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After a breakup, Lia Lin Ai got into an accident. Strangely, a cupid offers her a second at life, putting her soul into the body of a girl with a similar name. Without the memories of said girl, can Lin Ai live her life? What happens when her old connections come into the picture? update when I'm ready

History tend to repeat itself. In the magnificent palace schemes, blood sheds and betrayals are the norm. Li Yuan Emperor of Tang Dynasty, Empress Fang and Concubine Wu are in an entanglement. The battle for the position of Empress began. Two sons are born. One innocent ruined and the land turned chaotic. Will the three individuals choose the same choices? Will everything be good or once again blood is spilled?

Okay here's my blurb

Saving the princess can get tiring, especially when you hate her. Welcome to a world where odd video game logic rules, everyone has superpowers, and the final boss is definitely up to something messed up...

I have edited my blurbs a few times already. As it plays an important role as the first impression, it must be constantly improved. Thank you so much for doing this.

Here is my summary-

Asura, a demon, infamous for his intimidating powers and cruel tactics is betrayed by his only friend on his journey to becoming the demon king. Reincarnated as a 16-year-old human with the purpose to crack an entrance exam which is supposedly the most difficult task in the universe, Asura has a second chance to prove his worth.

Correcting his past mistakes, Asura has now decided to lead this life as a loner and not to trust anyone. Underneath the peaceful and simple life of the human world, he discovers the dark nature of humans, which is not very different from the demons.

Even after being a very hard worker, Asura finds himself struggling with his studies. Using his demon tactics, he tackles the challenges that fall upon him and his classmates.

Join Asura on his journey and super relatable academic problems.

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Haha, no worries, that clears it all up already :slight_smile: Let me see what I can do...


A Death-Game ensues when 61 million of the world's population get trapped in Knights & Mages Online. Seth Kiah, the Winner of the Beta Test, has been exiled. The Creator has gone Villain and is hellbent on making everyone's lives harder.

Even though the game is rigged, Seth Kiah and his crew fight to defeat all Bosses of 100 islands and get out of the VR they're trapped in. Because that's their only chance at survival. And Seth hasn't won Beta just so he could die in Alpha.

The game is on.


Okay so I improvised a bit in the middle there, and idk really if the game version following beta is really called alpha lol. But I hope that helps show you what I mean about characters and conflict! :slight_smile:

Hiii! Haha, well, maybe I can help :slight_smile:

I think this is redundant here. It tells me nothing about the story or the characters.

This is a good paragraph! I do have a few edits:

In his sleep, Shinichi was able to see the world's true form. Most importantly, he could level up people's abilities and eventually obtain those maxed-out abilities for himself! Thus, he began to collect as many powerful people as possible, so he could return to his former glory...

I like that we're upping the stakes here, the structure is a bit confusing though. How about...

An odd figure who may or may not be Shinichi's mother kept warning him of the dangers to come. "The world's devouring has begun," she cautioned, "and it won't stop until everything's consumed." Or something.

And here I think restructuring could help it flow better:

Well...who cares about the end of the world, anyway? He has other things to do. Best to ignore these ominous warnings that aren't going to help his current situation.


Well, those would be my suggestions! Hope they helped but feel free to ignore them if they didn't!

Haha, nothing wrong with short, especially if the story/comic you're creating is also short :slight_smile:
That being said...one single sentence can't convey a whole lot about your characters and conflict :sweat_smile:

Can you tell us what's the name of the princess? Who/what broke her? Which horrors of the world?

Like I said, short is fine! But it does have to include some specifics which will entice your readers to pick your story, over all the other sorrowful princesses out there. If you can give me a few more details, I could try to whip something up for you! :blush:

You're welcome! Honestly, editing be like that - it's easier to do it for other people than for yourself, lol.

Honestly, I think this is really good, especially if your comic is short! It packs conflict and character in two well-paced sentences, which give the readers just enough to leave them wanting more. Are you looking to expand it?

