The absolute state of Scribble Hub

[TheEldritchGod]

Just as Ai-chan has said that writing is a hard business, and I am pretty sure every author has to go through that phase where he finds himself lost in ideas of what to write.

My suggestion? When you are at a lost for ideas, come here to the forums and pick section and go down answering every topic that is brought up to the absolute best for your ability in as detailed a fashion as you can muster. Research a topic if you don't have an answer and formulate an opinion.

1. You doing your part to support the community by providing content on the forums which makes the site seem more active.
2. You are improving your writing skills by... duh... writing.

If you have been here, you may have noticed my WALLS OF TEXT posts to various topics. I do this when I'm stuck or need a break. The answer or topic isn't important, it is the writing that is. Learn to type faster, organize your thoughts better, formulate opinions on subjects you don't care about.

A writer needs to be NOT HIMSELF. Every character cannot be you based on your life or your opinions. You need villains. You need antagonist. You need foils. You NEED to think different. If your MC is the same in every story, then your stories will suck.

For example, In HKN, the MC is absolutely fanatical about the TRUTH. To the point he has a really hard time lying. If he is going to lie, he has to stick to the truth as close as possible and in his head justify it some how. There is a kernel of truth in every "lie". I would go so far as to say he doesn't lie, he only makes up deceptions.

In FTS, the MC is a VERY GOOD liar. He lies ALOT. He is great at lying and makes up lies without a second thought. He is a great actor, flipping from one 'persona' to another without so much as a second thought. He was a professional negotiator and spent a lot of time making deals and over the years he became a very good liar.

I am not a good liar.

And you might THINK that's simple to do, but I have recently discovered that, following my story to it's logical conclusion, I'm going to have to have the MC do some things that... I hate. I mean, I REALLY, in my core of my being, despise what the MC is going to do. I doubt the readers will care much, but... well... the MC is flawed and if that flaw never manifests, he's not REAL. Most people will not be that upset, but I am of the opinion that what he is about to do would be unforgivable. But the character is the character.

I hate lies. I really hate lies. HKN's MC is far more like me than FTS's MC. I absolutely HATE that aspect of FTS's MC, BUT... I can't make every MC the same with the same values. So FTS's MC is a liar, the other one is not. I have improved my ability to lie by going on other sites, picking a forum at random, and just typing complete BS then standing by my insane nonsense position as fanatically as I could. Yes, a form of trolling, but I need to know how to troll to write a troll.

And since in the end the forum has the pleasure of proving me wrong, it's not the worst thing one could do.
And I must say, answering bizarre topics or taking a position I don't normally support has given me great story ideas.

Like I say, writing is a numbers game. Writing a reply in a forum is writing. You want to improve? Get writing.

 

[Kitsura]

Scribblehub never had much diversity, as compared to rr, wattpad or even webnovel.
The average age here, both author and reader, is some place below 18, and the novels reflect that

Ironic you say this, there is a poll on my history that shows most people here are in their 20s

Does anyone know if the japanese novel platform Shōsetsuka ni Narō is any different? It could be a glimpse of the future of SH.

I'd expect art to be a number game. The only future I can see is the evergrowing rift between the flood of unfinished trashy attempts in "latest updates" and the few godly pieces of entertainment.

Not only because we need as many authors to try their hand to produce a gem, but we need these same authors to grind their skills up.

I don't see how a top-down policy could change this for the better.

"latest updates" is the beacon of hope for every smol authors. If you hide it and only show off the "featured" or "trending" works, authors will get sad.

Shōsetsuka ni Narō, is equally filled with isekai trash, it's wild that people are acting like scribblehub novel meta is bad.

Now, this is a more meta post, but I wanna put forward a discussion towards the quality of the novels people post on this site nowadays. Do any of you authors see a decrease in both diversity and quality of stories? Try scrolling down towards the "Latest updated" section on the home page. 9/10 stories will be fantasy related and maybe 1/2 of the list will be stories about gender bender or girls love on a bad day. We're basically plagued with (insert noun here) systems, shallow overpowered characters, villainesses for a while and stories that are unnecessarily stretched out for no good reason. You have blurbs being a single sentence, told by an unreliable narrator and super vague leaving you with not enough about the story you've got an eye on. You could go into any story and often leave with feet-deep characterisations such as the too common trope of women whose only purpose in the story is to orbit the chad alpha cool better-than-everyone-else main character.

So after reading some of that, have any of you noticed some of these stories and issues or are you even authoring said stories now? You can agree, disagree and tell me my taste in books are bad and I'm just crazy. Let's get a talk going.

