How about a multiple choice thing for the pop-up?
-I don't like the genre
-I don't like the main character
-I don't like your style
-I don't like your grammar
-Baited into reading by tags
-Other
Choose one or more.
I mean if that's like anything typical of web novels in which things happen just because the author wants it to for no other reason, just the rape is enough grounds for dropping since at this point you can pretty much tell what the author is like.
What is WMW?
So the only thing you take from cultivation is the power of cultivation itself, without what you consider baggage, which is the social aspect of xianxia novels?
Anyways, to answer the thread question itself:
I pick a concept I want to write about and create a main character for it...