All the things you hate about writing Web Novels

[AllynCrowe]

Each second you spend having to redo the italics and fix the quotes, Tapas takes as power for summoning a dark cosmic horror that will consume us all with his third lower mouth while watching Dr Who.

[vothnthorvaldson]

I am constantly looking for art accounts to follow and just end up with written tweets instead.

I have so many issues with that.. Actually I can't see myself keeping any time for twitter because of that. And that include caring for my own account, that stays unused.

If I follow a personal account it is (sort of) fine to get many random written tweets, but if I follow a specifically art account, I don't really want all the random thoughts. Plus, I'm often very disappointed by the artists I like, not necessarily because they actually are bad persons, but because this mode of communication is so shallow people post without thinking at all and a lot of posts are inconsiderate and irking. Sometimes when I know the person outside of social media I wonder if it is actually the same person. Maybe there are also a lot of tweets that are written when people are drunk? I don't now, but twitter or anything permitting/promoting thoughtless posts is not for me.
And it is handicapping when it comes to promoting my work.

[MariMontoya]

When I copy and paste....and I just don't indent anymore on tapas...I'm a monster...plus italics are a pain.
And there are some days when I copy my chapter on Tapas but I still have to edit it some more and just so it doesn't publish the same day I just set a random date and I kinda forget about it, so when that day comes Penni has to remind me that I published a chapter with two words on it...fun...
Burn outs are just awful. As much as I love my babies there are some days that I just don't want to write or know what to write.
Having a social media presence. I think of something and I'm like this sounds like a good tweet let me post it. I get on Twitter start to type and then I forget what I was supposed to say or I get cold feet.

[WaterRaven]

I am 100% with you on that. At this point, I'm only on Twitter because I've been on it so long and I have a large (enough) following from the very supportive writer community. That community is generally positive, I find.

What isn't there though, is definitely the art. I don't mind seeing some personal tweets mixed in, especially if they're looking for a nod that someone's there and cares, but I don't care for the petty and toxic stuff. I actually had to step away from Facebook as a personal social media (I only update my author profile) because I got that--social media anxiety/depression? I think there's a name for it now. It took me a little while, but I realized it was having a big impact on my mental health.

Twitter really isn't a visual platform and even if an artist posts artwork or photography, it's usually lost in a host of written tweets and cropped anyway. I might go back to tumblr. I signed a couple petitions to try and change their minds on the ban but we'll see I guess.

Thanks for the reply

[WaterRaven]

I see that a lot on Twitter and Instagram. On Twitter writers use anything from movie and T.V. gifs to copy written images and photography as a visual for a quote or description from their book and it makes me so upset when they don't credit the creator. I won't RT anything that's not credited to the artist or photographer. Wattpad has a lot of people making book covers from images that don't belong to them too, but I mean, apparently you can write fanfic about a real person on Wattpad, make them an abusive alcoholic and not get sued for it--even after it gets a publishing deal and becomes a movie O.o --now that definitely seems nuts to me

[Lady_DarkStar]

I hate PR. I hate that getting views is a popularity contest. I hate that I feel pressured to put out a product I'm not satisfied with because people just don't care about grammar, or if the work is polished. I hate that because I come from a traditional publishing background, what is popular on the web makes me cringe because It's symptomatic of the deterioration of the public education system. I hate that I'm having to waste more time promoting my stuff on social media than I get to write. I hate that I feel like I'm wasting my time writing a book that is going to take at least 3 more drafts before I'm happy enough with it to publish it because I'm the only one who will appreciate the extra work i put into it to bring it to the level it could be sent to a traditional publisher. I hate that I'm starting every sentence with "I Hate".

[Maps]

I’m currently in this boat (inbetween point A and C). I’m having some type of writer’s block (like I have ideas but I’m not feeling motivated enough by them to sit down and whip em out). I’m more excited for what I know is to come. It’s been difficult trying to space out this part of my story and sort of fill in some blanks. I’ll honestly begin trying to type and just feel exhausted/overwhelmed. I’m also doing a comic which I’ve been working on more this week, but I desperately want to remain consistent with my novel chapters. I just can’t find it in me to start the next chapter yet

[Maps]

OMG you guys I did it. I wrote my chapter. I feel like a god.
But I also think I made the mistake of also adding in bits that will spin off into more unwritten parts

truestruggles

[nostalgicroxas]

I honestly feel like tumblr started to get abandoned when pixiv moved in, and moreso after the advent of Instagram. I dislike how any and all platforms basically allow you to steal art. In this day and age of reverse google search images, we should have a site set up that in the process of uploading the image gets flagged and you have to appeal it. That could be messy yes, but I'm sick of seeing a lot of the same artist's stuff stolen - either from their dA to a different social media, or from their Patreon exclusive to something free/open.
Tumblr was good as a "blog" and even then, it honestly failed to like... actual blog sites hahaha Especially for navigation. The only thing it has/d going for it is the seamless scrolling it has and the ability that text = images = gifs. The UI and layout is 10x better than anything instagram which just handles pictures.

[OrangeHanada]

On the mystery side of things, posting web novels serially really messes up what kind of clues I can use and how I can hide them, etc, because posting serially means that there's a good chance that your audience is going to forget minor details that are going to be of crucial importance later. Or, even, that they might forget conversations that end up being vitally important.

Gah!