I Wrote My Life as an Internet Novel: Heres What I Learned.

Okay, so, picture this: I’m just a regular person, you know, living my life, reading books, the usual stuff. Then, BAM! I wake up one day, and I’m inside an internet novel. No joke. It’s like, one minute I’m in my bed, and the next I’m in this crazy, fictional world.

At first, I was totally freaked out. I mean, who wouldn’t be? But then I started to notice things. There’s this girl, Yeoryung, and she’s like, the most beautiful person I’ve ever seen. And, get this, she’s my best friend. Then there were these four guys in my class—total heartthrobs, every single one of them. It was like I had walked into one of those cheesy romance novels I used to read.

My first thought was to just stay out of the way, be in the background, you know? I didn’t want to mess anything up. But things started happening, and I realized I was becoming a part of the story. It was wild. This novel world has its own rules, its own drama. And I was right in the middle of it all.

Here’s where it got really interesting. I started to read books about writing novels, to try to make sense of my situation. I found this one book, “How Not to Write a Novel”, and it was full of mistakes that authors make. Turns out, I was kind of living through some of those mistakes. It was a weird kind of learning experience, but it helped me understand the world I was in a little better.

I also read some popular novels, just to see how other authors did it. It was like, research, but in the most immersive way possible. I mean, I was living in a novel while reading about them. Talk about meta.

• The Idea

It all started with an idea, a what-if. What if I woke up in a novel? That idea was like a seed, and it grew into this whole crazy experience. I started to think about my life as a story, and that changed everything. This was not just happening to me. I wanted to write. And I wrote.

• Learning to Write

Writing was not easy. It was messy, it was frustrating, but it was also exciting. I learned by doing, by making mistakes, and by trying again. It was like learning a new language, but instead of words, I was learning how to tell a story. I wanted to put my feelings on paper. I wrote day and night. I just wanted to write and write.

• Creating a Writing Habit

The most important thing I learned was to just keep writing. Even when I didn’t feel like it, even when I thought what I was writing was garbage, I kept going. And you know what? It paid off. I got better. My writing improved, and I started to feel like a real writer. I had written for seven years. Not a single day missed.

Being in this novel world was the strangest, most amazing thing that ever happened to me. It taught me so much about myself, about writing, and about life. And even though I eventually woke up back in my own bed, I knew I would never be the same. I’m a writer now. It is in my blood. I will not stop. I cannot stop. And I know I will be a writer for the rest of my life.