Recent content by Temple

I use symbolism and it goes into the planning of the story. From my experience with webnovel audiences, most people just relax when reading and don't really delve deep. So, it's much better to make the symbolism, whatever it is, more on the obvious side. The reader picks it up and appreciates...

So the MC won't have connection with them.

Pantser problems, same as me, lol.

I'm not sure if I'll count this as passion. You're after external motivation, it seems. Passion is doing that thing even if the whole world is against you, even if you won't receive praise or reward, because you want that thing. Anyway, I feel like this post is just so that you can release...

OP probably means is it possible to write in the popular web novel genres and still gain a substantial following considering there are tons of web novels out there. So, yeah, oversaturation question of the popular web novel genres. I personally think it's still possible. We can look over at...

It's better to wait if you already have rewards already because that's what people want. Or, you're going to announce it twice.

Probably just the product of people copying what's popular and so on, with the community getting saturated with it and covering the new stuff. This isn't isolated to web novels. Hollywood keeps making reboots or sequels or prequels of what's popular. Saw franchise has 10 movies. In my country...

Aim for your enjoyment. Readers come and go, tastes change, and what's popular rolls around. Guess who'll be left with your story? You. Another thing is to make your motivation internal rather than external. Applies to most things in life.

Their traffic used to be huge a long time ago, but it isn't now. And there's almost no way for uncontracted stories to get seen, so they have to do something like this to hook authors into continuing to post. People post more if they think their works are read. So, Webnovel fakes it to keep...

Webnovel terribly inflates views though. Like a hundred per click, even if the same person. I tested it before.

Your passion became an unenjoyable job. One where you are "paid" by attention. The problem is you cared too much about your readers. You should care about your stories for yourself. But you seem to care about your stories to please readers and gain traction, perhaps to experience the same...

This is what I do. The others I couldn't make into a separate story, I merge with the others. It's a mess, lol. And it's a challenge, but it's really hard to fight against the ideas swimming around. It's like a super power when my hyper focus kicks in, but it isn't exactly "targettable". Like I...

I'm a pantser. Tried all sorts of outlines, didn't work. What I'm doing is like a modified version of what you're doing. So, we have like things that need to happen, right? The problem is that getting to those points will be a mess. What I do is have bullet points of those main things. Under...

As others have said, it depends on your plans for the story. I think third person is more common in webnovel writing (more common than usual) because it's better for immersion, given that many (most?) webnovels are for reader wish-fulfillment. Another reason why third person is more common in...

I was talking about morality from the viewpoint of the character subject of this thread, not yours or mine. As OP stated, the character in question is hyper religious, lawful good, hence my statement to avoid morality questions related to that character to not dilute the characterization. I...