So first off this is just a rant and my personal opnion.

I'm sure many of us knows that there has been a continuous barrage of copy-paste or cookie-cutter novels from sites like novelupdates. I initially didn't have much of a problem with this as long as some good novels appear once in a while.

The priblem is that I noticed a boom in these type of novels and hardly any good or unique ones in sight. I get it that there is usually an established genre for certain types of novels depending on where they originate.

Chinese novels are the usual wuxia and xianxia - mostly cultivation based novels.
Korean novels are mostly game-like and has systems to assist their MC. It also has some stories like regressor(going back in time).
Japanese novels are what you would expect slow-paced slice of life novels mixed with transmigration that is usually done through Truck-kun.
This is based on what I read and see, so you may think differently.

Now back to the topic. I think that these established genres are the foundation on where authors could usally build their novels because they have many source for reference and inspiration. Usually this was the case but now it has become a limitation in which authors are becoming afraid of exploring the unkown. They have drawn too much inspiration that its has become borderline plagiarism(maybe I'm exaggerating a bit here).

Novels have become awfully boring and monotonous because of this and if you ever switch the names of the characters to another novel's charater names, you would hardly notice a difference.

I get that maybe some authors are just doing it just to get by ans have a job but thia has seriously affected the quality of most novels. The novels that are actually good and worth reading are instead buried and sometimes ignored for their true potential. An exaple I'd like to give is The Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich(forgot its exact title). Although it is a good and refreshingly unique novel imo, it is being buried by the countless of the same stories that have fixed and easily predictable plot. These cookie-cutter stories rob us of excitement and creativity to think out of the box.

So my point is that I just want to see other novels that are good, interesting and isn't limited by the established genre that cages an authors imagination.

I'd also like to make it clear that I don't think these established genres are completely bad, as I have mentioned earlier if used right they could very well become the foundation of what would become the future classics of the light novel world.

P. S. Again this is just my PERSONAL OPINION and I only wrote this because of the massive spike in the numbers of the copy-paste novels.

    Understand what you are talking about. I tried to break apart from that sort of monotony in my novel. I began to find that many of the things I read were all the same, which confused me. Even their occupations were similar... roll eyes

    I did a few review swaps and realized that originals are where it is at. I liked that their stories seemed to be a breath of fresh air. You might want to try that out. The only things to watch out for originals are that authors tend to drop the novel sometimes and some of them are creatures from grammar hell...

    On a side note, I have 2 books if you want to check it out:
    Updates daily (action/romance/weak to strong (first 70ish chapters are a bit romance heavy)):
    https://www.webnovel.com/book/10672212005098605/Macha's-Journey

    Updates 1x a week (cthulhu/action):
    https://www.webnovel.com/book/11962879706663405/Edge-of-Sanity

      DeliciousFoodEater I totally agree, with you here. It’s not like I need a totally new concept, but the least that’s could be done is add a little twist to an overdone genre. For example Library of heavens path and gourmet food supplier are both cultivation novels, but they both go into a diferent direction and explore different topics.

      I absolutely hate those novels which seem to have some keyword story that we’re genreated by some machine and then turned into what we call a “novel”

          That's true. Authors are sometimes bounded by the trends that a lack of imagination thereof is ruining their novels; in what seems to be an attempt to just get popular without actually enjoying what they're writing.

          You can check mine if you want since I basically just went off into an uncharted route that most authors here don't.
          My novel DeliciousFoodEater

            DeliciousFoodEater I 100% agree with your words. Every type of cultivation novel or gaming system novel share the same father. Like we don’t need twins with different names out here. I’d accept cousins and even brothers but twins with different names is ridiculous if you know what I mean. I can name at least 5 cultivation novels that share practically same plot different names. Old powerful man reincarnates into trash and his girlfriend bulls the marriage. Blah blah blah then he is a genius and all. Then comes in the immense plot armor and the little girl which the old powerful man in a child’s body can’t seemingly deal with because he was a virgin in his last life.

            Gosh it made me write my own novel because I was sick of dealing with MC who only have different names. My novel of course will have some cliche plots but I will twist it so hard.

            Check out my novel and let me know what you think. This one is going to be a long one hopefully and you will not be disappointed. Warning it kinda has slow start.
            https://m.webnovel.com/book/11680482406469805/32325859390047888

              DeliciousFoodEater agreed. Especially agreed about novels like Experimental Log (followed it since before starvecleric took over, when it went on hiatus at chap 50 on gravity). Also transcending the nine heavens, pretty good. Forty milleniums got bad after chapter 100...

              Check mine out? Western-eastern fantasy, though I do use some tropes and cliches, it's mostly for the jokes and characters to encounter and develop ;)

              And totally agree with BabyTanuki - originals are now better.
              https://www.webnovel.com/book/11594239806435805

                  So basically you want something different. While I don’t know if this fits your criteria I’d recommend Forty Millenium of Cultivation. As the name implies it’s cultivation but it’s also sci fi with a brilliant mc who is actually smart with enemies who don’t seem like they lack a working brain that actually see through part, if not all, Of the mcs plans. It’s patriotic with humans uniting for survival and cultivators don’t just kill off those that piss em off and actually protect the weak. The sects are just businesses who have to account for their status and the public’s impressions if they want to continue and prosper. It’s the type of world I’d want if cultivation was real. Plus the mc is basically an engineer/inventor in addition to a fighter which is fairly rare. And enemies actually have layers of plots. This is hands down one of if not the best novel in this site.

                  I'll try out the novels that you send me and I'll write some reviews if I have spare time.

                    Try Cultivation chat group and records of unusual creatures both good not copy pasta

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