That's so cute! I like. It reads more like a logline than a blurb, though. But, again, if the story is super short, this is probably enough :slight_smile:

I like this, too, but I'm a bit confused about the unlikely duo. Which is it? Caleb and the unstable man? Caleb and the angel? The angel and the unstable man? I'm thinking it's probably Caleb and the angel, but it's 'unlikely' that threw me off - why is it unlikely, when you're referring to him having a guardian angel as if it was a normal occurrence?

I think this one could use a bit of expanding, on account of 'alien realm' and 'unknown dangers'. Those are both a bit too vague. And I don't understand surviving as a replacement for being happy :thinking: If you're not surviving, then you're dead, and you can't be happy anymore :sweat_smile:

Well Jade Kingdoms is a novel, and I actually went from a big blurb, to a very short one. The novel is HUGE, I'm not even kidding. XD So, the big blurb is currently this:

[ JK big blurb ]

This is the tale of its Jade Princess Suren, born into a cycle of abuse manifesting itself as generational trauma which has plagued her family for eons. Molded by her surroundings and people, her own will and choices were subtracted from her at birth. As her mental strength falters with each passing day, Suren suddenly discovers something terrible amidst the shadows of the kingdom; a danger a mad prophet erased from history tried desperately to fight back against yet failed to do so.

The revelation causes Suren to slowly drag herself out of the earth she fell upon and walks with her dimmed light to find the fuel to set herself ablaze for the sake of her people. As Suren's journey unfolds, many of her kin she finds suffer from the same treatment in the Jade Kingdom culture and she realizes its not just a mere prophecy coming down to end her species.

The fight for everyone's well-being is at stake and its time for change.

I actually have a tiny website where I talk a bit more about Jade Kingdoms, the cast and some plot bunnies. Might that help?

And let me just leave my novel here too haha!

Here's a lil blurb of a novel I'm working on ^ ^


Ruby has always wanted to lead a fulfilled life; landing a position in her dream job, marrying the love of her life, and constantly be surrounded by the company of loyal, loving friends.

But when David Marquis, the eccentric boss of the company she works under, comes into the picture, things take a drastic turn for the worse—or so she thought. Suddenly, she now risks everything to secure a lover's vows, fix her deteriorating friendship, and open up to inner introspection.

To exacerbate matters, she must manage all of this while juggling the care of an adopted son under a false pretense of marriage.


I checked out your work, and I absolutely adore your writing style! Looking forward to more to come!

I'm glad you think the first two were good. I'm not looking to expand them, though, so I'll keep them the way they are.
as for the third, the unlikely duo is supposed to be Caleb and his Angel like you thought, but I can see how that'd be confusing. I guess I should replace "unlikely" with a word that makes it more clear who we're talking about.
and for the last one, I guess it's worth expanding on since it's longer than the other stories, at about 6 pages. the surviving thing is me trying to incorporate the dilemma of "survival vs happiness" into the blurb, as it's in the themes of the story. like with the last sentence of that Goodbye, Rival blurb. but it's a bit of a complicated subject so its hard to sum it up in a catchy and interesting way haha

thanks for your feedback! I really appreciate it! it seems like the more complex my stories get the harder it becomes to write blurbs for them.

Hey, everyone! Just wanted to let you know, since it's the Internet and we all expect instant replies haha, that I'll be making my way through all of your posts over the weekend :blush: Thank you for dropping by and please bear with me :heart:

Thanks for doing this!

Here's mine-

Fighting over the most ridiculous stuff, trying to escape punishments using all sorts of tricks, bemoaning the non-existent cafeteria or perhaps, the soaring price of the food there.

Arguing like mad with friends but then going back to them only, when loneliness sets in.

Skipping assemblies, cursing the march past, the freedom of the PE period and the 'official' bunking for school events.

The care of teachers, the craziness of friends, the feeling of first love and the endless notorious escapes...ah, those were the days, our cherished...school days!

