Here's a better description. Tl:dr at the bottom. Giving 5 stars after reading up to current

You know how when looking for light novels to read you always scroll past those ones with low ratings, chapters, view counts, or a combo of those? The novels that you may not even see? Well, protag-man here is the guy who does read those. His whole schtick is too find novels like that, read through them, and see if they are good. If they are, he boosts them with positive reviews and feedback, encouraging... more>> the author and telling everyone what good it is. If it reaches the popularity he thinks it deserves, he quietly draws back and searches for more novels. That is what a 'Simhae Explorator' is.

Now imagine that the author of one of these stories is completely dependent on the positive feedback of protag-man. Then one day, protag-man stops giving support cause the story has become rather popular. And this author is not sane in the membrane. If you search by the 'yandere' tag like me, you can guess where this is going.

tl;dr protag-man supports author, author gets the b*tches, protag-man thinks he's done a good job bringing author to popularity and withdraws, author needed protag-man's positivity and when he stops giving it author takes matters into her own hands. <<less

Found a detaited review on Tio's blog when I was trying to search for mtl. But it was originally written in korean so I'm just pasting here google translated version.

Spoilers below:

This novel, titled "I was kidnapped by a yandere writer" has 216 episodes and is complete, with the author using the pseudonym "papapa" who also wrote the book "regressor and the blind saint".

... more>> "Writer' was actually written before "Regressor and saint", but "Regressor" is more famous because "writer" has a higher initial barrier.

Currently, "writer" is gaining popularity and alternating between the first and second place in the completed novel category.

The novel's content follows the story of a simhae diver who was looking for the novel and was kidnapped and held captive by the author he was supporting.

At first glance, it may seem like low-grade, r-19 material, but around episode 40, it takes a turn to be one of the best novels when the protagonist's sister appears. Before episode 15, there was a barrier to entry, and from episode 40, immersion begins.

The first 15 episodes were difficult to watch due to the protagonist's passive behavior and the bizarre sight of the female protagonist kidnapping him.

If I hadn't heard that it was interesting, I would have stopped reading there. So, the question for this novel is quite similar. "Is this pure love material? It doesn't seem like it, right? Aren't you kidding?"

Yes. It's not a joke, and later on, that bizarreness turns into a heartbreaking story. In later chapters, I watched every episode with tears in my eyes.

This is the first novel where the drift is so intense in a good way.

In other novels, some stories occasionally make my nose tingle, but this novel is a faucet. Tears come out in every latter episode.

If someone says it gets interesting towards the end, I usually wonder if it's worth it. However, this novel was worth it.

The ending was clean, and the lingering feelings were significant enough that I remember spending hours looking for reviews of this novel. That's probably why some people only read completed novels.

However, many novels are difficult to finish, and this novel's background is modern everyday life. If you don't mind poignant stories, I think it's a novel that you should definitely read once in your life. <<less

I would suggest that you ignore the "low ratings". There is a high barrier to entry for this novel because the first 40 chapters essentially act as the setup - the kidnapping and an unexplained obsession of the MC by the FL.

It develops really well afterwards, and without spoiling anything much, all I can say is that the characters are well developed, and this is indeed a "pure love" novel. I have to mention that I have read a similar premise in a couple of jjwxc novels, but this is... more>> probably one of the best executions of that particular premise.

However, if you must know:

Spoiler

This is a novel about split personality disorder and how the FL picks up the pieces of her life with the help of the MC. The obsession is explained further on, and each personality is developed really well.

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The FL is seriously thirsty for the MC, and there is smut involved. Outside of that, this novel gives me hope that the regressor and the blind saint will improve because this is an earlier work by the same author.

I read the MTL version, but have not read the IF gaiden. Hopefully, readingpia will catch up in translations one day as I will reread it. 10/10

EDIT: A day after I finished reading this, I realized that there was a fault in this work that I couldn't realize initially. It has to do with the characterization of the MC across the novel. At the start, we are shown a loud, rough MC who is experienced in the working world yet well-liked by his superiors and juniors, passionate about his web-novel reading hobby yet good enough to write comprehensive reviews that are respected by the reading community and lastly, intelligent enough to think of ways to placate his kidnapper while trying to find possible avenues for escape. However, by the end of the novel, the MC is characterized as someone who is kind to a fault (as his main point), with several other POV characters viewing him as a spiritless ugly old man. There's a huge disparity between the air of competence we are shown at the start when MC was living his own life and when he was struggling to escape, to what the MC is by the end of the novel. <<less