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I heard it's bc the most popular novel site only shows the title so they started packing the entire description onto the title to try and get attention, which led to this mess
Time to show only the first 3 words of the title.
German writers: It's my time to shine
ℜ𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔣𝔩𝔢𝔦𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔨𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰𝔲𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔴𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰𝔞𝔲𝔣𝔤𝔞𝔟𝔢𝔫𝔲𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔤𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰𝔤𝔢𝔰𝔢𝔱𝔷
It started with a truck loaded with wrongly labelled veal. (Let’s write the light novel now! Reply to this comment with the next sentence!)
So the shop called the butcher. "You guys get it all wrong!" The butcher replied "I have no workers for these, as it takes too long!"
Ach du Scheiße...
Character limit would work better since some languages need more words and some need fewer words to get the same meaning across
Hemingway: "hold my shotgun"
IMHO, Hold My Shotgun was a vastly underrated part of his oeuvre.
The Amazon strategy