Hello, I was unable to select the option to submit my novel as an entry.
It is titled: Hanami

Please advise..

    When will the winners of the first writing prompt contest be announced. I'm getting really nervous.

      lol I was to slow I just finished the last prompt today. I get messed up on dates since I work nights. Oh well.

      Gyihhuhu_ Rufus and Aerith? I prefer Zack and Aerith, that a poor Cinderella obtained a love from a powerful 1st class soldier in a modern world.

          I'm a bit worried that these quick prompts will over load the original content with a bunch of quick stories. Making it hard to find good long term stories.

          Qidian should hide the authors name until the voting ended + put an non disclosure agreement for that. Otherwise the author with the most popularity will win like last time even the content was much worse than others. This way it would be fair.

            NextTrap It didn't affect in my opinion.

            The only problem is the popular author tell their current readers to vote a new novels (If I am their readers, I wouldn't vote. This meant my current novel might get dropped if the new become even more popular. :D) This is what Bai do. However, how could you prevent people to promote? The internet was huge. If one pay a professional trolling/spamming/cloning team. It isn't hard to become a winner.

            However, a good author even without vote playing could win. The example the first contest. Both 1st and 2nd winner is the same person Bai. He didn't need to cheat. He only needed to write and he had experiences (the contest entry was his remake of his previous popular dropped novels). That is what important.

            Good Idea + Good Writing Skill. (This is hard.)

            If you want to win easier, use "System" or Naruto. That is the start of best selling idea.

            If you want to go to female romantic like this contest. Use Top(est) Superstar (Popular) or Number XX richest CEO in the world (Money). Something like that. Add abusive ex-boyfriend, broken family, and evil-love/career competitors (I don't think there is evil people. Everyone is a good people for themselves.). Make sure the main leader always helped the girl during her most dangerous torment but allow her to mature while watching her on sidelines. This was 100% proven formula.

            (This Rabbink is secretly a fan of this genre, but I couldn't take a novel which the main character take a foster child or something like that. Anybody could suggest? I have checked the top ranks here.)

                superunique 1 as long as it is popular. Webnovel is only looking to increase the number of novel in the site with this contest. The (new original) readers will judge whether it will turn into oblivion or top ranking.

                    I just want to confirm. Since this is modern day Cinderella, Fantasy is out from the genre? If that is so, my idea is not cut out for this one.

                      Haizea Modern Fantasy? Gotham for example set in a modern world, but it was fantasy. @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL may need to clear this setting. Whether a fictional modern setting could be accepted, or perhaps in cultivation world but modern (similar to Castle of Black Iron for example. I think the world is modern with car, machine, factory, the people culture, etc.)

                          I don't want idiot, pitiful, white lotus , Mary Sue Cinderella mc
                          I don't want rapist, asshole, idiot with narrate mind prince male lead

                          Please make Mc strong, intelligent, ruthless, clever, op
                          Please make male lead loyal dog, op, clever, intelligent, has only eye for mc, and him as maid for mc
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                              MasterRabbink Bai asked for votes on the RTW competition and was giving them chapters for his novel. This is unfair to new authors who doesn’t have a fanbase like him. Bai said himself that he just did it for the money and then went away from Qidian.

                              As I said, my idea is to hide the authors name for the competition and make an non disclosure agreement for participating. Anyone who will break this by promoting or leaking their fan fiction will get dropped out. It shouldn’t be technically hard to implement this feature for the programmers and also not hard to put in a non disclosure agreement in the competition rules.

                                  NextTrap The sad part, after he giving away, he emptied his chapter storage. And he went hiatus for a week. In short the reader didn't get extra chapter but early chapter. After that he went mad because of the stress of condemnation and pressured to release new chapter for patreon exclusive.

                                  I don't think many will use the method. Since there is no monetary benefit for this. The biggest benefit was promotion. Fox example, I use my contest entry to promote more reader for my main novel. If it was hidden, there is no use for old writer to give extra novels to WN.

                                  WN had never been clear about the rule. Whether it was Power Stone only (which if it is true, it is cheaper to pay some professional spammer). Or there are other metrics involved.

                                  I believe this week contest would have lesser participation. Most would see how the first constest rewarded.

                                  If it is based on Power Stones only the winner of 1st contest is a clones squad, it even managed to reach Top 50. At that time, new author could just hire professional cloners, so not make mistake like current amateur cloner, and vote in the constest to get front page promotion before launching a new proper novel. Your starting novel would start with huge promotion. It was key to popularity. Worth the clones. With just 200-500 power stones you would win the contest.

                                  If it was me, I would order my employees to install webnovel, vote everday for a week for work absence and voila I will win. All wouldn't be a clones. They all are real people.

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