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Following this, the next one that "eats the world" could be web novels (https://www.webnovel.com/ https://www.webnovel.com/). If I'm not mistaken, the trend was
by hintymad 2y ago
Following this, the next one that "eats the world" could be web novels (https://www.webnovel.com/ https://www.webnovel.com/). If I'm not mistaken, the trend was started by the Chinese authors. Chinese companies created those hyper competitive yet super lucrative platforms for the authors. Over the past 20 years, the authors truly evolved through generations of competition. They may lack of deep skills in writing world classics, but they certainly have mastered the art of creating captive stories with vast scale and scope. They also invented more genres than I can care about. Some of the stories were so intriguing that some readers on web novel resorted to Google translate to read the untranslated version -- something that I can't fathom. And it looks western authors have slowly picked up the trend, so I'm hopeful that we will see a lot more authors coming up with amazing stories.
- Ekaros 2y agoI like Xianxia... That is cultivation novels that end up in at least trivially planet if not more destroying power levels. Just finished Er Gen's Renegade Immortal and started Pursuit of Truth. Which first had actually interesting, and multi-layered world development. Still, one issue with these works is just big they are. And them often falling into repeating same patterns and tropes even inside the same work. Sadly medium does not do editing well. As very often you could easily get rid of 20% or even more and not loose too much... Still, Chinese and Korean works do offer something different. Even if you have to take some nationalism with it.