cultivation edition

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>What is Web Novel General?
A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royalroad, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more

>Why read web novels?
Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.

>Why write web novels?
Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.
Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.

> Advice for Noobs!
Running your story like the business it is:
https://www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/116847

On writing webserials:
https://alexanderwales.com/how-to-write-a-web-serial/

Sanderson's Writing lectures 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUh_y1IFZY&list=PLSH_xM-KC3ZvzkfVo_Dls0B5GiE2oMcLY

>>24562281
>thread barely survived, oy vey.
Will now read the text

Where can I find a dissertation on the differences between Lily, Yuri, and Girl Love?

>>24563570
one is a flower, the other is a common japanese name and the last is a genre

>>24562879
yes, Chapter One is meant to be read first.
Legacy stuff is the old version

/wng/ Daily Quest

>reply to start your timer
>write your slop
>24 hours later reply with a reaction + report based on your progress toward the goal

Word goal of the day:
>1100 words
Quote of the day:
>"Motivation dies, habit ensures"

What should I read? Please shill me something. Your own works included ofc.

>>24563718
https://www.wa01.com/novel/pagea/yishoumicheng-pengpai_1022.html 異獸迷城

>>24563718
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/this-middling-young-master-will-comprehend-dao-and-plunder-legacies.1237343/

it get better promise

>>24563718
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/125106/hegemon-of-shongma

>>24563756
this reads like pre-ChatGPT/LLM AI that's been fed a bunch of MTL xianxia tropes, memes, and turns of phrase
this is the lowest skill slop I've seen posted in this general so far. this is the skill floor. fanfiction written by brazilian and bangladeshi teenagers is better than this

>>24563555
I'm halfway through, I like it a lot. Don't know much about your worldbuilding, but certainly am intrigued.
How many pages do you plan for all the books combined? What's your plan to monetize the world further? Clearly this begs for a multichannel.

>>24563812
thanks for the harsh critique anon
now lets see paul allens slop

>>24563823
Do you have conventions for names? Seems latin inspired to me.

Three chapters of my first novel done. I'm really excited to continue writing it. Hopefully I don't burn out and can actually stick to it.

>>24563823
>How many pages do you plan for all the books combined?
I have no idea. I'm extremely bad at estimating these things.
>What's your plan to monetize the world further?
I don't expect to make a dime on this.
>Clearly this begs for a multichannel.
What is a multichannel?
>>24563828
>Do you have conventions for names? Seems latin inspired to me.
I did a fair bit of conlanging, it isn't strictly Latin inspired

For reference, do anons prefer to read/critique chapter and scene drafts as a post or as an image?

Did chatgpt release some new slop model? All the royal road ads are the same exact comic style right now. It's crazy how we've gone from silly handmade memes to pure ai sloppa as the ad meta in just a year.

>>24563880
An image would probably be best.

>>24563885
Sad!
For me? I'm going to contract Ogilvy to make my Royal Road ads

>>24561551
>>24561551

>>24563877
Where are you going to publish it?
>multichannel
Comics, books, adventure paths, webcomics or YouTube series aso.

People crave it, you ought to deliver it. Where can I learn more about your worldbuilding?

>>24563894
? Que

>>24563812
>brazilian
>brazil mentioned
>brazil mentioned
>brazil mentioned
Please come to Brazil

i don't speak football

>>24563824
That’s okay. At least you learned. You should read On Style to git gud.

>>24563887
I don’t need your money, dude. Fuck off. I hate web novel chuds like you.

>>24563718
It's quite unique, I promise.
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1226237/succeed-or-fall-into-depravity-as-a-witch/

>>24563937
>Where are you going to publish it?
Royal Road?
>Where can I learn more about your worldbuilding?
I think you are meming, but whatever
>YouTube series
You know I actually did have hope of making simplistic animations of it.
Using 3D environment, anda style inspired mixture of South Park and the Wojak I intended to produce a limited animation series to promote my writing.
I spent a week making a demonstration of it, and I was quite happy with the end result.
But it got only 50 views, and the people I showed it to told me it was the worst shit ever. I concluded there was no audience for it.
It's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0MFnZiWAuo

God, I hate having to come up with names.

>>24564033
Intersting website. It's all for free? Hard to imagine no one monetises it. Is it like itchio for indies?

>>24564033
Wtf, why should I meme? It's not bad and I enjoyed reading it. It's far from perfect, but it's in progress, so that's a given.
>South park
If you go for (cheap) animation, make it unique. Work with mood and style boards and the like and take care that tone, style, colour and wording fits.

>>24564041
Itchio is mostly gamedemos, Royal Road is complete works, and authors earn money through patrions

>>24564033
>>24564041
>>24564043
Me again, because I post faster than I read.
The animation is OK, but can certainly survive a re up. I'd try to get the narrator voice right. That's easily done today. Style is barebones, but you know that, too. If you want to get better at it, make videos lengthy 20m or more and post these kind of videos as short, e.g. under 31 seconds.

>>24564045
Very interesting. I am finishing a world or rather universe on my own. Maybe I can post it there?

Where do all these summer tourists come from?

>>24564043
Because it really is not that special.
>>24564048
>If you want to get better at it, make videos lengthy 20m
Again, it took one week to make that. So, 20 minute video would take half a year, and it is bound to be about as successful (not). It would a big time investment to absolutely no reward, making it was a lot of work.
>Style is barebones, but you know that, too.
I know, I also believe I continued it, it would probably improve gradually.

>>24564051
Vantablack rifts of niggerhell opened by Musk's Starlink grid over New Delhi

>>24563831
Good for you. Dont lose steam.
>>24564037
Names are easy. The problem is everyone thinks character names have to be imbued with meaning. They dont. Just pick a name that sounds good phonetically. Fuck everything else. I put zero thought into character names. And if I want to change it later I just ctrl + f.

It also helps if you keep a list of names you like. Then you can just pull them out whenever.

