TLDR: I will be taking a break from 22nd March to 1st April. The same routine as always I guess.
Hi guys! How have you been? We have come to the end of yet another book, and unlike the other times, I don't have much to say this time, lol. So I'll try to keep this as short as possible.
As some of you may have realised, Webnovel censored the word P A T R E O N, so all my links to the P-site had been blanked out. And before any of you think that I'm going to rant about it, I'm going to cut you off and say I support their decision to censor the P-site. Look, they are a company that needs to earn money, and I'm using their platform to promote my novel. They have every right to block the P-site if the want more authors to join their Premium, and I don't blame them for that. Yeah, it might be annoying to move around it, but I'll get by. It's not like they're trying to remove my novel away from the platform.
Being a web novelist of this genre, there's really only two options that you can go to. Royalroad is one, but the big player is actually Webnovel. According to Alexa.com, a website that tracks website traffic, Royalroad is ranked 15,168 globally, while Webnovel is ranked 3,183 (as of writing this author's thoughts).
So not only is Webnovel the site with the better traffic, but it also has a method to boost readership, and that is to post daily. Using the algorithm, the daily updates feed will feature the novels that post every day, which is why I have maintained this gruelling schedule of writing every single day. So yeah, they may have censored the P-site, but Webnovel has given me a wider readership and boosted my overall readership, which I'm grateful for.
Now, some might ask. Why not join the Premium program then? Won't all your troubles be solved?
I would be lying if I said I never considered it. After all, with all the controversy the P-site is having plus the constant technical issues for no apparent reason, I have considered just biting the forbidden apple. However, I would never go Premium for two simple reasons.
One, I didn't want my work to be liable to another organisation. You see, I'm already working for a boss and writing Spirit Immortal is my escape from real life. I want to have the luxury to do whatever I want with it. If I feel like writing Spirit Immortal no longer becomes fun, and instead it becomes a chore, I will stop it entirely.
Secondly, I quite dislike the Premium system where only the first hundred-odd chapters would be free while the remainder would be locked behind a paywall. Back before Webnovel became this way, I really enjoyed reading through hundreds of chapters and having the latest ten chapters locked. Something like the Wuxiaworld VIP system I guess (which is why I started a P-site with that structure in mind). I'm pretty sure many of you feel the same way.
In a perfect world, I would love to give you all the chapters for free. After all, I want the story of Spirit Immortal to spread to as many readers as possible. However, the world ain't perfect man. I have to justify spending hours of my time every day to write this novel and passion isn't enough. As they say in my country, what is passion? Is it edible?
Each hour that I spend writing Spirit Immortal is an hour not spent improving my work skills or taking another job, or enjoying life as it is. Thus, I have to implement some sort of paywall to earn money. That's the only way I can bring myself to continue writing the novel, and to create a P-site is the lesser of the two evils I guess?
I sound like I'm berating Webnovel, but I'm really thankful that it has created such a great platform for budding web novelists. No other site in the world can offer what they have, and to give you some perspective, I shall give you the numbers.
I started posting Spirit Immortal on Royalroad on 24th April 2018 and am currently sitting at over 600 followers with 700k views. I posted Spirit Immortal on Webnovel on 29th June 2018, and I have over 5000 readers with over 2 million views. Also, they once placed me on the trending originals page even though they didn't have to. Not to mention the countless of times they featured me on daily.
As much as I loved the freedom that Royalroad had given me, they never once featured me on trending, which is kind of disappointing since I have been posting almost every day. Also, the rating system in Royalroad is kind of annoying. I once dropped 500 ranks due to one 0.5 rating, and after a huge number of 4 or 5-star ratings, it dropped heavily once more due to another 0.5 rating. So now I just ignore ratings altogether and I do the same for almost every novel I read on Royalroad.
Wait, how did I get into this tangent again? Oh right, I was talking about Webnovel's censorship of the P-site. If you really want to support me and read additional content, you can find my P-site link on my website, let's pray Webnovel doesn't censor that as well.
Hey, if you like Spirit Immortal, my subscribers (not sure if Patrons would be censored as well), can get up to FIFTEEN chapters in advance! Also, during this break that I'm going to have, I will be posting two additional SS so that the page wouldn't be stagnant for an extended period of time.
Linodo? Didn't you say that this author's thoughts would be short? Yeah, yeah. Me a liar.
Alright, see ya in a week!
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Support me on P A T R E O N to read up to FIFTEEN CHAPTERS ahead!!! :p
Now that Webnovel is censoring the word P A T R E O N, I can't really post the link for the site here. If you really want to support me, go to my website's link! You can find links to my P A T R E O N over there.
Visit my site for additional content!!!
https://linodofictions.com/
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