unlaumy
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I read the whole thread repeatedly to see who has also said about the total chapter, but it seems it's just me. I'll assume that you're meaning to say this to me.
I must repeat it though, I meant it specifically about promotion, not whether if it was enough to get criticized, judged, etc. Again, because it's just one chapter, most people would just go "what's this?" Some will read it, but few may actually put it into their reading list.
But since you're planning to publish them because of this, and want an opinion after that, I'll tell you mine opinion. But I'll keep it simple and only in whatever you've said in this thread, because again, this isn't the feedback subforum.
I'll tell you a lucky thing: I've actually read 15 chapters (in Qidian Webnovel) of your story because I wondered if you've crossposted it since you said you've already wrote over 15 chapters at the first half of this thread.
First thing first, your whole selling point is supposed to be it isn't like the usual repetitive cultivation stories out there.
I really question it whether you're actually being ironic or earnest. Because from the start to the chapter 15, I've seen, system (it ran away) > old monster (MC) transmigrated into a waste > broken betrothal > raiding a sect > cosplaying as mysterious guy > auction house > ring grandpa > fighting in the middle of an auction > merchant house > suddenly it's actually a novel world. All of these — is the opposite what you've claimed. But, maybe you just mean to say that your MC is unlike others because he isn't weak and pushed here and there every day. If that was the case, then sure, you're not wrong.
I'll return to the promotion/attractiveness point.
In my opinion, your story is in a state of limbo. It's full of references to cliches, which means only veteran cultivation story readers can understand it. But for these veterans, yours don't offer much for them to follow through it. In other hand, your writing style isn't the worst out there, and I can see many (non-veteran) readers, who doesn't have much criteria, would read or even like your story. But because of the stack by stack of cliches' references, they may actually run away because they don't understand anything you're trying to subvert (or parody).
And since this is still in General Chat, I'll tell you some of your good points:
-your writing is consistent. I've seen way too many beginner writers gave up writing in the introduction part. Or worse, they gave up writing itself, letting AI slop do the most of their supposed work.
-practically no expositions or info dumps that many bad writers fall victim to.
-your prose is perfectly acceptable for the xianxia genre. It's obvious that you've read many xianxia/cultivation novels from the way you write.
Good job for these
You can already see that your story attract quite an audience in Qidian Webnovel and a handful of readers in Royalroad (and even here even though you've only published one chapter). It's not the worst thing or even that bad, so keep writing this story if you enjoy it. And please keep my words in mind. Not that I can guarantee that you'll rise as the next big writer if you follow it, but who doesn't like it when someone listen to you?
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