>>24564064
Never said it's special, said it's not bad.
>lot of work
Shouldn't you get better at it? Try to work with cookie cutters, recycle most scenes in a clever way.
>also believe I continued it, it would probably improve gradually.
That works, too

>>24563536 (OP)
test

>>24563938
Hola onions nuevo en este general. ¿Puedes escribir una buena webnovela inspirada en xianxia? Me estoy quedando sin novelas chinas pasables para leer.
Quiero una novela que no tenga tropos japoneses/anime, absolutamente ningún harén, ningún romance, un mc capaz y competente (toma nota de Reverend Insanity), ningún mc infantil o personajes infantiles de apoyo (está bien transmigrar, pero el mc no puede convertirse mentalmente en un inmaduro de 12 años), De nuevo, toma nota de RI, un hombre va en busca de la inmortalidad, es impulsado y obsesionado con su objetivo, nada más importa, este es un tema común xianxia, escribe así, no escribas una historia sobre un héroe que muere por su novia / pueblo o lo que sea. Eso es aburrido y poco interesante.
Utiliza litrpg lite si debes (y no sabes lo suficiente sobre cultivo chino) o algún sistema de magia genérico de fantasía occidental, sin embargo debe ser cool y power fantasy like, nada de esa magia falsa de lotr. Litrpg números, exp está bien para subir de nivel y el seguimiento de los progresos, pero la caída de toda la cosa del sistema.
También evitar vampiro, elfo y nigromante elementos. La magia oscura mola pero la nigromancia es cutre (resucitas a unos zombies o esqueletos ¿y luego qué? Hay varias historias de nigromantes que empezaron fuerte (al menos para los estandares de rr) y luego se esfumaron rapidamente porque nigromante era la clase/trabajo top y el autor no sabia como avanzar mas.
En vez de magia oscura elige algo como que el mc tenga la habilidad de aprender hechizos y habilidades de personajes/monstruos, un skilltree así tiene mucha flexibilidad y es mucho más fácil avanzar.
Los vampiros tienen ese simbolismo sexual oculto, igual que los elfos, si no hay harén, ni romance entonces el sexo tampoco es necesario.
Te he dado consejos sobre cómo y qué escribir, ahora ve y escribe.

>>24564088
>Never said it's special, said it's not bad.
What is bad worldbuilding?

>>24564051
It's been an eternal summer for over a decade. If you want something to blame, then curse Steve Jobs for releasing the iPhone.

>>24563880
I prefer something that doesn't spam the thread, so either a pastebin or an image please.
>>24563831
The largest threat for me is the want to always write something else. Stick to it and good luck anon!

>>24563880
what is this, /wg/?
just link your fic

>>24564136
Any tranime jarpig

Don't feed it

Ok, the first version got mixed reactions. How about this?

>>24564336
Yeah that’s good. The darker and darker you make it, the less people can see it’s shitty furry AI slop. And not even goodslop like illustrious.
I know you don't take your work seriously because you can't be bothered to not even learn how to draw, but even simply use a more technical AI program. Go to >>>/g/ and lurk in all the diffusion general until you’re smart enough to learn inpainting.
But don't have a meltie in their threads either. Put some pride in the advertisement of your Chatgpt assisted garbage

>>24564336
This is worse.

>>24564336
why are there dogs

how unhinged can you make the RPG elements of your litrpg on RR?

>>24564347
>>24564374
>>24564434
You are stupid and don't understand anything.

>>24563536 (OP)
What makes people click on the appendix?
It's an appendix, I wouldn't expect 90% of readers to click on it.
Did I make a mistake by including it?

>>24564045
>and authors earn money through patrions
Haha yeah...

>>24564336
Skip the knifes, maybe one weapon in total and not knives.

>>24564347
>inpainting
Que

>>24564480
Because it's content? You wrote 3k words, of course your readers want more.

>>24564511
You are so fucking stupid, man

>>24564469
are there going to be dogs in your story

Has there been anything good released recently? Like not smut with a simping main character?

>>24563718
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/117925/the-yellow-typhoon-and-the-final-waltz
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/118891/new-life-as-a-max-level-archmage
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/42876/how-the-stars-turned-red-slow-sci-fi-space-opera
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/119135/transmigrated-as-a-mech-i-now-fight-kaiju

>>24564574
>Like not smut with a simping main character?
This describes almost no royalroad fictions
are you a webnovel.com reader or something? or LNs?

>>24564604
third one sounds interesting, I'll check it out la
>Note: English is not my first language.
I'll risk it anyway

>>24564621
Anon you're being trolled.

>>24564666
maybe. that complaint definitely applies to certain sections of the web novel community. we get lots of tourists

>>24564604
Thanks for shilling my shit.
Really gotta finish those chapters to post my next fiction, I think I got better since writing it.

>>24563536 (OP)
Do views really accumulate on RR?
Like if every new chapter a decent of getting a view for every single chapter?

>>24564666
>ask for a recommendation
>Nooooo you're being trolled!!

>>24564728
Yeah, it's both a snowball and a catch 22: readers only pick fictions that have a bunch of pages already, but you can only reach those readers if they can see it, and the natural way is to have viewers.
Which is why most writers give up after a few chapters and why swaps and ads are so important, you need to put out your shit and shill it, someone will like it enough to click those rating and follow buttons.

>>24564604
Stars Turned Red is genuinely quite good if you enjoy WORDS WORDS WORDS. It's mostly people talking in meetings and it does that really well.

>>24564750
Yeah I'm reading it right now and it's honestly pretty great.

>>24564883
Bad news though, the author is mentally ill and has no real upload schedule so once you're caught up lmao lol. If you want more competent space opera stuff I'd also shill Blood Impulse (also on RR) which is more action-focused and has a decent waifu character. Slow releases still, but consistent.

>>24564742
So it's not about writing good stories that you're passionate about but writing slop and getting ad money.

Maybe that's true for you.

My man had to seethe.

https://shop.obsidiantavern.com/products/imagination-engine

anybody ever used this before? does it suck?

>>24564917
>the author is mentally ill and has no real upload schedule
just like me fr fr

>try to write in first person
>awkward stream of consciousness ensues

>write in third person
>competent, easy to write, great flow

my soul yearns to write 1st person unreliable narrator superhero slop. how do i improve?

>>24564967
Just be yourself.

>>24564946
you don't need this trite shit that's probably a bunch of obsidian templates with generic writing prompts

>>24564946
>50 smackeroos
Have some self-respect. Spend that money on an art commission instead.

>>24564967
Can you post an excerpt?

>>24564967
>how do i improve?
Write 750-1100 words of in-character diary entries every single day for two weeks.
You'll either go horrendously schizo or git gud.
Or you'll go schizo and still git gud.

>>24565007
Brute force is always awesome.

>>24564946
what, just download obsidian normally, and then take what you need from the ttrpg plugins, and then you add other extensions suited for writing. After that you start filling out your wiki, for world building chatgpt actually is good, IF you have a lot of ideas and know how you should ask it, the weirder the better. It's really good at fitting everything together with fantasy logic.

>>24565056
>for world building chatgpt actually is good
It really isn't. Deep Search is sometimes helpful to get a quick primer on a topic, usually isn't. No model can do synthesis of new ideas at all. And every model is too sycophantic for anything other than the most surface level "does this work at all or is it completely retarded" type spitballing. If that's what you mean then yeah, it is good I guess.

How do you all come up with names? I'm trying to name some nations and nothing really comes. Do you go for actual meaning or just something that sounds nice?

>>24565142
I'm horrible with names, so I either search for something that already exists and fits the general aesthetic, changing something here and there, or string some sounds together until it sounds nice enough.
Also, last time we talked about names, one anon linked this site:
>https://donjon.bin.sh/name/markov.html
But it seems to be for people and not places and I can't seem to find one for countries.

