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TheLonerLion
Heyyy Lion! What an inspiring piece, thumbs up! <33

Since people are sharing their life tidbits I guess I'll share mine haha. When I was in grade one, I was put into a private ESL (English as Second Language) program because I was a pretty sickly child and basically missed 3 weeks out of a month of school in junior and senior kindergarten. My parents only spoke Chinese at home even though we lived in Canada, so as you could imagine, I wasn't doing that well in language class.

Thanks to my teacher's hard work though, I quickly caught up to my classmates because I absolutely loved reading stories. And honestly, the ESL classes took place during my gym classes (and I am a very clumsy and unathletic person) so I was pretty happy to skip gym to read LOL.

When I was eleven, an older friend showed me Fanfiction.net and I fell in love. I made them make me an account and started writing really, reeeeally terrible fanfics....they're still on my account today and my eyes bleed a bit whenever I see them. I took a break from writing after a year and signed up for deviantart instead to draw, and only came back when I was fourteen. But I was going into high school soon, so I decided to up my writing skills and wrote maybe 300k words in the summer before high school started. My writing still wasn't that great, but there was a vaaaast improvement after typing out 300k words.

I kept pumping out fanfics after that through my high school career (was in a specialized music program for strings where we sometimes had over 5 hours of orchestra rehearsal practice a day, and I had to practice 2-5 hours of solo playing at home, plus I took all maths and science courses) though my speed slowed a bit. All my readers back then had been super, super encouraging even though sometimes I could only post one chapter a month! Honestly, if I didn't have those kind readers, I think I would have given up writing fiction long, long ago.

When I turned eighteen, I found NovelUpdates.com and fell in love with translated novels. My fanfic updating had slowed down to almost non-existence because of university applications and other reasons, so mindlessly reading cnovels was great haha. Through some mishaps I ended up hurtling myself into the translator world, and then my writing skills dropped like 10x because of Chinese grammar...

I found out about Webnovel when it came out and didn't sign up because of exams, but after my break started I was raring to write again after translating for a whole year! As of now, I have four translation projects, 1.5 original novels (co-writing a new one with a friend, wink wonk) and a few dozen fanfictions. I'm also in university as well, but since I'm on break I'll skip that to shorten my looong post here LOLOL. Anyway, I found a bunch of my old fanfiction readers during my translating and also after I began posting on webnovel, so it's been a long journey!

Adding on to what others have been saying, every single reader is precious to us! But it's also amazing to see readers comment and tell us their thoughts, because as a writer, after working on a chapter for x amount of hours the worst thing would be feeling like you threw it into the void after posting it. I know many readers don't really comment because of time restraints or because you think we don't care, but we do and you totally make our day!

And lol mandatory small plug for my current original novel. Hope you don't mind, Lion!
https://www.webnovel.com/book/10839800106186105/REWOUND

Sakhyu after working on a chapter for x amount of hours the worst thing would be feeling like you threw it into the void after posting it.

I really feel that way... Despite keep going up and down top 100 I don't think anyone read my work anymore now. I don't know if it was because the lack of information from my Synopsis or my work is just that bad.

I began to have a feeling that others giving me their powerstone is because of me, or my nationality, but not because they like my work. It was also possible that they didn't read my work judging by the lack of comments.

This is the reason why most of author drop their work.

My boat now has a hole on it, water slowly began to get in the boat. I'm slowly going to fell/drown into the deep sea. Don't know if I can survive or not.

Most likely, me and my boat will never see the light of day again if no one help me fix that little hole.

Sakhyu after working on a chapter for x amount of hours the worst thing would be feeling like you threw it into the void after posting it.

I really feel that way... Despite keep going up and down top 100 I don't think anyone read my work anymore now. I don't know if it was because the lack of information from my Synopsis or my work is just that bad.

I began to have a feeling that others giving me their powerstone is because of me, or my nationality, but not because they like my work. It was also possible that they didn't read my work judging by the lack of comments.

This is the reason why most of author drop their work.

My boat now has a hole on it, water slowly began to get in the boat. I'm slowly going to fell/drown into the deep sea. Don't know if I can survive or not.

Most likely, me and my boat will never see the light of day again if no one help me fix that little hole.

Knihw_ yeah, we have to write with the mindset "I'm only doing my hobby, not to get contract". Or else.... The reality will seems to be harder than before

Nyam out of thousands original... There's only one confirmed contract. That is Last Wish system. So most of us doing this for free. For hobby. But even a hobby need motivation. Writing and get response from readers was really enjoyable... But when there's no response from readers, we began to feel burden and sad. Another reason why Authors dropped their work.

They thought, why am I writing something that no one will read? Because believe it or not... Response from readers are a big motivation for us.

TheLonerLion please don't feel so down like that fellow daoist author. If you know my novel condition, you'll feel better
13 chapter, 13k viewer but only 7 on collection, 1 review, two comment. Well, is anyone here have 'better' record than me?

UnhingedTaboo Your name says my mind.

UnhingedTaboo I feel embarrassed reading this... I am 21 and don't even have a job!!

LurethVT If the reader knows that :
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can give them exp to raise their level, they will write comment dilligently :)

LurethVT If the reader knows that :
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can give them exp to raise their level, they will write comment dilligently :)

SweetsTomato
Ahh man, I don't want to brag or show off, but mine has 2 chaps, over 1K views and 15 collections. I guess I found my niche Market haha. Just Started recently and I feel happy for every view and collection. My inner most desire is to have people read my work. It doesn't matter if it is hate or love, but it feels good to have people from around the world pay attention to your sweat and blood. And it gives of course motivation to continue. Hope you also continue while keeping up your spirit. Even if it was only 1 collection, it would be enough joy to know that there was a person somewhere who was interested in your work I think

Though comments are really lacking. Even a EXP! Shout would be enough to cause excitement for me. I wonder when my first such comment will come haha

FleetingClouds my story is only 4 chapters and I saw the collection count at 198 today. Man... The novel hasn't been updated in more than a month. I am thinking of deleting it. Now that my laptop is dead it would be hard to continue writing. What should I say to those readers

FleetingClouds Haha, that's when i first time makes a novel. I feel like those 13K viewers only passing by. But my second novel goes well and better than the first one, although it's a collaboration work.

P.S. I'm not man :)

TheLonerLion Your first fanfic was about what?

SweetsTomato
Found your book, collabroation you say? Are you two planning crossovers in the Future? That would be difficult but interesting as Well. Is your MC from the Old World and his from new the one? OoO Just speculating

TheLonerLion They only have to do 1 comment for the exp. Se even if they know, they will comment 'exp' or something random in one of the translated chapters they visit everyday rather than every chapter they read.