First of all, to prevent any reply that says you need to be patient, or you need to write more, I have been writing for a few years in another platform for your information.

I really love writing and love my story so much that it had become a part of my life, my motivation for writing if to let people know and read my story so I have people to share those ideas in my heart.

However, after writing for so many years, I can hardly see any 'light' in my writing life. At first, I thought probably it's because I have not enough numbers of chapters to get people's attention, so I continue writing more. But then again, I was once again disappointed.

Then I thought it might be the exposure problems, and so I migrated from my original platform to Webnovel. And the result as expected is not that satisfying, well, then I told myself I need to be patient. But then I saw a lot of new writers with fewer chapters get more views than I have which greatly hurt my heart so badly.

I start to think is my story really that bad that no one actually bothers to clicks in except for review swap and critics? I feel so lost that I don't know if I continue what I started years ago when I'm still the high school student. Maybe I'm only suitable to do accounting for the rest of my life.

    Well I would repeat the "be patient" word but I would also advise you to keep writing, Depending how many chapters you wrote, the more you write, the more successful you become and following reader's advices is also the best allowing you to improve it in my opinion once you yave succed that.
    Think about it being the same era as for becoming a YouTuber, uploading a few videos that you decently edited them don't get you a success but the more videos you take time and effort to edit and upload them, the more your viewers will start to support you!
    Just keep in mind about bots tho so you don't have to feel like "your life is ruined" to put it in quote where you finally get Power stones, comments and then realize that all those are bots

      I’m curious. Does writing bring you joy? What is your reason for writing? If it’s something that you feel is a part of you, then you can’t help but come back to it. I understand your frustration because I also would love to share my work and imagination with the world. I too would love to hear that people also relate to my writing the way I relate to works I’ve read. Yet, even if not a single person says anything, I feel compelled to continue writing down stories. I myself get enjoyment from discovering where my imagination will take me next. If some others join me along the way, bonus. If one day I reach a vast audience and achieve the dream of being a popular author, better. But it is a dream, and dreams are meant to be strived for, even if it takes a lifetime. What is your true motivation? If you share any similarities with me, then you certainly should never give up that important part of yourself.

        AI380 I have been writing for about 20 years, and nobody reads my stuff. I never pay attention to views or whatever, and the only comments I get are people calling my story s*, cursing me, complaining about my main character being an idiot. I don't get a single positive comment, not even one.

        Do I care? No. So why should you care? Just continue writing. If nobody reads your stuff, you're in the same boat as me. Hell, you're better off than me, you don't have to deal with people screaming at you for being retarded, and dropping your story because they didn't like how it went.

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        These people all want me to stop writing and demand that I delete my story. Should I listen to them? Do you think I should listen to them?

            tigre900 Imagination is always important, as long as you enjoy imaginating and writing stories or doing both at the same time is very important! And I write for this reason, For my community that I know that they will support me, and I know that they'll follow along to my stories as they imagine then with me, and also keep writing thanks to them! I appreciate that kind reply! 😁

                Tomoyuki Exactly! Why should you care, this applies to every creator, even if you are a YouTuber, A comic author, A book author, a translator, a company owner, a director, etc.
                All you should care is the work you are making that you know that most people will love it if you keep going!

                    GorujoKun Actually, I'm aware that nobody likes my work, but it doesn't bother me none and I'll keep writing unless Webnovel decides to delete my story and officially requests that I stop writing for good. Even so, I'll just move to another site. Maybe back to Fictionpress.

                        GorujoKun
                        I realize about the bot, I even get pirate by a few websites, which makes me even more demotivated.

                        tigre900
                        I really love my own ideas and imagination, which is why I manage to keep writing for all these years.

                        Tomoyuki
                        That reminds me of people who said my story is not even worth reading just by looking at the title, without even reading it.

                              Tomoyuki to be fair I was actually thinking to moving to another site since I'm not mainly writing a novel but just stories that can revolve either Japanese or the American (basically writing stories that coukd take place in either Japan, England and America, and the names to be coming from Japan or America sooo...) way but as long as nothing happens to the novel I'm gonna write then I'll be staying to writing now.
                              I've been so been thinking to move from another site because of the "Bots" situation on Webnovels

                                  GorujoKun I've been so been thinking to move from another site because of the "Bots" situation on Webnovels

                                  Actually, most of the other sites have bots problem as well, one of the triggers I left my previous platform is because of the changes of their statistic system and they told me my daily of 2k views are all bots.

                                      AI380 Interesting, I really thought it was just webnovels but it seems like it's not just them. Well for now I'll just keep writing here until something worse happens to the point that I might probably give up from there

                                          By the way, my web novel link is in the promotion thread, drying up like a salted fish and no one cares about it.🤣

                                            Sythcake I mean it is in the May thread since the day it's up.

                                            But once a month is a little unnoticeable, no one would bother to click in.

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