Congratulations :slight_smile: Could you please paste the content of the blurb as a post in this topic, for easier editing?

Haha, glad you liked it! Of course, go for it :blush:

Happy to help! And yes, that's always the dilemma, heh. As authors, we feel like everything we put into the story is iMpOrTaNt lol, so it's hard to pick and choose.

Maybe you could work those specific words in - survival vs happiness. Off the top of my head, something like...

Survival vs happiness is the name of the game as lively, hopeful Tara ends up stranded in a mind-bending alien realm. She must conquer its unknown dangers to survive...but will she be happy?

Wild improvisation lol. And I just realised I'm not entirely sure what you mean by survival vs happiness :sweat_smile:

Haha, all right, then!

Ok so this whole first part reads like an exposition. It's all a very interesting set-up, but I have a feeling this is either a previous book or some sort of backstory, and I can't tell yet what it is that I will be reading about.

Here is where the story finally begins, and we only get 3 vague sentences about it. Is Fall the protagonist? What about this distant world? Ok so all the rest was his past, but if he needs to let go of it, why are we reading about it in the blurb? If the story is going to be about Fall on this new world, then I would like to know what his present/future conflict will be on there, rather than what's already happened and I won't be reading about. If that makes sense? Let me know if it doesn't :sweat_smile:

Haha, thank you! Hope I can help :slight_smile:

This is a good start! I would maybe connect the sentences with a comma, rather than a period, like this:

Chippo wakes up surrounded by an eternal mist, not knowing how he got here or why he's all alone.

This is where I get a bit confused. How do the ordered packages come into play? If he is in some place he doesn't know, how does he end up ordering packages? :thinking: Or are they packages he'd ordered before getting isekai'd? Also, the sender is unknown, which doesn't add up with ordered - if Chippo had ordered those packages, then he would know who sent them. Do you think you could clarify that point in the blurb somehow?

Here's mine

Akilah, a 17-year-old girl is broken when she finds the headless corpse of her childhood best friend Adara. Adara had been wrongfully accused of cheating on her soon-to-be husband, the King of their nation, a man who had been blinded by deceiving people. The perpetrators behind Adara’s wrongful death were many but none of them were exposed or held accountable for it.

Life is unfair - those are the first words uttered by Akilah after burying the headless corpse of her best friend, Adara. Desperate and on the brink of insanity she decides to make a deal with the devil in order to gain power and rewind back time. Will the deal workout in Akilah favor; will she be able to save Adara from the monsters that killed her or will history repeat itself?

This is overall good as a blurb, it sets up the character and the story nicely. I do have some grammar and structure adjustments, though, and I will improvise a bit on some details, feel free to correct if I'm off the mark.

After a break-up, Lia Lin Ai got into a fatal car accident. Strangely, a cupid offers her a second chance at life, putting Lia Lin Ai's soul into the body of a girl with a similar name. Without the memories of said girl, can Lin Ai live her life? What happens when her old connections come into the picture?

Ok, so, this packs a lot of info, which is great, but I'm having some trouble following the structure. I'm going to try to re-write this in a way I think would be clearer:

Li Yuan, Emperor of Tang Dynasty, Empress Fang, and Concubine Wu are in an entanglement. Two sons are born - the battle for the position of Empress begins.

Bloodshed and betrayal are the norm at the imperial court, and history tends to repeat itself. With one innocent already ruined and the land turned chaotic, the palace schemes of the three individuals will dictate the fate of the Tang Dynasty.

Will they choose right or wrong?

This sounds very interesting, but I think for the genre you're writing in, quite generic. Your last sentence could potentially apply to most VR stories out there. So I need to know what is it about your protagonist or your story's conflict that should make choose this one, over all the others. Who is your protagonist? And what is their specific story?

That's true! Hope I can help :slight_smile:

I like that you're introducing us to Asura right away, but that first sentence is a bit of a run-on. And if he's already 'infamous', then I can imagine his powers would be 'intimidating'. How about...

