[1-Minute Summary] Log of a book publication that is important again | Why were long titles for web novels born? Thoughts from an active author (#CreativeTheory #WebNovels #note #LongTitles #NarouStyle #GenerativeAI #ImageGenerationAI)

Hello. Good evening.
I go by the name "Ura-byoshi" (Back Cover), and I usually write light novels.

When you open a web novel ranking page,
have you ever felt exhausted and full before even reading, seeing a long list of titles like "Exiled" or "Actually the Strongest"?

I used to think, "Isn't it unnecessary to write that much?"
However, after experiencing having my work published as a book,
and learning about the market structure, my conclusion changed.

To put it simply,
thoselong titles are not because the authors lack sense,
nor are they just a passing trend.

In a fierce battleground crowded with a vast number of works,
they were born to convey to the reader in a few seconds,
"This is the work you are looking for."
They were an inevitable evolution of the market.

Many of today's readers
"I want to read a 'banished and served them right' story today"
"I want to feel refreshed with an overpowered protagonist"
like this,
have already decided on the reading experience they want from the start.

Therefore, titles are required to function not so much as a synopsis,
but as a "list of ingredients" on a supplement,
or as "classification labels" to help find the work.

However, as a result of packing in information to get read,
ironically,the "cognitive cost of finding a work (the fatigue of reading titles)" is increasing year by year,
and it is a fact that we are approaching a breaking point.

Why has it become impossible to tell the difference from other works
without packing in this much information?

What is the true nature of the "tug-of-war over information volume"
happening between authors and readers?

And what will happen to web novel titles from here on?

In this article,
I delve deeply into the pressing circumstances unique to the current web novel market
and the future of creative writing.

※ Click here for the full article ▼

(Who is the culprit behind the long web novel titles? | Book Publication Log)

Afterword:
Even though I wrote that "long titles are tiring," here I am, double-standardizing by using a long title for this note as well (lol). I can't seem to shake the "curse of long titles" cultivated through web novels, and I've never tried a short title on note. In reality, would people read it even with a short title on note? I don't have the courage yet, but perhaps I need to take the plunge and try it someday.

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