/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6853723
Now I'm not saying an author doesn't have the right to make whatever they want, but I can hardly say it's a surprise that they aren't super popular. Even if somebody who was into the dark fantasy niche and enjoyed the art, they probably wouldn't be very impressed by the introduction. It would take convincing to get somebody to give this a real shot, and that's obviously going to be a huge hurdle in the way of gaining popularity, even if it suddenly became amazing 5 chapters in or whatever.

This example aside, even my own work suffers from the same fundamental problem: when you're not very experienced, and you don't have anybody experienced to give critical feedback... this is what you get. Messy works that would not survive publication without alteration. It's the sad truth that's difficult to face when you're an author and difficult to identify when you're not experienced in the field, but it's a failure of the author to not recognize these flaws in their own work, to not craft a more polished experience, to not refine their ideas enough or not recognize when an idea might be a detriment to the quality of the work no matter how much you like it.
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