Gourmet_DAO

Alongside Grammarly for little oversights, I use Hemmingway! It's pretty great in keeping the flow and readability of your work easily consumable.

Authors, editors, and translator have to get paid somehow. If you really want to read something free, there are a number of quality originals ob here, you just gotta look for them.

ValKree funnily enough, I'm currently in the "CEO Romance" arc of the novel. One of my reviewers said I did voodoo to make them like a romance, so I'll take it XD

I'm currently on week 2 of publishing (started updating on the 4th) and have done daily updates. I feel like that's what got me the number of reads I currently have (sitting at about 7.7k). I personally prefer having a high number of collections over reads, but eh, that's not really happening lmao (1:193).

I think my book has a bit of an identity crisis. It's so many things that I can't really determine what to advertise it as. It's a CEO novel, a historical one, a fantasy all rolled up into an adventure romance.

I think the biggest thing here is like was previously said, the audience. I have my book listed under fantasy romance, because to an extent, it is. I've been looking at my analytics and I'm surprised to see a number of my readers are male.

Hello! As an author, I like looking at trends of what's popular and what isn't. Here, I'm not taking into account writing ability or anything like that, but I'm mainly looking at story ideas.

There are a plethora of CEO romances on here alongside cultivation novels. Not that there's anything particularly wrong about that, it's just an observation. I've also been seeing the slow ascent of Korean Aristocracy novels (I 100% am someone who supports that uprising).

So I wanted to ask:
1. As authors, do you guys ever base what you write around what's "trendy" or "mainstream?" No judgment, it's all business at the end of the day after all.
2. Readers and authors, what genres are you seeing rise and fall? What do you predict the next 'trend' will be?

Auxiliary Q. Do you think the site's UI contributes to the popularity of some genres over another?

I've written a mainstream novel and another in a more unpopular genre for my intended audience. On my other account, my cultivation novel at its peak probably got 20 collections a day (it's on hiatus now lol). On the other hand, the novel I'm currently writing gets five at most. That's the main reason why my brain thought of this question.

X237 Thank you! I've just started your novel (student life sucks :')))) But so far I really love how the writing is continuous thought/narration! I fell like it helps me connect with the characters more! I'll probably get my review up by tomorrow or the day after since there are 10 chapters. Hope you don't mind!

X237 Sure! I'll add it to my library.

Shameless plug, but the only real reason why my novel is in the Fantasy Romance section is for more traction. The romance in it is very scarce, almost non-existent in the beginning. Maybe you'd like it?

https://www.webnovel.com/book/15201559605387205/Ruining-Happily-Ever-After

A shameless promo because I like validation.

Title: Ruining Happily Ever After

Genre: Action, Comedy, Contemporary, Historical, Fantasy Romance (its complicated to categorize this book).
Link: https://bit.ly/2MT77tz
Summary:

Laia is pissed.
When she kills off a fan favorite from her successful novel series, she elicits the anger of some chuunibyou god-child. As her ‘divine punishment’, she gets thrown into a world of her own making– literally.
Waking up as the villain of a shitty CEO romance novel she wrote long ago, Laia has to satisfy the life wishes that character has. If she does, she can get out of this world and return to her own. If she doesn’t, she dies.
Armed with a talking fox-cat-thing to navigate the system mechanics of her punishment, she’s ready to turn the place upside to get what she wants. She's also not opposed to having a little bit of fun in the process.
The original protagonist is in love with her, the original love interest is thoroughly destroyed, and– if it wasn’t already obvious– the original storyline is up in flames.

⋅ ⋆ ⋅ ⋆ ⋅

One crappy romance novel was enough, but another?
“I fucking completed everything that stupid system asked of me, so tell your idiot brother to bring me back to my world.”
The handsome man languidly sitting on the throne sighed dramatically, “Unfortunately, father and mother heard about what he did to you. He’s currently under guard and won’t be able to get you out of here.”
“Why didn’t your parents get me removed from here first before locking your brother up?
“They forgot,” he simply said.
He showed a regretful expression. She knew it was bullshit.
Her temples throbbed, “So what are you doing here?”
A beautiful smile bloomed on his lips. It was enchanting, bewitching, and made her want to bash his face in.
“I’m here to keep you company,” he winked, “My Empress.”
God. She wanted to stab him in the heart just to shut him up.

