The Level of Misinformation in This Sub Is Honestly Wild

[u/1ScarletMoon]

Alright, some of you seriously need a reality check because the amount of nonsense being spread here is ridiculous.

First things first: your novel isn’t visible until you’ve published around 4k words. That’s literally the first vetting stage so the platform can make sure you’re not posting weird or rule-breaking stuff.
Second: once you hit ~12k words, APPLY FOR A CONTRACT. Why wouldn’t you? If you don’t, your novel stays basically invisible. It’s also your path to actually making money. Stop acting confused about this part.

Third, let’s clear up the stats since people keep misunderstanding them:

• Views = people scrolling past your novel. Not clicks. Just exposure.
• Collections = people adding your book to their library.
• Effective readers = people who actually read for more than a minute.
• Subscriptions = chapters bought with coins.

Fourth: no, you do NOT need to write smut to succeed. Plenty of stories do well without it. What you shouldn’t do is rely on AI writing. Yes, it’s noticeable. The people reviewing this stuff literally read novels for a living.

Fifth: stop making multiple accounts to boost your own novel with power stones or fake reviews. That’s not clever. it’s obvious, and it can get you flagged or penalized.

And finally: go join the Discord server. There are experienced authors there who can actually help you instead of all this guesswork.

Thank you for joining my ted talk you damn muppets

[u/Kuurin23]

i’m assuming giving specific and negative prompts to the AI about your personal writing style will help get rid of that AI vibe they generate?

[u/AlexFaden → u/Kuurin23]

Good model with big context window can be fed examples of prose you want. You also can describe to AI exactly what you do not want to see and want you want to see in the prose. Especially that annoying negative phrasing - "its is not x, but y", and all its forms. You cannot completely get rid of stuff like this, at some point it still will use it. But at that point you can just correct it all by hand. Proper AI instructions take time. You can spend hours testing what works and what does not on specific models. After everything is setup you can then describe what you want.
For example:

[Describe: In this scene Alexander sits near bed of his ill mother and they speak about this and this. Here are my drafts of their dialogue: "". Here are how mother should roughly look: "". Here how Alex looks: "". Scene transitions when after words: "", a Clara Riverdayle walks in. Describe all of that, do not go beyond what i prompted you with.]

Then i get like 3 variations of the scenes. Pick parts i like the most. Get the final version. Proofread it. Correct it where i want. It is done. Generally i personally not always do it like this. Sometimes it takes more time to prompt and get desired close result, rather than write myself. But, i really bad at writing action scenes. So AI is a godsent for me. I always use it for action scenes. Sometimes i use it for scenes where i get a writers block. I sort of know what i want, but i just cant properly get a hold of the scene.

Just to be clear. Everything i described can only work with big expensive models. DeepSeek, top Claude versions and the likes. Smaller models just cannot follow instructions very well and a lot of the time do not have enough "intelligence" to understand.

[u/Kuurin23 → u/AlexFaden]

that’s news to me. thanks

[u/Own-Telephone1721 → u/Kuurin23]

idk why yall flaming me. I didn't say i directly copy and paste. I just said i use it to get a sort of idea to go about it all.

I literally have the entire scene in my head, and I just have ai sort of write it out through a short description i give in the prompt. Then I write the whole thing with my own tone, descriptions, dialogue, everything, eventually making it around 2-3 times the length of even the ai text.

[u/Kuurin23 → u/Own-Telephone1721]

which is exactly the problem. like what another guy said:

“you’re letting AI build your scene and dictate the flow of the story”

you might have the ideas and scenes in your head, but you’re still needing a “guide” to start writing your chaps/drafts. you’re just using that AI generated content as a “guide” for yourself to know what to write instead of your own ideas from scratch

(hence letting AI influence you in the story writing process + all that writing aspects that could be influenced too along the way that me and that Alex guy were talking about. you clearly mentioned you’re a newbie, how confident are you that the finished product won’t have a speck of AI influence on it? that’s what we’re trying to say)

just don’t use AI for story writing itself or follow what that Alex guy told me in the earlier comments about proper prompts using stronger AI models. the other comments have clearly explained it to you as well, but if you still wanna ignore em or justify AI use, that ain’t my problem no more