>>24565127
>No model can do synthesis of new ideas at all.
Same as 99% of humans.
Nah meming aside you definitely shouldn't use it if you have no ideas but you can tell it "ask me questions about my setting" then gradually iterate upon various aspects and tell it to spit out an organized master document at the end.
If you want to build up something from the ground up then it works for specific scifi elements since it can dig up research and pare it down.

>>24565142
My secret sauce is scoping around Puget Sound, and Scotland on google map. Sometimes I'll scour over Asiatic Russia and Far East zooming in sometimes to street level to find names that stand out to me. But mostly I'll stick to the isles so there's that sense of exotic but not too far fetched like asian

>>24565142
Google translate.
I think what describes the character well then punch in that word until I find a foreign one that sounds good.

>>24565142
names are unironically something i use AI for, since before AI i was just using online name generators anyway.
at least with AI you can give it more specific parameters than "masculine, elf" like including specific letters, sounds, or etymology and often even when it has shitty ideas it gives me a wider variety of material to come up with my own names from

If you aren't a fully qualified linguist, don't even bother with conlangs desu (desu)

>>24565142
https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com
this website looks like it was made in the late 90s so you know its legit

>>24565176
Sci-fi it's probably better than fantasy since you can just ask things like
>for XX MW laser with a focal size of XX mm fired in XX ms pulses over 1 second will it penetrate xx mm of high carbon steel?
And it can do the math for you, or you can ask it for some loosey-goosey orbital transfer calculations but you still need to know what you're asking in those cases so researching through ToughSF or other resources is still probably more useful than an LLM. Fantasy is totally fucked because it's pretty poor at getting historical elements right, possibly because history is a mess of records and you need actual research skills to get anything useful out of it (or one really good source you choose to base everything off of).

>>24565205
Autism is more powerful than a linguistics degree.

>>24563252
>>search dungeon core
>>status: Completed, Ongoing
>>20 entries
>>only one with a lot of pages
royal road's tagging system is shit and furthermore the default search field ONLY searches titles. most dungeon core stories don't have the full phrase "dungeon core" in their title
if you want better results, put just "core" alone in the keyword (NOT title) field on the advanced search page, and add dungeon to the additional tags. despite "non-human lead" also being appropriate many dungeon core slop stories don't accurately tag this.

doing this I get 6 pages of results

>>24565222
Yeah exactly.
Plus with fantasy the most important thing is having good taste and the slopmachine can't do that for you.
...now I want to build a 100% slopbot setting and see what it comes up with.

>>24563570
There is no difference, despite braindead western weebs insisting that yuri and GL are different tags.

>>24563570
>Lily, Yuri
Now that my brain has woken up, I just remembered where this confusion comes from, the tag is yuri, which means lily (like the flower).
They all mean the same basic thing.

>>24565230
>a 100% slopbot setting
Wouldn't it mostly just resemble Dungeons & Dragons?

>>24564480
I glance at every appendix in any book once I reach it. If it's uninteresting to me I may skim or skip it but I'll at least give it a look first

>>24564967
>my soul yearns to write 1st person
Do not worry. With sufficient time, this can be cured.

>>24565242
The real distinction is Yuri/Girls Love (light Entertainment reading), WLW (dramatic tryhard theater kid reading) and class S (retro highly metaphorical stuff with undertones that never become more).

>>24565244
Probably.
It's honestly impressive how D&D just straight up murdered fantasy in the crib by forcing ideas that anywhere else would've been considered absolutely terrible.

>>24565259
Thanks, friendly homomage, the only other word I knew was レズ (sounds rude desune), never heard of class S before.

>>24565266
Honestly when you look at Appendix N it's hard to believe that they had such good inspirations and we ended up with what we have today.

>>24565259
>WLW (dramatic tryhard theater kid reading)
i like wlw fanfic but every web novel ive tried to read tagged GL felt so trite and silly. i also dislike light novels in general though
guess that explains that. i want real drama, great emotional work, and good prose. GL does not provide that

>>24565288
>every web novel ive tried to read tagged GL felt so trite and silly
it's because GL is a japanese term so those web novels were written by weeaboos whose primary media diet is anime and manga. it's not a genre thing

>>24565127
Case in point. You don't know how to use it. You don't ask it for ideas, you bring it ideas.

>>24565313
This is just a pointlessly hostile copy of the first reply. What was the point of this?

>>24565272
Yeaaaaaah.
I mean in part it's because of the hostile takeover and subsequent sale as well as trying to grift off trends.
Mystara contains a lot more of that raw spirit while still being "standard" fantasy.

>>24563536 (OP)
On RR, is there any purpose in going back and padding already released chapters with more visual details?

>>24565368
Just move on and save edits for a relaunch.

>>24565368
improving a story has obvious benefits
that said readers dont care much about visual details

>>24565339
Damn, sounds like we need OSRslop.

>>24565374
is that allowed?
>>24565398
>that said readers dont care much about visual details
I guess it's good that 50& of my story is dialogue then

>>24565428
No rules against it

>>24565428
>is that allowed?
Sure, just call it a 'rewrite' and you can send the same garbage back through the system to collect more paypiggies. There's two on Rising Stars that have done that very thing.

>>24565428
>is that allowed?
Never heard anyone having problems with relaunching. Take the novel you wrote and use it as a test bench for your ideas and writing, see what works, what doesn't, get experience, and take your readers with you.
If you go back editing stuff, you'll get stuck in an never ending loop of improving things that were already read and probably won't pick new ones.
Of course, if you aren't caring about readership, you can do whatever you want.

>just be cheap, spineless scum
as expected of /wng/

royalroad is a sacred website and the readers only deserve the best so you MUST NOT relaunch or i'll cry and shit my pants

>>24565428
Not just allowed.
The system encourages it.
If you build up 33-66k words you can do daily updates for a month (while still building up more material and doing edits) then turn around and relaunch it immediately.

Oh the schizo is back.

>>24565470
He was back since yesterday and /wg/ fell for it, but he's been trying to bait the whole day and everyone just ignored lol

>>24565468
Why wouldn't you just write 80-100k and edit it, then start posting then?

>>24565481
Nothing stopping you from doing that

>>24565481
I don’t plan. I write chapter by chapter and if I past chapter needs to be changed to make it work, I change it a after it’s been published and NO, I don’t inform my readers

Why are we being raided?

>>24565558
We aren’t being raided. Well the whole board is being raided by /fit/ but this thread only has you (schizoschizo) and FFF right now

Get back to writing fff-kun chop chop

How do you guys prefer writing? I've been sitting on a sofa with my laptop recently but that fucks up my neck on long sessions
desktop pc is better but less comfortable in-the-moment

>>24565578
Ergonomics is all about not staying in the same position. Alternate between the sofa and a standing desk. Or even upright recliner, reclined recliner, standing desk, sitting at an office chair.
Whatever you do, don't pick something and stick to it. That's how you get posture and mobility issues, blood clots, etc. The human body is meant to move

>>24565481
The "relaunch" thing is recommended for people who DIDN'T do that and foolishly just started writing without first studying up on rising stars marketing strats

>>24565481
1) To outcompete the deluge of slopmachine garbage
2) Helps you integrate ideas that you get as you continue better

>>24565578
I write laying in bed on my phone.

