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I simply just didn't find that spark in someone, but that too is okay.

Over the years I have written 1,000's of chapters and far too many words and pages, to the point in which I became quite obsessive over writing. I would design the worlds, illustrate them, voice act the characters, practiced countless nights and days while going to college and working at sea. I've illustrated characters, minored in physics and psychology outside of engineering solely for the purpose of my novels.
The funny thing is, not a soul read my novels or books. I wrote, and wrote, and wrote...never to share a single word of it. I spoke to others of it of course, but it was the same conversation as trying to explain wuxia to someone who has never even watched TV. I created over 14 systems, 1,000 worlds, and 89 planes. 37 main characters, and hundreds of side characters. I designed the cities down to a point of being able to construct them with the architectural math I did over countless buildings let alone my main characters.
I introduced psychology on a deep level, tying it into the very foundation of the characters realities and how their systems work. I tied to worlds and planes together through a vast conspiracy of the folds of time and causality, and yet when I came to the thought of sharing this world...I knew, that maybe I would be the only true fan.
I'm not arrogant of my novels, my books, my thesis's, or wish to gain gratitude or monetary gain. I only wish to have others know of my creation.
To know of my years of struggle, endearment and obsessions'.
Here is where I will tell you, that I will stop posting chapters. Here, is where I will leave my last words of the author known as IntroSpectre. I realized that someone not wanting to gain money, or commercial enterprising would struggle the most.
Know how many publishers turned me down because i didn't want to take the money, and give them my books for free to give to others? Too many. I thought online I could find a better source of people to talk of my novels...but sadly.
I'll keep writing till the day I die, until then ill stay watching over my worlds. One day, i will hand every word i have ever written to someone random like Shakespeare, and console myself to be alright with that.

LordSamurai I've read hundreds and hundreds of novels, trust me it isn't the inspiration or self doubt that hinders me from posting, its the aspect of realization towards understanding that I feel others will never understand. It's, a certain type of a feeling.

introSpectre
First off, if you want more attention on your novel/s, be active in the forum or discord or something. Post for review swaps, those usually only go one way but some might actually like your story and stay for the long run. If you have social media, post there too. Sitting around doing nothing wont grab your stories attention. Especially when you don't have a single cover for any of em (Yes, i checked your author page.) Get a free-to-use image off Pinterest or something and slap a title over it.

Now Im not the best at giving advice for views, (because i myself have very little too) but it definitely wouldn't hurt to do some of those things listed above.

Now as far as your writing. I read your post and was quite curious to see what these stories had in store so I flushed through them and picked one of the more recent ones (Voice of the void). It only had one chapter so I said "Ah why not, guess ill give it a go." So i read that chapter.

And, quite frankly, It's not very interesting.
Your descriptions at the start are wonderful and clearly show your hard work and experience. However, then you start describing too much, and then later in the chapter you don't describe enough.
I go from foggy, rainy day to some gods wearing leopard skin in a single chapter. Like WTF?
Not a single part of that makes me want to read further or even have the desceency to ask what is going on, because there is nothing in the chapter I want to care about.
Your imagination seems to be running a little too wild and you try to do too many things at once. It's boring and interesting to read. That first chapter should have the reader wanting more, but i didn;t really get that feeling at all.

However, I completely understand. If you're not getting feedback from readers than how could you possibly improve? So I'm not telling you to do anything, Im just pointing out my thoughts as constructive criticism and feedback you should consider.

I also noticed you said all your stories are linked together or something "based off the character in my other novel." Whats that all about? Is it a series or just a spinoff? Am i supposed to read the other stuff to understand it?

Take all this the way you like, (ignore it if you want to), but I hope I gave you some thoughts to thinks about. I too was just recently butchered by a reviewer, and he made me fix a lot of errors that I made in my character's emotions. I listened to him and after a short debate, we both understood each other. Not all reviews are positive, and not all reviews are negative.

K, that's all i have to say...

Snowin Honestly this comment, was all I have ever wanted. Negative, positive, just a thought is all I have desired.

Voice of the void, amongst several others is a conjoining...plot, in the perspective to another novel. I wrote it merely because someone asked me to, one chapter and no less is what they asked.

The conspiracy I have written stems from my main novel "The Myriad" where later in the novel around chapter 125 the main characters learn of "another plane" of existence, deemed by many to be hell. Fighting with it, the creatures and morbid environment bestowed by that plane they learn from a demon "or rather a horrible experiment" that the plane was actually a place called earth, where a great war had happened wiping out humanity.

