You won't be successful, and here is why:

[Corty]

Yeah, I said it. You won't be successful. Why? Because:

• You only have a theme in mind and not a story.
  • Imagining a cool setting or power for a character is barely 5% of what makes a story a story. If you think that's enough, just stop and keep daydreaming, spare the readers from uploading another 1-chapter abandoned nothingbörger.
• You don't have the discipline.
  • Uploading randomly, once a week, once a month, etc, and expecting results is laughable. If you are not ready to grind it every day, don't even dream about it.
• You lack conviction.
  • The first negative comment, review, etc., will send you to ragequit or straight into depression. You lack the self-confidence to either learn from them or ignore the trolls and keep pushing. Instead, you will delete your account.
• You lack the correct amount of stubbornness and/or patience.
  • The lack of feedback, views, and the feeling of writing for only yourself will kill your mojo and make you give up.
• You lack either the proper creativity or foresight to plan ahead.
  • You may start out well. You may even get readers. You may even post a handful of chapters. But then you realize you are the guy/gal from the first point in this list. You had a good idea... but nothing more. You lack the meat of the story, and now that you are deep, the currents are sweeping you away. You never planned what you would do after a certain point because you never imagined you would get there.
• You can't see things through.
  • You abandon your books when you reach the previous point because you have a new, flashy idea. Because you are still the one from the first point. So you start the cycle over. A year later, you have five unfinished books, and nobody is bothering with your sixth because you failed to finish even ONE.
• You want money.
  • You think this will be easy. You can write a million words, and if not, AI will do it for you. Then you think people will run to subscribe to your patreon. You think it doesn't require actual work; it is just writing your cool, flashy, anime-like ideas down using words. Yeah, no. Those who can live off of it are the exception—90% of writers never even make it to having a patreon subscriber besides their moms.
• You ask for tips and tricks, help, and first-chapter reviews, but you don't listen.
  • You can't even understand the advice you are being given. Even if you get the feedback you wanted, you think you will be patted on the head and caressed, telling you how good your story is. Most of you never implement the feedback and never change. Most of you give up anyway and never reach the part where you start improving.
• You lack the talent.
  • It is what it is. Everything needs a certain degree of actual talent. Some have it, some don't. Some think they have it... and they may even bruteforce it. But that's rare to work out.
• And lastly, you never gained reading comprehension skills.
  • You are probably already angry about this thread. Angry at me. Angry at the truth.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I am just being mean.

Maybe it's Maybelline.

 

[Empress_Omnii]

You're wrong. I won't be successful, not for these reasons, but because I don't write.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

 

[Snake99]

Corty is giving us a slap of reality.

 

[Corty]

Corty is giving us a slap of reality.

I am in my villain arc at the moment.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Corty is giving us a slap of reality.

It is very much needed.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

I think anyone who wants to start a web novel will have a much better experience if they resolve themselves upfront that they likely won’t ever make any money from it.

 

[georgelee5786]

I'm gonna go huff brake cleaner

 

[Tempokai]

Cool. Back to the night shift.

 

[RepresentingAnti-Representings]

I'm just starting as a writer. At least wait until my third incomplete book to tell me those spoilers.

Now the surprise and misery are ruined ?

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Corty, you don't have to be so hard on yourself.
It's just you being you.

 

[Corty]

Corty, you don't have to be so hard on yourself.
It's just you being you.

It's me without my morning coffee.

 

[Carrigan2121]

just put the fries in the bag

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

This should be a checklist.

Yeah, I said it. You won't be successful. Why? Because:

• You only have a theme in mind and not a story.
  • Imagining a cool setting or power for a character is barely 5% of what makes a story a story. If you think that's enough, just stop and keep daydreaming, spare the readers from uploading another 1-chapter abandoned nothingbörger.

• You don't have the discipline.
  • Uploading randomly, once a week, once a month, etc, and expecting results is laughable. If you are not ready to grind it every day, don't even dream about it.

• You lack conviction.
  • The first negative comment, review, etc., will send you to ragequit or straight into depression. You lack the self-confidence to either learn from them or ignore the trolls and keep pushing. Instead, you will delete your account.

Before, yes. After certain years, I learned to stop caring about feedbacks, though it also came back to affect my writing.

• You lack the correct amount of stubbornness and/or patience.
  • The lack of feedback, views, and the feeling of writing for only yourself will kill your mojo and make you give up.

Got lots of this.

• You lack either the proper creativity or foresight to plan ahead.
  • You may start out well. You may even get readers. You may even post a handful of chapters. But then you realize you are the guy/gal from the first point in this list. You had a good idea... but nothing more. You lack the meat of the story, and now that you are deep, the currents are sweeping you away. You never planned what you would do after a certain point because you never imagined you would get there.

I planned ahead before writing the entire story down.

• You can't see things through.
  • You abandon your books when you reach the previous point because you have a new, flashy idea. Because you are still the one from the first point. So you start the cycle over. A year later, you have five unfinished books, and nobody is bothering with your sixth because you failed to finish even ONE.

Tried to be consistent and stick to one work.

• You want money.
  • You think this will be easy. You can write a million words, and if not, AI will do it for you. Then you think people will run to subscribe to your patreon. You think it doesn't require actual work; it is just writing your cool, flashy, anime-like ideas down using words. Yeah, no. Those who can live off of it are the exception—90% of writers never even make it to having a patreon subscriber besides their moms.