>>24563536 (OP)
Is this what TikTok in the womb has done to your generation?

Don't feed it.

Any em-dashers in this thread?

>>24565767
Unfortunately it's becoming the nigger word of punctuation.

It's a made up issue. I use em dashes a ton and I haven't gotten a single comment on it
Maybe if you write vaguely like an AI bot to begin with there'll be issues, lol. Anyone who reads knows em-dashes are common. it's WHY chat-gpt uses them so much. because they're common in good writing. and that's what it apes

I’ve fucking done it. Here’s a list of the 133 characters I’ve named across just two volumes.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/119783/fff-class-unlucky-antagonist-villains-origin-story/chapter/2450150/glossary-characters-list

I’m completely done. I just want to sleep now.

The urge to start a new project despite barely keeping atop your old one ;_;

>>24565767
Yep. I use it to show interruptions mostly.

>>24565578
on the sofa on a laptop for me. I sit sideways with me legs out and pillows behind me, basically bedmode in the end.

>>24565595
>standing desk
>>>/out/

>>24565856
what could possibly be offensive enough about a standing desk that you react like that lmao

>>24565874
standing desks are sōy
everyone knows this

>>24565909
you are mindbroken

>>24565829
Did you seriously put EVERY character you mentioned there? I thought you might go for just relevant cast members

Out of everything to have a melty about why furniture

>>24565874
it's a yuppie millenial dogwhistle
we're a bit past the point where standing desks are this revolutionary new idea that cusp-of-culture mid 20s business bros would be shilling. still, most people who talk about them are annoying

>>24565939
it's nice to stand up when i want to stand up. idc what the optics are

This is some peak insecurity.

>>24565958
it's like he's some kinda Reverend Insecurity

>>24565935
"Standing desks" among other cordspeak are trans-coded buzzwords. You need to go back

I bet it would really piss him off to know I use an exercise bike at my desk and am pedaling away the whole time. Really gets the juices flowing. Balancing your keyboard in a comfortable spot takes some finagling though.

I blame FFF for these tourists btw

>>24566034
sounds so inconvenient it has to be performative
a real writer attaches his PC to a treadmill

>>24566034
>>24566040
>not using a stairmaster
Poseurs.

>>24566038
>tourists
niche hobby on a slow board
you should blame him but not for the reasons you think

>call out the cabal
>cabal increases deployment to the thread
Good job retard

My man has been on a crusade for two hours

880 words to go.

The scene I'm writing honestly needs to go to a later chapter but I'm so behind. Uuuuuuu. Yeah fuck it put it in

>author has eating scene fetish syndrome
Pass.

anyone else notice that the Super Supportive author has a weird fetish around eating gross things
It appears too often for it not to be a weird sex thing.

actually (listening-- was free) to the first book of dragoneye moons anon was talking about the other day.
the pacing isn't great, and it's pretty weird how the reincarnated protag has also mentally regressed; but the writing/story is actually thoughtful. makes me think there is some potential if things pick up.
it's not great, but it doesn't immediately establish itself as shit, like many webnovels do.

>>24566213
i dont read ss but from a writing perspective i could easily chalk this up to a slice of life author needing to find conflict/something to spice a scene up and repeatedly "improving" the boring as shit meal scene by throwing in conflict via the meal itself

>>24566222
ive seen so many people rec dragoneye moons but the stat dump memes ive seen, plus the opening of chapter 1, has turned me away from it really hard.

some anon shill it to me because i generally enjoy fmc stuff

>>24566239
my optimism is hinged entirely on the above average webnovel writing/structure. if you are a writer, that might be reason enough to explore. otherwise... it's not that exciting (yet), but i think that's just the nature of the beast. it could get good

the stat dump stuff you can skip, so it's not really an issue imo

>>24563536 (OP)
OP, question.
Did the spastic crack monkeys in previous threads settle down enough now,
that we can try once again, to have that... list of writing projects again? I mean, I know. "This is why we can't have nice things."
>
So. Is the list going back up?
(asking for me)

>>24566271
>make some innocuous comment
>FFF schizo takes offense
>goes on a holy crusade to screw you over
not worth when there's a mentally ill crab in the midst

>>24566271
nta but no one reads the op anyway. just self-promote in the thread like everyone else
and that quoting is avatarfag-tier, TINA

>>24566271
I still have the old file. We can try if people want, I'm fine either way.

>>24565767
Who, me? Of course—with exuberance.

>>24565767
i've always, ALWAYS used the scuffed "--". now it's being appropriated or misconstrued. god forbid i use actually emdash now. it's fucking over man.

>>24565767
I will never give up my em dash—never!

>>24566294
You know what, thinking about it, nevermind, I think it may be a bad idea, let the issue die.

4,300 words written today. Yeah, I'm a logger. What of it?

>>24565767
i’ve always used a semicolon and almost never an em-dash

>>24566312

>>24565920
Joke on me, way too many characters are more important than you thought.

>>24566213
How gross are we talking here?
A dish you don't happen to like?
Scat?

any based KKK-ranker slaughtering niggers webnovels?

Why's he still trying?

anything progression focused thats *NOT* litrpg?

I can't recognize trolls or bad faith posters on here because all of you are equally retarded to me

>>24566412
Downtown Druid but it's stubbed.
Bookbound bunny isn't litRPG, but it's SOL.
Reborn as a Demonic Tree is xianxia and no stats but has a system.
A Benevolent Evil Dragon wasn't litRPG as far as I went.
Bioweapon Rhapsody was-but-also-wasn't litRPG capeshit.

That's what I got from my list, wouldn't recommend anything beyond Downtown Druid (which I haven't finished).
>>24566416
Mom says I'm special, ok?!

>>24566403
Alright. Humor me. I'm not interested in the content itself, but the mechanics of delivery. What sites in today's age can you publish that on and have it stay published for more than five minutes before the great woke eraser pays a visit?

>>24566416
it is unfortunate you think that, I have been trying my hardest to appear more retarded than the other posters here.

>>24566388
Go back to bed, Pynchon.

>>24566470
I went to bed, but now...I woke up.

>>24564022
He didn't learn a damn thing

>>24566475
As expected!
Can we get more stories of California white boys sporting Afros, or is that considered rude appropriation today too?

I have been wanting to learn Anglish as a side hobby. Perhaps I'll try writing a fantasy novel in it. Imagine how much SOVL a purely Anglish novel would have. Hell, Tolkien may even rise from the grave just to shake my hand.

