I'm sure I'm not the only one eho noticed this. I've been with Webnovel for years now and recently I find new novels being uploaded are either just knockoffs of originals with different names but same plot , or poorly written, almost unreadable something! And for the past few months, it keeps on getting worse. Before, I dont think much on spending for SS or subscribing but now, I rarely log in. Its off putting when you see the same thing over and over again. I dont know who chooses the novels to be translated here but they really need to do some improvements on screening. There are a lot of hidden gems out there! They were able to get them before and I'm sure you guys can do it again. I hope Webnovel does something about it. My final point. ANY SUGGESTIONS? LOOKING FOR HIGH QUALITY NON GENERIC PLOT NOVEL!
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High quality, there are some. Non generic plot, very rare. Try How not to be an Olympian God. U may like it. :)
PATRICKtheMage Well, the things that turns me off the most is the voting pool. How am I suppose to vote if all novels have the same generic plot? Webnovel should try experimenting. The same CEO, cultivation are getting boring with same plotline. I could probably guess the further plot of the just by looking at the synopsis alone.
The mc is going to get reborn her fiance is going to be the side villain who cheats with her non biologically related sister who the mom had by cheating on mc's father. The ml who she believed to be the bad guy in past life loves having mc in control in this life too, but he the good guy now for god knows why? It's fine but then next moment the second ml comes in the story who till the last moment of the plot remains loyal to the mc cause when he first met her he found her interesting. And what's her reaction to it? Flirting, like if ml even gets close to another female in the novel she is bad (they never blame ml even if he raps mc) while mc is all over second ml in the story when they are just friends.
PATRICKtheMage Simple way out - don't bother with translations, look for original novels. While most of them is trash, there is a higher chance of finding something good there given how the originals are outside the webnovel planning.
Because webnovel stopped translating good Qidian novels and opted for bringing bunch of trash from another way less reputable Chinese webnovel platform and just using machine translating software on them.
They noticed they can make more money MTLing pure garbage than doing a proper translation on novels that are big on Qidian.
There is not a single non cringe inducing original novel on the WN platform. If you sent any of the original novel manuscripts to TOR or other traditional publishers slush pile you would get blacklisted for sending in trash.
Shubhangi_Kene Exactly!
There are some gems, you just have to look for them.
And I agree, more and more trash is on the platform published. Somebody will reflect on that when people will move to other places.
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There must be a really good critic here or it'll be cringey author reviewing cringey authors. And the wsa they did is kinda flawed you can get votes not for making good novels but because of connections. I like reading cultivators and systems and romance and all no matter how cringe they are but it depends on the pitch and Webnovel shy'd me away from it. There is not a good original book here. Having said that, a friend in Qidian sent me a chapter link in my Instagram, it was from an original book from Webnovel, mind you I was surprised and then I read that book, It was very original, very. It's the only reason I'm making this account. His earlier chapters were somehow amatuerish but the later chapters were genius this is coming from a man who read every novel you will ever read, from Europeans to nigerians(lol), I'm putting it with the giants of translation works. The name of the book is System: Of The Ugly. It's a fresh work, I want you all to try it out. Right now! I'm waiting it out to reach a ton of chapters to binge... We all hate waiting right?
PjBaek That means you just didn't find good novels. I read everything I could get my hands on from Peter V. Breet, Weeks Brent, through classics like Tolkien, Sapkowski, Gleen Cook, all the way to niche and avangarde like Lackey Mercedes and local authors like Ziemiański. And with all this expertise of years of reading I can tell that there are some good novels on WN. But if you look by the most voted, you are blindfolding yourself to anything that's not in lieu with the majority preferences.
You insulted quite a lot of people that make a living off writng and pour their heart and soul into it and then what? Basing it by your own opinion that a specific published would publish it? Heck, yeah? Just like there is no point sending comics to them either, if they only deal with written literature.
Webnovel is a medium of its own. Even amazon acknowledged it, trying to enter the market with their newly introduced Vella. Don't try to force the standards you believe in into a medium that never intended to abide by them. Just like novels from WN wouldn't do great in traditional publishing (for the most part), I find it hard to believe a single traditionally published novel would do well on Webnovel.
Because its not its medium. So please, stop insulting work of others only because you can't adjust to what's offered here. Right now you are like this Karen going to KFC and complaining she can't get BigMac.
PATRICKtheMage Try read Lord of Mysteries, the translation quality is epic and the story is getting better