Before, it doesn't affect me. However, when my family broke down and the responsibility of keeping what remained fell to me, money became necessary.

• You ask for tips and tricks, help, and first-chapter reviews, but you don't listen.
  • You can't even understand the advice you are being given. Even if you get the feedback you wanted, you think you will be patted on the head and caressed, telling you how good your story is. Most of you never implement the feedback and never change. Most of you give up anyway and never reach the part where you start improving.

Well, to be clear, I did have beta-readers before, which eventually disappeared one-by-one that I was left to fend for my own stuff. I have no gall of submitting my works to harsh critics, so I tried to improve on my own, looking for self-help stuff online.

• You lack the talent.
  • It is what it is. Everything needs a certain degree of actual talent. Some have it, some don't. Some think they have it... and they may even bruteforce it. But that's rare to work out.

Yep, and I tried to bruteforce this one. This, combined with my stubbornness, soon caught up to me that it eventually blew to my face that I didn't grow at all.

• And lastly, you never gained reading comprehension skills.
  • You are probably already angry about this thread. Angry at me. Angry at the truth.

Nope. I'm at fault here; no one's to blame by myself.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I am just being mean.

Maybe it's Maybelline.

I prefer Avon cosmetics because it's the one I often see in my co-teachers' selling pages.

 

[ShrimpShady]

Boooring.

Here's the truth.

You will be successful. You WILL be a krillionaire author, winning the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer, EVEN if you don't live in the US. People WILL make religions out of your goblin sextoy litRPG. I've trained hundreds of wannabe writers, and do you know what they all shared in common? Yes, chronic back pain, but also a LACK of DRIVE. FUCK THEM. THEY SHOULD DIE. But you, you're different because you're smart enough to listen to my sage advice. Based on my extensive personal professional experience, I've set up a comprehensive Kickass Writing Course™ to help you achieve your webnovel wet dreams, from planning all the way to social media management.

For JUST $89.99, you too can join MILLIONS on a life-changing journey to-

 

[Corty]

Boooring.

Here's the truth.

You will be successful. You WILL be a krillionaire author, winning the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer, EVEN if you don't live in the US. People WILL make religions out of your goblin sextoy litRPG. I've trained hundreds of wannabe writers, and do you know what they all shared in common? Yes, chronic back pain, but also a LACK of DRIVE. FUCK THEM. THEY SHOULD DIE. But you, you're different because you're smart enough to listen to my sage advice. Based on my extensive personal professional experience, I've set up a comprehensive Kickass Writing Course™ to help you achieve your webnovel wet dreams, from planning all the way to social media management.

For JUST $89.99, you too can join MILLIONS on a life-changing journey to-

You read my sigma thread? See guys? He understands.

 

[Rookieqw]

I am uploading regularly and have the story planned ahead and how it will affect my overall setting. When people said that my prologue was confusing, I rewrote it, and, yeah, it is better. I never lash out at the critique and try to learn how not to over-describe stuff... But hardly anyone read my story. A year's work, 556,134 words written, edited, and rewritten, and I got no traction. The same result as with my previous stories.

It is silly to blame anyone but myself, because I am lonely, and my dream was to create a setting and gain fans. Money was never a factor; I wanted people to discuss my story and characters. Earning comments, earning fan arts, that selfish stuff. I thought that if Empress Theresa had gained a huge following, and if people who scam their fans still have fans, then with my honest and hard work, I could fit in too.

But so far it hasn't worked out. My intelligence is low and I have no talent. I guess the world is punishing me for something, or I have bad karma for what I did in past lives, if that is a thing. If there is any mercy in the world, my natural lifespan won't be long, because it sucks having no one to talk to.

 

[ShrimpShady]

You read my sigma thread? See guys? He understands.

Not even. I simply astral projected to peer into your location as you wrote the thread. This is covered in part 3 of my comprehensive Kickass Writing Course™ on utilizing esoteric knowledge to achieve desirable outcomes. Available for $109.99 today. I'll even throw in an extra PDF booklet full of AI-generated monster women in various states of undress to get the juices pumping so you can get to work on that precious LitRPG.

 

[Corty]

I am uploading regularly and have the story planned ahead and how it will affect my overall setting. When people said that my prologue was confusing, I rewrote it, and, yeah, it is better. I never lash out at the critique and try to learn how not to over-describe stuff... But hardly anyone read my story. A year's work, 556,134 words written, edited, and rewritten, and I got no traction. The same result as with my previous stories.

It is silly to blame anyone but myself, because I am lonely, and my dream was to create a setting and gain fans. Money was never a factor; I wanted people to discuss my story and characters. Earning comments, earning fan arts, that selfish stuff. I thought that if Empress Theresa had gained a huge following, and if people who scam their fans still have fans, then with my honest and hard work, I could fit in too.

But so far it hasn't worked out. My intelligence is low and I have no talent. I guess the world is punishing me for something, or I have bad karma for what I did in past lives, if that is a thing. If there is any mercy in the world, my natural lifespan won't be long, because it sucks having no one to talk to.

Finish it. And don't stop. Getting noticed also needs luck. I have more unread books than popular ones. When you finish, even if few read it, you will still gain the experience that you will need in the future. It may not work out now. But, it can be a help to build your next or third book that may get popular. You never really know.

 

[TASTYLEADPAINT]

You don't have the discipline.

• Uploading randomly, once a week, once a month, etc, and expecting results is laughable. If you are not ready to grind it every day, don't even dream about it.

Idk man it worked for me