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  1. Ace_Arriande

    Do you finish your novels, then post each chapters weekly? Or do you immediately post whenever you finish a chapter?

    It depends on how long your chapters are. 1k - 1.5k word chapters? Daily releases are best. 3k - 15k word chapters? Weekly releases are perfectly fine. 15k+ word chapters? Heck, you can get away with monthly releases at this point. What I do is write the first 30 or so chapters to be around 1k...
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    I've been wondering...

    If it weren't for checking out the competition, I never would have become successful or even knew that web serials were a valid way of making money. As ashamed as I am for this since I've moved away from this kind of mindset, back when I first discovered web serials, I was thinking, "Wait...
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    Which stories can be classified in the 'Mature', 'Adult', and 'Smut' genres?

    By my standards, Smut & Adult are repetitive, both include a significant amount of sex or extremely close-to-sex fanservice / ecchi moments. Basically choose whichever one you like, or both, and go with it. If I had to try and differentiate between them, I would say that "adult" might be more...
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    Please add "Anti-Villain protagonist and Retired Villain Protagonist" tags

    That or, alternatively, they're a genuinely good person who just has goals that could be interpreted as evil. Though, one could argue that an anti-villain is basically just a well-written villain who isn't stereotypically evil.
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    The Various Ways to Handle Trigger Warnings...

    Personally, I would put it in the bottom of the synopsis or put it in a spoiler-tagged author's note at the top of the first chapter of the series. Also, props for considering this at all. Most people wouldn't. I'm admittedly lazy when it comes to it as well.
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    Please add "Anti-Villain protagonist and Retired Villain Protagonist" tags

    Anti-heroes are dickbags who are ultimately good. Anti-villains are good people who are ultimately evil. The TV Tropes link above perfectly explains it. "Anti-Villain is an attempt to lighten up a villain as opposed to an Anti-Hero, which has a tendency to darken the hero. " Personally, I don't...
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    Posting your Novel in Qidian Webnovels. Why and Why Not?

    Dang, there're a bunch of posts in defense of WN here. That... was unexpected to see, to say the least. Anyways, here are my reasons not to and to stay as far away from them as you can: Reporting for duty. :blob_paint: 1. First and foremost, they refuse to delete your stories if you ever...
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    Writing How would readers take it if one of the MC's harem members is a non-virgin?

    By casually imply, I mean more "mention it but don't put up a giant bulletin board of expositional info stating what should be extremely obvious if you know how to read and understand context." You know, like a girl casually complaining about something that one of her ex's did and not bring any...
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    Writing How would readers take it if one of the MC's harem members is a non-virgin?

    A lot of people saying that as long as it's for a Western audience, people won't care, but there is a good portion of them who absolutely do. Even if you're writing a wholesome, fluffy story where it's just casually implied that one of the girls used to have a boyfriend, and thus imply that...
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    Help with Commission Issues

    Both sides do have protection. The purchaser has the protection of being able to very easily get a refund thanks to PayPal's buyer protection or the refund guarantees of the various commission websites. The artist, though, has no protection aside from charging upfront. There is no "seller...
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    Help with Commission Issues

    You can find much cheaper covers on things like Fiverr, but those are usually people editing stock images and throwing some text over them. When it comes to something that somebody has to design, draw, and color from scratch, then it gets significantly more expensive pretty fast. Then you throw...
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    Help with Commission Issues

    1. There is not a single thing even slightly suspicious nor "brave" about paying upfront for art. The vast, vast majority of artists who have even a slight idea of what they are doing are going to charge you upfront if they don't know who you are. Even if they do have reason to trust you...
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    Anniversary Competition Result + Future Competitions

    Congrats to those who made it through to the end of the contest, and good job to those who still tried at all! Trying at all is always something to be proud of regardless of the result. And as long as the coronavirus doesn't kill all my patrons or me, I'll always be willing to sponsor some...
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    Writing What kind of cover make you click.

    cute anime girls lewd anime girls And... yeah. That's about the only two things that'll get me to actually be interested in something. However, if I see a professional-looking cover, I'll check out the author just to see if they're already published or something elsewhere out of curiosity.
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    Why do Most Readers Not Comment?

    "Why do most readers not comment?" Because this is the internet and at least 90% of people are lurkers. Whether you look at Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, whatever, things are always going to have more views and likes and whatnot than they have comments. That's... kinda just how...
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