>>24566459
AO3 unironically.

>update is doubling in size again
Lmao fuck

>>24566510
Damn. Gotta give them this, Ao3 is one of the last bastions of the spirit of the original Internet.

>>24566543
Some of these fujos know they're next if things ever break down.

>>24566510
>>24566543
i was shocked the time I was searching smut and came across hard raceplay that was multiple n-bombs per paragraph.
They also allow loli and shota works, I have no idea what the limit is on that site.

>>24566611
uhh, yea i just did a search and there is so much worse.

>>24566619
>>24566611
>>24566543
i remember running into aryan hyperborean schizokino on AO3

How do you write without being sleep deprived, drunk, high or in way too much caffeine?

>>24566622
You don't, unless you're slopping, writing is like deciphering an impossible math equation, and these are just its side effects

>>24566622
I just block off periods of half an hour in which I do nothing but write.

Okay, so all you guys were listing works on RR.
Which means, I have to be on RR, to get read.
Went to RR. Did that.
Weird.
"If your story is previously on another site? You must prove you own it, by editing your description on the earliest displayed site."
Which is all well and good, except...
they never say WHAT to edit it with.
"Hi RoyalRoad!"
secret 4 digit pin number? What.

>>24566669
anything that lets the mods viewing the submission know you are the same person.
Easiest would probably be "I am [anon] on royalraod" somewhere. Confirms the royal road account belongs to the same person who uploaded the work originally.

>>24565452
>I'm more jewish than the owners of the website

The only decent novel on RoyalRoad is Vainqueur the Dragon, everything else is just lame. Both Chinks and Western works are garbage. I'd rather watch some Japanese cartoon or reread German war books for the third time.

>>24566703
I'll write a dragonsloppa where the protagonist gets the power to (temporarily) turn into a human by the second chapter

>>24566669
You should be ok if it's obvious e.g. if your username is CunnyHunter1488 on both sites

>>24566703
>a story that exhausts its one and only joke in 3 chapters
>decent

>>24566711
>Prepare to laugh harder than you have done in the last six months, anon.
>Dat username.
Thanks, yo! I needed that.

>>24566712
That's how low the bar is

>>24566669
Posted on X, Y, Z, and Royalroad. If you see this story posted anywhere else, it's been stolen.

>>24566711
>>24566714
>This has got to be a thing.
>Enter username in search engine.
>First result: Welcome to The City University of New York.
Oh god my sides!

>guy wants to kill himself so he can be isekai'd and become a hero
>tries jumping in front of a truck
>demon lord knows that he is going to reincarnate as a hero so the demons use magic to stop the truck in time to stop him from dying
>guy next decides to go solo skydiving and not pull the parachute
>arrives to check in for his appointment
>he waits patiently while a receptionist watches tiktok slop and laughs out loud
>he and the reader are both mutually tortured the entire time
any ideas on stuff to add to make the reader really want to commit suicide? thanks.

how monster can a monster girl get before it's too much

>>24566763
use this ancient wisdom to gauge opinion. for me everything after level 2 is too much. i know you're talking about monster girls specifically rather than cat girls but you get the idea. the less human traits they have the more it becomes weird, but hey there's probably people who are into it anyways so just write whatever the fuck you want.

>>24566763
Feral is right out, even with a passing grade on the Harkness test.
My experience suggests some rules of thumb. Everything between neck and thighs should be humanoid, with the basics still mixed in: hair/scales and tail.
Move beyond that and readership plummets. Some other rule of thumb aspects apply as well. Hands with fingers and thumbs. Feet whatever. A xenomorph head appears to cross the line into hard sell territory. Whereas, pic related violates the rules some, but the general reaction I've found is oh god yes, yes, all my yes!

>>24566785
nta but i want her to squeeze me to death with that tail while biting my neck with a deadly paralyzing poison

>>24566787
Indeed, as a certain sci-fi character is fond of saying.
Perhaps due to exposure to mythology snakegirls get a pass on some of the guidelines. Pic related as well appears equally appealing in my experience.

>>24566767
>>24566785
yeah but I was specifically thinking like a female frankenstein type offering to swap out her pussy post-coitus for another one, like surgically hotswap-implanting a new pocket pussy into herself

>>24566792
That goes beyond static physical form into something like a bodymod fetish, or potentially even touching on guro. I think people will be flashing more on that than the supposed monster aspect. Even if that doesn't make sense definitionally.
You'll find some niche readers, I'm sure. Not crowds of 'em through.

>>24563536 (OP)
>nearing the 7.5K word mark, which would make it a novelette instead of a short story
Exciting.

I'm still wondering if I'm releasing too slowly. I really can't write faster than this... Maybe I should have banked chapters before starting, but I was afraid that if I did that, I would be stuck editing them and never release anything.

>>24566873
>nigga is barely 3 chapters into his story and already rolling out the appendixes
jesus h. christ

>>24566881
It's for my own convenience rather than the reader's.

>>24566801
Sure, but it's kinda lame to have monstergirls that are just girls with maybe extra ears stapled onto their heads. If they're not that monstrous in behavior as well, it's little more than cosplay.

>>24566884
Then don't let your readers see that abomination at all

>>24566753
Make the first 10-15 chapters genuinely interesting and exciting, really put effort into writing them, once the reader is invested into the story immediately turn it in smut harem isekai garbage.

>joke fanfiction on AO3 gets paragraph long comments about how people love my idea, my execution of it, my attention to detail, my writing style
>serious novel on RR gets 2 people saying "thanks for the chapter" every chapter
i will finish this book but damn it can be demoralizing

>>24566939
Clearly you're not truly #slopmaxxed yet

>>24566939
have you tried QQ?
when you put the tags discussion= author feels validated they will actually make you feel validated through comments

>>24566961
NTA but that's kinda sweet.
I have a super old QQ Star Wars damit Quest maybe I should've continued it.

>>24566961
what is QQ
i don't know much about fanfiction I just had an idea two months ago and decided I should write it

>>24566988
QuestionableQuesting
SpaceBattles but with nsfw

>>24566939
Been there, done that.
>Took about 9 months for somewhat smutty adventure story. Put a lot of effort in this. Finished. Complete. It does OK.
>Do an over the top totally porn run for fun. About a third of the above in word count and ongoing. In less than 30 days it's shot well past the above.
Always room for hardcore, I reckon.

>babbies stumbling on the groundbreaking discovery that porn and fanfics are popular
in other news, water is wet, summer is hot

Holy seethe

>>24566767
>for me everything after level 2 is too much
Anon, I...

>>24566887
I mean it can't hurt?

>>24566621
Link it

>click a cool looking ad on RR thinking it's for a story
>it's an actual ad that leads to some New Age grifter website
...is there an audience for #schizocore urban fantasy a la Mage: The Ascension, Noumenon or Don't Rest Your Head?

