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There is no weight counted for being successful. You are assuming the #170 has the same weight as #1. I would say this is less about what stories succeed but more about what an average SH author writes.

Thing is - you aren't the only one, who writes that in the description. Readers don't know you. they have no idea how dedicated you will be. Plenty of authors on this site good and bad. And readers are picky - they can always go and find something else to read. this is why many start with...

What you want to do is to make readers curious/interested/looking for more. This isn't a book medium where a person has the entire story and might give it a few pages (and in many cases not - they will read the first page and make a decision then) This is webnovel format - where it is unknown...

Imo, when I cringe writing a current chapter nowadays I stop and think, and perhaps adjust the scene. Usually, for me, the cringe comes from the pacing as I slip up and overexplain something or drag out the scene for too long for no reason

In my opinion, the biggest issue so far - is the lack of any plot direction even after 2 chapters. I had to read the second thinking you intentionally split 1st into two but by the pacing of the plot, it feels like it was split into three at least. You have done well with early character...

I will be honest. You do not have a first chapter. You have a synopsis that is more of a prologue, and 1st chapter that is nothing more than the worldbuilding infodump and authors notes. You might be extremely excited about your story - you have it envisioned in your mind. Readers do not. You...

My MC character is a slave - if you want check out my 1st chapter on how I tried to introduce such a character to the story. Most of the chapter happens in his mind and the usual master/slave interactions were deliberately glossed over into a background exactly so that I could concentrate on his...

I looked at "I will become a god" 1st chapter. In my opinion, your issue is the passive main character. She only reacts to the world around her and there is very little written on her, mostly the world around her as well as the actions of other characters. Most of the time she just describes...

your Addison becomes Edison halfway through the 1st chapter. There are also a few past tenses that wormed their way into the present-tense story. Is there a plot? because SH technically have this ( Pornographic stories - These are content that are basically porn without a plot. This is...

I would agree with SakeVision. at the moment the 1st chapter feels more like a list of descriptions rather than a story. You are telling readers about characters rather than allow them to come up with conclusions themselves. Like you told us that he is hardworking yet the only thing he does in...

These are the most obvious errors in your prologue. The other chapters have similar issues. In my opinion, the best thing you can improve upon is your grammar as the mistakes make the story hard to read. Pay attention to plural/singular pairs, proper tenses and, for now, try to write a simple...

And why not link it here directly?

Main antagonist?

First of all - talking about Favorites as an absolute value is rather inappropriate. What should be used is the Favorites/chapter. Since more chapters you have - more favourites you can get per reader. And there there is always a ratio of readers who never favourite, as well as those who...

You can go quantity over quality, but even then you want your 1st chapter to shine because quantity alone gives you visibility. Use catchy tags and spam chapters daily to keep your story on the 1st page for the tag searches, sorted by recently updated. The quality of the early chapters gives...

The issue of anime - they subconsciously realise that people invested money in it. There was a group of people being paid to make it and many others who are paid to screen it. On sites like Sh where the cost of entry is pretty much zero - there is no subconscious trust in an author - anyone...

The issue is - many readers won't offer you a lot of leeway. Your first chapter is the most important exactly because that is where a lot of readers decide whether they want to read further or not. And if you haven't given them a hook yet - something that makes them interested/curious/willing to...

Why are you prephrasing all your dialogue lines with he said/she said and similar sentences? Also while some short sentences are fine even short paragraphs are fine but the fact that you have short sentences and single sentence multiple paragraphs makes the story rather jarred. The flow that...

SH automatically double-spaces new paragraphs so you end up with quadruple spacing. So I've read it myself. What he is talking about isn't world building that is missing from your story. it is minimum detail of a scene. For example in the prologue at the beginning I thought he was talking to...

same as any other fiction really - immersive characters that lead an engaging plot.