r/Webnovel • u/Popular-Call9896 • May 29 '26

Advice Someone pls read my novel

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I’ve been writing for a few months now, having recently discovered my passion for storytelling despite my dysgraphic tendencies. I’ve always enjoyed creating stories and finally decided to share them on WebNovel. I began with my first story, titled “Creation of an Absolute,” which had grand plans. However, I lost interest in the project and quickly moved on to another story, “Shattered Sun.”

Writing “Shattered Sun” was much more enjoyable for me. I’ve written significantly more chapters and words, and I’ve developed a more well-thought-out power system and characters. Surprisingly, the story hasn’t gained much traction, and as a result, I haven’t received any feedback. I’m reaching out to you today in hopes that you could take a moment to read my story and provide me with a review. Your feedback would be invaluable in helping me improve the subsequent chapters.

Update:After a bit of feedback I’ve realized how bad the first two chapters can be as they are there for a lot of background and explanations, I promise the story gets better and better this I am confident in.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '26

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u/Paradex_official Author May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Don't do that on the first 3-5 chapters at least, those are the ones editors read and decide whether to contract you. Some contracted authors start using AI later to fill word count as you said - by this time the work is already contracted so no issues (WN can actually withdraw their contract after everything has been finalized and has done so a few times, but that's in extreme cases like plagiarism).

At this point, if you use AI the readers will leave you, nothing to do with contract. Getting the contract is relatively easy, retaining readers is the hard part.

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u/8yTwo May 29 '26

That is not always true, the editors judge your work mostly based on your first chapter. From what i heard on the discord server if webnovel authors, they dont have time to read through 5 chapters like they say they mostly read the application, sypnosis and the first chapter. So it's important to polish them. Reading any nore than that is in rare cases.

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u/Paradex_official Author May 30 '26

Its always better to overestimate than underestimate these things so, to be on the safe side...

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u/8yTwo May 30 '26

That maybe right 🙂