A cell infected the plane of this universe, and the man who uncovered and created this cell was made an immortal by it. With everlasting life, and without the ability to kill himself to end the lonesome journey of his life. He uses the infinite amount of life span and great mental prowess bestowed by the cell to learn every single little thing he can from physics to religion. He becomes quite litterly a master of all things, and with this great knowledge and power he decides to venture out into the universe in search of other life...sadly, he never finds any, and thus goes "then if not here...then in the beyond" and spends hundreds of years creating a portal to other universes and planes.

He finds life on the other side of this portal, after hundreds of jumps to other places, but every time he brings someone back willing or not his origin universe changes them into strange creatures and abominations. They stay there, and when he travels to other places these newly made creatures follow him. The Myriad was the 445 universe he travelled to, and through it he finds the strange powers of qi and magic there. His wonderment is cut short by the gods thinking he is a lord of demons, shunning him and keeping him out of that place. Leaving the mortals of that world to think he is the satan of some hell.

The Man Immortal, as he is deemed comes across a person named the Cosmos Eternal. They, with the main characters of The Myriad and the great gods of other planes decide to create a "Perfect place" for them all to dwell and live. They "create" several novels, which in turn end abruptly as they discard those worlds to start anew until "Jaeger" is born, the latest novel of a world of horrors and mysterious change.

I've edited, I've changed, and used voice acting as a means to reach out to audiences by voice acting my novels on a platform that shut down months ago sadly. From there, I was asked by few to post the chapters and thus I pursued getting them published only to be turned down by publishers due to length or commercialism not being my stand point. That's okay, but as I tried to find other fields and places to post my novel if found each one of them to be dull or "I needed to want to make money, and not give things for free" as some sites said to me.

Thus, with one final step I came to Webnovel, repeating the same things of posting and advertising on media, only to find myself questioning why I do this? Why continue to struggle in such ways, when for so long I simply wrote for myself.

If you truly wish to read a novel that governs my ability, then read Jaeger. I didn't put much effort into a lot of this with Webnovel, but that book is the latest one I am writing and was the last to receive my posts.

I'm tired Snowin, just so damned tired of the repetition of it all. It's like meeting a girl, sharing your heart with her over several years and then breaking up only to find a new girl, going through the process again of understanding them and versa only to break up and find another girl, reaching a point of "What's the point of saying it all again, over, and over"

That's the feeling Snowin.

introSpectre
damn... idk what to really say but... ill check out your other book later this week and leave some thoughts

introSpectre The funny thing is, not a soul read my novels or books. I wrote, and wrote, and wrote...never to share a single word of it.

I got a feeling that you don't want to give up writing and you want a reader.

Others have given you good advice. So I'd probably just repeat myself.

From one undiscovered writer. Sometimes you just need a different motivation to keep yourself going in the craft. As I said to another writer here. Just like them, I see you're about to reach a break through with your writing journey.

You've recognized something needs to change. Switch it up. Revise your approach to the craft. And be honest with yourself on the type of writer you want to be from this point on. Then rework a method that would suit you of the now.

Most of all. Have fun! Developing your artistry is both challenging and rewarding.

Veronica8 I'm a horror/fantasy/wuxia writer, who writes long term novels. I have a total of 750+ chapters combined of my novels, with 155 chapters beings my longest. That isn't to say simply 155 chapters though, most chapters are about 10 to 12 pages, and if I cut them like some others then those numbers would triple or more. Each of my novels is a peak towards a certain genre, Jaeger is the manifestation of horror whereas the myriad is the peak of fantasy and philosophy, with the man immortal being a sci-fy oriented understanding of the other novels through a main character.

I LOVE writing, hell i'm obsessed with it, ill never stop writing and ill always have new ideas to keep going no matter which novel i'm writing. I'll never doubt myself on that, I simply want to find the right place and pursue that place to its end. Webnovel felt like that for a bit, but the glitches in publishing, as well as the contract dynamic I turned down didn't feel right.
I just want to find a "house" to settle down in, ill struggle and bleed for that site if need be but I want it to be the right site to strive for, ya know?

introSpectre Have you tried Wattpad? That tends to attract a lot of horror and fantasy readers. Although it can be an effort to gain readers. There's also Inkitt which seems to also do well for your genre. A newer site is Inkspired that maybe a fit.

Veronica8 hmm, I've heard of wattpad too but when I went there it didn't have the same type of...horror that I write, and I mean that in the context of wuxia/xianxia etc etc horror, it was mostly ghostly american style