As one of those people who writes these books, it's what people want to write. Personally, I abhor fanfic in general, but I accept that it's a part of this site. I do think the types of popular novels have changed quite a bit since I started a year ago, but these sorts of things ebb and flow, perhaps some of the novels right now are not particularly good, but finding diamonds in the rough is why you come to sites like scribblehub. if you want high-class novels with better prose, just read traditionally publish novels, otherwise scribblehub is the only place where you're going to get BHNA x Naruto YAOI with Izuku x Sasuke as the main pair(I'm being ironic here but this would be hilarious to read.).

 

[SakeVision]

I really don't want to send anyone there, but Literotica. I figured a good place to get a perspective on male/female relationships. BOY was I wrong.

oh that explains. hahahaha

And there is an easy explanation for that. I've been writing porn for over a decade, so I understand that mindset very well. It's prevalent in ero rp too!
Basically, they have trouble telling author-character boundary. If a straight guy faps to a female character written by another man, they feel like they fapped to that man or some other man's sex fantasy, and that makes them feel homo.

 

[ModernGold7ne]

lets just be real for a second here okay.

do you guys remember where do you even know this site from?
most people, including me. knowing SH from novelupdates site. to which i still frequent.

and as you can see, the popular of recent translated novel at NU are mostly either xianxia or isekai genre (at least that's what i see from the monthly rating)

so ofc the sister site that directing from it would having a similar audience.

it's like you're visiting a cafe around a school district and then you complaining about why the hell this cafe decorated in a way as if to attract highschooler. and then you're further commenting that you saw lots of highschooler around the cafe and then implying that what highschool girls do nowadays instead of studying is just hanging around in a cafe.

like, really?

I found this site on reddit when i searched for alternatives to royalroad.

 

[Sylthix]

As one of those people who writes these books, it's what people want to write. Personally, I abhor fanfic in general, but I accept that it's a part of this site. I do think the types of popular novels have changed quite a bit since I started a year ago, but these sorts of things ebb and flow, perhaps some of the novels right now are not particularly good, but finding diamonds in the rough is why you come to sites like scribblehub. if you want high-class novels with better prose, just read traditionally publish novels, otherwise scribblehub is the only place where you're going to get BHNA x Naruto YAOI with Izuku x Sasuke as the main pair(I'm being ironic here but this would be hilarious to read.).

In hindsight, I didn't really factor in passion into my OP. People do indeed write what they want and it's quality is going to depend on how passionate they are about what they're writing. At first, I was kinda browsing the site and over the months I just saw that really, a majority of the newer books were GB or GL and went "Damn, is originality a myth now here?". What I've come to learn is that my expectations just really weren't well placed as SH only really does fantasy and I should look for quality else where.

Like I say, writing is a numbers game. Writing a reply in a forum is writing. You want to improve? Get writing.

I think this isn't that correct. You can supplement writing by doing a lot of things. Research, reading other books and increasing your word bank are all great ways to get better at writing. Even then while writing, you can sacrifice time and take care in what you're actually saying to make a pretty darn good story. Overall, I think you've mistaken something. Your philosophy is that writing is like rolling a infinitely sided die where all sides have one story in it and hoping for your roll to be good by keep rolling that die. I suggest you take care and cheat. Grab a pair of tweezers, whip out a microscope and tack on some surgical gloves to gently place the die on maybe the greatest side of all time. Even if you miss slightly, it'll probably be better compared to the hundreds of thousands of bad rolls you could have gotten.

 

[SailusGebel]

What I've come to learn is that my expectations just really weren't well placed as SH only really does fantasy and I should look for quality else where.

 

[greyblob]

What I've come to learn is that my expectations just really weren't well placed as SH only really does fantasy and I should look for quality else where.

do you only consider non-fatasy as quality?

 

[AliceShiki]

SH only really does fantasy and I should look for quality else where.

Lol, as if Fantasy and Quality were mutually exclusive! xD

Fantasy is great~

 

[Sylthix]

do you only consider non-fantasy as quality?

No I don't consider non-fantasy as quality. I just happened to word what I wanted to say really badly. I am in-fact, an avid fiction lover and I enjoy all things fantasy going from classics such as Harry Potter when I was starting to like reading, progressing towards present day with Japanese fiction. My views on genres and quality are actually completely separate. My issue with genres is that people on SH just don't want to read nor write anything that's non-fantasy. Though I see it as a loss of creativity on the whole, if SH wants to be a site with a fantasy-oriented viewer base, then it's going to be this way to my disappointment. Most of it just has to do with my misplaced and unfair expectations. But maybe I'm not so crazy if at the time I'm writing this, Twin x Twin has released a chapter a mere minute after the story Magic x Magic. (No hate to both authors).

