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8374fg48fh
Some of them are just bad but some of them are written like that intentionally. You are supposed to read them 1 or 2 chapters a day and feel good about how the mc slapped faces/ got his revenge/ got the 234535236th member of his harem etc. It's called wish fulfillment and lots of people find it enjoyable.

Like c'mon, dafuq did you expect?
It's wEbNOveL....

8374fg48fh At first, after reading your post, I respected you. It was straight-forward. None of that wishy-washy eloquence that many MC's are said to have to but rarely demonstrate. Point-after-point was made with no time to catch my breath. I was speechless! I was shocked! By the end, it felt as if the Heavens had fallen and the Earths crumbled!

But then I reached the very end of your post and realised that no, I am not like those common villains who failed to see Mt. Tai. For how could Mt. Tai likes its own post? CHECKMATE WEEB.

Damn. This site encourages anyone to post novels, what were you expecting from 99% amateur works? Go buy a print book if you want high fantasy or w/e.

LittleSleepyFox
I like how you also liked your own post lmao

MasterRabbink But still it is overused ad.1 You are right here but doing only this(so that it will not really affect on the plot in the future) is not a sign of the good writing.
ad 2 you have a dozen other possibilities to obtain such results. You can sand a hero to faraway land. You can make a more si-fi and make his spaceship crashed on other more primitive planet. And my personal favorite you can make a machine with a steel chamber that will storage high energy fluids emitted by Buddhist or Hindu monks and use this energy to teleport MC to other planet(Si-fi from the beginning of the 20th century is hilarious).

I generally find that even people who like Chinese Webnovels have like 3-5 they like and despise everything else.

MasterRabbink Yeah but it is more realistic. It is much more believable that one will go somewhere and he will have some adventure than that he will be reincarnated. And now when I think about it it seems to make self-substitution easier. Everyone can let say go shopping and something may happen to him. While with reincarnation the first thing that you have to do is to convince them to the reincarnation theme and not everybody will like it. So I not really see any advantages of reincarnation over journey.

Res_Publica Erm... The OP complained about the common troupe. Reincarnation is too much. However, you suggest Transmigration instead (Another troupe).

8374fg48fh agree witht his. Im wondering is this reali "book" or just Wattpad.
The only "bokk" in here that i follow just RTW. The rest i drop it.

Anna_94
Man I used to love IRAS. It was my favorite for a long time. The racist parts were annoying though. The sex/woman scenes were even worse. Dragged on and on. Didn't it get dropped or banned by China or something recently?

SnoozySloth yep. The part where he molest his landlord.

Well, I've put some decent effort into breaking away from the beaten trail despite using something akin to a reincarnation lever.

If you have some free time, please give my story a try:

If you've got some spare time, please take a look at mine:

https://www.webnovel.com/book/11571618606426105/31611302459793714

I'm also very interested in the optional points of your review since I'm constantly wondering about changing the title/cover/synopsis to reflect the content better.

Just keep in mind that the pacing is rather slow since I like a more detailed approach instead of rushing forward like a mad bull with every idea that comes to my mind.

8374fg48fh Says the guy with a MHA avatar and stupidweeb name.

The blunt apex guy kinda has a point.

8374fg48fh

You are right, most novels on this site are trash. There are a few good ones.

8374fg48fh You are not a stupid weeb, you are an insightful weeb ;-) I think you do have a point. As one of the writers one this site, I'm happy that you direct your critique at the site and the stories, and not at the authors. Because I think many of the authors here can actually write better stories. They just lack the incentive to do so.

I don't think OP is truly against entire genres like reincarnation or transmigration, because both of these can be done well. I think OP is tired of predictable plot points, bland characters, lifeless settings, repetitions, fillers etc. It's just that genres such as the ones mentioned above, lend easily to all of those traits.

The problem, I think, has several parts.

Let me first formulate four basic laws. They are not absolute, but they are good generalizations:
...1. Originality and quality writing = slow chapter releases
...2. Generic copy paste stories with low quality writing = fast chapter releases
...3. To be read, stories need to be discovered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...4. When you incentivize something, the opposite is always disincentivized.

This is how Webnovel works (grossly simplified but true of essence):
A. Readers regulate popularity! -- but the third law still holds true! So Webnovel also indirectly regulates popularity.

B. Stories are discovered mainly based on their:
......Popularity (different indicators such as views, rating, power ranking)
......Featuredness (No, that word does not exist. But you get the point, right?)
......Stories with daily chapter releases
......Newly released chapters

C. Remember the fourth law? Publicity is a scarce resource. A large chunk is given out to the points mentioned in (B ). In other words, the reciprocal holds true, that it becomes hard to discover stories that are not already popular, not featured, that do not release daily chapters, and that have not just released a chapter (the last one is very important for new authors).

The micro problem: Let's try to simulate different cases:
It follows from A-C that the only realistic way a new author's story can be discovered using only the mechanics provided by Webnovel, is by appearing in the list of newly released chapters and preferably also the list of stories with daily released chapters. (There are other ways, such as the forums, social media etc., but they won't make a difference for most authors.)

If the author releases a high quality original chapter each week, he or she will only have about 1/7 the publicity of generic copy paste stories, and 1/14 or 1/21 the publicity of copy paste stories that even copy paste their own content ad infinitum and/or make bite-sized chapters to release several chapters each day XD

The macro problem - What happens to the site at scale?:
The short answer, basic psychology is what happens, because we are dealing with people writing stories, and people reading stories (and some bots, of course, but ignore those for the sake of simplicity)

The site starts attracting people who enjoy generic stories (because that's the only stories they discover), and detracts people looking for truly original stories (even if the site has them, they are hard to find).

Authors trying to write a truly original story won't be able to find a readership on the site, because they will have to compete for publicity with easy to write generic rapid release stories, for an audience that doesn't appreciate originality, on a site with no mechanics by which to reward it. What then would incentivize an author to write such a story?

Less quality stories are published on Webnovel because of the above problems, setting in motion a negative spiral of genericness (yes, that is actually a word!)

The business perspective:
ALL OF THIS IS NOT NECESARRILY BAD IN A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE. It just requires enough readers interested in generic works, and who appreciate rapid releases more than originality and quality. And by god, there are many of them! Even if Webnovel continues down this path, they will still be of service to this particular readership.

There is no TLDR. The above is already the short version.

Lol read mine
https://dynamic.webnovel.com/book/11758085906508605