It has 72, 316 views, the readers viewing time is high and peak, it's getting high average views in a day.
But why isn't it getting any fanbase or getting popular!
*Stephen is getting impatient about it, day by day*
Is there something wrong with my novel? They are reading a lot of the chapters in one day, are some of the views just bots that viewed my novel? What a scam.
*Stephen wants his novel to get popular so that it will get turned into a comic and animation to get rich by royalties, selling clothes, figurines, books, and lots of more*
I could also feel that there is something wrong with my novel, it is hard to understand the scenes and imagine it.
The old chapters, I already forgot the images of the scenes, they were now forgotten because I need to imagine new scenes for the new chapters.
I really just turned all my imaginations into words but hard to understand because I have low vocabulary in my brain.
If only I can draw so that I could just draw the scenes and images instead of words without any pictures to see the scene.
I really really want to hire a comic artist but the problem is, it will cost a lot.
If only the readers donate to my novel so that I can earn and hire a comic artist. But the problem is, I hadn't earned a single cent.
My novel is just free to read on the platform I published it. They also rejected the contract of the novel. I just quit and stopped making novels after that but I came back after a few months.
I really need a comic artist
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"Eeeeey, Stephen, how are you?" My friend Marlon greeted me while walking towards them
"Good" I replied.
I took and pulled a chair and sat down with them in a circle, looking at each other.
*There are 10 of them including Stephen*
Marlon took out some kind of a magazine from his jacket, it is a magazine about models on the beach.
"Boys or gentlemens, I bought the newest Beach Girls magazine that just got released. Plus, I also bought 5 copies" Marlon whispered to us
What!? No way! He started handing the copies to us, he gave one to me.
"Open it Stephen" Kent beside me said
"Just chillax bro, be patient"
I flipped the page, we were met by a beautiful young girl on the first page, doing a pose.
She is wearing a bikini, her breasts are big, her curves are also big.
*Stephen was a naughty guy, but wasn't before*
The girl's name is Elizabeth Frost, such a beautiful name for a beautiful girl.
We giggled as we flipped the pages, looking at the pictures.
"President! Those boys there again are reading porn magazines!" One of the girls inside the classroom shouted
*They have done this multiple times, but caught. Each time they get caught, the more they learn to hide the magazine*
"Not the same boys again" we heard the president
We've been caught! The president stood up from her seat and started approaching us.
"Here!"
"All of you! Give me those magazines! You know it's prohibited in school"
"Woah, this hero looked cool!" I said, looking at the character in the comic book"
"I know right?"
The president came to us and found us reading normal comics.
*Marlon bought cheap comics and they used it to cover up the Beach Girls Magazines*
"I know that all of you are hiding it, how many times do we repeat that do not carry those kinds of magazines to read"
"What do you mean? We are reading comics"
"I know you're lying, you got to be hiding it here somewhere"
The president started searching us and looked around for it. We kept our cool, she gave up.
"I don't need to search your backpacks because all of you are now grown ups. All of you should know between what's wrong and what's right. And you-"
The president went behind me and pulled my chair, pulling and separating me away from the group.
The chair made a loud skidding noise as she pulled me.
"Steeeeephen, stop being friends with people like them" the president said, pointing at the group
"I just need friends" I replied, looking down
"Yeah but not like them. You really changed a lot when they came to this school"
*The president Cheska Anderson, a childhood classmate of Stephen and a popular girl in school. The only thing that she wants is the old innocent Stephen*
I looked back at the group with a straight face, they looked back.
Suddenly, one of them burst out a little laugh, the other also started laughing and smirking. I also burst out a smirk.
*Smack*
"Ow!"
"What are you laughing for!?" Cheska said after slapping my head
Cheska went away, going back to what she was doing.
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*Teacher Teaching Gibberish*
What's the next chapter of this romance novel again!! How could I forget!
*Stephen has three ongoing novels, a romance, action and comedy*
Oh right, I remember now. Both of them went for a summer vacation, when they went to a beach, they accidentally saw each other, who went to the same beach.
Now that they accidentally met, both of them blushed. Okay, next, hmmmm, they both turned around out of embarrassment.
The main character started thinking about the girl or his crush's body in swimming underwear while the girl started thinking about the topless main character.
Okay, now, before I will continue, I will add an awkward moment for the both of them, hmmmm.
The teacher came over, the teacher looked at the writing on Stephen's paper.
"Improve your writing Mr. Stephen" the teacher said to me
*Stephen has a really bad hand writing/penmanship*
I remained quiet, the teacher continued teaching. I went back to thinking about ideas.
The Beach Girls magazine images started flashing before my mind.
*Snap*
Now I have an idea
*His hornines just took over, not a good idea*
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And finished, whooo, damn, transferring the chapter from paper to the phone is such a pain.
I could just use my phone's AI and picture the words from the paper and copy it but there will be misunderstood words because of my handwriting.
How many words..... 1,739 words, nice, time to publish it. I went to the NovelSpark platform and published the chapter.
Tomorrow, I will continue my action novel. I went to my computer. Me, wanting to have a comic artist to adapt my novel, raced through my mind.
What if.... What if there is a comic artist out there that can do it for free.... Yes? No?
Maybe surfing around the internet, I might find one! A person, right!? ..... Right?
*Stephen started searching all around the internet, going from platform to platform. Going to a group and to another group.
He has his eyes on the screen, he may not like reading but he is focusing, something that might catch his eyes.
