background. Perhaps the main character's father is the president, or his teacher is an emperor, or he was born with a wonderful physique for practicing martial arts; this kind of cheat gives a superior pedestal for the main characters allowing the readers to feel intrigued and pulled into his world.

Knowledge-Type Cheat

Maybe the main character has some knowledge that only he or she knows. If the main character went back many centuries to the past, that means the main character has modern day technological knowledge. For reincarnation stories where a main character returned several years to the past, that means the main character knows how the world will develop for the next several years.

Fantasizing about one's desires is the foundational core of web novels, and a cheat is the basic foundation for helping to push along your fictional story. Presence of cheats in any web novels allows the readers to run along the fictional land created by the author, it tells the readers that the main character is indeed a normal person who also managed to become so strong. That's because the main character possesses a cheat.

Despite how unrealistic a cheat might seem, it is important to give essence to the main character of the fictional work. One cannot have a story wherein the main lead is continuously gaining success because of the luck he possess, the main lead needs an edge over the mediocre population, and that is nothing but CHEAT.

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Kongfu Books and their Core Elements (Part 1)

Ever since the beginning of web novels growth, there have been quite a few critical elements to it that have intrigued the audience. But, there are only three core elements related to creating a novel on Kongfu Books, which are directly related to the quality of the work produced. These three elements are as follows — self-fulfillment, cheats, and being able to self-substitute. 

In this article, we will focus on self-fulfillment. When web novels first started gaining some attention, people referred to them as "novels to fulfill one's desires." We, as humans, want to obtain everything good there is to have, both materially and mentally. Everything that we can obtain is shown in stories as well. They can be summed up in the following common types of storyline factors. Of course, all of these should be happening around the main character. 

1. Leveling up 

Leveling up is a process by which the main character grows stronger; any educational course done for gaining job promotion, any physical activity undertaken to reduce fat or gain strength and more, could be the examples of leveling up. Traits, opportunities, chances — anything that increases the characteristics of the main lead should be focussed upon. 

2. Miracles and Treasures 

Miracles specifically refer to giving the main character some sort of extra good luck that gives him some great benefits. Miracles fulfill people's fantasies by fulfilling their desires to obtain something great without having to work hard for it.  Something that's usually interconnected with miracles is obtaining treasure. There are so many types of treasure that one can obtain — powerful divine weapons, a hoard of silver, gold, or gems, a wondrous martial arts technique, a precious medicine, or even houses and property… Anything valuable or precious to the main character could be termed as treasure. 

3. Love 

Naturally, love refers to the main character trying to get a beautiful woman or handsome man to fall in love with him/her, and finally succeeding in the end. Still, what needs to be noted is that how successful a storyline about obtaining love becomes mostly depends on two points — successfully describing the love interest and how much the main character values and likes their love interest.  

4. Fighting enemies 

Of course, this refers to fighting and defeating one's enemies. Naturally, there are so many types of enemies you can write about. You could write about some vicious beasts in the wild, some bandits you meet when it's dark, or an opponent for a tournament… There are two main points to watch out for when writing such scenarios — how terrible or evil the enemy is and how powerful the enemy is.  

5. Status 

Here, status is a relatively broad concept. Basically, this refers to the respect that the main character obtains from others, and how his hard work and power level help him to obtain reputation and status. After the main character levels up, becomes stronger, obtains some treasure, becomes rich, obtains a beautiful girlfriend, or has a relatively wonderful life in whatever way, or becomes successful to either a small or large degree, of course other people in the story will need to learn about the main character's accomplishments.  

The above categories of storylines are all classical examples of how to write a story that helps readers to fantasize about what they lack. Starter level authors can consider how to reasonably use these factors in their own storylines and throughout their entire story. 

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How to become a Kongfu Books Author

Ever since the beginning of digital development, there have been quite a few critical elements to the space of creative writing that leave rather deep impressions upon everyone. With the expanded sphere of writing, a new niche or circle or space has developed for writers who write novels on the web, popularly known as ‘web novels’. Kongfu Books is one such medium, wherein the author has complete freedom to develop and write the stories that have touched their hearts and minds and they need a creative outlet to present it to their readers.

Kongfu Books is a digital app that provides space for author to publish their work and an equal, if not more entertaining, place for the readers to read all of this work curated for their interest. Though, this is a relatively new phenomenon, but various ‘web novel’ authors have success stories that leaves credible stones for one to follow. Kongfu Books can be defined as a sacred space that provides a credible and often, profitable outlet for authors to publish their work.

Even though the sphere of digital publishing is new, we, at Kongfu Books, believe that it is important to acquaint the general audience about it or any aspiring writer who want to publish their work in the digital realm.

Ever since the beginning of web novels growth, there have been quite a few critical elements to it that have intrigued the audience. But, there are only three core elements related to creating a novel on Kongfu Books, which are directly related to the quality of the work produced. These three elements are as follows — self-fulfillment, cheats, and being able to self-substitute.

None of these three elements appear very “grand”, nor are any of these elements difficult to comprehend. However, these three elements represent the core of why web novels are so thrilling. It could be said that as long as you truly understand these three concepts, you’ll have a master key to unlocking the world of web novels.

These three elements will be explored weekly, so do follow for more updates and information about Kongfu Books and its working.

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