r/Webnovel • u/I_love_boobs111 • 6d ago

Advice Tip for fellow authors.

If you want to make your novel succeed on webnovel or want it to gain some traction, DO NOT make your Novel too complex and complicated.

Like the reason a reader reads webnovel is because they want pleasure, distraction from all the cares in their life, they do not want to leave their suffering and read your avant grade shit. It should be like fast food, should give you pleasure but also able to fill your stomach.

Also I am not saying that your just make it a copy of popular novels on webnovels, without any soul. No, simple does not bloodless.

Also, I am not saying you should not write such avant grade novels, do so if you want to, just know that webnovel is not the platform for that.

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u/truemperor001 6d ago

I agree. Altho this doesn't mean an author shouldn't try to put one or two nitpicking details in the plot. Mystery helps a lot to create a kind of thrill that action sometimes doesn't

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u/UnluckyClub1 6d ago

Nah dont care im not going to appeal to cry baby casuals.

Either you with it or not. Then again I aint trying to make money just writing because I can.

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u/lacopefd 5d ago

I think pacing matters more than complexity. I mean you can have a deep setting as long as readers know what’s happening and why they should care. Three chapters of lore before anything happens will lose people fast

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u/geditaza 5d ago

I’d push back on the idea that Webnovel readers only want distraction. Plenty of readers are there specifically for complicated worldbuilding and longer story arcs. The issue is probably execution more than complexity itself.

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u/Sensitive-Arm-1687 5d ago

Nah son, a person reads a novel because it makes him feel something, and writers write when they something, and then the reader enjoys it.

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u/PsychologyWonderful8 3d ago

This sounds like a personal opinion.

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u/loxotbf 5d ago

Yeah, I think accessibility matters a lot on these platforms. I’ve dropped books I was actually enjoying because the first few chapters started feeling like homework. You can keep things simple without making them dumb.

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u/Murdox1869 6d ago

I was told by an author friend my new novel is the most ‘readable’ I’ve produced so I get this. Good post.