Stephen made a 30 minutes search schedule, but he continued searching, searching for hours and hours.
He is scrolling, he then suddenly stopped scrolling. Something caught his eyes, he found something.*
*
"Hello dear authors, Tinatan here, a comic artist and I am excited to hear from aspiring authors who want to see their stories come to life in a new way.
I can adapt your novels or imaginations into a comic. I'm happy to take a look at your work and see if it's a good fit for a comic adaptation. Could you send me a link to your story? I'm particularly interested in a lot of genre
Don't worry, I can do the adaptations for free! Surprising right!? Here are samples of my drawing. I can also change my art styles depending on the genre or what you want!
The left is a romance themed drawing, on the right is action, below is horror, and on the right below is Sci Fi."
*
I looked at the images below, woah. The drawings looked beautiful. The romance theme has a beautiful art style, the action theme looked realistic and cool!
Is this it!? Did I really find the one!? My lord and savior!?
I looked down below to the comments.
*
"Too good to be true"
"I am not sure if those artworks are created by you"
"Naaaah, really? For free with those artstyles?*
"He or she might have gotten it from others"
"Yeah, beautiful and realistic artsyles, but I don't trust you"
"Kinda dangerous talking with shady people like this one, draw for free"
"Didn't Tinatan ghost that whole project last year? They were supposed to be illustrating a webcomic, but they just disappeared"
"I heard they got kicked off that art group for stealing someone's design. They're good, but they're trouble."
"Remember that time they tried to sell a bunch of stolen artwork online? They were caught and banned from the platform. They're always up to something."
*
The comments are backlashing, and they are right, it is too good to be true.
But she says it is free, there is nothing to risk. Okay, girl or boy, I am interested.
I created an account on the platform, after that, I searched for his or her name at the search bar.
"@Tinatan"
There it is, the account, it is his or her latest post I just saw. I went to her account and messaged her that I am interested in her service.
I sent her the link to my novel. Ahh, finished, now, we will wait.
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It is the middle of the day, he or she isn't replying. The classroom was very loud, lots of talking, lots of laughs.
I am just sitting alone, staring blankly on my phone. Hoping for him or her to reply.
*Smack*
"Ow!"
Someone slapped my head, I rubbed my head. I looked up, it was the president, Cheska.
"What is it, why did you do that?"
She held up her phone to my face, the screen was showing words and letters. It's background looked like the platform theme I am publishing my novels.
"What is that, what are you showing me?"
"Your novel, the chapter you just published last night"
"Oh, I didn't know you were actually reading my novel, thank you. But is there something wrong with the chapter?"
"You sexualize both of the main characters where the part that they got stuck in the bathroom, that scene!"
"Sorry, that's what my imagination says"
Cheska slammed both of her hands on my table. I got startled. Damn, getting angry because of a novel? Cringe.
"It is not your imagination that is making you do this Stephen! The reason is your new friends, they are the one who is making you these kinds of ideas! I was enjoying your novel from the start until you got those friends of yours, the novel got a bit worse and a bit sexualized. Starting this week, you better not be friends with them before your morale will be affected"
The president went away. Godamit, what even was that? That hurts.
*Tuting*
The phone on my hand made a notification sound. I looked at the notification, Tinatan messaged.
Here it is! I clicked on the notification, I was sent to the app.
"Wow! Your novel was captivating and good! The story is fitted and should be turned into a comic right away.
It is kinda surprising that you are working on 3 novels at the same time. Yes! I will be glad to be working with you and become your artist.
For the following chapters you want to turn into comics, please make detailed information for each panels you wanted for me to draw and your wish is my command"
No way! No way no way no way, I got myself a comic artist! Wait a minute.....
"That is good and exciting to hear. What language do you speak?"
I sent the message. I just want to make sure, if he or she is talking to a different language and uses AI, I won't continue and pressure him or her during the making of the comic.
*Tuting*
He or she replied quickly.
"I speak English, I am from New Jersey. I will soon be transferring to New York, what about you?"
New Jersey? Isn't that very close to my city? And she's also moving to New York!
"I also speak English so that means we will easily understand each other. It is also a coincidence that my new comic artist will be coming to the city that I am living in"
I sent the message, I grinned, grin of excitement.
"Boo!"
"Woah!"
I jumped, my chair made a loud skidding noise on the floor. I looked behind, it was Kent.
"What's that big grin all over your face? Who's your texting with? This is the first time I saw you texting with someone. Maybe it's your girlfriend?"
"No, it is a comic artist. I hired him or her to turn my novels into a comic"
"Yeah, I believe you. But if it's a girl, what would be your reaction?"
"I-I don't know"
*Tuting*
Tinatan replied again
"Kent, want to come with us?" Marlon who is outside the classroom shouted
"Wait for me"
Kent went away with Marlon. I looked at Tinatan's reply.
"Woah, you're in New York! That makes it even better! Mind if I live you? It may be a joke or serious. I will be coming there on Friday, I will enroll in a school on Saturday"
Saturday huh? And what do you mean living with me? We have a guest room at home but I am not sure if my parents want Tinatan to live with us.
"I am not sure if my parents want to. I will be excited to meet you. Maybe a plaza would be the best place to meet. We have a lot of plazas here, which one do you want?"
I sent the reply, I waited for her reply. She replied.
"Plaza would be the best place to meet. I would like to meet with you in Union Square since it's the plaza I wanted to visit"
"Union Square it is, I will meet you near the Union Square Drinking Foundation. Ask people around for directions"