How arrogant were you when you first came here

[someonesomeguy]

what arrogance. I am god in presence of you mere mortals and plebs . Infact i am so arrogant that anything i right won't be perfect for this mortal realm thus i don't write anything.
If it's not perfect then it won't exist.
sarcasm

 

[BenJepheneT]

It's a different story for me, actually. I HAVE arrogance, though it's more towards my content than my own writing abilities. The ideas I have aren't original, but I understand that they're far and few between within the slew of LitRPG fantasy Lvl.Up stories. And that fuels my enthusiasm to write; to be one of the few out there to write these kind of stuff. In order to BE one of the few, I have to keep writing.

You can say it's a perpetual motion machine. Arrogance/Ego fuels my need to write, and the fact that I've written continues to grow my Arrogance/Ego. In layman terms, I guess I take the Kanye West approach to writing, though on a lesser degree than Ye.

 

[Jemini]

It's a different story for me, actually. I HAVE arrogance, though it's more towards my content than my own writing abilities. The ideas I have aren't original, but I understand that they're far and few between within the slew of LitRPG fantasy Lvl.Up stories. And that fuels my enthusiasm to write; to be one of the few out there to write these kind of stuff. In order to BE one of the few, I have to keep writing.

You can say it's a perpetual motion machine. Arrogance/Ego fuels my need to write, and the fact that I've written continues to grow my Arrogance/Ego. In layman terms, I guess I take the Kanye West approach to writing, though on a lesser degree than Ye.

I can tell you from experience, an original idea really is not enough. Sometimes, the reason the idea hasn't been tried or effectively implemented before is simply because it doesn't work or it has a huge up-hill struggle in order to make it work.

Other times, while it's a good and interesting idea, it will still need some good implementation in order to make it shine. You need to be able to figure out where you can craft the story in a way that it will bring out the concept best.

I have some incredibly original ideas myself, especially in my Key to the Void series. In that one, the MC is not Isekaied by a god/goddess or anything else of the sort (although there is a "goddess" involved.) Rather, the MC learned a special meditative technique that turns out to have dimension-crossing capabilities, and this "goddess" comes to HIM because she wants to escape from Earth and asks him to use this technique. He gets caught up in the process and forced to go with her. (That's clipping out a lot of context, but it's close enough to give the right idea.)

I also base things heavily on an apocryphal view of real world religious lore, especially an alternative take on the battle between Marduk and Tiamat and the world creation myth in the Enuma Elish.

They are not things I have really seen anybody do, but they are also close enough adjacent to things I have seen work that I know there is some promise. Even so, that just means I have some good seeds to plant. I still have to work very hard in order to make it work though, and if I use the wrong fertilizer or I prune something I shouldn't have or I forget to water it, then it can all turn out horrible anyway.

 

[BenJepheneT]

I can tell you from experience, an original idea really is not enough. Sometimes, the reason the idea hasn't been tried or effectively implemented before is simply because it doesn't work or it has a huge up-hill struggle in order to make it work.

This I understand, but I'm not working on unthreaded territory. I've seen similar ideas work before in other works. I just want to do my interpretation on it.

Other times, while it's a good and interesting idea, it will still need some good implementation in order to make it shine. You need to be able to figure out where you can craft the story in a way that it will bring out the concept best.

THIS is what I meant when I wrote my original idea. Like I said, a perpetual motion machine. I'm proud of what I want to do, and that arrogance feeds into my ego to improve, and that improvement can only be done through writing more of the idea. Yes, the work will start off shit, but that's a small price to pay for what I could potentially become ahead of time.

I have some incredibly original ideas myself, especially in my Key to the Void series. In that one, the MC is not Isekaied by a god/goddess or anything else of the sort (although there is a "goddess" involved.) Rather, the MC learned a special meditative technique that turns out to have dimension-crossing capabilities, and this "goddess" comes to HIM because she wants to escape from Earth and asks him to use this technique. He gets caught up in the process and forced to go with her. (That's clipping out a lot of context, but it's close enough to give the right idea.)

Imagine being so based you vibe yourself into another dimension AND cop a goddess along with you. A-fucking-mazing.

They are not things I have really seen anybody do, but they are also close enough adjacent to things I have seen work that I know there is some promise. Even so, that just means I have some good seeds to plant. I still have to work very hard in order to make it work though, and if I use the wrong fertilizer or I prune something I shouldn't have or I forget to water it, then it can all turn out horrible anyway.

Like I said, I have the same idea as you. It's not a completely new territory. It's something I'VE SEEN DONE BEFORE. I'm only switching up some elements incorporated from other mediums. Will it work? Depends on how well I do it. The risk I'm taking is finding out HOW to do that shit whilst writing it.

I'll be rooting for your success as I work on mine. Show the world what you're made of. Go out there and dry your massive fucking balls on the public nude beach.

 

[Jemini]

THIS is what I meant when I wrote my original idea. Like I said, a perpetual motion machine. I'm proud of what I want to do, and that arrogance feeds into my ego to improve, and that improvement can only be done through writing more of the idea. Yes, the work will start off shit, but that's a small price to pay for what I could potentially become ahead of time.

