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

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.

                    TheCaffinated

                    People have been asking for this for years. But did something happen?

                    No.

                    Don't expect too much on a clearly profit driven site, not when things are going smoothly for them. ¯_​(ツ)_/¯

                      SuperSilentSin

                      There're a lot of sites out there in the ether that houses talented writers. While most of them don't provide income, the quality of writing is still very high. Most of the sites I visit mostly cater to fanfiction however, which is inherently more passionate but more prone to fic abandonment and lack reader support to original works.

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