Why do you post your novels?

[nostalgicroxas]

No one else is going to write it, no one else is going to upload it. Gotta do the work yourself.

I bounce around sites to just see how the readership and traffic is. If the site's dead and I hate the UI, there's no reason to keep uploading to it.

Summary

The only exception is devART for me - it's where I started and it's where all of my stories are. In terms of keeping the schedule feature going so I'm not just uploading everything in one day on Tapas, it'd likely take me three years to upload everything "finished" that I've written. I see no point really uploading stories I dislike / don't plan on continuing at this moment onto Tapas. That's just upsetting to any readers I may get.

[RiidDisBuk1]

Fun and passion. You have the idea of creating a vast universe with different characters and moments that can be memorable and I thought of giving it a try.

[BoredWeaver]

I really started writing for fun. I had made these stories that I had liked, but I didn't know if other people would like them. So, I started posting on Tapas and other sites to see what people think. So... I guess my answer would be feedback and experience. I want to be able to write a story that eventually gets published, so I want to take what I learn from these other stories and comments so that I can improve.

[CodeMonkeyArts]

I post these mostly for fun but also to get feedback and thoughts on my story. I like the interactions between readers and characters and I want fun theories and questions to be asked about the tale and the people in it. Also, attention is nice

[375]

It started out of sheer bordem back in the summer of 2017. Now it's just because I wanna share my work with people

[taylorlauren]

My novel started as a short story when I took one of my first creative writing classes in college and it just expanded upon that. I used it for my senior capstone and made storyboards and character sheets for the version it was then. After I graduated, I completely gutted some things and added more characters and decided that I was going to full on write it out as a web novel! I spent a few months working it before I started publishing and I'm so happy I did. I write it for myself and post it so that other people can see it and hopefully one day I'll have some people who love my story and characters just as I do~

here's a link if anyone wants to check it out~

Adventures In Magic :: The Discovery of Magic | Tapas

[surenlicious]

To me its for building my audience. I do both the art and writing for my novel-in-the-making, and I figured if I ever want to publish this book I need that audience too. Building it together, make them see my progress, get inticed by the art THAT is what makes it worthwhile for me. It helps me build my brand, my name, and gain the increasing fame to my setting. I get the feedback, and I get people that love what I am doing and heck, I am even making new friends.

That is wholesome to me.

[JeshuaMorbus]

Basically, i need feefback and not a lot of people gives it to me.
I have the usual "great!" or "amazing!" but no real feedback. So, i keep trying.

[Psychobott]

thinking about it, maybe it's for attention? I love getting feedback, comments, votes, etc. I love to engage with people. I get excited when I write because I want to see people's reactions after I post it. That sounds so bad and egoistical, I dunno, but truthfully, that's what appeared in my mind.

[k5rakitan]

Woman replied to the words of Male the husband, "I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, 'Make love, not war!'"

In other words, I write to stand up for stigmatized and marginalized groups, especially those which I am also a member of. Fiction has the power to move hearts and minds, so by sharing our stories, we show the world that it's OK to be different.

"We are not merely participants in culture but creators of it." - Kari Rakitan

[hjpetersonauthor]

Because I love getting feedback. It's been my dream to be traditionally published, someday, and so I started to post my first drafts online. I love getting feedback and reader reactions, and I know that I've improved 1000% since I started posting my drafts.

[Twoony]

By this point, my job is writing. I have work here on Tapas that's premium plus free to read novels on multiple sites. I have a patreon and works up on amazon. However, before I started actually working towards writing full time, I posted stories because it was simply fun and engaging. I never thought I would ever be good enough to be an author, although I wanted to be since a young age. Writing online allowed me to make friends with similar interests. I liked interacting with readers and seeing how they reacted. After a few years, I hoped by posting it could help better my writing. Now it's kind of a mix lol

[ForLackOfStars]

I write web novels for a few reasons:

• I'm in the midst of editing a novel that I'm planning on querying agents about, and I need something where I can just turn my brain off and write without stressing out about perfection. It keeps me sane, and it keeps me consistently writing every week.
• Getting attention for my writing feels good, especially when my more "serious" work doesn't see the light of days until years after it has been conceive.
• It's fun to fantasize about making a living off what I post online, even though the odds of that happening are, frankly speaking, absurdly low.
• Unfortunately, it's much more difficult to write very queer works for mainstream purposes. The internet gives me a space to write blatantly, unapologetically queer fiction, as well as share it with others.

[kiragin003]

I am writing my story because I have had this story and characters in my head for five years. I just want other to have the chance to get to know them and love them as much as I do.

[Aims]

I post it here because publishers in my country are chaotic, expensive and because literature in my country is basically dead.

Meanwhile publishing on Tapas is free, simple, has no strings attached and I have control over everything that concerns my story not to mention that my work is accessible for everyone around the world immediately. I don't know how it is in your country, but publishing my book on tapas was definitely better than trying to make my name as an author in my country.

And I learned that real life publisher are overrated and a thing of the past (at least for me)

[themerrytroll]

I share my novel because I should. What's a story if can't be told? I've been writing for years now, and though I took a slump, a long hiatus, I still keep going back to writing. Of course, there's me thinking that my story has a potential to be more than a story but I believe that comes second to what really matters, at least to me, and that is because I simply love to write.

The Rescue Blues I: Sweet and Low | Tapas

[DogshitJay]

It's my first time doing creative writing since I'm a marketing content writer by trade. I wanted the interaction to keep me accountable to finishing it. Now that I get thoughtful insights on my characters and via comments, I'm kind of addicted to that? When someone says they can't wait for the update? hnnnggghg!!! Makes me feel so good! Wish I could post more than 3x a week for that!

Also, although my story is mostly just the sexy fun romance I wanted to write, I'm also using it to subtly address some social issues that really trouble me. Like my Korean MC experiencing racial micro-aggressions in a very diverse western city. Or bisexual erasure. I think fiction is an important outlet to explore social issues, and I think a lot of us use it for that. Also representing some aspects of marginalized identities that I feel like I want to see more of. Plus i dunno...makeouts....

Kiss It Better | Tapas

[grotesqueice]

For the longest time I have been writing on my own and I have no one to read it. Just everyday thoughts and then hose thoughts turned to poems and some turned to concept that might branch out to stories.

My main goal in writing is to somehow address the people who don't have the power to speak out their own thoughts. I want to share these things so that those people may find it relatable - so that they wouldn't think that they are alone. I don't want them to feel the same way I did. (just a self deluding wish)

I wanted to share my work here because I wanted to talk to people who has the same (or maybe different) outlook as I do. Just that simple interaction makes me feel happy and alive. I want to be that person who they might want to unload their burdens with. I want them to feel like there's someone out there who feels the same way they did and that they are not alone when they think of dark ans depressing things.

Sometimes, just knowing that is comforting enough.

[LadyN]

It was to get feedback but nobody read or responded so it’s just there to be there.

[Penni]

I initially wanted something to motivate me to keep going and to hopefully learn more about writing. Since I didn't really have a clue.

It's worked so far! I've met a lot of people who have shown me something about writing and I've learned so much. Plus, I enjoy the interaction you can get with readers that you wouldn't be able to receive through publishing by other means.