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Readers in general can be very generous and understanding towards their favorite authors but that is on the premise that authors properly inform their readers about decisions, events, reasons etc. but most important is that they are honest towards their readers. For instance if you promise 5 chapters a week and don't make it than don't just gloss over it and post the next chapter but properly explain why you were forced to miss your promise. There is always a good reason but if you don't give that information to your readers than to a reader all that they know is that this author has missed a promise (and if that happens often some readers will label that author as unreliable and start treating that author with less respect). My point is that some disrespectful messages can be avoided if the author is honest and clear about what their readers can expect from the author. We're living in the social media age and webnovel.com is a perfect example of a site that heavily relies on social media interaction. The key to social media in general is that readers/followers feel that they have a close relationship to the person they follow and that close relationship is at the same time the reason why people are willing to give money and support others but also the reason why social media can turn toxic. Just think about it, if you have someone who you think you have a relatively close relationship with ignore you or not acknowledge your existence than how does that make you feel? And whenever an author makes a promise and does not keep those promises than your readers are going to feel betrayed. And I realize that it is absurd that some people think like this but this is how social media works. What I noticed is that the people who have the least amount of angry trolls demanding stuff from the person they follow are the people who are very clear on what their followers can expect from them, be generous in the information you give.

And one tip for authors who have trouble with demands for more chapters... don't see those messages as a whip urging you to work harder but see them as encouragement from people who like your work enough to ask for more. This change in perspective is probably a better way to look at these kind of messages from a mental health perspective ;-)

I've seen a lot of argument about "look at the demand for updates as encouragement!! :D"
but tell me how I can look at "MASS RELEASE OR I WILL DROP" or "why are updates so slow??? author stop being lazy!!! other novels are updating twice daily, but you don't even update daily!!!!" or "I like the story but 1 star for updates, it's so slow that I'm going to drop" or "when mass release???????????????" as kind encouragement.

just tell me how.

there's a clear difference between "can't wait until the next chapter!", "hope you update soon!", "thanks for the chapter!! excited for the next one", and pure rudeness.

Clowniac this kind of disrespect is terrebel .
I apolegise in place of people who do such. A thing.

Thanks for all your writing efforts.

I think the problem is the fact that the chapters are so expensive and when u buy something expensive you expect good results so if I'm buying a chapter I expect it to be a very good chapter not something that is irrelevant to the story I want to know more about the main characters in the story than the family of the girl or guy we don't like upload more chapters too you can't have us reading the book and only having 1 or 2 chapters come out and the fact that u put a particular day for a mass release but only release 3 chapters that's not a mass release if u say a mass release put in like 10 or more chapters that's a mass release I know it's hard for the authors also but if u say u are going to do it I and every other reader expect you do it

yaoyueyi you are right .i even dropped one novel because reader..

yaoyueyi Those are the ignorant readers. There will always be some of those, because hey, stupid people really do exist. You can take offense at their dumb comments, you can try explaining yourself to them, whatever, but the fact is, they will not get it. They understand stuff only from their level of perception.

All I'm saying is, be selective with your battles. Again, ignore the ignorant ones.

hic

If you can't put up with the 1 or 2 chapters release a day, don't read web novels. Go and buy yourself a finished book.

Because that's just the concept of a web novel, it's like a soap opera where the audience only gets to see one or two episodes daily for many many years. Or like those (Japanese) comics, where you only get to read a volume every month.

I agree that customers should expect good value from the product/service they're purchasing, especially if the said product/service is expensive. But demand that in the form of, for example, the lack or absence of grammar/spelling errors, attractive writing style, etc. You don't get to tell the authors what to write. It's their novel, their story. It's the product of their creative minds.

Imagine people telling George R.R. Martin to write only about Jon Snow and less about Ramsay Bolton just because he's a prick triple dipped in psycho.

hic Dude, most of us don't even charge our chapters. You're reading our stories for free. What do you mean by "expensive"?! A chapter cost 20 to 26 cents for a 2,000 to 2,600 word chapter. That's "expensive"? And what about those writers who don't charge anything and publish their chapters for free? Are we still oblligated to upload more chapters?

