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Cover and title are good at catching the eye. They get me to check out the book, but nothing beyond that. What makes me read it, is the synopsis in combination with tags. If I see the synopsis is... lazy, poorly written, it reliably turns me away, as when you can be bothered to even polish...

Define "fun". If by fun, we mean the gratification from our accomplishments, or the emotions it makes us feel, both positive and negative, or simply just the engagement, then yes, they need to be fun *to be successful*. On the other hand, games can also be considered a form of art. Yes, you can...

You're German, you make new words by stringing together the full description.

Personally I lean towards fantasy, sci-fi, or crime/detective genres. Try Hercule Poirot. If that is not powered behind logic and laws, I don't know what is. I can also offer The Eagle's Flight, but while that is a low fantasy, the world is mostly mundane. There are only a few points when magic...

What about some Choya salad?

Absolutely lemon. Heresy! :blob_paint::blob_paint::blob_paint:

Pretty much, the average of SH's 5-star rating is actually above 4.5 I think :blob_teehee:

Specifically on SH, and coming back to my previous comment, I was actually curious and checked the practical distribution of novels by their rating on this site (through Series Finder, with no conditions set and sorted by ratings). The results? 60% of all novels here have full 5 star rating...

I see 5/10 as average, but if you take SH ratings as an example of how it actually works, 4/5 is already failing in practice, so there's that...

To be fair, this part of a novel is probably at least partially about marketting as well, not just writing skills.

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Next to your cover and title, it's the first thing people will see of your novel. It is meant to sell the the novel to the potential reader. If it fails to catch our attention, chances are high we will not read it. If it's half-assed or outright missing, if the...

I looked it up, and there are actually five parts, 7+ hours in total, just talking about the issues of the book... The wiki gave me some idea of what the to expect, but seeing just some of the review really drives it home.

Damn, I have never heard about this man before and I certainly did not expect to go down this rabbit hole today, but... I'm kind of impressed.

I suppose that depends on your target audience. Full sentence titles evoke the legacy of Japanese/Asian authors, attracting the respective reader base with certain expectations for the content, and I suppose those works and readers make up a significant portion of SH, but if your work does not...

You have run into the biggest drawback of short chapters for a reader (in my opinion). You can't fit enough into them to make them worth reading.

As a reader, I have seen plenty of authors accept donations through Patreon, and supported some of them. But I only do so, if I see the author updating regularly. It is grating if you see an author who has not released a chapter for months, but still accepts donations. I believe Patreon has the...

I'll answer your question with a question. Where is the problem in that, for you personally? Assuming she does write h-novels, there is a lot of social stigma around it and so an understandable reluctance to share from her part, but since she does not post under her real name, as long as you...

I do not have an absolute checklist, my rating can be influenced by my personal enjoyment, accuracy of tags might take a star down (outright missing tags/content warnings, or tags with nothing to show for them for a long time) and I also noticed I might be more generous with short stories, but...

As a reader, I say there is a reasonable limit to what lengths you can go with this. A ballance of sorts to strike with convenience. And in my opinion, trying to purge words because their origin language does not exist in that world is beyond that line, because by that point you have to...

Wait, Drow and Dark Elves are different?