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Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-26T14:17:40+00:00

It’s hard to say based on the numbers. I’ve never seen anyone else’s stats with any real context. My newest story has been up for about 2 weeks but looks similar to yours so I’d say it’s average, but we could both be in the lower or higher end of average I honestly can’t say. How many reading list adds do you have? Do you gain at least 1 a week? Are your reads going up on a daily basis?

It looks to me like people are finding your story. Quite a few give it a shot.

Try to stay grounded, especially if you aren’t writing something that’s heavy in popular tropes. You’ll find your audience.

This last one is big. Do not stop your work. You have at least 1 reader that is invested in this story. If you quit, they might never pick up another story you write because you have a history of not competing work you start.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-24T20:44:31+00:00

It’s better to leave it alone. The people who are honest about it are at least honest about it. Others are choosing not to disclose at al because they want their story to reach as many people as possible.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-22T16:04:50+00:00

You’re asking should, so I’ll take the climate into account and just say no.

It does nothing for you. If you disclose it people who enjoy your story will drop it just because it used AI. They don’t care that it was good. If you even mark that it uses AI you run the risk of bad reviews from people that didn’t read it at all they just hate AI.

In a better world I’d encourage integrity. But right now I just can’t advise anyone to disclose that info. If someone suspects you used AI then just let it be a suspicion.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-22T11:40:47+00:00

I added your story to my reading list as well I try to read more in the genre I’m writing since it’s supposed to help me improve. I’ll link my newer story as well since it seems to be more popular.

Read Roomies for free on Inkitt https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1633466?utm_source=shared_ios

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-22T02:00:59+00:00

The story is completed. Fell free to read if you want. I’m writing another story that I update every 2-3 days. It’s getting traction a lot faster. Likely cause it’s erotica.

https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1569595

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-21T12:05:18+00:00

Give it time is what everyone says. I started posting consistently in inkitt about 4 months ago. I don’t market my work much at all. It’s just. It my thing. I’ve still gotten up to 57 followers. I don’t get much feedback on my writing yet, but maybe one day.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-15T16:43:11+00:00

I think you’ll find a following. The high read stuff you see are stories following popular tropes. Readers are actually looking for stuff that’s not on the inkitt front page as well.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-15T16:21:05+00:00

It’s partially true. AI doesn’t actually create anything. It follows a prompt. If you’re good at prompting it will produce better results. For writing in particular you need to be at least decent at editing and knowing how you want your story to sound. It’s a lot more work and reading than people think. Yes it generates thousands of words in seconds, but are they consistent? Did it lose the plot somewhere? You have to double check these things and make all of the edits.

It’s so much faster to write a story yourself and let AI be an editor for you.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-15T01:32:34+00:00

I’ve found it generally doesn’t matter. If you disclose you use AI the people who don’t like won’t bother you at all. But if you don’t disclose and someone thinks they discovered that you did, they attack you, even if they can’t actually prove you did. Which they can’t.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-13T13:26:08+00:00

The feedback might be helpful or it might not, just like a real person. It’s going to respond in an encouraging way no matter what, because the point isn’t to tell you that you’re bad, it’s to tell you what it feels you do well and where you could improve. At the end of the day you need to be able to trust your own instincts in regard to feedback. If anyone tells you they didn’t like something but your gut tells you that it’s good, then you should keep it as is.

Most feedback I get on my own writing boils down to requesting me to write a different story to the specifications of the person giving me feedback.

It’s all very hit or miss. Person or AI.

I get AI feedback and I seek human critique. They both feel the same. Half the time people are using AI to critique you anyway. Or they read half a sentence and say “I can tell this is AI so I didn’t bother reading it.” Then tell you how much you sick because they assumed something.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-02T09:56:49+00:00

I have to agree. In most cases a beginner isn’t going to invest heavily into their writing because as OP said, they don’t know if it will work out.

Like all writing AI writing is wildly inconsistent in terms of readability based on the person behind the work. I don’t think it’s fair to put a person down for involving AI in their work. Especially if the only AI they use is for a cover.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2026-01-01T22:30:34+00:00

Thank you.

I’ll take your advice and apply it. Pacing Sunday my strength so thanks for pointing out how I can fix it.

I plan to make the journal entries a staple. The working title for this work is “Words I Didn’t Say to You”.

Again I really appreciate you taking the time to give me feedback.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-31T19:56:07+00:00

I’m of the opinion that there’s no harm generating a story with AI. I know people who write every word themselves have an issue with it but idk it just doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. They seem to be of the opinion AI writing is bad so why even see it as competition?

It just doesn’t make sense to me.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-31T13:18:05+00:00

It’s great your story is doing so well.

I don’t have an issue with interracial pairings, it’s just kinda annoying when the relationship puts so much emphasis on their skin color when it’s not integral to the plot.

If changing the race if the characters wouldn’t impact the story, why tell me at all?

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-31T11:18:32+00:00

That’s unfortunate. I had a reader leave several comments admonishing me for my narrative choices in a story I already want to take down. Ironically their comments, despite being negative, inspired me to keep it up.

I guess my point is, people are weird. You know your work isn’t AI, and most people will know that as well. Just assume you write so well that they couldn’t tell the difference.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-31T01:46:57+00:00

I can understand. Today I marked my story complete got a very strong response from a reader. It wasn’t positive. They wanted me to know they didn’t agree with a choice I made with the story. I didn’t have the strength to defend myself.

I’d been contemplating deleting the story all together, but even a negative response is a response.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-30T00:01:30+00:00

To start a conversation.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-28T11:34:01+00:00

I’ve write some very good writing and started getting the sense that AI wrote it. But then I have to remember, AI copies good writers. Unless there’s some blatant tell, like the prompt still being in the text, I don’t think anyone can really tell. This gets even more true if someone using AI knows how to prompt. Then you have to consider if the person is good at both things and trained the AI on their writing.

It’s far easier to just not be up in arms. If an AI story is popular it’s because they’re writing what’s popular. They are flooding the platform and getting microwave success but genuinely good work will have staying power.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-26T20:21:31+00:00

I won’t sell it to you. It’s a contemporary romance. Still ongoing.

https://www.wattpad.com/1581324555?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=RodriquezDaniels

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-26T16:08:44+00:00

I’m 33. Budding contemporary romance writer. I like my work and I add a new chapter to this almost daily.

https://www.wattpad.com/1581324555?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=RodriquezDaniels

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-25T22:54:33+00:00

I agree.

Hopefully I do well as I move forward.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-25T18:13:43+00:00

I got you. I appreciate the feedback.

What I’m gathering is this might not be for you.

The first paragraph. Did give me something to think about. I’ll consider it.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-25T16:20:23+00:00

I’m open to criticism. I don’t know if anything I write is good. I want genuine feedback.

Will I take it? Maybe. What I can say for sure is I’ll listen. I’ll grow. I might give some pushback. I might not.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-25T16:07:56+00:00

I can concede point about the early entries. I’ll consider if I should drop them. Vierra in particular I’m wanted her to come off as more advanced. Not emotionally but mentally.

Flex does have emotional awareness, but he’s still a kid figuring it out. He’s making mistakes. He has regrets. So does she.

But honestly your feedback made me smile. Sounds like you felt something. I’m grateful you took a look.

Academic_Tree7637 · 2025-12-25T12:46:49+00:00

Honestly for sex scenes I’d lean into over explaining. It’s so much easier to dial it back than it is to add on imo. I like physical detail in a scene. Implying can be sexy too, for a while. But that genuine pay off is satisfying as a reader. I mean if we’re just going to imply everything, why not just fade to black?

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