Note: I kinda started this book to make fun of CEO novels and now I'm in too deep, whoops.

A shameless promo because I like validation.

Title: Ruining Happily Ever After

Genre: Action, Comedy, Contemporary, Historical, Fantasy Romance (its complicated to categorize this book).
Link: https://bit.ly/2MT77tz
Summary:

Laia is pissed.
When she kills off a fan favorite from her successful novel series, she elicits the anger of some chuunibyou god-child. As her ‘divine punishment’, she gets thrown into a world of her own making– literally.
Waking up as the villain of a shitty CEO romance novel she wrote long ago, Laia has to satisfy the life wishes that character has. If she does, she can get out of this world and return to her own. If she doesn’t, she dies.
Armed with a talking fox-cat-thing to navigate the system mechanics of her punishment, she’s ready to turn the place upside to get what she wants. She's also not opposed to having a little bit of fun in the process.
The original protagonist is in love with her, the original love interest is thoroughly destroyed, and– if it wasn’t already obvious– the original storyline is up in flames.

⋅ ⋆ ⋅ ⋆ ⋅

One crappy romance novel was enough, but another?
“I fucking completed everything that stupid system asked of me, so tell your idiot brother to bring me back to my world.”
The handsome man languidly sitting on the throne sighed dramatically, “Unfortunately, father and mother heard about what he did to you. He’s currently under guard and won’t be able to get you out of here.”
“Why didn’t your parents get me removed from here first before locking your brother up?
“They forgot,” he simply said.
He showed a regretful expression. She knew it was bullshit.
Her temples throbbed, “So what are you doing here?”
A beautiful smile bloomed on his lips. It was enchanting, bewitching, and made her want to bash his face in.
“I’m here to keep you company,” he winked, “My Empress.”
God. She wanted to stab him in the heart just to shut him up.

Note: I kinda started this book to make fun of CEO novels and now I'm in too deep, whoops.

Thanks Veronica8 for the thread!

Title: Ruining Happily Ever After

Genre: Contemporary, Historical, Fantasy Romance.
Link: https://bit.ly/2MT77tz
Summary:

Laia is pissed.
When she kills off a fan favorite from her successful novel series, she elicits the anger of some chuunibyou god-child. As her ‘divine punishment’, she gets thrown into a world of her own making– literally.
Waking up as the villain of a shitty CEO romance novel she wrote long ago, Laia has to satisfy the life wishes that character has. If she does, she can get out of this world and return to her own. If she doesn’t, she dies.
Armed with a talking fox-cat-thing to navigate the system mechanics of her punishment, she’s ready to turn the place upside to get what she wants. She's also not opposed to having a little bit of fun in the process.
The original protagonist is in love with her, the original love interest is thoroughly destroyed, and– if it wasn’t already obvious– the original storyline is up in flames.

⋅ ⋆ ⋅ ⋆ ⋅

One crappy romance novel was enough, but another?
“I fucking completed everything that stupid system asked of me, so tell your idiot brother to bring me back to my world.”
The handsome man languidly sitting on the throne sighed dramatically, “Unfortunately, father and mother heard about what he did to you. He’s currently under guard and won’t be able to get you out of here.”
“Why didn’t your parents get me removed from here first before locking your brother up?
“They forgot,” he simply said.
He showed a regretful expression. She knew it was bullshit.
Her temples throbbed, “So what are you doing here?”
A beautiful smile bloomed on his lips. It was enchanting, bewitching, and made her want to bash his face in.
“I’m here to keep you company,” he winked, “My Empress.”
God. She wanted to stab him in the heart just to shut him up.

Note: I kinda started this book to make fun of CEO novels and now I'm in too deep, whoops.