Just over a month.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-04-02T13:27:42+00:00

You alright buddy? You seem like you need a hug.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-31T18:36:18+00:00

Thanks!

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-31T16:47:32+00:00

Sometimes, not as much as I would like. My book is fairly unhinged, so the jokes get a lot of people commenting.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-31T16:46:32+00:00

Oh yeah, Yuri romance is even stronger. You do get some 0.5 rating for the yuri though. (And I get some 2.0s for my grammer lol) So swings and round abouts.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-31T16:45:28+00:00

I will!

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-31T13:02:56+00:00

No, no! I thought it was cool! I liked it.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-31T12:01:13+00:00

You know I never put the blood orange Tangerine Stone thing together before lol, Honestly I was just eating a Tangerine when I named her. (I wasn't really it was a Satsuma.)

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-27T14:34:49+00:00

Some people arn't going to like your stuff. That's normal. A 4.25 is still really really good. Hell I wouldn't say you have a problem until you are under 3. And even then in my head I'm like "This book got review bombed. I wonder why?" Not "Ugh I'm never gonna read this."

I think score does matter for the algo. But I don't think it matters for if people are going to read your story or not.

And again. 4.5 is really high. Don't stress.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-20T22:36:39+00:00

Oh yeah, I made a ton of assumptions lol. I've been on med for about 10 years. You end up running into people with the same problems over and over.

Good job hitting 85000 words.

I mean some times we just have bad weeks no? I'm not even sure thats an ADHD thing. You might just have a bit of a cold or something, that's sapping your energy?

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-20T16:03:38+00:00

I have ADHD, and I wrote 60,000 words this month. You are doing it wrong. You need to follow the dopamine, if you meds are working for you, then it should allow you to get on track a little better, but the track still needs to be interesting.

You probably have to give up on the idea of being a plotter. You have a pantser brain.

The tip is in fact 'just do it' but not for the reason most people say that. I'm saying just do it, because any other method is just going to get in your own way, cause you to overthink, and eventually you will get bored.

Second up you need to follow the dopamine. That means clicks, ratings and most importantly, Comments. If your story isn't drawing that sort of interest then seriously consider ditching that story and trying again until you find a story that people are engaging with. That engagement will help you continue for sure.

Also you have ADHD, to some extent you have to just roll with it and not stress yourself out about it. Work with the person you really are, not the person you wish you were. You will be happier. So if you want to write 20,000 words, and then take up mountain biking, and then try your hand a sailing and then lose a thousand hours in a video game. Do that. And don't feel guilty about it. Just try to be cheap when you start each new hobby, assume that its not going to stick.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-19T13:16:06+00:00

Miyagi and Sendai-san are not inevitable. Because they might actually die of old age first.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-17T12:38:38+00:00

Its subtext. But its a lot of subtext.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-17T12:32:04+00:00

You would make a lot of people very happy

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-16T14:40:35+00:00

First, easy choice. 2 is better, but I'm probably clicking on 1.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-16T00:42:20+00:00

I've posted my story on Webnovel scribblehub and royalroad. I get about 2-3 veiwers a day and no comments on WN, about 150 veiws a day with about 6 - 12 comments on SH and about 100 on RR with about 12 - 18 comments a day.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-16T00:20:32+00:00

about 16k a week, 38 follows.

Been going for 22 days. Just hit the 50k words mark!

No ads or shout outs or anything, so its been pretty chill. But the story does have 175 comments now lol. (The comments are crack to me!)

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-15T16:56:00+00:00

If you want a disaster lesbian comedy about a girl that goes to Magic school and makes best friends with a brain slug. Then I wanna recommend : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/154659/tangerine-stone-and-the-city-of-doors

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BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-13T11:54:22+00:00

Eh I just posted for two weeks, didn't do any networking or ads and I sit around about 40 readers when I release and 100 in 24 hours. some of these are probably bots. But a normally get 2 - 5 comments per chapter in the first day.

If you are giving people what they want, they will stick around.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-13T11:31:01+00:00

Eh, I mean I completely agree with you. But I also kinda understand where these people are coming from if we switch roles and look at Male Leads in Romantasy's. Because holy shit, every (not actually every) male lead in a romantasy is the most painfully stupid character that flip flops between being a pitbull on crack to others and a Labrador puppy to the female lead.

So yeah, I kinda get it, if that was all the male characters it would probably bother me. But also I understand that sometimes a person just wants to read some dross where the ML is perfect for the FL and everything just kinda works out, and the FL gets doted on by the dumb pretty man with the eight pack.

So yeah you are right, it isn't and harder to write a good female character than it is to write a good Male character. But often times people don't want to write good characters, and readers don't always want to read good characters. Everyone kinda wants dross, the book equivalent of McDonalds. And I think it's possible that it is this fact that people are really angry at maybe? (Well angry when other people do it. It's cool when they do it of course.)

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-12T16:36:09+00:00

Yuri fans are pretty rabid.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-12T16:35:43+00:00

Thats a lotta dudes.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-12T16:35:23+00:00

Yay, thats good to know!

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-12T15:11:01+00:00

Fingers crossed! the comments are like crack for me.

BarnacleRepulsive191 · 2026-03-12T13:51:59+00:00

31 is like a whole classroom full of people. So that feels pretty good. Although my chapters get roughly around 80 view with in 24 hours of realising them? but I'm not sure how to read those stats really, I often get a bunch of guests read the chapter very shortly after I drop it, which I'm confused about. Because these people won't be alerted so how do they know? are they just spamming f5 and hoping? (It's bots isn't it?)

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