Should I start again?
Name: The Apostle System
By:str8
On webnovel, currently on hiatus.
I started working on my first story about 3–4 months ago. A lot of people, especially close friends, suggested that I build up at least 50 chapters before I started uploading to Webnovel. Looking back, they were probably right—but I couldn't stay patient.
More than anything, I wanted to experience interacting with real light novel readers and hear genuine feedback on my work. So, with only around 20 chapters written, I started publishing.
For a while, the only feedback I received came from one or two random readers and my friends, who were incredibly supportive. I knew being impatient wasn't going to magically attract readers, so I kept going—uploading chapters daily while writing a new chapter every day and polishing the backlog before posting it.
Then I reached a point in the story where I genuinely wasn't sure how I wanted to move forward. Around the same time, some personal matters came up, and I ended up putting the story on hiatus.
Now it's been paused for quite a while.
I really do want to continue, but seeing a completely dead graph with almost no interaction makes me wonder if the story will ever get recommended again after such a long break.
I'm not chasing a contract or money—I'm just a storyteller who wants people to read the story I've poured my heart into. Because of that, I've also started wondering if Webnovel is the right platform for the kind of story I'm writing, or if the audience for this genre is simply elsewhere.
If anyone is willing to check it out, I'd genuinely appreciate your thoughts. Do you think I should continue on Webnovel, or would switching to another platform give the story a better chance of finding its audience?This version reads more smoothly, feels more personal, and is likely to get more thoughtful responses from other authors and readers.