Chat, Am I Cooked?

[JanitorWrites]

Damn! 10 times as much interaction as my novels :)

Who knows you might just make the most famous novel yet.

 

[JanitorWrites]

Your fiction is better suited to RR. I see a clear disparity in engagement between your fiction on RR and SH. You've even received reviews on RR. You should be more grateful. At least you have readers on RR.

It's difficult to balance engagement between these two platforms due to the issue of compatibility. Many fictions on SH or RR get little or no readers, favorites, ratings, or views even after hundreds of pages have been written over months. If your measure is popularity and pursuing monetization, then low engagement can indeed be considered a failure.

However, if you don't pursue external validation and focus on internal validation (such as inner satisfaction), then the measure of your fiction's success is no longer about numbers but about the determination to continue writing until your fictional premise is answered and completed.

I do upload on RR too, just trying this website out

I remember posting a novel similar to what they wanted back in 2020 and they literally wanted to kill me for what I did, they were all very high standard
But now it seems they've changed a lot in these last 5 years, they love nothing but low effort and mass produced slop

That's well....I dont know is that bad or good?

 

[PancakesWitch]

I noticed your novel in RR has a lot of reviews that feel AI generated, then I visited every user that posted these reviews and they also post their own novels that feel weirdly AI generated as well, yours also feel kind of that way in many cases. Is this like a circle of authors that just upload AI generated or heavily AI edited novels and you just circle jerking each other? Like this you're never going to get any traction.
Once I noticed that I couldnt stop noticing it with every one of your reviewers, especially because most of them have made their accounts just one or two months ago and also have AI generated author descriptions...
Wait, they're all Chinese Authors? Huh?

 

[Akkizakura]

I noticed your novel in RR has a lot of reviews that feel AI generated, then I visited every user that posted these reviews and they also post their own novels that feel weirdly AI generated as well, yours also feel kind of that way in many cases. Is this like a circle of authors that just upload AI generated or heavily AI edited novels and you just circle jerking each other? Like this you're never going to get any traction.
Once I noticed that I couldnt stop noticing it with every one of your reviewers, especially because most of them have made their accounts just one or two months ago and also have AI generated author descriptions...
Wait, they're all Chinese Authors? Huh?

Seems like AI-generated/assisted circle is the new meta over there. Remind me of that one time when the trending page is just AI "[Insert Monster Name] Girl Evolution" variants written by different authors from the same circle.

 

[FRWriter]

I do upload on RR too, just trying this website out

That's well....I dont know is that bad or good?

You use two accounts on RR. One "reader account" and another where you upload your story. Then you 5-star exchange reviews with your reader account, using full AI. You probably include words you don't even know the meaning of. The constant bold makes it worse. These Reviews are not helping. Anyone with half a working brain cell immediately abandons ship if they see someone that desperate.

Look, you can do whatever, but as you might have realized, there are barely any organic readers currently checking out your story, despite the fact that you do these tricks. I'd suggest ignoring statistics, "Review swaps," and stop imitating the most toxic aspects of RR.

I know there is a certain game you have to play on RR, but I think it's borderline insane to do that at the very start. Is that even fun?

You also did a shoutout on all chapters. It's certainly valid, and you get a few readers, but doing that at the very beginning makes it clear that you are in only for numbers. Any follower gained that way will most likely not care/support your story as organic readers.

So if you are stuck with 40 followers after 24 chapters, I'd say you are "cooked" if you want to go viral and join the most successful WN authors, a small group of elite writers who spend 70% of their time marketing and socialising, with only 30% left for actual writing. Some of them, of course, succeed all on their own.

As someone who has no shot to even attempt to join them, I'd recommend: FORGET ABOUT IT and focus on realistic and personal goals instead of aiming for the lottery jackpot.

If you just want to write a cool story and maybe build up a small and chill community that might appreciate what you have to add, then you are doing great, and your story seems promising.

Plot-wise, I like your story a lot, but the overuse of AI is a little heavy.

Just write write write write write write. The less you rely on AI, the better.

Also, as someone who started out overrelying a little on AI, much like yourself, I see no clear lines. One could think this is entirely generated, or one could also think it's just slightly edited. Maybe tell the reader for what you use AI.

Your entire summary is, in my amateur opinion, written by AI.

Write a small blurb on your own. If you include AI stuff like:

If he can’t cast a fireball, he’ll engineer a pipe bomb.
If he can’t unlock the door, he’ll edit the wall.
And if the Universe tries to delete him? He’ll rewrite the code.

This is 100% AI slop. You just know this kind of humor instantly. It seems to be witty, but it's just cringeworthy in reality.

Everyone knows what to expect. It's a huge, huge turnoff for me personally.

I'd suggest the following:

1. Forget the damn numbers and focus on your writing. This is not a damn challenge or competition.
2. Stop relying this much on AI. You can see at a first glance that it's mostly created by AI. (Consider using AI simply for editing/correcting mistakes.
3. Choose a new cover with a new font. As someone who uses AI myself, there are cool ways to create a nice font. Your image is not suitable for webnovels.
4. Shorten your blurb and write it yourself.
5. Just have fun!
6. As long as you give it your best, you are doing FINE and are COOKING.
7. If you stress out yourself out and rely on the dirtiest tricks instead, then you are COOKED!

This post might come across as negative, but I feel like you started writing with the wrong goals and wrong assumptions...

 

[PancakesWitch]

Seems like AI-generated/assisted circle is the new meta over there. Remind me of that one time when the trending page is just AI "[Insert Monster Name] Girl Evolution" variants written by different authors from the same circle.