Now quality is a different issue altogether. As it has been mentioned before SH is a site for rookie writers. I know that too but knowing doesn't change the fact that most stories on this site are objectively bad. Anyone has the freedom to innovate and write but whatever they write isn't guaranteed to be good (shocking). However, exceptions can be made as sometimes great stories can appear out of nowhere but I did notice it being much more difficult to find stories that clear the bar for decency. What I consider a story to be decent is to have a decent title, a blurb hooking me to the world, standard characterisation and a plot that works. I don't think these things are too much to ask for yet most of the time I find a low quality story that ignores one, two or maybe all these check boxes. I'll give a crazy caffeine-driven example.

Let's say Jesus Christ from 0 AD somehow fell from grace and is being forced to work at his local Japanese post office with his big-breasted co-workers that happen to all a big surprise underneath their skirts. A couple things happen. Because he is Jesus, all women naturally gravitate towards him due to his ultra charisma and serve as nothing but fan service and flavor text providers. They don't have any other thoughts but to follow Jesus-kun and affirm his beliefs and decisions. Because he is Jesus, All issues can be solved by brute force or talk-no-jutsu leading to no conflict between supporting characters and Jesus-kun or Jesus-kun and whatever hooligan that vandalised his shop window leading to no character development. Jesus-kun and together with a hidden organisation of magical people disguised as civilians also have to fight and deal with an evil cult who time-traveled (unexplained) from 0 AD in order to take over Japan which has a high concentration of mana diffused into the air.

Now, not all stories here are as off-kilter and bat-shit insane as the one I'm imagining, but the foundations are there. A weird but interesting plot, magnetic side characters attracted to the MC, ZERO DEPTH AND GROWTH IN CHARACTERS and a weak plot with many unexplained elements. I guess in the end what I'm trying to say, the standard of stories has fallen imo and this worries me to a degree because maybe someday someone will post a thoughtless story with their version of Jesus-kun and it being very popular due to the large portion of readers being conditioned into thinking it's "decent" (literally 1984). All of this are just some of my concerns for the future of the site and ignores the "writing for shits and giggles element"

 

[TheEldritchGod]

I think this isn't that correct. You can supplement writing by doing a lot of things. Research, reading other books and increasing your word bank are all great ways to get better at writing. Even then while writing, you can sacrifice time and take care in what you're actually saying to make a pretty darn good story. Overall, I think you've mistaken something. Your philosophy is that writing is like rolling a infinitely sided die where all sides have one story in it and hoping for your roll to be good by keep rolling that die. I suggest you take care and cheat. Grab a pair of tweezers, whip out a microscope and tack on some surgical gloves to gently place the die on maybe the greatest side of all time. Even if you miss slightly, it'll probably be better compared to the hundreds of thousands of bad rolls you could have gotten.

No.

When I was but a wee eldritch horror, I was fat and I frequently got he shit beat out of me in school. For 10 years. One weekend, in 10th grade, I believe, I got sick and tired of it all, got on my bike and started to petal. In one direction. Until I couldn't anymore.

It took me four hours to make it back home.

I did this again the next weekend. And the next And the next. I lived in the middle of nowhere, you see. Tiny little farming village. Dad wasn't a farmer, however. We just lived there and he commuted. Well, eventually I managed to make it all the way to the next CITY over. About 22 miles.

I proceeded to do this every weekend.

Finally, about 2 years later, I found myself doing this, again, and some girls drove past and whistled at me and said, "Nice ass!"

It was at that point I realized I wasn't fat anymore. It was also the point where all the bullies in a grade above me had graduated, so the next time the bullies in MY grade picked a fight, even if it was four on one, I kicked their fuckin' ass. I brutalized them. I was without mercy and I BROKE them. I repeated this for several weeks on and off until they finally gave up.

Writing is just like THAT.

Get on your word processor and TYPE until your fingers bleed and you vomit and collapse. Then do it again. And again. And again. And Again. Keep BASHING your head against that brick wall until the brick wall gives up. It might not be the most effective method, or the fastest, but I will tell you this, the methodology or never stopping, never giving up, always writing SOMETHING when you have the chance will, by sheer repetition, rewire your mind to be able to write even when you want to give up, even when you want to lie down, even when you found out your wife has a deadly disease and it costs 1600 a month to, not keep her alive, but to make her stable.

