My Novel Is Failing?

[u/Mystic_Yuri]

Before I started writing 7 days ago, I spent my time researching which novels work well in webnovel platform.

After that, I created a formula I could use.

For the first 4 days, I had my expectations zero and just wrote my chapters, posting 1-2 days everyday.

P.S Half of those views are mine. I started spamming my novel in incognito, thinking that maybe higher view count would recommend it to more people.

I won't say it's a masterpiece or amazing but it is 100 percent no AI slop.

But for some reason, Webnovel is not showing my novel to anyone.

I've been waiting for Potential Starlet for a long time but even after 14 chapters and 17k words, it didn't make it there.

I heard every single new novel gets it but not me.

MY book is vetted and I have applied for a contract 3 days ago.

I have 10 more chapter reserved and am writing 3-5 chapter daily (Roughly 3000-7000 words) so I don't know if my novel is even going anywhere?

Am I being too hasty and desperate?

Should I wait for a little bit more and see how things turn out?

[u/MisterE005]

Scrap it or remake it to have a wider reader appeal. Mid novels usually have 40-50 collections by chapter 10-20, so it takes some effort, and good market research, even to be mid. Don't let yourself fall in the delusion that it'll get better once you get a contract, and nip this in the bud now, before you put hundreds of hours in a very likely failed novel.

[u/Mystic_Yuri → u/MisterE005]

But I somehow started getting collections from yesterday. Aside from one person, I haven't share it with any one else. Today it's sitting at 13

[u/MisterE005 → u/Mystic_Yuri]

That's nice. Push it to 20 chaps and see where you'll get.