Writers, why do you delete your books?

[Nexus_English]

The disappointment is unreal.

 

[Graceful_Ghost]

Cringe peaks,
I cease to exist.

- me, who made a new account to run away.

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

The disappointment is unreal.

Shame in my inability as a writer.

 

[RepresentingPride]

Maybe because they get harassed? Either for update or cause their stories "suck".

 

[Representing_Tromba]

From what I've noticed and learned is that,

• Some authors aren't happy with their own writing so they'll take it down until they can rewrite it.
• Some authors just give up on writing so they delete any evidence of their work
• Some authors publish their works so they delete it to avoid legal issues.
• Some authors keep getting harassed.
• Some authors just hate the fanbase that they've created.
• And/or some authors don't like the site they're on so they move and delete the work they had on the site.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

Shame in my inability as a writer.

Author. Not writer.

 

[Redadam04]

Here's my reason below as of follows:

1. I don't get a lot of support from readers. So we migrate our work to other sites.
2. I lost my passion.
3. I am just being lazy.
4. No likes, no comments, no exposure, so why should I continue it?
5. I receive a harsh message because some paragraphs seems hit the nail of their beliefs. For example, they criticized my Mc for being sexist, but it is part of his character growth.
6. Writer's block. ?

 

[Nexus_English]

Here's my reason below as of follows:

1. I don't get a lot of support from readers. So we migrate our work to other sites.
2. I lost my passion.
3. I am just being lazy.
4. No likes, no comments, no exposure, so why should I continue it?
5. I receive a harsh message because some paragraphs seems hit the nail of their beliefs. For example, they criticized my Mc for being sexist, but it is part of his character growth.
6. Writer's block. ?

Your picture is so cool that it inspired me to make this. Yes, the arm is weird (this is only the first attempt).

 

[Redadam04]

Your picture is so cool that it inspired me to make this. Yes, the arm is weird (this is only the first attempt).

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Much obliged, sire.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

They're planning on running for political officer and don't want the press learning of their +18 GB GL Isekai adventure novel.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I forgot to add that some authors will remove the stories they have on hiatus until people forget about it(2-3 years), finish it, and then repost it everywhere so that they can ride the success of a now completed and consistently posted story.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

The disappointment is unreal.

Once I realize the futility of posting on a site, I delete it. What do I mean by that? Well, if my work is hated, why should I continue posting there?

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Once I realize the futility of posting on a site, I delete it. What do I mean by that? Well, if my work is hated, why should I continue posting there?

I don't hate it. In fact, I really enjoy your writing. Though I can understand that readers here might not like it.

 

[J_Chemist]

I'm honestly tempted every so often to tear it all down and just call it quits. I have many reasons, but the biggest is just my natural lack of faith in myself and my writing ability. I feel like my novel is pretty terrible. Like, horrible, and how people like it so much I cannot grasp. And it's gotten to me a few times.

 

[Deleted member 146224]

They're planning on running for political officer and don't want the press learning of their +18 GB GL Isekai adventure novel.

I read this as +18Gb of GL Isekai adventure and was wondering if there's something wrong with having over 18 gigs of GL isekai on a computer

 

[CarburetorThompson]

I read this as +18Gb of GL Isekai adventure and was wondering if there's something wrong with having over 18 gigs of GL isekai on a computer

18gb is rookie numbers

 

[SalivaSpittingWorm]

I think everything has already been mentioned.

I had those thoughts once too, as an aspiring writer I was always most looking forward to comments, reader reactions, reviews, but there was a period when I would see readers coming in but no one writing anything, incognito throwing out ratings whether good or bad but not knowing why or how or what and when someone did write something it was mostly just suggestions for correcting mistakes. ... not that it's not useful, but when you don't read anything but suggestions for corrections for a couple of days, I just fall into a depression. And I might have even given up at that point if I hadn't gotten pneumonia and hadn't had such enforced bed rest and gotten some distance to sort things out.

I think a lot of writers end up like that. (And I don't mean the pneumonia. XD But that they get depressed and quit.)

 

[LuoirM]

Stupidity

 

[WeissBlatt]

Because I realized that a character I wanted to introduce halfway through the story should have been there from the start, plus some other changes.

 

[georgelee5786]

I hate it