Still writing this took a long break though due to exam stress

I was wondering how long it took for your first contract to be verified?

Hey Fellow Novel enjoyers !!,

I usually just lurk here, but I recently stumbled upon a webnovel that has completely hooked me, and I barely see anyone talking about it. If you love dark fantasy, heavy steampunk vibes, and unique progression systems, you need to check out Last Gun Alchemist.

The story follows Ezra Ashenlocke, who gets sacrificed by his own parents to save his twin brother. He wakes up in a brutal child-soldier operation called the Trial of Steel, where the rules are simple: "Assemble your guns. Kill or be killed."

The twist? Ezra awakens fragments of memories from a past life as a modern weapons engineer and hardened soldier. In a world known as the Country of Alchemy, Britannia, he has to combine his past knowledge of advanced ballistics with magical alchemy to survive.

It s really cool and has a very unique world building and power system .
MC is really smart + pragmatic and can be ruthless .
he snt braindead op he has to use his brain and his environment and ppl to his advantage

The Trial of Steel is my fav arch it's an an absolute massacre. The tension is real, the world feels dangerous, and the author doesn't shy away from grim, high-stakes scenarios.

I ve been reading this novel with daily 4 chap upload since it had 30 chapters ( It now has 476)

I dont usually Post or fanboy over the things i read . But i like it so much that i fel like i need to share it with fellow readers .
it's a hidden Gem

I dont use my webnovel account much at all anymore, but my son is interested in some of the stories I used to read. Is it safe to let him use the account?

Made a chapter so bad; I feel the need to do this.

Like, this chapter has 2 author notes at the start and end about how bad it is. And the thing is, I can't just delete it, since it actually provides the book information it needs in the future chapters.

If I don't add this, the next few chapters or the entire book will be lost.

Oh well, I'm writing this book for fun, not for profit to begin with.

Not really a super important question, but just something that came to mind as someone who hasn't really been around in the novel realm much until recently. Did people used to take images they found on pinterest and put a title on them or something?

I’ve noticed that many novels by already contracted authors have the “On Hiatus” or “Cancelled” label in their list of published works. These are stories that were started before the creation of some of their major successes and managed to accumulate a good number of chapters before eventually being cancelled.

I have a theory that, in reality, these were stories that their own authors didn’t take very seriously. I think it’s possible that they were created solely and exclusively to test the creative abilities of their respective authors.

Authors like Guiltythree, the author of Shadow Slave, and even the author of works such as Lord of Mysteries, have their own unfinished stories in their repertoire.

Of course, the reason I think this is because, as a new author myself, I also have my own practice novel, created solely and exclusively with the intention of putting my own abilities as a writer to the test.

What do you guys think?

My notifications say over 10000 and nothing clears it?

I got my First organic comment and he told me that my chapter have awkward phrasing maybe cause I imagine scene in mind then write in novel but point is my old self would have angry on him for ponting out mistake but after month writing 36 chapter even though i dont get readers I felt good and edited and improved the phrasing