This. Exactly this is exactly the correct attitude to have. Your rate of writing and turning out chapters seems to be pretty good too, aside from the break you had somewhere in the middle there. (Yes, I took a look.) One thing I would like to bring up as a helpful tip though, your chapter length for Caninstinct is longer than the chapter length of the chapters in most published novels.

Webnovel format favors chapter lengths way shorter. Kapal is a lot closer to the correct length. I can tell you from experience reading some of the JP novelist greats, chapter lengths that exceed 5K words start causing people's brains to feel heavy. Webnovel audiences who are used to chapter lengths shorter than 2.5K have a lot less patience for this.

2K - 5K is about the ideal in terms of what readers will accept. For the sake of gaming the algorythm, getting as close as you can to that 2K is best. Readers favor that 2K - 5K range, and the algorithm of almost every novel site out there favors the shortest chapters you can possibly get away with. Well, 2K is exactly the shortest you can get away with without annoying your readers.

(The idea is to write shorter chapters but post more often. If you stay on top of the 2nd part there and you are turning out these 2K chapters at a really steady rate, the readers will likely even appreciate you for having your chapters at exactly that rate. Most of the people who are top webnovel writers on Royal Road will put out five 2K chapters per week. So, even though that's the shortest readers will accept, that overall writing rate is SERIOUSLY no joke. That would be double your writing rate for Caninstinct.)

 

[NotYourTypicalMan]

I'm a trash, I like trash novel/manga, and I write trash. There's no need to be arrogant ^^

so back off you piece of shits.

 

[DarkGodEM]

Its not arrogance when im right

I laughed my ass off with this one. Let's go write NTR!

But seriously now. I'm now writing my 5th webnovel, which also happens to be my 7th romance. The first book I ever wrote was complete trash. I wrote about 70 thousand words on it but it was so cringe I don't even have the word documents anymore. The second one was much better, had a decent plot, but the execution was poor as fuck. I scrapped the whole thing for 6 years before deciding to give it a go and write Darkest Hour based on the lore. Which also didn't go that well. But after Darkest Hour I met lots of people, very successful people, very kind and generous ones, willing to help me go much further and finally create something even remotely viable. World-ruling Dungeon. Which was a turning point for me. I learned so fucking much writing this novel you could say it was like a school for me. My whole writing changed and got better in a matter of mere months. I wrote it from October to December in full swing, which was when I decided to take things a step further and create a novel that was lighter on me and that I didn't have to work as hard while writing. TDH uses very deep mythology and a complicated casting system, Dungeon has status pages and tables and all that bad stuff that I made based on my experience as a D&D GM. It's amazing and very fulfilling to write such rich content... But also a major chore that takes hours and hours to think, put down on paper, balance, and finally execute. Necro was a step further in making something commercial. Something I could just sit and write and write and not even think about the time and, by the end of the day, have two or three chapters ready to publish. And boy did I learn a lot writing this novel. It's a long and rough road to write anything even remotely decent. I knew I wasn't nearly as good as I wanted to be, so I busted my ass studying the plot, creating a whole universe based on real things, tried my fucking hardest... Yet, it didn't work out at all. Which was when I realized I was just trying too hard and it was hurting me. So, instead of trying what I thought was perfection, I just tried my best with what I had, and I'm glad it's been working out for me. Realizing what I was doing wrong while having someone to tell me what I was doing right brought me quite far. Granted, it's not like my writing covering everything in my life, or even remotely near to change my livelihood like some other author in here, but it's allowed me learn the dos and don'ts and maybe start to create something that I'm actually able to live off of.

I'm an English teacher, yet I do have my shortcomings as a non-native speaker. I forget words all the time, but that's a given. I tend to use very archaic terms or use common words with a nonstandard usage that while correct is just dated.

Anyways. Yeah, I'm kinda arrogant. I won't accept criticism unless it's valid and justified, and even then, I'll explain why and how this happened. But I also know I'm not perfect, and am willing to improve.
Also, I'm a piece of shit with shitty health and a shitty keyboard who has all the things ending in -itis so...
If you like what I write be prepared for random days off and a lot of "Where's today's chapter?!"

 

[Nymus]

Idk, I´m fairly new here, writing my first story ever. And we Germans are generally recognized as arrogant.

Pretty much? But I think we don´t care.

Personally, I think all authors are in fact all perverted masochists. We all write our fingers sore in the tiny hope that some reader out there might praise us for it. And as soon as they yell at us to write more and faster, we build in cliffhangers so they yell at us more.


EDIT: Ahhhh - sry, I forgot: I´ll tell you, you are not alone.

 

[Nymus]

Its not arrogance when im right

correct. where can i join up?

 

[CupcakeNinja]

shitty keyboard

I felt this where i live. My computer these days is ass. I miss my chromebook. That fucker was FAST. Had all these neat shortcuts i could use the built in mousepad for. Now i have a shitty ass early 2000s laptop thats slow as fuck, freezes a lot tryna run Google docs, and is just not as convenient. So thats another reason i dont even feel like writing most days now

If you like what I write be prepared for random days off and a lot of "Where's today's chapter?!"