You don't like only having 1 or 2 chapters come out a day? Wow...it is this sense of entitlement that annoys quite a lot of the writers. What do you think we are? Writing is not our full time job. We have our real jobs in real life, or we have to study (a lot of us here are students), or we have other real-life commitments that make it difficult for us to write one chapter a day. Do you know how long it takes to write a chapter? 3-4 hours. And you guys read that chapter in a matter of minutes, and think it's not enough. To do a mass release of 3 chapters means that we need to spend 9-12 hours writing a day. And you want 10 or more chapters for mass release. Just how entitled are you?!

So it's better if we don't release 3 chapters on a specific day at all? 5 chapters as a mass release on a specific day isn't enough? It must be 10 (which is pretty much impossible for most writers)? You just want your daily release and us to not say anything about mass releases at all? What nonsense.

I really cant find it in my inbox the letter of adjustment....

Cantiara I do ignore them. all I'm saying is that people on this thread shouldn't say "see it as kind encouragement" b/c that really doesn't apply to what I'm talking about in this thread.

Gourmet_DAO nah. i was thinking that i should have known about your novel before we learned about it.

honestly, it's probably true that you learn more through the net rather than school.

Reinesse I will say more, you will learn more knowledge than at school or university, if thousands will improve their education. In particular, just read books. At the university, the actual ones did not say anything about the Silk Road, apart from 2 lectures! I sat in the archives and read more than 450 books of the 16-19th centuries. Here in the books of the 19th century, the whole essence is! Very interesting! How empires prepared, long and carefully for the capture of independent principalities and made their colonies out of them. Pumping out resources from them, but in exchange creating infrastructure, roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, postal stations.

The Silk Road was a system of exchanging data, money, technology, new materials, culture, recipes. But the control over traffic, who controlled it on different stretches of the road, for a short period of time, became, according to the modern concept, a multi-billionaire. But for a long time this did not last; their others again captured and killed.

Gourmet_DAO What's the link to your novel again?

Reinesse History seems lifeless only at first glance. And so it is very interesting, of course everyone has their own opinion. But look at the trade routes, bifurcation points, trade and transit hubs of the Silk Road times and look at the map of modern conflicts, wars, they almost coincide. Why? Resources, power, money, desire to control flows ?! Plus, a game of spies and counterintelligence is added. Big Game, empires with neocolonial ambitions.

Small countries act as bargaining chips in the game of large empires. International law? Are you joking? Nobody observes it. The economy comes first.
Justice? It seems to have ceased to exist in the 21st century.

When large empires put small countries on their topographic maps, this was especially true in the 19th century, which meant their early colonization.

Such knowledge is interesting for some, while others are interested in modern gadgets, programming, industrial design. There are no comrades for taste and color, as the Russians say.

Reinesse The reality was shown by the example of regional powers - if they have no peace inside, if there is no strong counterintelligence, if there is no deterrence weapon such as a nuclear or tectonic, gravitational or strong ally. That this country is doomed, can it be easily colonized again, annexed territory, and the world? And peace and international law, can not do anything. Reminds me of the time from history, the League of Nations and Nazi Germany. It seems the League of Nations was cool, but in reality it turned out to be just a bunch of clumsy things. If you know historical examples, then you can see how history is often repeated first as a tragedy and then as a farce. Quote from the internet.

Clowniac That's so well put. I agree with almost everything that you have written. Quality writing does take time and even though, how much writers can write in one day is an individual thing and we can't put a particular number and generalize it for all - even then, I would say that writing, reading it again and editing, going back again to check if there are any errors as minute as some spelling mistakes, spending time, pondering if you can put the same content in a better way - TAKE TIME. Period. Besides, it must be considered and respected that writers do have
their personal lives and it is awful to expect them to compromise with their personal lives to put updates for you. I get the enthusiasm of readers. It is beautiful but calling out writers for not being able to update because of their personal issues, threatening and writing unacceptable stuff for them like I have read here, is not cool at all. Readers expect updates but you guys also need to understand that writers can have a rough life as well. It is not easy. It takes time and at times, it takes patience. Readers - we appreciate you guys. We adore you but please be a little kind with your words, understanding with your gestures and warm with your support. That will be highly appreciated!

Rak0 it is really true. I just started with the webnovel. I truly appreciate every one efforts.