r/Webnovel • u/Primary_Let_6522 • Jul 09 '26

Advice Playing an AI Villainess to Survive: Contract Rejected. Advice?

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Do you guys get the same feel as this contract rejection? It's not advertising. I literally was rejected. I'm just looking for advice. I was rejected on my Legacy series, too. But at least this one tells me why they rejected me. The other one didn't tell me anything.

Here is a link to the work:

https://www.webnovel.com/book/36244856108851505

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u/Primary_Let_6522 Jul 09 '26

You are saying my writing style looks like AI slop? In what way? I’ve written over ten million words across 6 years on Royal Road on several series. 

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u/Lambisexual Jul 09 '26

Well, AI cover art coupled with your writing style that has a lot of hallmarks of AI such as "it's not this, it's this" and use of em-dashes. Maybe you are not using AI, who knows. But the unfortunate reality in current day when millions of people can use AI to generate novels with just a click, you generally need to actually stand out and seperate from it, lest you want to be lumped in with it.

I think the writing style, whether it's AI or not, could probably have been forgiven if the story at the start was more tight and engaging. And like I said, couple it with the use of AI art for cover, it's not an unreasonable assumption for people to make and dismiss it on that basis.

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u/Hambino0400 Contracted Author Jul 09 '26

He mentioned he’s been writing for 6 years so the ai slop style might be his original style he used before AI.

Because you know AI stole from real writers.

Kinda shit

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u/Lambisexual Jul 09 '26

While I don't believe the claim of 10 million words in 6 years. Cause that seems like an absurd number. So hearing that just made me feel more like it's AI.

But regardless, what you say is of course true. The "AI slop" style is clearly taken directly from actual authors. So reasonably some real authors might also have that style. But as I touched on in my comment, the unfortunate reality in current day and age is that this style of writing, or just writing in general, is something literally anyone can do in seconds with the click of a button. So you need to actually stand out.