It's a numbers game because the greatest power you will ever have is the ability to endure suffering longer than anyone else. The ability to just KEEP GOING NO MATTER WHAT, no matter how slow, no matter how painful, no matter if you are just typing on a forum, or slowly pushing your bike up a mile long hill, is an ability that will allow you to overcome ANYTHING eventually.

I'm not rolling a die. I am teaching myself to have a habit that allows me to wear down anything eventually. I can grind any problem into dust, given enough time. I am the determinator. No matter how many times I fall down, I get the fuck back up.

This allows me to be good at writing, or marathons, or working 53 hours straight just like a month ago when the covid swept through the worksites and SOMEONE has to stay with the clients NO MATTER WHAT or they could DIE. Staying awake 53 hours without sleep ain't easy, but honestly, there was nobody else. Nobody under my care, under my protection is going to be harmed if I have anything to say about it.

I am good at ANYTHING I put my mind to because I am unstoppable. I am water wearing away at a mountain. Sooner or later, it will crumble.

Any skill, any ability, any expertise you wish to learn comes down to one fundamental truth:
Do it over, and over and over until you don't even have it memorized, to the point where the knowledge is fused into your very bones. I type very fast but if you asked me to point to any given key on this keyboard, I honestly would need a while to find it. If I think about typing, I can't. It's automatic now. I can type faster than I can think sometimes.

There is some luck to writing. There is luck to anything. But the truth is, about any ability, in the end, you will need to practice, practice practice and do some painful things. Take risks and put yourself in harsh situations. This is where you adapt. First you build up the habit of writing all the time. Then you get good at one type of writing, then you learn from others, and try something different. Yeah, there is study involved. You can learn from others mistakes, but trust me, learning from your own mistakes sticks with you so much better.

Oddly enough, I would suggest to anyone out there who is really new at this, if you honestly want to be a good writer, get a bike and go somewhere. Just go. Until you can't anymore, then go home. Then the next weekend, repeat. Over and over. Eventually you'll learn that all of life comes down to 'Who Is Left Standing?' The one who never gives up is the one who wins the most.

Learning how to get back up, no matter how hard you get knocked down, now that's the hard part.

I didn't have a choice. For me, it was get back up or die where I lay. For you? You can take the easy route. Get in a habit and do it. Whatever it is. Writing, a job, becoming an astronaut, flipping burgers... whatever. My advice is the same for it all, because it works universally. Do it, whatever it is, over and over until you get it right, then do it the right way until you can do it without thinking, then find a different way to do it. Fail at the new way until you get it right. Do it the right way until you can do it without thinking.

Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

The question is, where do you see opportunity?

 

[SailusGebel]

the standard of stories has fallen imo and this worries me to a degree because maybe someday someone will post a thoughtless story with their version of Jesus-kun and it being very popular due to the large portion of readers being conditioned into thinking it's "decent"

You understand that you keep wording what you wanted to say badly?

 

[Sylthix]

You understand that you keep wording what you wanted to say badly?

I'll reiterate, The message I don't want to put out is "fantasy bad". The point is that stories that are of the fantasy genre that are of lower quality, are becoming more frequent through what seems to me, mindless consumerism of the fantasy tag.

Get on your word processor and TYPE until your fingers bleed and you vomit and collapse. Then do it again. And again. And again. And Again. Keep BASHING your head against that brick wall until the brick wall gives up. It might not be the most effective method, or the fastest, but I will tell you this, the methodology or never stopping, never giving up, always writing SOMETHING when you have the chance will, by sheer repetition, rewire your mind to be able to write even when you want to give up, even when you want to lie down, even when you found out your wife has a deadly disease and it costs 1600 a month to, not keep her alive, but to make her stable.

I guess this is where our philosophies differ. I never really put to much effort into things and keep interests at a hobby level. Where as you might try your damned best to learn a skill through failure and experience, I don't have the need to continue working like that nor the time to put into doing something as you do. When it comes to writing, the furthest I push out is being delicate with my story to increase it's quality. I might have shitty base stats but with enough time and care being put into a project, it may very well put up a fight with the greats.

As for seeing opportunities, perhaps I'm still figuring that out as aforementioned, not much passion for stuff in me but what I do find or open in the future might just be enough the satisfy.