Lol. "Today's chapter" my readers WISH they could ask that. For me its more like, "oi, cunt, where's this month's chapter at?" Smh.

I find i cant plan for shit. Im good at making backstories for my characters, but thats it. And hell, the majority of those backstories and how axturlall3intricate they are usually dont even get revealed so it ends up wasted and only i know about it. As far as plot in concerned, i make a general outline and wing it. Usually turns out well. Just thst it adds to my many excuses for being a lazy cunt.

correct. where can i join up?

All you have to do is, like me, be a being who's skill and charm dwarf that of god himself. Its a very exclusive club, currently only myself have been deemed worthy of being a member. But if you could stand beside the glory of heaven and leave it looking pale in comparison, then you, too, can join.

 

[DarkGodEM]

I felt this where i live. My computer these days is ass. I miss my chromebook. That fucker was FAST. Had all these neat shortcuts i could use the built in mousepad for. Now i have a shitty ass early 2000s laptop thats slow as fuck, freezes a lot tryna run Google docs, and is just not as convenient. So thats another reason i dont even feel like writing most days now

My computer is actually very much decent, it's a Mid End 2018 powerhouse. But keyboards......

A good mechanical where I live costs 200 hours of minimum wage work! ( Yes, me make less than a dollar per hour), so I stick to shity nobrand ones that are plaged.... My writing keyboard, a Motospeed Ck104, is doubleclicking on so many keys it's funny, while the one I'm using rn is as inconsistent as it gets and feels like shit to use.

Lol. "Today's chapter" my readers WISH they could ask that. For me its more like, "oi, cunt, where's this month's chapter at?" Smh.

If you check my profile you will see I have 2 novels without updates since December 15th and January 8th. I can trade blows with you pretty nicely

 

[AliceShiki]

Ah... I wasn't arrogant, really. I mean... I had written quite a bit for Roleplays before, so I knew I wasn't an absolute garbage of a writer, but... I also tried writing for NaNoWriMo before, and failed miserably at it.

So like... By the time Scribbly became a thing, I had enough experience to understand I was at best an okayish writer...

It helps that I was old enough to be mature and conscious of my own skill as well.

 

[High-in-the-skys]

I basically start as the most arrogant and worst person I can be.

Usually it's hard to know when your pride starts getting into your head so my solution is simple, become the worst person I can be on my first time. In which I basically do something the lines of first dip in cold water...

This coincides with the motto I know, "Everyone starts as a newbie", so I do this to know how worst can I be as a noob as well as destroy my arrogance.

If you can see my first novel and thread, they're intentionally horrible. This also serves as a way to know how people react to my worst. Knowing that my stuff is (surprisingly) not "judged that much", I became comfortable here...

 

[CadmarLegend]

Well, on August 2019, I saw a dream, and that was such an amazing one, I wanted to write it. So, I wrote about it on word and when it was completed, I posted it here chapter by chapter.
I was so arrogant that I didn't even write a synopsis. I just wrote that it is written by me and that it's not for kids. And, well. I was really expecting people to get intimidated by my confidence like they show in movies. The dream of making millions was almost within my reach, till I decided one day to read my work and got cringed so hard I deleted the hell out of it. I still want to write it but romance is more difficult than I thought.
And, well, please tell me I am not alone...

You are not alone.






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Everything I said is just a lie, and am just following what you wanted me to tell you......



Personally, I've read too many novels, and I've gotta say, their plots are much better than mine.... jajajajajajaja......

 

[bigbear51]

People who complain about 1-star ratings are arrogant.

 

[Agentt]

People who complain about 1-star ratings are arrogant.

I won't call them arrogant. Just confused, maybe? It is an unnecessary record which will stain your average for ever and ever. For a first timer who doesn't know about trolls, its forgivable
Also, I love your Tutoring the spoiled

 

[bigbear51]

I won't call them arrogant. Just confused, maybe? It is an unnecessary record which will stain your average for ever and ever. For a first timer who doesn't know about trolls, its forgivable
Also, I love your Tutoring the spoiled

I don't agree with that thought process. One because rating something that low is not unnecessary and two because people just go out and call them trolls. Authors here are beyond soft.

 

[Agentt]

I don't agree with that thought process. One because rating something that low is not unnecessary and two because people just go out and call them trolls. Authors here are beyond soft.

To each their own I suppose.

 

[gaylolis]

i think i cursed every bastard who randomly 1* my story for no reason, and I still cursed them even now.

maybe i should start again by cursing their parents and ancestors as well.

i think i'm pretty low-key since i don't wipe out their sect and their entire family if they offend me, but when my cultivation is high enough, who knows.

 

[Agentt]

i think i cursed every bastard who randomly 1* my story for no reason, and I still cursed them even now.

maybe i should start again by cursing their parents and ancestors as well.

i think i'm pretty low-key since i don't wipe out their sect and their entire family if they offend me, but when my cultivation is high enough, who knows.

Looking at your profile name, I don't even want to know how you increase your level.
I often curse the very single celled organism which evolved to give rise to that bloodline.