The more commonplace the setting, the harder it is to write as a novel
The romance SS series "Like a crystal of high-purity love..."(abbreviated as "Pure Love Crystal") and the youth SS series "Fragments of overly blue adolescence"(abbreviated as "Youth Fragments") are daring challenges to "commonplace" settings and stories.
It is an attempt to turn a very ordinary scene of life, one that could happen to anyone, into a "novel" as much as possible.
Personally, I believe that writing a "commonplace" or "ordinary" story is far more difficult than writing an "unusual" or "special" one.
This is because "it is harder to make a novel with a commonplace, ordinary setting 'interesting' than one with a 'special' setting."
For example, if there is a "special" setting, such as the protagonist having special abilities or time travel occurring, that alone can catch the reader's eye and make them think it looks "interesting."
However, if there are no such special settings at all, then what exactly will make the reader think it is "interesting"?
That is where the author's "sense" is required.
Since you cannot attract interest with special settings, you are required to have more charm in your storytelling, writing style, characters, and dialogue.
Conversely, I believe that "if you can write an interesting novel with a commonplace setting, it means that the author has the skill and sense as a writer."
...In other words, I am an "ambitious person" who wants to acquire such "amazing skill and sense as a writer."
(I think this is a skill that any writer, professional or amateur, would want... but I wonder how it really is?)
Of course, because the setting is commonplace, there is also the risk of it ending up as "just a boring novel."
However, I don't think I can improve my abilities without "challenging" myself, even if it means seeking out risks.
If they are "SS" (short stories) or "short stories" where each story is short, the damage will be minimal even if it ends up being a failure.
That is how I started this SS series with a feeling like "training," so to speak...
Having written them, I actually feel that my skills have improved tremendously, and I feel that the readers' reputation is reasonably good as well.
(There are even some SS that have only received perfect scores... ← This might be because the number of readers is not that large to begin with... It is hard to gather people in the pure literature genre...)