I mean, its fine if they use to translate but these seem clearly generated and barely edited, they really think theyre going to make bank out of it? Westerns readers arent that stupid to pay for slop

 

[FRWriter]

I mean, its fine if they use to translate but these seem clearly generated and barely edited, they really think theyre going to make bank out of it? Westerns readers arent that stupid to pay for slop

To be fair, he is not monetizing his writing, so we can't say he is asking for money.

 

[TSAAP]

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[JanitorWrites]

You use two accounts on RR. One "reader account" and another where you upload your story. Then you 5-star exchange reviews with your reader account, using full AI. You probably include words you don't even know the meaning of. The constant bold makes it worse. These Reviews are not helping. Anyone with half a working brain cell immediately abandons ship if they see someone that desperate.

Look, you can do whatever, but as you might have realized, there are barely any organic readers currently checking out your story, despite the fact that you do these tricks. I'd suggest ignoring statistics, "Review swaps," and stop imitating the most toxic aspects of RR.

I know there is a certain game you have to play on RR, but I think it's borderline insane to do that at the very start. Is that even fun?

You also did a shoutout on all chapters. It's certainly valid, and you get a few readers, but doing that at the very beginning makes it clear that you are in only for numbers. Any follower gained that way will most likely not care/support your story as organic readers.

So if you are stuck with 40 followers after 24 chapters, I'd say you are "cooked" if you want to go viral and join the most successful WN authors, a small group of elite writers who spend 70% of their time marketing and socialising, with only 30% left for actual writing. Some of them, of course, succeed all on their own.

As someone who has no shot to even attempt to join them, I'd recommend: FORGET ABOUT IT and focus on realistic and personal goals instead of aiming for the lottery jackpot.

If you just want to write a cool story and maybe build up a small and chill community that might appreciate what you have to add, then you are doing great, and your story seems promising.

Plot-wise, I like your story a lot, but the overuse of AI is a little heavy.

Just write write write write write write. The less you rely on AI, the better.

Also, as someone who started out overrelying a little on AI, much like yourself, I see no clear lines. One could think this is entirely generated, or one could also think it's just slightly edited. Maybe tell the reader for what you use AI.

Your entire summary is, in my amateur opinion, written by AI.

Write a small blurb on your own. If you include AI stuff like:

If he can’t cast a fireball, he’ll engineer a pipe bomb.
If he can’t unlock the door, he’ll edit the wall.
And if the Universe tries to delete him? He’ll rewrite the code.

This is 100% AI slop. You just know this kind of humor instantly. It seems to be witty, but it's just cringeworthy in reality.

Everyone knows what to expect. It's a huge, huge turnoff for me personally.

I'd suggest the following:

1. Forget the damn numbers and focus on your writing. This is not a damn challenge or competition.
2. Stop relying this much on AI. You can see at a first glance that it's mostly created by AI. (Consider using AI simply for editing/correcting mistakes.
3. Choose a new cover with a new font. As someone who uses AI myself, there are cool ways to create a nice font. Your image is not suitable for webnovels.
4. Shorten your blurb and write it yourself.
5. Just have fun!
6. As long as you give it your best, you are doing FINE and are COOKING.
7. If you stress out yourself out and rely on the dirtiest tricks instead, then you are COOKED!

This post might come across as negative, but I feel like you started writing with the wrong goals and wrong assumptions...

Well, about that I was doing the review swaps long before I knew anything that most swaps were not genuine in anyway, after knowing that, I just did not give a shit about them anymore, However, the story, the characters, and the complex system mechanics are 100% human-made. No clanker can replicate the magic system and the intricate way the magic system interacts with World, the plot twists, and the character dynamics are things a machine just can’t synthesize. The hallucinations are mine, the polish is the machine's. Also I am now taking that blurb shit talking straight to heart here's the updated version as I am shameless, So I will also ask for Your opinion.

Blurb:
Kaelen Vance went into a frozen London server basement looking for a ghost signal. He didn’t find a ghost. He found a one-way ticket out of reality.

Now he’s stranded in a multiverse that wants him dead. He has no mana core, no prophesied destiny, and a health bar that flashes red if he sneezes too hard. According to the "Empyrean Ladder," he is [Tier 1: Hollow]. Trash tier. To the gods and monsters of these high-magic realms, he isn't even a threat, He’s a rounding error.

That’s their mistake.

Because while the mages are chanting for three turns to cast a fireball, Kaelen is calculating terminal velocity.
Dragging along a pacifist rock-golem who hates violence (but loves moss), Kaelen has to survive worlds that run on nightmare logic. He wields the Aureon Astrolabe, a busted interface that doesn't give XP for killing rats – it only levels you up if you survive something traumatic or see something impossible.

Armed with the Aureon Astrolabe—a mysterious interface that turns exploration into power—and a terrifying amount of audacity, Kaelen isn't trying to be the chosen one. He's trying to be the guy who sells the chosen one their gear at a 300% markup.

Kaelen is carving his own path through the stars – one broken rule at a time.

What to expect:

Smart / Witty MC: Problems are solved with logic, physics, and social engineering, not just punching. Expect exploits and dirty tricks.

Unique LitRPG System: No XP grinding on rats. You level up by surviving trauma and witnessing wonders (The Astrolabe).

Magitech & World Hopping: One week he's in a singing bio-luminescent magical forest; the next he's scavenging a dead tech-city inside an asteroid.

Omniversal Mechanics: Mana, Qi, Psionics, Entropy. Every world runs on a different engine, and he’s learning to hotwire them all.