>>24563718
read my work instead. I swear I've got the greatest most novelest isekai in my head. I just need to put it into words...

>>24567130
paranoid mage is basically libertarian slopaganda about hiding from the govt mixed with some urban fantasy
even got a webtoon adaption, so clearly there's an audience

>>24566510
>>24566543
>>24566611
https://archiveofourown.org/works?work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=created_at&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&commit=Sort+and+Filter&tag_id=Underage+Prostitution
Uh. Based

inspire me with your favorite (& underrated) tropes/subgenres. PLEASE

>>24567167
Sci fi space opera
Dark fantasy

>>24567167
One of my favorite tropes is the idea of a succession of gods with the old ones representing the uncompromising brutality of nature.
The Hercules show did it in contravention of the actual mythology but it's very much a thing in many fertile crescent faiths.
As for subgenres, near future transhumanism sans cyberpunk elements.

>>24567167
picaresque
buddy "cop" (doesn't need to be literally law enforcement)
cat-and-mouse/escape/chase/on-the-run

>>24567141
If it appeals to you, it appeals to a huge amount of other people. There's an audience for anything
Unless you're genuinely deranged I suppose, which is common on 4chan

>>24567203
The virgin
>You're not unique >:(
Vs the Chad
>You're not unique :D

>>24567153
Yea… I did some unhinged combination of tags and still had over a hundred hits.

>search for the three header tags of my story on RR
>there is only one (1) scrapped story with same tags
Yep. It's an avant-garde gem in the making

>>24567173
>The Hercules show did it in contravention of the actual mythology but it's very much a thing in many fertile crescent faiths.
I don't know if that's actually true, that it's in contravention. There's a big thing in Greek myth about the new gods replacing the old with violent methods. Uranus was overthrown by Kronos who was overthrown by Zeus, who was nearly overthrown by the Giants or by Typhon and who had to stop at least prophecy that he himself would get overthrown by his child.

>>24567299
I meant that in Greek mythology it's depicted as just one dynasty replacing another.
It's not like in Christianity or Chinese Buddhism or certain sects of kabbalah where you have divine sherrifs clean out the old corrupt rabble

I've decided to do my writing in a VR headset, thanks for the advice yesterday!

>>24567333
Nice, I do it time to time too, just be careful of your controllers spamming out if they lose tracking and you accidentally delete whole excerpts

>>24567333
for what reason

>>24567364
catgirl waifu avatar to encourage me in the background,

>>24567368
Enjoy your data collection

>>24567028
it isn't about popularity it is about readers being responsive.

>>24567400
im not a pedo or a schizo so idc. it's not like google hasn't already mined me out

>>24567403
You don't suppose there could be some kind of correlation between popularity and response rate, maybe? Like, human beings could react more easily to things that appeal to them? Am I crazy? Does this make any sense?

>>24567409
As well as appeal, there's also dislike or hatred, given two equally popular works, the hated one will gather more comments and reviews, even if it's just shitting on it.
So I would say that if you posted your work and got no comments, that's at least a sign that you've made something that is at least good enough.

>>24567417
>So I would say that if you posted your work and got no comments, that's at least a sign that you've made something that is at least good enough
Anon, are you okay? Maybe you should call a doctor?

>>24567403
Usually when I read a chapter and say thanks it's because I don't have anything to say about the content but want to give the author a sense that a human being did actually read it.

>>24567423
you're one of the good guys

>>24567417
that logic only applies for popular hated works vs popular respected works
plenty of really shitty stuff worth hating gets no comments bc it's so awful it never climbs out of obscurity

>>24567422
I mean, good enough in the sense that it didn't make the reader want to gouge their own eyes out, not good enough as in it's actually good.
And by God, if you read enough works you'll see shit that makes you want to gouge your eyes.

>>24567430
Fair, I would say that what triggers me is shitty works climbing to rising stars even when they are so shit I can't finish a chapter.
Those are the ones that actually make me want to write a negative review rather than just ignoring.

>>24566412
read chinese cultivationslopkino

>>24566753
>any ideas on stuff to add to make the reader really want to commit suicide?
have you considered multiple-pages-long litrpg stat blocks

>>24567433
The sentence seems to suggest a story is good -because- it didn't get any comments. Which makes no sense.

>>24566885
Arknights did it pretty well

>>24567430
>popular hated works vs popular respected works

"There’s no such thing as bad publicity."

>>24567409
no because the one with less responses has more views/readers, they are just silent.

>>24566939
Ao3 is a better site than RR

>>24566939
Ao3 seems to have a much more community-oriented readerbase than RR anyways. a big percentage of the readers/commenters are writers themselves.

>>24567462
this really depends on the tag. i think if you write to the original fiction tag you're right, but almost all other fanfic or ship tags are predominantly readers

>>24567368
make sure to set up the auto-stroker integration before you jack in

>>24567461
>>24567462
Making me tempted to port my short story over there, its not smut nor fanfic though but it is tempting

>>24567468
Do it, but edit with long descriptions of your characters assets jiggling up and down.

>>24567167
Fairies
Mermaids
Harpies
Stories where the isekai'd protagonist is the only human left in the world, humans having faded into myth and the current population being some other species (can go anywhere from Arknights to whimsical fae but anthro furries are lame)

>>24567465
In ao3 everything gets so scrambled if you don't restrict the search to a particular fandom. A lot of dreadfully bizarre stories pop up if I try looking for original fics

>>24566753
Internet posted manifestos of the various shooting spree whack jobs.

>>24567141
Didn't it turn into some kind of romance novel? I dropped when that dude became a simp.

>>24567461
>>24567462
yeah it pisses me off. RR has turned everything into a fight so authors don't just leave comments and reviews without having to suck each other off first because everyone is an opponent. I just want people to read and enjoy my story. Instead I have to worry about my ranking on the list and shit like that. Rating goes up? more people might see it. That's what I want? Rating goes down time to kill myself.

>>24567423
I know that is what people do but it sucks to have hundreds of views/followers/favorite etc and then 2 comments. My psychiatrist won't issue a refill on my medications.

>>24567526
Live chatters on big streams tend to be a handful of people out of all the viewers.
Videos with millions of views have only thousands of comments.
A piece of art retweeted 10,000 times might have only a couple hundred comments.

Just take your meds man.

If I go and post a story on RR, because that's where a lot of the action seems to maybe be. Can I just post the damn thing up? Or, do I *have* to dribble out chapters. I'm not making usual WebNovel fare. Hardboil pulp.

>>24567538
Even if you can dump, dribbling it out is a better way to get readers

>>24567538
Go ahead. Maybe your story will be a trendsetter and dropping them all at once will become more normalized.

>>24567538
you can do what you want but if you aren't playing the game, your discoverability will suffer

>>24567549
A Practical Guide to Evil is sitting atop best ongoing as you say that. It's a known series, but it's there nonetheless.

