I write novels and my art is pretty decent. But it takes me too much time to draw to make a webcomic feasible in my busy life (with inflation rising everywhere who has time for anything but work part of the problem I think). I work three jobs and am a single mom. There just doesn't seem enough time to draw a whole comic myself so I am not sure I want to spend the lengthy time to turn my novel into a webtoon. I spent five years writing 250,000 words for my main novel, and it has done well on most sites. But I feel like the disconnect between novels and comics is huge and like the novel econemy in general is at a big disadvantage! Like super large. The amount of interest in novels seems comapratively little when you see the reach on webcomics on every social media platform. Novels are not promotable easily on sites like instagram or snapchat, twitter, tiktok. These sites are made for bite sized content that con be consumed instantly. A novel takes up time, concentration and falling into another world. It's supposed to be lengthy and pull you away from yourself. I feel like with the culture to have everything quick they seem to be fitting less and less into our society overall. So I am curious about your thoughts on the matter. Do you guys also feel this way? Are novels just becoming more obsolete in western society as people only have time in their day for webtoons?
Are Novel's Dying and being replaced by Webtoons?
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KitKatxKK I completely agree with what you are saying. Earlier, people were used to like e-novels a lot since it was so convenient, but as major platforms like bilibili, webtoon and tapas grew on users, their fanbase grew exponentially and now we even see their adds on apps multiple times. Unlike novel, which is full of words printed in black, webcomics are full of colours and beautiful with Amazing drawing and creativity. It's natural tendency for humans to get attracted to beauty and so if a newcomer enter this world, they'll probably chose comics over novels.
Another thing which I've noticed is that, drawing takes a lot of time and effort. We need a lot of things to draw a comic, starting from devices to scripts to storyline. Everything needs to keep in check, but for novels all you need is good writing skills and a platform. Thus making it easier for even immature writers to dump their novels on webnovel like apps. As if this wasn't enough, nowadays a wierd trend has been set in which cliche and smut novels are promoted more than the more realistic ones. Obviously it doesn't apply on all cases, but it's just that I often find such cringey titles on recommendation page, that it truly disappoints me.
Regarding that comic part, I think you should join discord server of webtoon and tapas, etc to see what are other works like. Interact with them and see for yourself if you fit for it or not, because trust me, making a GOOD webcomic is a tedious process. It might look fun at beginning, but due to heavy load, many artist give up on that in mid. Also you should keep in mind that you have three part time jobs already and building fame in webcomic takes time. So you would need to think it carefully and precisely.
With that in mind, I would like to say that you are a very hardworking mother, I really respect you and wish you all the best for you future. 
Sneakycat098 Thanks I appreciate it. I actually know how much work goes into these things. i design most of my webnovel covers myself and have drawn lots over the past 14years. I have won art contests and had even celebrities see my artwork. But I also know I am slow at it and like one chapter is going to take me over like a month to complete, when ti will take greedy readers like all of five minutes to enjoy and then beg for more and complain why there isn't more content. I have over 6million reads when you add up all my novels on multiple sites So I have a fanbase, and I know they want to see it as a webcomic. I know it could do super well as a webcomic. Webtoons do better than novels always. So if the reach is this high on it as a novel then it will do fine as a webtoon. I fell like webtoons are given more opportunities to become tv or movie titles too. I just hate the way our society is becoming so bite sized and how libraries of novels are almost unnecessarry at this point. I wish there was more we could do to help ourselves. Or protect our works we love and care for.