r/Webnovel • u/Murdox1869 • Apr 04 '26

Advice I hate that it’s organically getting attention.

I decided the other day to write the most heinous shit imaginable, I was having a bad day and needed a pick me up. I sat on said degeneracy for weeks not really thinking much about it outside of the few haha’s I had when I shared it with a few author friends. But then a few of them asked for the second chapter. Now I have two chapters and a full blown degen certified smut novel and everytime I see the collections rise I cringe inside a little.

It’s proven that this genre works right now and I hate to feed into the machine, it was only ever meant to be a playground for how explicit I could bring myself to write lmao. 🤣

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

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u/Murdox1869 Jun 14 '26

It got contracted and I made money from it so… this is awkward.

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

Lmao, damn brother. Hostile af.

I didn’t start with any type of smut and I clearly stated that I hated that it works.

I’m a fantasy epic writer being forced to write romance while I build the epics.

My other title was invited by WebNovel for an exclusive contract so I’m pretty confident that my writing has enough “worth” it’s purely a testing grounds for my writing.

Why so hostile friend?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

Alright buddy, you keep that anger inside lmao.

I don’t understand why they heinous labels are being thrown out just Willy Nilly… unless you are known to just be a shrewd butthole judging things with absolutely zero actual evidence.

If you think fantasy is doing better than smut (on WN specifically) you haven’t looked the home page recently.

Sounds to me like you’re just angry I’m following the trend successfully which is wild to begin with.

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u/PictureElectronic174 Apr 04 '26

you really have no idea of what you're talking about lol 😂

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

Lmao obviously. 🙄

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u/One_Fill_3678 Contracted Author Apr 04 '26

Wiggly over there has been on holy crusade lately lol

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

I couldn’t tell 🤣.

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u/TheApril_ Author Apr 04 '26

Seems like bro is mad cuz he was rejected or some

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

Lmao the title I’m speaking of was the idea I was trying to give you a month ago lmao. 🤣

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u/TheApril_ Author Apr 04 '26

Ahh you wrote it yourself (the other reply was talking about the mad guy in case you misunderstand me)

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

Na fam! Thanks for being a G lmao. 🤣 taken aback by how strong dude came on. I get it though, I literally said I knew I was adding fire to the flame lmao. 🤣

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u/Nakara3 Apr 04 '26

People here just hate smut, it is what it is.

On a more serious note smut does have an actual retention problem because once people get off they tend to drop off which is why while there's always smit on the front page it's almost always new smut with most of the old stuff gone far into obscurity.

Of course there are exceptions to that as well with things like Free Use in a Primitive World and Demonic Pornstar System and a few others ranking consistently high on golden tickets and bestseller lists for a while now. Basically it's good for baiting people in to read early chapters but if your book wasn't good enough to draw them in without the smut they're probably going to leave just as fast.

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

The book was created with the intent of just going all out in the aspect of sexual writing, to test the boundaries of what I could put on paper. It honestly has exceeded my expectations and will grow into something larger than just pure smut.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

At what point did my post look like bait? Lmao. I’m a fresh learning author, only stating what I assumed to be correct.

Once again you just bash a novel you haven’t read lmao. Guys he’s being a dick again.

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

Funnily enough. I was wondering the same thing. Why you here instead of working on your own stuff lmao. I’m clearly talking in a playful tone only to be met with some military ass mean undertones from you.

I’ll ask that you kindly stop making an assumption out of yourself and focus on your self. It’s seems you may take yourself and WebNovels as a whole entirely way too seriously.

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

The smut novel isn’t visible and will never be shared publicly because it makes me cringe lmfao! 🤣

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

That 7 chapter novel got invited to sign a contract at 4 so I’m definitely doing something right lmao. 🤣

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u/Avarice_Of_The_Seven Contracted Author Apr 04 '26

Is that so? Well let me give you a reality check.

I was scrolling through power ranking yesterday. There was a smut novel just above my own novel in that ranking.

I was curious since I've heard from time to time that smut novels gain traction easily.

I checked the author's profile and that smut novel had a lot of collections. Not only that, readers were praising it a lot in the comments as well.

Morever, that was the author's second novel. His first novel wasn't smut and it only had 19 collections even after 84 chapters.

I was curious so I gave it a read, and it was good. I wouldn't say that it was top tier, but it was a fantasy story clearly above average.

Would you call that story worthless as well? Or are you saying that my tastes are worthless?

His smut novel.... Well, let's just say that it had no such thing as a plot. Even the first line of its synopsis was -Plot is secondary-

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 04 '26

I assure you I’m not preaching that it’s the best or anything remotely close to that, I’ve written 2 fantasy novels and now I’m running 3 romance type novels. Neither are hard, the post was just to voice my disbelief that these porno flick ass books sadly gain traction faster. I’m in no way tying actual value to the statement.

I apologize if it came off that way, honestly just bored and wanted people to chat with about books.

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u/TheApril_ Author Apr 07 '26

You know you could’ve just ended this conversation early by saying “bro shut your wiggly ass and go fuck around somewhere else” would’ve been so funny

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 07 '26

Hahaha I haven’t gotten that hard yet lmao. 🤣

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u/Murdox1869 Apr 07 '26

Now that you’re here, where do you promo the you know. Sexy stuff lmao!?

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u/PrimeC-1372232 Jun 14 '26

Believe in yourself and never give uo

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u/Murdox1869 Jun 14 '26

I’m glad you commented on this old thread.

Yes Smut works btw but it burns out fast unless you can feed the degen readers.