Question How's the webnovel scene in your country?

Discussion in 'Novel General' started by pentadrian, Mar 18, 2018.

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  1. Beer_Kitty

    Beer_Kitty Just a very very drunk kitty that likes beer

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    No idea. Lol.
    If our soap operas are crappy as hell then those WN maybe as crappy as that.

    Btw im from Philppnes
     
  2. Sheng Luxiya

    Sheng Luxiya Well-Known Member

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    I live in China so...but in my home country people just recently discovered the area of the internet outside of social media and Google apps. I don't think they have time to be worrying about such things yet. give it a few years I think
     
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    kelkel1133 Well-known Devil

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    Well, there are small novels here in the Philippines though they were targeted at teenage girls. Novels here is equated to cringey romance so there are almost no males who read novels due to its "infamy". There are also horror, mystery but strangely, there are no magic, no fantasy and no catgirls....
     
  4. MangoGuy

    MangoGuy Rambling Mango

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    India
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    Rhyse Well-Known Member

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    Try exploring wattpad. There's a sht ton of overly cliche and cringy af novels that seemed to be targeted for 13 yrs old girls who still think fairytales are real.
     
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    between diabestes sweet romance cringefest or religious propaganda
     
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    dzymmer {LURKER}{Ghost}

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    you want me to go blind and have diabetes?
    those things are also cringy as hell!
    why do you think i didn't mention?
    its to save nuffians from those abominations!!
    have you ever read about a normal highschool ice-queen but actually a secret ninja princess?
    well i have, and the story just straight up jumped to a mysterious island where the secret organisation meets.
     
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  8. pentadrian

    pentadrian Wandering donut

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    Don't they have a fairly successful manhwa with basically the same plotline?
     
  9. Jojo775

    Jojo775 Honorary Algae Knight

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    Nonexistent here. Though my favourite fanfic ever is written by someone from my country, that's something.
     
  10. Expatamoeba

    Expatamoeba Have eyes but still couldn't see Mount Tai

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    None existent in my country. Social media make people have short attention span and they can only read short things like 280 characters tweets or facebook status before their mind drifted away. There used to be some awesome writers on blogger years ago writing their own webnovels. But since the scene didn't get the attention that they needed, it eventually died. I wish people in my country would read more.
     
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    zh0lvin Active Member

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    Good question. I don't know. Time to test it I guess !

    So... Any French readers here? :blobpeek:
     
  12. dzymmer

    dzymmer {LURKER}{Ghost}

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    dunno what your talking about, but what i read was a shoujo-type of novel.
    couldn't finish because it was cringy as hell.
     
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    still preoccupied with those 50s crap telenovelas? I know most of those writers. they write crap.
     
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    indonesia here

    in the stage of infancy btw
     
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    I can guess where you are
     
  16. Yunchii

    Yunchii Best Waifu - Tamamo-no-Mae

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    People in my country just like other Asian.. They said people who read webnovel/manga, play games, and watch cartoons/anime is trash of society. So we need to hid our identity.
     
  17. Jiggy

    Jiggy I am JiggyliFAP~ the not fat anymore guy.

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    Meron pre. Wattpad. But famous ones do get published and those ones become the tv series.
     
  18. Arcadia Blade

    Arcadia Blade ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ You can do it!!

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    A friend of mine introduce to me novels which were about romance and what not. Mostly girls in my class only read them since it wasn't catered around guys but since i wanted to try something new, i began to write one as well. It wasn't on par with with the girl's, but guys began to get interested in reading mine since mine are all about the unique plotline such as game competitions, fantasy traits, sci-fi stuffs and even a mix between science and fantasy-like things.

    She then recommends me to use wattpad to publish my works so i did. Turns out that in the past few months since i began writing there, there was a low reception on my webnovels that i found out that while mine are just rated meh, her works were well-recieved that i began to gave up writing and just focus on my dream instead.
     
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    dzymmer {LURKER}{Ghost}

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    those are also cringy as hell!!
    i'll have diabetes if i read those things!
     
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    As rare as phoenix's feather in indonesia
     
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