I don’t think it’s bad to write and want reads. I think it’s bad to only write for the reads. That is where the distinction is. People who spend hours writing and perfecting their stories are the good stories that deserve reads and to be rewarded.
The people writing for reads are easy to spot.
- The story pacing is off, there’s no proofread, the story’s plot is always all over the place, there’s no clear reason behind anything and they are copy-paste versions of thirty other stories with different names
- examples:
mafia stories- MC is always from a broken home and needs money or (polar opposite) the MC is a goody-two-shoes who happens to meet a murdering mob boss who magically decides not to kill anymore because “there’s something about her.”
CEO stories: the MC is always applying to work for the company and it’s immediate “love”, Those are the stories I believe that people write just because they are what’s popular.
The characters are undeveloped and flat, the storyline is badly written and cliche to the point of being ridiculous or my favorite on these particular stories is the Author popping into it to say that " this is my first story, sorry it’s bad, episodes are short, I know. they get better". It’s clear from statements like that that give me evidence that they aren’t interested in creative writing so much as just getting a certain # of reads.