Asura, a demon infamous for his cruel tactics, is betrayed by his only friend on his journey to becoming the demon king.

I really like that second sentence! Hints at an intriguing exploration of human nature.

The ending here is great lol. But I would work a bit on sentence structure.

Asura struggles with his studies, despite all the hard work he's put in. So he resorts to his old demon tactics to tackle the challenges that fall upon him and his classmates.

Haha, all right! Well, if the novel is huge, then you definitely need a couple of paragraphs to give readers a taste of what they're getting into.

I don't think your big blurb is that long! It's just that it focuses too much on Suren's internal turmoil, and without knowing who she is, or what her world is, the reader is going to have a hard time relating to her or understanding what the novel's conflict is supposed to be.

Only when I re-read the blurb for a second time on your carrd, did I notice the mad prophet erased from history, which - as a reader who knows nothing about your story - is the most interesting detail at first glance. If you think about it, all protagonists and all worlds are tortured in some way, that's what generates conflict. So in your blurb you have to focus on that one spark in your story that makes it stand out from the usual fare in similar genres.

I'm going to attempt a re-write based on my understanding of your story so far, you are free to use it however you like, or ignore it completely haha:

Sorrowful princess Suren is growing fed up with seeing her people suffer under the old rule.

A dynastic thirst for power has ruined generations of royals, and the realm along with them. Before she loses herself completely, however, Suren makes a terrible discovery: a danger prophesied by a madman erased from history is now all too real.

Suren must find her strength to finish what the mad prophet had started. She must fight for the sake of her people. As she journeys through the Jade Kingdom, gathering allies, the princess realizes she is far from alone in her sorrow. The time has come for change and Suren will see to it that history remembers.

Hope that helps!

It's nice to see what Ruby wants, because that sets it up to conflict with what she actually gets, but for a blurb, I think this could start better with where she is right now. Like..what is her status quo before whatever it is that sets off her journey? Because then when David Marquis comes into the picture, the reader doesn't know which picture that is.

That's a pretty wild finish, haha, but I don't understand very well how it ties in to the rest of Ruby's struggles. So if you could maybe tell me a bit more about the status quo she starts from, I could try to rearrange some stuff around, see if I can clear it all up.

Aww, thank you soo much! :heart_01: That really means a lot :heart_decoration: I'm excited to share it with everyone on August 19th!

Perfect! I was scared a little there since if it's uber shite I have to redo the first chapter. (synopsis is baked into the first chapter)

Backstory indeed. Already planned to be explored.

The final part, no matter how I looked at it I couldn't reveal more because it's heavily tied to the backstory and becomes a huge spoiler. Also the first part is just that. Surviving, meeting people finding a new home, discovering the planet.

Thank you for the patience and the time. This was the first feedback I ever got on synopsis.

Ah, I see! Maybe you can include just that - surviving, meeting people, finding a new home, discovering the planet. This is not immediately obvious in the current set up.

Happy to help! Thanks for dropping by :blush:

No problem~

Ok, so this is all a very interesting slice-of-life mosaic, though I do have to ask - is this for an anthology of school-related stories, or is there one protagonist in particular whose journey we're following? If it's the latter, then we need to see that person and focus on them in the blurb.

Woah okay that's brutal :flushed: Not sure if I would include a headless corpse in the blurb, but to be fair, it does catch the eye :sweat_smile: It makes me wonder, though, what genre do you classify your story as? Unless it's something horror, or mature, I would maybe go for something like:

17-year-old Akilah is traumatized by the gruesome death of her childhood best friend, Adara.

I'm not sure I understand the deceiving part. Do you mean that deceitful people blinded the King? Or do you mean the King deceived people, which blinded him in the end? If you mean the former, I would recommend using deceitful instead of deceiving to avoid confusion.

The repetition here is unnecessary. Life is unfair - those are the first words uttered by Akilah after Adara's burial.

