It really depends on what other tags are included with the GL tag. Smutfics are at times rather out there at times as an author lets their creativity go wild. Erotica tends to be a bit more realistic but still fanciful in their portrayal. If you want easy reading, with heartwarming interactions...
When I started out I was posting ~1k-1.5k daily and that drummed up a lot of readers for me as it was a daily posting. However, as a hobby writer I find that a weekly 2k upload seems to be a sweet spot for a lot of novels, my own included, even more so if you write multiple at once.
I am a SOL...
Living characters. A good author breathes life into their characters and you can feel the story warp around them. A story can have a fantastic world with hand drawn maps and beautiful vistas, but a bland character will kill the story.
Build up to a proper climax. A good story is one that will...
I personally went with a Xuanhuan style cultivation for my novel that only plays a minor part. I try to follow the KISS theory on my power system.
Here is how I break it down:
1. Cultivation Stages are little more than power indicators.
-Plan out how many overall levels of power you want
2...
Those are always hard to find! A few examples I can thing of that I have read are Stray Cat Strut, There is Something Wrong with this Game, A Transmigrators Privilege, Athena in Tower Defense Game!