r/Webnovel

Advice for new author

hello everyone,

I know i am not that old to give anyone advice but i will share what i get to know after joining webnovel.

What you should not do:-

1.Use Ai to generate the chapter and whole novel-You should not use ai for creating plot adding sensory details or enhancing the story

Why: because it makes the story worst AI usually repeat the same idea use pre existing phrases and mostly copy from popular novels which creates the story souless

If you ignore and try to upload mostly people will see your novel read somelines and leave the novel (they know Ai patterns.)

2.Dont be overdefensive/aggresive : no one gonna judge you... on your post, be polite and accept everyone thought and do what majority says..

3.try not to involve in spams: some people usually comment or rate your story and then ask you if you need paid promotion etc.

those are spam dont believe them and never reply is the simple solution.

Tips:

1.Outline: Create a proper outline for your story/arc it will help you perform well in the journey and most important in long runs

its better than blindly writing and using this can prevent writer block or burnout.

2.Dont expect things much: if you think i have a idea that no one have or my story will burst start its not going like that

Writing is just like Rpg game you cann't fight lvl1000 boss on lvl 1 it needs grind and patience, if you upload and expect immedate progress or success its not going to happen

So,start and dont focus on result immedate (unless its smut but sometime it will also dont work) after 1-2 month of consistent upload it will surly show progress(not burst) but its aways better to start slow

3.Read: just read it will help you a lot

My recommandation: SS,LOTR,other popular series...

4.READER COUNT IS NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: reader count is just people who see the novel not who read effective reader are who read it.

5.Just write: you should not see your skills or try to do perfect things just write whatever you have ,no one will ever able see it if you don't stop chasing perfectism its more about improving with time having consistency and just start writing the things you like

That what i need to tell you for know if you find this helpfull please tell me

Everyone start like this and its the hardest stage to pass then everything will be good(not going to be easy but yes not that hard)

Thanks for reading this post byy...

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u/Odd_Violinist1842 — 13 hours ago

I have questions am I the only who gets these same spammed comments on chapters

I keep seeing tge almost exact same comment everything upload a chapter it always starts with the same introduction.

u/Adventurous-Bike2976 — 10 hours ago

Guys, which one do you think is better?

I'm working on the character illustrations for my own novel.

I was wondering if you happen to have any recommendations for apps or websites that can help transform the animation, style, or design of things like faces.

u/Historical_Draft9750 — 16 hours ago

How's things been for you guys?

So i have been doing some thorough research about my writing skills, turns out the novels that I have written, I suck at writing them.

My most popular novels were the ones that had a twink MC and were comedy/ecchi.

I wrote action, smut system novels, because I wanted to get contracted cause the extra cash would be great, but as I found out I'm not good at these type of novels.

What about you fellas. How's things going for you?

u/SolaceNebula1 — 21 hours ago

I have a Webnovel problem

Hello i would like to ask for help with a problem on webnovel which i couldnt seem to be able to fix by myself. The problem is that whenever i click on a tag and select Recently updated it doesnt show the most recently update but constantly the same ones even thought some havent been updated for days

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u/Ok_Perception_8783 — 1 day ago

I need recommendations urgently!!!

I recently finished reading a relatively long webnovel[The first Legendary beastmaster],since finishing it yesterday I fell like I have nothing to do and honestly it feels I am hollow inside and I don't know what to do with my day.

So please recommend me something anything is fine....

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u/Miserable-Buy-9068 — 1 day ago

Help me find

The novel is an apocalypse type and mc has a slaughter type talent and the more he kills the better the rewards, so when his girlfreind kills him and he gets reborn before the apocalyse starts he buys and kills 1,000,000 mosquitos

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Is it wrong to use AI as a base and rely on it for support?

First of all, I’m not sure if I’m even allowed to talk about this here, and I couldn’t find the site rules, so if any moderator sees this, I genuinely don’t mean to cause trouble. But if you could clear up my doubts, that’d be great lol.

Now then, I know a lot of people here hate AI. Or rather, absolutely DESPISE it.

But please read the whole thing before throwing hate at me.

To begin with, I don't plan to use AI to make money by creating stories. It's just a hobby. My problem is that I struggle a lot with creating scenarios or conversations, which takes me a really long time, and honestly I'm not the most patient person. I simply love seeing my ideas brought to life, but the process itself is what feels tedious to me.

That's why I use AI with some specific instructions to create different scenarios or conversations, and then I edit the parts I don't like, add dialogue written by myself, or even rewrite entire scenes.

This is an insecurity I've had for a long time, and I don't really know what people would think of me if I published stories made this way.

Is it okay for me to do it like this?

Again, I'm not trying to profit from it. It's just a hobby.

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u/Ok_Trifle1134 — 2 days ago

Man my novel is trash it is not getting any readers or subscription 😕 no gifts no engagement 😢 🤣🥴🥴🥴

u/VINCENZO690 — 2 days ago

Do you think I should consider my story dead?

Dark fantasy / grimdark +18

105k words

27 chapters

4 followers (most of them are people trying to offer services)

Zero reviews

Zero comments (except for people offering services)

Zero interaction that tells me someone is actually following it

A lot of views, but I think that’s normal. Besides, I was told most of them are probably bots.

Do you think I should consider my story as something that just didn’t work for this platform? Or maybe it simply doesn’t hook people?

I wanted to hear your opinions.

u/PromotionEconomy8950 — 2 days ago

Wow. No readers count at all!

I am a newbiew author and I am writing a webnovel for 2 days. Today I checked my data and I saw there wasn't a single reader who have read my webnovel till now and i have 2 collections for my webnovel even after my webnovel appeared in fresh stories. I don't know why I got two collections even without reading. I bymistake clicked the heart icon in my profile two times and I think because of that I got those collections. Can anyone tell me what is the reason behind it?

u/artist3176 — 3 days ago
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I was transmigate into a famous Korean dark manga,

Alright y'all gotta read this novel it's still on little chapter its about, in Korea a and has a famous dark manga, where full of crazy heroine and the heroine is crazy physcopath and end up kill the MC(manga) on every way on the original story,, get our boy MC on Korea Seoul die and transmigate into that Korean dark manga, the plot twist? The MC is also a famous serial killer,,in Korea lmao the art style is also fire they has manga style,

u/Aggravating_Law310 — 2 days ago

Any tips, and is this good?

I still have a lot to learn and what is the daily chapter upload should I try to maintain?

u/Adventurous-Bike2976 — 2 days ago

Does this look better?

I am writing a meta fantasy webnovel. I want to know whether this cover looks better for that or not.

u/artist3176 — 3 days ago

I re-uploaded my novel and got rejected immediately. Is that connected?

So I got rejected because my novel doesn’t meet the standards for WebNovel that means there is no hunters system or an overpowered MC nor sex in my novel anyways I tried again but I got pretty much immediately rejected the next day unlike the last time that took a couple of days or a week. I don’t remember correctly to get a response. So because they saw my application again.

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u/Think_Independent_69 — 3 days ago
▲ 4 r/Webnovel+1 crossposts

Grace is a teacher husband Luke has emotional affair with ow Mallory he works with her novel Grace finds out on her anniversary

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u/hitotheby — 3 days ago