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I have four ongoing series. Is it a good idea in terms of productivity? Nope. I have work and other commitments, and cycling to 4 series to update them is insane. It's also difficult to get into the "flow" when switching from one project to the next, compared to churning out chapters in just one...

Not sure if it's already been said, I'm just going to add equating your story with your self-worth.

You really can't expect this for web novel readers. My stories are slow burn that take shape over time, so I'm well aware of this challenge. On the internet, everything is fast. If readers don't like the first few paragraphs, then they can click away and read the thousands of other available...

You can report it on Amazon. I have no idea how to do it, I just know it can be done. I have an abandoned story years back that was stolen (I was already on hiatus then). Some loyal readers reported it to have it taken down.

To make people post more. Just see the many threads of authors here saying they repeatedly check their stats. It's like those dating sites with women bots to hide the fact that it's like 99% guys there actually. Webnovel doesn't have that heavy a traffic like they pretend. Plus, it's the...

You can try not visiting the dashboards of your fics. That's what I did on both RR and SH. Instead, I saved the chapter list page, as well as the add chapter page. I have no idea of how many followers I have for around three months already. It's going well so far, and it made me detach from...

To get comments, you need two things. The first is a lot of readers. The second is having a percentage of those readers comment on it. As for the first thing, Webnovel inflates their viewcount. The way things go on Webnovel, it is next to impossible for a non-contract story to be stumbled upon...

Instead of making something for the masses, make it your goal that the masses (or at least some people) will get a liking to your work. At least that's how I operate. Would I have a lot more success if I wrote to the masses? Yep. But I won't be happy that way. I have an actual job I sell my soul...

Probably depends on what you want to get out of this. If money/business, then need a schedule, write to the market and all that. If it's personal, then don't burn yourself out with a schedule.

I started writing on RR around 2015 and have been reading web fiction even earlier than that. I have in my memory things I don't want to be lost through time. :blob_hide: I was there when The Group was around RR and shaped it into the elitist place it eventually became. I was there before LitRPG...

I think that the stripping to the barebones thing is to capture what makes web novels very sellable. The underdog story, becoming OP MC, and the catharsis of getting one up on the bullies. Essentially, wish fulfillment. The nine points you outlined basically are about that. All other matters are...

Probably not as a web novel (I'm just using that term for stuff on SH, RR, and the likes, even though technically it's much wider). Web novels are mostly for self-insert wish fulfillment, hence the revenge trope is very popular for the catharsis of the readers. It'll go against the reader...

I also do it with just text because I sometimes return to edit stuff. Hmmm, maybe I should add pdfs too.

This. It's not just there's not enough time to write. There is time. Just that after work and other real-life stuff, I also don't have the energy to write in my free time. Still, I just trudge along because the only one who can write my story is me.

The only fanfic I've written is a fanfic of my own work lol (probably shouldn't count as fanfic). But yeah, what the others said about there already being an established world so it's easier.

Most manga artists went to school for it, or apprenticed, usually both. Then afterwards, they keep on drawing, living in dormitories for artists and so on. They're essentially living art, that's why they improve so fast even if they're young. My guess is that most of their learnings are in...

Yeah, this is the problem.

I'm assuming this is a rewrite because you've grown as a writer and want to improve your past writing? In your case, it might be better to rewrite because you only have 24 readers. It's like starting fresh, another chance to get seen on the front page.

I think your only problem here is the tagging. When people search for GL tag, they want to read a GL story, not that there'd be GL in the end. It's like people looking for a dessert won't order a ten-course meal for the dessert at the end. They just want the dessert. Tagging is a delicate thing...

I've experienced this many times across several of my works. It's not that a trend has bled into other genres, rather that it's a (probably) necessary evil in webnovel writing as a whole that became the norm, not exactly for the good. Let's say a plot point happens in chapter 10, more clues...