I really like the stakes and conflict here! One small thing, though - I would replace the semicolon with a question mark and make that two separate sentences. So, like: Will the deal work out in Akilah's favor? Will she be able to save Adara from the monsters that killed her or will history repeat itself?

My pleasure! :blush:

Yay, glad I could help! :smiley:

Oooooh I like this a lot, thank you so much! The funny part was, when I first had the blurb talking about the Nightburn prophet, people actually told me THAT blurb was confusing and they couldn't make sense of it. XD But when I suddenly went for my itty-bitty sentence, it was quite something that suddenly I had a influx of subscribers and uh...my big blurbs didn't do that for me. :sweat_smile: But I change that bugger often, so I like seeing what moves people to take a look. :sparkling_heart:

I really appreciate your help, its nice having a native speaker write a correct version haha! I've bookmarked your reply, this will get me forward again. :smile:

My pleasure :heart:

That's interesting! Then definitely go with what works :slight_smile: I try to be as objective as possible, but any suggestion I make will be subjective by default, lol, so I'm definitely not an expert. It may be that the lack of details makes some people wanna see what happens, and turns other people away because they don't know what they're getting into.

Oh, I am not a native speaker >_< but I'm flattered, haha! And your description was (grammatically) correct, what are you talking about?? :blush: Happy I could help!!

Hi, thank you so much for doing this!

If you have some spare time, please have a look at the blurb for Bomeo the Service Cat:

A Master's student picked up a cat blanket on the street. Unbeknownst to its Master, the cat is alive and is always ready to offer its service! Secretly… as it cannot reveal its past!

I'm constantly concerned that "cat blanket" doesn't make sense by itself, but that's the best I can think of to describe it, so I'm leaving the series thumbnail here because readers will see it with the blurb:

It's more like a group of friends but in essence, they are just reflections of us (ordinary people) and our school days. So, while we are focusing on a group and their exploits, the main focus is more on the 'acts' themselves, or rather the school days.

Of course, chapters are also devoted to their normal day-to-day lives which lead to reminiscences. But all of it is based on school-related events.

Oh, no problem! What I meant by the opening sentence was basically... Ruby has already established how she wants her life to play out. As in, having loyal friends who she could turn to, finding a partner to marry with a love as strong as her parents', and getting the dream job she's worked hard for.

Things were going swimmingly, but they start spiralling downhill when David enters her life.

Whether by chance or not, David Marquis' involvement accompanied a deterioration in her love life, caused her friends to fight amongst themselves, and directly made her lose her job.

Presently, she finds herself tied into an odd relationship with the man—one where his parents request for an heir which he refuses to consummate; his reasons guarded by only the most closest friends. Forced to violate her list of moral accountabilities, Ruby resigns to participating in his scheme of trickery, because David refuses to hand the company over to her fiance, Louis, who also happens to be his younger brother, and who stands to be married off in his place.

As the plot progresses, however, Ruby goes from hating everything concerning the savvy individual because she finds him rude, haughty, domineering, etc. To falling in love, despite many contradictions with the life she has already created for herself—and was dead-set on pursuing—which she would eventually return to after their 6-month contract marriage concluded.


I hope this gives you some more information to work with :)) I tried not to spoil too much!

Hmmm I never thought about what specifically made my story unique except that it just reverses a lot of tropes I guess (although that's pretty much a trope on its own lol). I guess I do need to think a bit about my protagonist.

Uptop is basically a guy to forced to play as some kind of hero. The thing is, he was pretty average to begin with, especially compared to the rest of his peers, so he doesn't understand why it always has to be up to him. In fact, the main reason why he has to do it is that everyone else doesn't want to. On top of that, he absolutely can't stand that the princess does nothing to stop this problem that affects her, even though she is fully capable (or though he thinks :smug_01:). So basically, this led to him loathing her and slowly beginning to hate everyone else. In a way, he's pretty much my attempt to make the most anti anti-hero yet (while telling a story about the dangers of hate)