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Hubris is man's greatest enemy.

Thats because wn is not for serious reading. Its akin to a junk food store that everyone goes when you're hungry. I assume the latter of what you wrote was smut based on what you said and the former has world building stuff and somewhat unique. But people want fast paced and cliche here, instant gratification. If you are gonna write the gratification at the end of your 100th chapter then no one is gonna stay for that long.

So, I gotta say I disagree with a lot of what's posted in here. My story literally flips many tropes (because what you call a cliche is more than likely a trope, by definition) on their head, intentionally. I have no smut, to boot. The fact is that I see this as a site where proper grammar and literary skill trumps story. I've seen dozens of books with atrocious writing skills have as many views with 40 chapters and months of uptime as my story with just over a day and only 7 chapters.

If you take time, and write with pride, I'm sure your novel will soar above and beyond the status quo, IMHO. If you put as much love into your book as you want it to receive, you will be pleasantly surprised!

Alpha_Medic Ye, but this is just me sharing my experience, that my smut story over took my serious one. I think casual may also have a point, but I see yours too.

HotRedFlaming I can understand that, to a degree. But, and take this for what you will, I want to offer some advice from writing for a long time: Take pride in your work, even if you are afraid it won't go over well. I sincerely believe that if a writer has pride in what they've written, it will show. I see a lot of stories on this site where I read comments/reviews/replies from the writer that imply they aren't 100% satisfied with their story. Those are the same stories that I notice are not doing so well, when compared to others.

It's a small thing, and I might be entirely wrong. But if you don't like your story, odds are that nobody else will, either.

HotRedFlaming quick reply cuz Im on the phone. Checked the first chapter of your new story. Its beyond awful. Not even the plot as i was repulsed by the very first paragraph. What you fail to understand here is that neither of your novels did any good. Your smut novel just lured people with cover and title, and smut doesn't get co tracts either way.

I could write a lot more to soften this or to elavorate, but as I said, I'm on the phone. Write whatever, daily. Read a lot. Those two things will helo you improve. Because right now, your novels effectively ends within first 3 sentences.

HotRedFlaming Decided to check in before I drifted off to sleep. Ignore the asshole who is dissing your work while displaying their poor grammar and punctuation. They claim they are so much better, but they can't even reply to a forum comment with decent literary skills, so I doubt they have much in the way of presence in the community itself. Contracts aren't important. We aren't here to make money (at least, I hope not), we are here to share our gifts with others and bring happiness to our readers.

Alpha_Medic Though I can't help but agree with him that my opening sucks. But thus far no one has uncollected them yet and for one day I got decent collections. So I could only take a grains of salt of what he said and I don't intend to take his opinion objectively true because these are just his views. It could be trash on ones eyes and a decent read for the other.(nothing I can do about it) But I just wanted to point out that my smut has no serious plotting and follows the storyline of many hentais that you can see. So I was brainless when I wrote those, lol.

As for my other novels, some people said my work is good. And if he calls my work trash thats his opinion. But I can be sensitive sometimes and lose my motivation in writing all together. I just hope this doesnt evolve into a huge argument.

Don't be discouraged by that. Even if your novel which you spent a month planning isn't doing well. Continue writing it and apply for a contract (that is if you're willing to sign away your rights to it in exchange of promotion and royalties). If the content editor found value in your work, they will send you one and if you choose to sign, they will immediately put your story at the front page, exposing you to readers that will surely try and pick your novel up.

Well, that's the only way for your novel to get more exposure that was seemingly missed by most during your initial writing.

@yaoyueyi could u delete this forum pls I already got the feedback I wanted, thnx

Dyrem thanks for the motivation

HotRedFlaming It took me 2 years to become a proper author with a unique set of skills. The time might vary for each but we all start with trash that we thought was a gem. Even Sloth above started out like that. The first work he poured blood and sweat into was bashed harshly.

He then shed buckets of blood and sweat and used all previous experiences to create his own ideas to fruition. Now, he has his own unique style that readers will be able to recognize anywhere. He's been creating masterpieces one after another. And, he is putting in the effort every day to improve even more.

We all take time to grow...only in the case we put the required effort and have a lot of patience.

Overlord_Venus I could agree that my novel is not that good, and I'm planning to delete it since it's not something I wrote with serious intentions. But ye, I'm willing to improve but I need some time to reflect on myself why I joined in webnovel in the first place.

HotRedFlaming You shouldn't judge your book without at least writing 100k words in it. Only then will you get the experience. Believe me, you will automatically improve every 100k words