>>24567530
>Just take your meds man.
they are empty and I can't refill them

>>24567565
Been there, psychatrist ghosted me a bunch of times during covid, thankfully an old family friend and a pharmacist helped me in those occasions. Hang in there friend, YGMI.

>>24567526
>rating goes up? more people might see it. That's what I want? Rating goes down time to kill myself.
rating doesn't affect views unless you're in like the first 10 pages of top rated. meaning top 200
and even then you only get serious traffic if you're on page 1, and especially top 5/10 (frontpage spots on main site and app)

>>24567564
>there's a gigantic exception explaining why it's doing well, but just ignore that lol, dump all your chapters and get 30 views and die in obscurity. maybe you'll set trends
excellent advice as always /wng/

>>24567636
why is practical guide to evil doing so well anyhow

>>24567638
It was only uploaded to RR 4 days ago. Before that it has always been on the writer's own site.

>>24567638
it's extremely popular, an OG of the serial scene, and my personal favorite web fiction
many people share that view which is why it's already #1 Best Ongoing. It's an exceptional piece of writing

>>24567636
Was not an advice and you only have your own stupidity to blame if you thought so.
>>24567638
It's one of the most well known web novels, and it wasn't in RR, so people pick it up and give it good ratings.
It would be like if Brandon Sanderson released on of his works in RR, of course it would rise to the top.

>>24567647
>Was not an advice
Anon asked if dropping all chapters at once is fine on RR and you replied "APGTE did it". How is that not implicit advice?

>>24567652
The other two anons gave actual advice, the I responded one gave a bad idea that coincided with the fact that one famous fiction is sitting at number one after dumping 8k pages in 24h.

>>24566885
Sure, but you need to address that to your potential readers, not I. They like what they like and don't what they don't. I only suggest where the cutoffs are to gaining a larger audience, not the value of an artistic vision in of itself.

>>24567638
>A Practical Guide to Evil is a YA fantasy novel about a young girl named Catherine Foundling making her way through the world
Wtf, who reads this nonsense

>>24567668
are you lost, anon?

>>24566885
/d/-tier Teratophilia stuff has its audience but it might not be the audience you want.

>>24567556
>>>24567538 (You)
>you can do what you want but if you aren't playing the game, your discoverability will suffer
>
I'm playing a weird game.
WebNovel sites, are just a place to put my books and chapters. So I can drop links, to do a sample chapter or a sample book.
None of my books? Are, like, WN material.
Well, maybe my one YA fiction, who knows.
I'm making what I think are traditional paperbacks. By traditional? I mean, as books once were. Here, I'm doing a lot of hard-boil and noir, around crime. I'm really not the author *anyone* going to a WN site? Is looking for.
>
If you don't write "goblin books", its like being a fish out of water. Still, I need somewhere to post my books, and try to get a couple readers. An anon on here seemed serious, and pronounced my first chapter decent.
I need readers.
But, if you can see what I mean. By not writing "goblin books", I'm really an outsider. But, if you think dribbling my 5k word chapters helps something, I'll try it.

JFC this nigga really loves to hear himself talk.

>>24567682
I'm going to become a samefagschizo, I'm almost sure that three anons are actually the same person.

>>24567633
aren't search results based on rating by default?

>>24567668
>>>24567638
>>A Practical Guide to Evil is a YA fantasy novel about a young girl named Catherine Foundling making her way through the world
>Wtf, who reads this nonsense

you should see some of the "titles" on the one WebNovel site I have books posted on. I mean, you just marvel at some of the titles. I don't remember if "Galactic Fried Chicken" is the author or the title of one of the more famous ones, on my one WN site? Think its the author's name, I'm pretty sure.
But seriously, you could see a title like:
"Help! I've been reincarnated into a mouse, and my cat is trying to eat me!"
all day long.
I don't have words. That, is what's out there and popular.
I'm trying to write... normal books.
Like I remember reading. Like My dad's paperbacks were like for me, a lot of 60s 70s 80s stuff.
My formula is pretty simple.
I make a normal goddamned paperback.
Like they used to be.
Before all the politically correct nonsense went nuts.

>>24567678
Most of your commas in that post are objectively wrong
your posts are more obvious than if you were tripfagging

i think comma anon has been hard-boiled by his literature of choice

>>24567693
Any recs?

>>24567695
>>>24567678 (You)
>Most of your commas in that post are objectively wrong
>your posts are more obvious than if you were tripfagging
>
Yeah, I hear that one a lot anon.
When I post? I'm writing informally. Just conveying thoughts. I drop commas, for pauses.
>
I don't write like that.

>>24567690
yes, that's true. i suppose you might get some traffic for very specific searches if you're normally #423 but get boosted to like #19 after a filter
but does this happen in practice? I don't know what discoverability looks like for small stories. anyone have author premium? I figure most traffic comes from "latest updates" for small fries

Now he's just being obnoxious on purpose.

>>24567712
but why do you type like that even casually? it makes you sound retarded. nobody else on this entire board mangles commas like you do

>>24567678
>>24567693
I can't even articulate what I find weird about these posts

He intentionally fucks quotes for one

Uh oh meltie time

>>24567727
he has an extremely weird writing cadence and voice, and on top of that rapes his sentences with commas. never mind the way he constantly >>'s himself with the (You) still copy pasted, or how he puts > as linebreaks
he obviously wants to tripfag but knows people hate it. so he soft tripfags instead

>>24567707
>>>24567693 (You)
>Any recs?
My favorite pick, for overall hard-boil, noir and related aesthetics of writing and reading both.
"a Bullet for Cinderella", by Macdonald.
Same author, later went on to write the infamous Travis McGee series.
I obviously recommend that, too.
In particulr? "Darker than Amber", if you want a McGee-era paperback of his.
Hmm. Weird pick?
Old one. "the Man Who Paid His Way" I forget the author. Old hardboil noir pulp. maybe 50s.
>
These writing styles, continue today. Usually mixed in with other genres.

>>24567727
>>>24567678 (You)
>>>24567693 (You)
>I can't even articulate what I find weird about these posts
>
Who knows.
Can't I just be weird and we move on? Or marvel over it for as long as it takes you to get over the shock I guess. There I have made war upon the humble comma.

thanks to the anon who recommended EdgeTTS in a previous thread, it's a trip hearing my writing being read aloud by "someone else"

More importantly he knows trips can be filtered and is addicted to the interaction because he's a sadsack sperg.

>>24567747
Check out KokoroTTS. runs locally and is better imo

>>24563536 (OP)
I had this gay idea for using different fronts to depict different accents.
Thoughts?

