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WoodenDrumRhythm

For me, till around chapter 52 I was seeing intermittent readers and nothing too substantial. But on my 53rd chapter, the reader counts and interactions just started to blow up for some reason. I upload at 3ch/wk so that means my work started to gain more traction around week 17-18.

I think it may have been because I changed my front cover to be something less artistic and more visible when viewed at smaller resolutions (because when browsing on mobile devices or the website, the user only sees a small version of your cover). I also made my cover more descriptive of the type of plot.

Old Cover
New Cover

Tbh though, I was mainly writing for fun, so I didn't feel demotivated when my work didn't receive a lot of reads, reviews, or votes at the early stages. But I can understand your frustration. All I can suggest for you is to evaluate your front cover as well as your book title. They are what the user sees first and will pretty much determine if they are going to click your book or not. Try to ask yourself, "Would I click this book if I saw this in the wild?"

Next, I would also suggest that you check your tags. Try to avoid highly specific ones like: #specialcultivationmethod and opt for more general and wide

This is all the suggestions I can offer. Keep writing, friend!

Junior_Sundar Webnovel updated INKSTONE and now you can't add your own tags. You gotta choose from their shitty list that barely lets you get specific. Those bastards.

Also, the new cover looks :fire:

WoodenDrumRhythm It took me eight months until I got a contract and went premium. Since then, my collections gone up more than triple compare to my past stats

PWS How good is the contract, I have one sitting on my inkstone but haven't filled it out yet. People always mention the negatives but are the benefits there?

A_Gitagon In my opinion, the terms and conditions are mentioned clearly. It is up to you, as an author, to make your craft popular to monetize from it.

PWS How do you get the contract? Does someone reach out to you to sign? Can you share more stats such as power ranking, collections or no. of views you are at when you received the contract? I just started for a month and at around 150K views...

A_Gitagon
To truly benefit from Webnovel's contract you need to have a regular upload schedule (I mean daily uploads) with a min of 1.5k words per chapter.

On top of that, you must have a work that is monetisable and marketable. I'm talking about the generic stuff you see on the front page of this website, because it is those kinds of work that get a stable viewership.

You get paid based on the amount of coins expended on your work. So the most chapters you release and the longer they are, the more you will benefit.

So I'd recommend you evaluate your work according to these basic parameters if you are considering signing the contract for this to be your primary job (cuz I know a lot of authors actually live off of their work on this platform).

I'm not saying that you should not do it if you don't meet these parameters. In fact, I'm contracted and I don't have a daily upload schedule. I don't get paid much. But even a few pennies offer a lot of motivation for me to write on.

WoodenDrumRhythm I think your book will have to reach the 100.chapters threshold if you want to see results.
Readers on webnovel prefer books with a lot of chapter.

IMPLICATION thanks I’m going to have to change it to fanfiction it was set on novel for some reason so I need repost again I’m doing it because it sucks when you don’t get that much comments

IMPLICATION

wanna do a swap?

if yes here is my link https://www.webnovel.com/book/ghosts-souls_20733068505224705

RealFantasies I was contacted by someone from webnovel at beginning of 2021, and still apply for a contract through a link (forgot the link) when my novel reached the requirements. And, you are in a much better stats than me when went premium.

Junior_Sundar thanks for the advice bro.

Junior_Sundar how do you get a contract on webnovel

readers get attracted to books with more chapters........keep on writing and never stop.
One weakness most new writers have is that they want to see results almost immediately. But it doesn't work that way.
Maintain a stable update of chapters and it takes time.
I think you have a hundred plus chapters, you will get many more readers.