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The above poster is right. Tropes are tropes because people like them, that's why they've stuck around so long. Don't fall into the originality trap and think that anything that follows standard tropes somehow bad. Tropes are neither good nor bad, they are just things that pop up more than once...

A "synopsis" is a summarized version of your whole story, including the end. What you're talking about is called a "blurb" or "book blurb"- it's the advertising description that sells your book to the readers. You find it on the back of printed books, or as the description on Amazon. As for how...

You can find a big collection of story plots, formulas, writing tips, and other things at http://robynpaterson.com/story-plottingformulas/

I don't really think you can say there is an "average growth rate" and "average retention rate" for webnovels because each book is different. If there is any pattern, it will probably follow The Pareto Principle like most ebook publishing does- 20% of the stories will get 80% of the attention...

It varies, of course, but most webnovel chapters seem to run around 2000-3000 words per chapter. There really isn't a target number for "books/volumes" exactly, but if you wanted to write your own in English you'd probably want to try to make each major story arc between 80,000 and 120,000 words...

Ha! :s_smile: I can only wish my school would pay for this as a research project! No, this was totally done on my own time and dime. I teach at a college in Canada, so we focus on education, not research.

Not at all. Different people writing different things well, and not everyone can write short or write long either. Not being able to do writing prompts just makes you your own kind of writer. :-)

Hi All! My name is Rob Paterson, and I'm the author of the book How to Write Light Novels and Webnovels. In my day job, I'm a college instructor who teaches Communications, Media Studies and Script-writing, and since I love Asian fiction I decided to spend a couple years writing a book about...

Scaffold it. By which I mean, tell readers what they need to know when they need to know it in small bits. Just don't tell them more than they need to know at that point in the story and be concise. Readers will happily read background information, just so long as it's connected with characters...