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  • Can you please add a few more tools to help Authors Write!

I had recently begun writing and I realized that Authors can use some more tools in Inkstone!
I suggest the following:
Add an option where the Author can make a chapter's part Copiable. Maybe the author wants to share some links! the only way is using the comments now! If it is too much at least give the authors the choice to make their entire chapters copiable. Not all chapters need to be protected. Especially the Auxiliary ones!
Add more editing and writing tools, maybe the author wants a part of his text to be bold or tilted or in a different color! The more tools an author has, the better he can write and promote his work through your site.
Add an option so we can add music (those without copyright claims) to be played in a chapter! Or maybe a link that can be played at the side while one reads! For example, A youtube link!
Add an option so the Authors can add pictures in their chapters, sometimes the amount of visual a single picture can provide is much better than explaining details of a scene for a few paragraphs. This one is very good in my opinion as it would help new authors a lot.
If everyone else has any other thoughts post them here, I hope Webnovel sees this and adds some of the aforementioned. Thank you Webnovel for providing an opportunity for Authors to publish their works. I hope you think about the suggestions above.

    Pleasedeteme Why should we lack what others have?! One must always strive for the best! I think Webnovel must also get these and more if it wants to truly be a superior site!

        Darth_Xiane I was thinking that they expand it for everyone! They should add things for us freelancer authors and put even greater stuff for the contracted ones. Why should we be limited? This site has to evolve.

            I believe that's part of the reasons for the author's survey

              TheMystic The author survey sent to inkstone accounts about what we'll like Webnovel to add to inkstone. Was sent to all authors' accounts a while ago.

                  TheMystic The author survey sent to inkstone accounts about what we'll like Webnovel to add to inkstone. Was sent to all authors' accounts a while ago.

                      tigre900

                      They are indeed but by the same token its incentive to get contracted so your work stands out even more is it not?

                      TheMystic

                      As above, it's not about site evolution it's about the fact webnovel is also a business, go figure some nicer features require them earning something too. Most online sites are the same, they give you the basic program, it works fine, but the higher end features require you to pay for them. In this case however it's just a matter of agreeing to make yourself and them money for those bells and whistles. Hardly unreasonable.

                            I didn't have these features in mind. Though being able to copy would be useful...
                            What I thought was to programm an AI that would allow you to easily edit your text. Right now I have to use grammarly for that purpouse and then copy the chapter in inkstone... There is not really a point in using inkstone directly for writting.... at least not for someone like me, who is not a native...
                            Another thing I thought was that it would be cool to be abe to create windows in your text. They just have to look like it. Here are so many system novels and most of them have status screens and skill lists... why not create a feature where you can make it look like a real system window in your text. right now you have to create the illusion using blankspace and that is not really cool and it is likely to be destroyed as soon as someone reads it in another format as you created it...
                            What I would really like to have is a pinwall, where I can write my thoughts about the novel and other people have the chance to react to those... If you want to discuss something with your readers it is hardly possible right now.

                              Darth_Xiane I’ll be honest with you. It takes a lot of effort to write without the use of italics when you have characters thinking. If I were to get contracted I wouldn’t want to go through the process of removing all the quotation marks to put in italics again. So there would be no difference.

                                Darth_Xiane That makes sense but there is just so much they could add that it's not even funny! They should at the very least add a few new features every few weeks. I am not saying they should give everything to everyone because I understand that wouldn't be profitable, I say if they add one feature for free, they add 2 for contracted authors. That way the Authors will feel the support and write better stories with the tools, eventually becoming contracted ones. The overall quality of Novels will go up and the number of good stories will also increase, everyone, wins. It's not wise for them to keep all the tools for contracted authors, for a business to advance one must first invest no?!

                                    TheMystic

                                    Can't disagree, I'd love more options myself! But. I'd settle for existing inkstone bugs being squashed. 😋

                                      I understand that Webnovel is probably trying to copy as much code from Qidian as possible to make updates easier, which is why Inkstone lacks a lot of features, but they need to understand that while plain unformatted text is perfectly fine in Chinese but Anglophone readers and authors expect more.

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