KrauzerII Erm... I think is a bit wrong. The current trend had moved from System novel toward... "Erotica".

Actually the contest had made System a bit out of date. However the system is the easiest novel to get popularity.

For example: Sex System, as a reader you can know what is inside. Harem System, City Building System, Princess System, Manager System, Idol System, etc. As a reader, would you try to read for example: Endless Universes?

If this Rabbink want to use Arrogant Young Master System, perhaps this Rabbink could be more popular. Title already made a difference. However, my 'system' is not pure system... So this Rabbink didn't dare to use that word. System had this advantage from the title alone.

Even in RR, LitRPG is the winner. While Wattpad is Vampire/Werewolf Romance.

Webnovel readers like System but lately it seems Erotica for male readers. For female readers, Modern Romance Drama is still the popular.

An author make a novel based on their 'favorite' genre. Since most started as a reader, you can imagine. They would write what they like. Therefore system novels rose. Author publish because they want to be read, so that was another point for system novel. Because it guarantee readers,

That is why System is popular. MOST reader want it, MOST author want it. When there are too many, a new trend will appear. However, it took times. It is hard to continue to write while your novel unpopular. Especially if you find 'troll'.

Transmigrated. Actually this is because self-replacement cheating.

It is easier for a story if it is started from earth. Try to read Book of Author if you want to know. A good story will make a reader could self-replace oneself into a MC fast. (I have a bad time because of this. My MC is bad). Therefore you can see, the MC was perfect. Perhaps started bad, but become perfect. Most MC had a good 'trait' like hardwork, ambitious, since 'you want to become like the MC'. Then you get what every man dream. Power and Woman. That is webnovel. Selling you wish fulfillment.

Have you dream you were a MC in a comic/superhero in movie? That is a good example of successful self replacement.

Transmigration is the easiest cheat to make reader could replace a hero, since we all lived in earth. Try to read 'Book of Author' even if you are not an author. You will learn the 'TRICK' of authors. My do you saw those 'annoying repetitive trick'. You can see that. It is because this tricks works.

If you want, you can start writing and make a new originality.

    There is a very good novel involving a transmigrator with a System. It is called The Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich. The story is amazing. It definitely does not feel like a generic story at all. Just read the first chapter and you will see how great it is.

      KrauzerII I know what you mean. I love reading but too many of them are about systems or cultivation. I get lots in the cultivation and tried many times to try new novels but I can't seem to find one that I can read religiously. I tend to have them in my library and go back every once in a while.

      It's hard to get views when your novel is not part of the norm that everyone wants.

      But being shameless here.
      https://www.webnovel.com/book/11241536305310005/Hinder-Rella
      It's romance-drama

          VenerableShameless the premise here is about original novel. Crazy lich is translated novel. There’s a big dif between original and translated, original you basically gambling on the author while translated you already know it will be popular since we got a beta tester aka chinese reader
          And speaking of erotica well sex sell plus qd reader is full of hormone crazed youth, what can i say...

              KrauzerII
              People love system novels. Can't be helped lol. Transmigrating is a very convenient tool in writing. It makes it easier to describe things since you can just say oh, it looks like a car! It's as big as a truck. It gets abused a bit to be honest.

                  SnoozySloth Lol. Yeah. My MC is not a transmigration. Therefore I gave him table using skill.

                  Whenever I took smartphone, he only knew as smaller tablets.

                  Else, AC, Speaker, Automatic Door. Explained as a spiritual treasure with inscription blablabla. Gwahahaha.

                      I agree that being reincarnated should affect the story in some way. Like the knowledge from past life being useful in certain situations, the MC having to adapt to this new world, or even the author giving a basic reason for the medieval stasis, as most transmigrations are to a medieval world.

                      My novel, Duality, isn't a system novel, but it has transmigration/cultivation.

                      MC was a soldier then a spy in his past life, and these experiences will have an effect further down the story.

                        JohnnyKbca
                        I took the opposite approach. My MC in Uniform System began making plans to use knowledge from Earth to wreck havoc on the new world he found himself in. Then he realized he's an idiot that doesn't know anything of practical value from Earth! lol.

                            SnoozySloth Haha, I do like these dumb MC novels, as long as the novel doesn't take itself seriously.

                            Though when that's not case, I prefer them to be smart, or at least normal.

                                KrauzerII

                                Many Xianxia, Wuxia and Xuanhua have a clear escapism / self- insertion aspect. Transmigration is an easy way to create a viewpoint character which readers can empathize with.

                                Transmigration also allows for a gradual unfolding of the new world as different concepts are introduced. This sort of unfolding would be available to most natives of that world, since such natives will already have an understanding of their birth environment.

                                  KrauzerII Originality...hehe. I read in other post, someone said there's no original anymore. If we write about elves, dwarf and hobbit, he said we copy the lord of the ring, if we write about magic, he said we copy harry potter.

                                      EroMaster
                                      I saw that thread. I argued in it too lol. It's a bit of a dumb argument to be honest. It expands the scope too much of what is original vs isn't. You could infinitely expand the scope to where everything is just a copy from a rock.
                                      Hey guys, my novel has this cool mech that shoots fire.
                                      It's just rocks dude! Come up with something new and original!
                                      What, how is it rocks?!
                                      Cavemen found rocks. Make rocks into statue. Melt rocks into metal. Your mech is just a metal statue. It is rocks. We want something new!
                                      Okay... How about a world where everything is made of paper...?
                                      Lame!!! A paper world is just a rip-off of paper mario, which was made on a console, which was made from metal, which was made from rocks!

                                      Should we make this a new game? Someone present an idea and we will try to explain it as being a rip-off of rocks! lol

                                          The most original story in my opinion is the one made by Orson Wells.
                                          It made when human enter the age of space exploration 😁
                                          If the story on human psychology, I say the story of Dorian Gray is the most unique at that time

                                            lynerparel
                                            Atoms are just really tiny rocks. Some even tinier rocks (I call them rockticles) swirl around the nucleus (Or center-rock, as experts call it). These tiny rocks are the building blocks for all bigger rocks such as rocks, rocks, or rocks. When the rocks get big enough they form a planet (A massive rock!). Just like the atom rock the planet rock swirlds around a hot-center rock (some nonbelievers call it the sun). These planet rocks that hover around a hot-center rock are really just a big atom rock. It goes further. Many big atom rocks swirl around a blackhole (super dense rock) to form a huge galaxy-rock! (We just call those huge rocks!) All the huge rocks floating together are called the universe-rock

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