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It's better to use outlets like twitter for reviews. There's a number of people with personal blogs dedicated to it that have small readerbases. Sure, one or two won't raise your numbers that much, but en masse they make a difference. Don't pay for reviews.

I know. I'd rather there be a system to write comments directly under reviews myself, but I was pointing out that there's some ways to communicated with the people that left the reviews themselves if people wanted to do that. A very suboptimal option, that perhaps, highlights how useful review...

A stopgap is to address reviews in the author's notes of the next chapter and take it to the comments section if you're so inclined. If you're awful and immature about it, it'll make you look really stupid and petty though, which is a good thing.

What, are you trying to put in an application?

I see. I may have inferred a different sentiment than you intended. I can see how swaths of readers can straight up have no interest in characters that remain utterly crushed by that kind of circumstance. I'm more tired of badly executed ultra-fetishization and weird ultra-political messaging...

I find it weird that some of the most common portrayals of people (usually men, but that's an entire thread's worth of commentary on the western idea of masculinity and cultivated insecurity) that are cheated on in fiction are spineless, weak, or harboring some kind of moral or physical...

Become a lich.

This is a fun idea. Want to be super broad and undefined. Go with two opposing base energies that can both be manipulated or combined in certain ratios to make anything with varying degrees of stability/potency. Lets go Kingdom Hearts. Light and Darkness. Magic fueled by one source or the...

.... Understandable. There's a reason why I have a separate persona for non-smut stuff.

So. Much. This. If your character is doing bad things, they're doing bad things. Excepting stuff like an unreliable narrator, the story shouldn't be trying to present Alex Mcboils Babies Alive as a stand up guy because the babies are demon babies or the reincarnation of the evil of the week or...

Based. Also similar situations where an open relationship/polycule seeker (usually male) is so insecure that they only tolerate the dozens of love interests having an attraction for them and them alone. That isn't an open relationship, it's just a harem, and past three members you're probably...

Ye. Standard moment of passion one night stands do happen and people do get ye olde brainrot. But when you have a character that aspires to be the greatest thief/mage/whatever or has a business or farm or family obligations that they have a track record of minding for the entire story up to the...

Oh sure, but unless the character is absolutely mindbroken (which can be built up to in an interesting way) it just kills it for me. There are indeed moments of passion, but the usual stuff goes beyond that to the point of feeling absolutely contrived. That's the kind of stuff that makes me...

For me, there are so, so many, but the most recent has to be when lewd scenes take a sledgehammer to a character's personality. It can be either a contrived lead up to the act or the complete erasure of their personhood after they join a harem. Both are distressingly common.

Anon's going somewhere. The greatest stink the majority of people bring up about representation being shoehorned in or forced involve direct alterations of preexisting stories. That's something I honestly don't care either way about unless the character's race was a significant part of said...

Dang it. I thought someone died. I even brought my reanimation toolkit and everything. I've been blueboned...

For the time being, you can shamelessly add links to your other works, similar to the "other works by X big name writer" pages in traditional books. Chances are, just putting it in their faces may be enough for them to check out what you actually want them to see. Bonus points if you ask them...

If you really want to balance out the ratings for your novel, advertise it. Go to Reddit, ask masochistic people like me for reviews, join discussions and make a Twitter account. Get your work out there. I know it's uncomfortable to do so, especially if you're introverted or weary about being...

Take all the posts on SC and divide them by the number of members. The user with the number of posts closest to the result is the meanest.