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Nizze I understand your gripe. I feel like a lot of the novels that don’t win in the top three at least are dropped. However, rather than being an issue with the writing prompts themselves, it’s the very fact that they’re writers which is the issue.
For example, I entered a Mage contest because it matched with a story I was already creating and hadn’t uploaded to Webnovel. Unfortunately, because I was new, I didn’t know about the 10k words or how to properly promote it. Iirc the list of ten wasn’t even filled up, so yeah I didn’t make that 10k req. The only reason why I continue writing this story is because I already planned it all out from start to finish and want to write a book professionally—with or without Webnovel.
As for the second contest, which is this current tree one. I just wrote it for kicks because the prompt was funny. I’ll be upfront, I don’t plan to continue writing this story after the contest end if it doesn’t receive a good response.
But that’s because I have a life outside writing, and there’s no point to continue with something that no one reads or likes much, and I’m not all that attached with. I’m sure that other writers would feel the same about continuing to write a story that gets little response even though they put effort and time into it. Writers need support after all. We’re not free story making machines.
As for the first story, it’s my baby, so I don’t really care if I don’t get a huge response. I write that story not to just write, but because I want to share my story regardless if it’s just one person or a thousand reading.
Anyway, that’s my two cents on the issue. (And this isn’t limited to just Webnovel but all writing platforms.)
