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Because the publishing is different. Even those webnovels "only" got a "traditional light novel" and their anime after success. What the webnovel is to the light novel, is what the manuscript is to english traditional publishing. Only webnovels filter more through success and the western world...

You can probably multiply that by a bit based on how it was marketed and sold. Even the biggest hits where everyone wants to say their opinion have a factor of 2-10 there. And it gets bigger for more unknown fiction... Though we also don't know, what the author's actual cut is... (a) It's a...

Hmm... no notification, if one is added to a post later, it seems... but anyway. So in short just one author way behind the time of modern publishing? :blob_whistle: I mean, quote him when you want, his stuff is both entertaining to read and has a true core, but it isn't really an authority to...

And used passive voice on the first page of Tom Sawyer. In fact, his books are full of passive voice. Just going through the first third of Tom Sawyer for fun and because it's free out there. 102 passive sentences in his first 23k word. (First 10 chapters). Because the one thing you don't...

Honest question: Who's that? Your link throws me a "site not found" and google just finds him as an erotica author who was (kinda) succesful, a list of pen names gives me no result on amazon (no idea whether those are right or wrong), and that's it. Going by that, he seems to be a half-decent...

I know it is meant to argue against "But XY did it" (which is an important point if one wants to get traditionally published), but this reads more like a plea to stop listening to stuck up their ass major house editors and go self-publishing :blobrofl:

I looked at wattpad once, but all those half-naked man made me feel like I would have no chance over there. Probably as far away from my target audience as I can get...

I think the biggest problem is that: a lot of people fuss so much over grammar and style rules, they forget that they are telling a story. Nothing against people who love to edit their work 30 times to have the perfect prose. But some of them should have read one or two books about story...

It reminds me more of the AAA gaming industry. We have a standard and just throw stuff out in that standard, then someone does something different and it works, so afterwards everyone does that exact same thing and nothing else. Horror games are dead. Indie horror games are successful. Time to...

I mean the biggest question is also, what kind of editor someone is and what his direct task is. That can differ from people who get promising authors, work with them to better their writing, and then publish their writing up to the mass acquisitions of books to fill slots for the major...

Which is fine. Even facial expressions are a form of movement description, so if you have a lot of it, it still can feel overdone. It can even become comically. Or it can take away from the actual focus of the scene. I didn't say "it will". But there is a fine line. "Just use action instead of...

Guilty. I'm a plotter. At least as much as I can with a 300+ chapter story. I plot out the main points of my main story and build arcs, where I once more plot out the main scenes. The in-between is still discovery writing, but at heart I'm a plotter. I knew the first 3. But this one is new to...

I wouldn't call them a fiction in itself. Just because culture or rules changed, doesn't mean, they are fiction. If we go by this, most of the things we consider normal would just be "fiction". If so, I can easily kill you, because once there wasn't a rule against murder... I think the big...

One thing to underline here is that "a lot of native readers won't consciously read the dialogue tags". You should still try and work to use different tags or use actions, but it is better to use "two more tags than needed" compared to "one tag was missing". The most important part is that...

Okay, read through it. Now I see the drama potential :D That said, I also would disagree with two points in some cases. (a) The point about talking heads/not using tags: While I mostly agree with the idea of using actions instead of "he said", there is also one point, where it makes a lot of...

I searched through it. No pedophile, child/ren, underage, rape, harem, sex, or smut-mention. So no drama-potential :blob_teary:

Whenever I read "Person X got invited by webnovel", I just feel sad. I never get those invites from the big scam sites... :blob_teary:

If you know about any actual war crimes that the public doesn't know about (or rather, that isn't available to the public), you wouldn't write a fiction on SH, but articles for amnesty international or different leak sites... And for the fiction that is written here: what's the difference if...

So you are angry with authors not tagging their stories correctly. And your solution is to give a new tag that all other authors have to use so it works. Because if not the majority of non-isekai authors are using it (which most wouldn't simply due to the fact, that they won't even think about...

There is a ton of factual stuff about war crimes from all sides. It's not that it isn't written, people simply don't want to read it. And why would you? People rather go to an amusement park for a date compared to a concentration camp. And the majority of readers (even more so, as the majority...