>>24567751
i'm a techlet using a potato pc
so the one anon recommended (https://vadash.github.io/EdgeTTS/) works fine for me
thanks for sharing though

>>24567762
the wandering inn literally changes the text color of certain voices, so this is the one medium you could do that, yes
the issue is that fonts are weird cross-device. you might have readers on phones where it all defaults to the same font because those fonts dont exist on the device. so be careful

>>24567762
that would be incredibly homosexual

>>24567538
Don't dump spam. It's just like when you're subbed to a musician on youtube and they just dump the whole album as split tracks on the same day. It's just irritating. Spread them out.

>>24567719
if you are in top 1k you will probably have good search results showing up after a filter or two.

>adding a Power System© with Progression® elements like ranks and skill trees
why am I such a fucking whore
I draw the line at stats though

>>24567796
Come on whore, add in the +0.1 STR stat growth every chapter. You know you want to.

grandpa please stop doing that. you don't need to copy and paste the whole post when replying. if you wish to reply simply click their post number. if you wish to quote a sentence of theirs and reply as well you can simply highlight the section you wish to quote and then click on their post number while its highlighted. it will automatically reply to their post number and add the highlighted part as a > for you.

please, i beg and kneel. i dont know how much more i can take.

>>24567796
stats and skill levels are shiiiiit
but unlocking new (single level) skills/passives that give the mc interesting new capabilities can be fun

>>24567766
>the wandering inn literally changes the text color of certain voices
yup, they change the font size (pic rel), color, sometimes the font is invisible and you have to highlight it, hell there's a few chapter with music embedded that you're supposed to listen to.

>>24567879
>grandpa please stop doing that. you don't need to copy and paste the whole post when replying. if you wish to reply simply click their post number. if you wish to quote a sentence of theirs and reply as well you can simply highlight the section you wish to quote and then click on their post number while its highlighted. it will automatically reply to their post number and add the highlighted part as a > for you.
>
>please, i beg and kneel. i dont know how much more i can take.
Okay.

>>24567892

>MC bangs his head on a wall repeatedly
>BING NEW SKILL LEARNED: TOTAL PAIN IMMUNITY
>BING NEW SKILL LEARNED: NULL PHYSICAL DAMAGE
>BING NEW SKILL LEARNED: IRON WILL
>BING NEW SKILL LEARNED: BERSERK WITHOUT ANY SETBACKS
>BING NEW SKILL LEARNED: TRUE HERO
Ah, it's adventuring time

>>24567908
The author of Godclads released a new story and it's quite literally that. It's awful.

>>24567908
Waiting for some system slopper to finally pull the ultimate card and unlock
>Skill: System Immunity - Grow stronger without limit in all parameters, but lose all system support.
on chapter 1 thus ending the entire subgenre.

>>24567775
>Don't dump spam. It's just like when you're subbed to a musician on youtube and they just dump the whole album as split tracks on the same day. It's just irritating. Spread them out.
>
I'll dribble them out.
One extra editing pass for the first RR book chapter by chapter can't hurt any. Might as well polish my turd,

>>24567927
>Grow stronger without limit in all parameters, but lose all system support.

Aren't most system stories about growing out of the system and doing exactly that? At least the gook ones are, Solo Leveling being an infamous example.

>>24567927
Basically happened in pic related 9 years ago.

>>24567908
Honestly someone that gets rewarded with evolution by the world for every little thing they do would be a great antagonist

>>24567939
>9 years ago
I wonder how Naruse-chan feels about having an artsyle so gloriously soulless it looks like someone sent AIslop back in time.
Because goddamn.

>>24568024
I'm hereby predicting a isekai litRPG fatigue micro movement of stories where the stereotypical isekai protagonist is the antagonist and depicted in the most annoying light possible

>he doesn't preview how his chapter looks on an e-reader screen before posting it

>>24568040
Isn't the fatigue already here? I only read native isekai now.

>>24568101
more or less yeah. I think it's why system apocalypse is so popular right now
people still like litRPG but are tired of isekai tropes
>native isekai
lol. which is why we have "isekai but without the baggage of isekai" stories

There are only three people in this thread. Me, the person posting everything that annoys me, and the person posting anything else.

>>24568146
The Godhead

>>24568153

>>24568146
I made this post.

People really will go declaring "people are tired of isekai web novels" when the biggest blow-up of royalroad history happened 40 days ago and it's a cut and dry "modern person teleported into another world" isekai
YOU are tired of that trope. and that's fine. but royalroad clearly isn't, and neither are anime watchers

>>24568101
I'm predicting low fantasy progfan and much lower scale power systems becoming more popular.
I've been noticing reader burnout with all the galaxy-level impersonal xianxia/litrpg/systemshit. requests and discussions seem to be asking for more personal, more intimate, philosophical but not preachy, etc

>>24568188
>anime watchers
Isn't
>Banished from the party
The latest isekai fad? I'm not following anime anymore btw.

>>24568192
>requests and discussions
nah man watch this isn't how you keep a finger on the pulse of trends
what is actually getting popular? what actually gets read? observe the unbiased data and nothing else
i remember people saying people are tired of isekai in anime a decade ago and that shit is still going strong. and it'll be going strong 10 years from now, i bet

>>24568188
Don't make light of the trailblazer sloppers, veterans of the game. They've read thousands of isekais over the last decade. The kings of kings.

>>24568194
It's not the hottest fad. I don't check narou ever so maybe I'm behind the cutting edge, but I think that trend has come and gone. LNs are big on romcoms again, MakeIne, Alya, Tonari no Tenshi, the stepsister incest one are all topping the charts. Slime and Eminence in Shadow are the only isekai topping the charts recently and they are big legacy names. People are getting away with non-isekai fantasy having shit like guilds and such so making the protagonist actually Japanese isn't such a big hook and you can avoid the stigma while still indulging in all the tropes (see, 魔女と傭兵 among others).

>>24565695
even if this were true, which it's not

I'm tired of romance being a staple in fantasy. I think it's alright if its sprinkled in as spice but I don't care for it otherwse. I think Highserk did it best.

Are there any twin yuri novels

>>24568040
that's also this >>24567939

>>24568287
RR picked up on this forever ago, it's kind of crazy how many stories have asexual mcs

would readers on rr enjoy cs lewis adjacent literature or am i doomed to never be able to get any pay piggies in the pigpen i built?

>>24568315
>cs lewis adjacent literature
articulate this better and you'll get a better answer
but my response is probably no. Narnia would not have performed well on RoyalRoad, and I doubt you can write something as good as Narnia

>>24568325
not narnia, more like the themes of that hideous strength mixed with a fantasy edge.

Anyone baking?

>>24568362
this still gives a pretty poor image of what sort of story you want to write. so no one can give you an answer how it will do on royalroad
almost all success cases on royalroad are power fantasies though. if there's no hint of that the answer is probably no

>>24568379
Not I, but I do want to carry over the discussion for a few posts next thread.
Some bake plz. Mah keyboard is ready.

>>24568379
>>24568390
Give me 2 minutes, if someone isn't already.

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