 

[SailusGebel]

I'll reiterate, The message I don't want to put out is "fantasy bad". The point is that stories that are of the fantasy genre that are of lower quality, are becoming more frequent through what seems to me, mindless consumerism of the fantasy tag.

When I said that you KEPT wording what you wanted to say badly, I was referring to this.

the standard of stories has fallen imo and this worries me to a degree because maybe someday someone will post a thoughtless story with their version of Jesus-kun and it being very popular due to the large portion of readers being conditioned into thinking it's "decent"

What I got from this particular sentence is that you are bitter with the fact that what YOU consider good isn't popular. You are also bitter that the things you DON'T like are getting popular. The key phrase there is 'IMO,' and you will probably appeal to this and say that it's only your opinion and thoughts. But let's be honest, if you didn't think that your opinion is the only right one you wouldn't write all of this.

 

[BenJepheneT]

 

[greyblob]

No I don't consider non-fantasy as quality. I just happened to word what I wanted to say really badly. I am in-fact, an avid fiction lover and I enjoy all things fantasy going from classics such as Harry Potter when I was starting to like reading, progressing towards present day with Japanese fiction. My views on genres and quality are actually completely separate. My issue with genres is that people on SH just don't want to read nor write anything that's non-fantasy. Though I see it as a loss of creativity on the whole, if SH wants to be a site with a fantasy-oriented viewer base, then it's going to be this way to my disappointment. Most of it just has to do with my misplaced and unfair expectations. But maybe I'm not so crazy if at the time I'm writing this, Twin x Twin has released a chapter a mere minute after the story Magic x Magic. (No hate to both authors).View attachment 13358

Now quality is a different issue altogether. As it has been mentioned before SH is a site for rookie writers. I know that too but knowing doesn't change the fact that most stories on this site are objectively bad. Anyone has the freedom to innovate and write but whatever they write isn't guaranteed to be good (shocking). However, exceptions can be made as sometimes great stories can appear out of nowhere but I did notice it being much more difficult to find stories that clear the bar for decency. What I consider a story to be decent is to have a decent title, a blurb hooking me to the world, standard characterisation and a plot that works. I don't think these things are too much to ask for yet most of the time I find a low quality story that ignores one, two or maybe all these check boxes. I'll give a crazy caffeine-driven example.

Let's say Jesus Christ from 0 AD somehow fell from grace and is being forced to work at his local Japanese post office with his big-breasted co-workers that happen to all a big surprise underneath their skirts. A couple things happen. Because he is Jesus, all women naturally gravitate towards him due to his ultra charisma and serve as nothing but fan service and flavor text providers. They don't have any other thoughts but to follow Jesus-kun and affirm his beliefs and decisions. Because he is Jesus, All issues can be solved by brute force or talk-no-jutsu leading to no conflict between supporting characters and Jesus-kun or Jesus-kun and whatever hooligan that vandalised his shop window leading to no character development. Jesus-kun and together with a hidden organisation of magical people disguised as civilians also have to fight and deal with an evil cult who time-traveled (unexplained) from 0 AD in order to take over Japan which has a high concentration of mana diffused into the air.

Now, not all stories here are as off-kilter and bat-shit insane as the one I'm imagining, but the foundations are there. A weird but interesting plot, magnetic side characters attracted to the MC, ZERO DEPTH AND GROWTH IN CHARACTERS and a weak plot with many unexplained elements. I guess in the end what I'm trying to say, the standard of stories has fallen imo and this worries me to a degree because maybe someday someone will post a thoughtless story with their version of Jesus-kun and it being very popular due to the large portion of readers being conditioned into thinking it's "decent" (literally 1984). All of this are just some of my concerns for the future of the site and ignores the "writing for shits and giggles element"

I don't know.. I think it's part of the charm: finding well-written, fleshed-out novels next to horseshit jp wish-fulfillment lightnovels. each site is specialized in a certain genre. I don't see it as a loss of creativity since each one has its audience and writers and its novels. regardless, i don't look for "quality" in online novels - that's for hardcovers.

 

[Sylthix]

What I got from this particular sentence is that you are bitter with the fact that what YOU consider good isn't popular. You are also bitter that the things you DON'T like are getting popular. The key phrase there is 'IMO,' and you will probably appeal to this and say that it's only your opinion and thoughts. But let's be honest, if you didn't think that your opinion is the only right one you wouldn't write all of this.

