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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...

How would that lawful good character react to a person stealing bread to feed his sister or something. Essentially, it'll be like that. Personally, I'd rather not go in that route because discussing morality itself is going to be very iffy in future scenes. If this lawful good character joins...

Just generalizing, but I noticed that Korean MCs are already cool by default, like ex-military, martial artist, stuff like that, before they gain powers or whatever the story needs. In comparison, Japanese MCs are losers before they gain powers. Probably because of culture.

Just don't let this get in the way of what you actually want to write. Don't chase the popular genres/tropes if that's not what you want to write in the first place. Is it straight woman romance? I'm not sure which site is good for that. Used to be Wattpad, but Wattpad is a shithole now. Maybe...

Yep, I remember when you were like that, especially back in RR. And I was like that too. When someone asks for advice on how to get views, I do tell them whether they want to sell their soul or not. I suppose a new writer needs to be on the road to burnout first and realize that we have enough...

With sticky notes program in my laptop. Different colors for each series. I have list of ongoing/planned plot lines, stuff in the next batch of chapters, and list of things I want to include in the story but have still no plans how.