Star Battle is tricky to write - with the only allowable clues being so blunt, it is hard to signal to a solver where you intend them to start solving, especially when the intended logic is more difficult. It is also hard to finish setting the puzzle in a way that the last regions placed, which are often in either a cramped area of the grid with not much space left, or a wide open area of the grid with far too much open space, don't offer an alternative route into the puzzle. A trick I find helpful in that regard is to, after having finished a first draft of the puzzle, experiment with all of the ways that a single cell can be moved from one region to another. By doing this repeatedly, you can usually massage any problematic regions into slightly different shapes that don't bypass your intended solution path.
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Rules
Place stars into some cells such that each row, column, and outlined region contains exactly 2 stars. Stars cannot occupy two cells that touch along an edge or at a corner.
Difficulty: 8/10
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