I had to think about this for a good minute. I feel as if you're missing the point. You clearly state that I am bitter due to this and that reason whereas in reality, I'm not bitter about anything and neither is my opinion the only correct one. Please put yours forward telling me why you don't think the majority of novels being created are of lower quality than ever before. Maybe something about a influx of bad writers will eventually turn into an influx of good writers. Say anything, I'm all ears. All I have been saying is that more and more stories now are careless about stuff such as character development and plot and focus in on power fantasy and stuff. This is factual as most of the stuff in latest updated proves this. I have seen things that I don't consider good get popular due to objective reasons such as plot and characterisation, yet I don't feel anything close to bitter as you have described. It's not my story nor something I'm passionate about but people like what they like regardless, even if it a power fantasy with next to no character development.

It's never been about me in first place. It's about me asking some authors on the internet their opinions on if whether this site is going downhill due to this and this reason and I haven't seen a counter argument to any of the points put above in the previous big post.

I don't know.. I think it's part of the charm: finding well-written, fleshed-out novels next to horseshit jp wish-fulfillment lightnovels. each site is specialized in a certain genre. I don't see it as a loss of creativity since each one has its audience and writers and its novels. regardless, i don't look for "quality" in online novels - that's for hardcovers.

I whole-heartily agree with this. There is so much satisfaction of finding something well written here but what worries me is that I feel it has become more difficult finding the good stuff leading me to hypothesize if good novels will ever become impossible to find here and hence the thread.

 

[SailusGebel]

It's never been about me in first place. It's about me asking some authors on the internet their opinions on if whether this site is going downhill due to this and this reason and I haven't seen a counter argument to any of the points put above in the previous big post.

You know, it's hard to counter an argument like this.

This is factual as most of the stuff in latest updated proves this.

Please put yours forward telling me why you don't think the majority of novels being created are of lower quality than ever before.

Because they were always of lower quality.

I had to think about this for a good minute. I feel as if you're missing the point. You clearly state that I am bitter due to this and that reason whereas in reality, I'm not bitter about anything and neither is my opinion the only correct one. Please put yours forward telling me why you don't think the majority of novels being created are of lower quality than ever before. Maybe something about a influx of bad writers will eventually turn into an influx of good writers. Say anything, I'm all ears. All I have been saying is that more and more stories now are careless about stuff such as character development and plot and focus in on power fantasy and stuff. This is factual as most of the stuff in latest updated proves this. I have seen things that I don't consider good get popular due to objective reasons such as plot and characterisation, yet I don't feel anything close to bitter as you have described. It's not my story nor something I'm passionate about but people like what they like regardless, even if it a power fantasy with next to no character development.

It's never been about me in first place. It's about me asking some authors on the internet their opinions on if whether this site is going downhill due to this and this reason and I haven't seen a counter argument to any of the points put above in the previous big post.

You are saying things like: this is factual, this is objective, and there is no counterargument. Welp, you know, I haven't seen a single FACT from you. I haven't seen a single OBJECTIVE statistic from you. All I've seen is your opinion masked under the pretense that its objective facts. You posted a single freaking picture as proof. Then you say things like quality is dropping OBJECTIVELY!!! Yet you didn't even read those two stories you posted, right? You simply screened two stories and made your opinion based on their titles. Then, you come here and tell us it's an objective PROOF that the quality is dropping. AND THEN, you tell us to counter arguments you are saying. I don't know what to say here.

This is factual as most of the stuff in latest updated proves this.

How solid are your factual, objective arguments? I assume you've read all of those stories to make this statement? You won't say that you are eligible to make an opinion by simply seeing the title, description, tags, and the first chapter, right? Can you show me the stats you've made after reading at least ten chapters of every story, the percentage of bad to good stories? You know, one more argument to counter, I'm not that good at doing it, but I do like trying to counter the arguments.

 

[CL]

Why does this discussion sound a lot like that time (long ago) when smut was the top covers to be found on the front page and more than a few envious authors had issues with not following the then trend?

 

[Kitsura]

Why does this discussion sound a lot like that time (long ago) when smut was the top covers to be found on the front page and more than a few envious authors had issues with not following the then trend?

I don’t think people realize having a popular novel comes downs an aggressive release schedule and decent story. My first novel has 500k views top 100 on most lists and it’s basically because I wrote 3k words a fucking day before eventually settling down.

 

[CL]

I don’t think people realize having a popular novel comes downs an aggressive release schedule and decent story. My first novel has 500k views top 100 on most lists and it’s basically because I wrote 3k words a fucking day before eventually settling down.

To keep it coming daily, that sounds like you sacrificed your personal time and put in a lot of effort. But I am very happy to hear you've settled down. It is good to rest and recharge.