Discussion TMW Quality Drop?

Arcturus · May 13, 2016

I kinda have to agree. In this case the Shen Tu people aren't being that dumb. The people who are making a fuss about it, just want something to complain about until they get their brick fix

dniv · May 21, 2016

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Not exactly. If an author had properly brainstormed before starting the story then the chances of a story being lacking and contrived goes down. Take Ze Tian Ji (Way of Choices) for example. You don't write a story with that much depth without proper planning. The author already had a good grasp of what kind of story he was going to write and have planned out much of the plot. But a lot of readers criticize it for its slow pace instead, which is ridiculous IMO. World of Cultivation is another example of a story where the author ties everything back into the main storyline. Then you got stories like Sovereign of the Three Realms, where you can see that the author had thought out the first arc and it's a good story in and of itself, but they don't really have an idea of where to take the story after. These types of story tend to become a compilation of arcs with only a shallow plot to tie them together. The rest of the stories like TMW and TDG fall in the last category of almost zero forethought, at least from a reader's perspective.
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I don't know. I think Sovereign of the Three Realms is a rather creative story. Not everyone is Er Gen or Kamachi Kazuma foreshadowing important plot points like literally 20 volumes in advance in their writing. Sovereign of the Three Realms seems like it hasn't started yet tbh. I think that we'll get to see more interesting stuff in the story the closer our protagonist returns to the tier of power that is near the people that he used to rule over as his father's son. I'm sure that'll factor in eventually.

As far as TDG goes. Yeah, that story has very little planning. It's still relatively enjoyable though so meh. TMW does have planning. Just slow execution. Though I will agree that ZTJ is honestly amazing and a lot better than most or all other Xianxia's I've seen.

I still think that I may end up preferring TTNH though because it's just so well written. At the rate, the writing is improving, I'll start liking TTNH more than ISSTH. Lol, that'll take a while though, but it has indeed gotten better more quickly considering how much shorter the translation currently is.

In the end though I think that it's normally impossible to see where an excellent expansive story is going without making it feel contrived. Xianxias have an appeal in that you have no clue what's going to happen in them and they go all over the place. In a sense, it makes them trashy, but it's also rather freeing and allows the author to write with a lot more direct feedback from the readers (a lot more so than with manga) which is very nice. Anime, manga, WN's, all have their appeals, but atm I really enjoy the top WN writers.

J-Mitch · May 21, 2016

Its not necessarily the quality dropped but, I can feel limitations in the story for one, and two, it takes forever for even a single 'meaningful' thing to happen in one chapter. They drag things out too much lately, and its extremely annoying.

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