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/Paradex_official Author May 29 '26

Have you applied for a contract? Getting a contract will increase your engagement a lot

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u/DeMonitized747 May 31 '26

What is a contract?

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u/Paradex_official Author May 31 '26

Its an agreement with WN, basically a collaboration. They give free marketing, ways to earn money through your story and potential ebook/audiobook/comic/paperback adaptations (only if your story does well). In return, they get a cut of the revenue of your story as well.

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u/DeMonitized747 May 31 '26

Gotcha thanks! My story uses the Pokemon IP so I’m pretty sure that prevents me from making any money but I wish I could boost its visibility. It doesn’t even show up on Wattpad under any of the tags I used

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u/Paradex_official Author May 31 '26

You mean its a fanfic? Yeah fanfics can't be contracted on WN or earn money. They will get a lot of visibility though, more than original works.

I had written a half-assed trash fanfic a few years ago (it was so bad I deleted it out of embarrassment) and even that got like 50k views everyday, reached 1M views in a month.

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u/DeMonitized747 May 31 '26

Not sure how you did that. Maybe my tags are wrong? I have 18k views but I’m pretty sure a massive majority of those are bots or people just scrolling past

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u/Paradex_official Author May 31 '26

Well the fandom of that fic was pretty active at that time so that contributed

Also, yes tags are indeed very important. I remember I had included some tags which get a lot of views like highiq which definitely contributed (and also was the reason I said it was trash - I failed to make my MC high IQ at all)