Webzayne
Okay then, to start things on:
******* ***** ***** *** ***** - put a bunch of random insults you could cut from your posts and put them there adressed to you, since I don't want to anger the ah allmighty @yaoyueyi on my case.
Now, the real part of the reply:
The greatest difrence between a readers like you (or in this case, any other) and authors like us, is that you look at the market from the customer point of view, while we actually study the situation way deeper, as we need to decide on our aproach in order to monetize our works. You can believe me or not, but most of the authors who wants to earn from their novels, are weighting their possibilities and choosing the one, most suitable for them.
Like with amazon and royal road - you know they put some free stuff to read, and thats where your knowledge and (hehe) expertise (wink wink to all those who are capable of percieving sarcasm here) ends... EXACTLY THERE.
On the other hand, any author who actually looks at writing as something that is not only a passion but also a mean to earn their keep, knows that for the most part, Royal Road is either a source of exposure for your patreon, or free site where you can get HARSH reviews, that actually can help you improve your story before you will set on the hard road of publishing on amazon.
People like you have no idea how costly hiring an editor is, how many diffrent kinds of editors your average story requires to be capable of earning on amazon, what are the steps of publishing your story there, what are the strategic moves you need to consider when you even think about this kind of option.
So, what you see, is just the surface of extremly deep topic, yet you pretend as you have the knowledge and right to speak about it as a whole?
Preposterous!
And now, to your post:
Webzayne This site's a cesspool of toxicity and entitlement.
And you are the prime example of those aspects. You are toxic, and you act entilted.
Webzayne Tue 'authors' here are the prime example of self-deluded fools who think that their shit is worth is weight in gold.
Generalisation, opinion. 0 facts. As always, someone who knows nothing pretends to be an expert about the topic. Most of the authors I know from WN, are looking at their stories with scorn and are feeling bad that they can't constantly keep rewriting every single chapter of theirs. For example, I'm the greatest critic of my own story, openly calling it trash because of the problems the initial 100 chapters has.
Webzayne you're on a competitive platform competing against other competitive platforms that give better free shit FOR FREE.
Yep, others give stuff for free. Some are doing so to gain exposure before locking ENTIRE story behind paywall, others do so to get free edits, and the great majority of those FREE SITES are just damned pirates, who earns from the stories they stole and thanks to the readers that are entilted just like you into thinking that they have the right to read them for free.
Webzayne The people there are happy to do so, because of the community, because of the opportunity for free criticism, and because it gets their work out there.
Nooooooope. Everyone outside of a few passionates, publish their stories for free ONLY because they have greater end goal in mind. Same like WN once was free for everyone who would put ANY effort into stockpiling their SS, some of the sites are aimed at the publishing of the EARLY DRAFT of the stories. Are they any better? Thats not for me to judge, but I would rather say that other sites simply are directed toward diffrent genres. The fact that you preffer dark fantasy over wuxia, doesn't mean wuxia are bad. It's just your taste.
Webzayne The quality on this site, does not support the business model they want to use...
And once again, you have all the right to say that, yet no authority to get anyone to listen to you.
Webzayne The price they want you to pay, simply isn't worth it;
Yet you are actually here, ranting about the entire fact. That simply proves that you are yet another sad troll who is unwilling to pay due costs of the entertainment so you decided to spill your poison on the forums, in order to improve your mood. Thats the very definition of toxic behaviour
And yet you are against authors trying to monetise the time they wasted on writing their stories, funny.
Webzayne and mine is better spent elsewhere.
Sayonara! No one will miss you here. And trust me, if I ever see you on this forum or on any novel out there, I will make sure to slam every single of my arguments back at your toxic face over and over again.
Now, begone. You are not welcome here.