Thread 24725258

Learning From Web Novels Edition

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>What is /wng/ — 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: Royal Road, 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 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!

##READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP##

Running your story like the business it is:
www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/116847

On writing web serials:
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

Recommended web novels
rentry.co/d2yvczro

Anon's guide to success
rentry.co/RRBasicGuide

FAQ
rentry.co/pytefpxn

>>24725258 (OP)
I am 96% through MoL and I believe now is a good time to ask for lots of recs. I read much and often so if there is some story where you can't get anyone else into, I will at least check it out if you give me a name. I've scraped and read some rr stuff before but never much bothered to gather a huge comprehensive backlog.
I plan to read Nowhere Stars next and here is what else I currently have downloaded
>Ar'Kendrithyst
>Practical Guide to Evil
>Years of Apocalypse
>Rock Falls, Everyone Dies
>Worth the Candle (read the first chapter but all the dnd shit took me out of it so will probably not bother; yeah I poked at the rentry rec list)

I'm not really looking for xianxia right now but I'll include it. Some progression/-xia stuff I've read in the past
>first book and a half of Godclads
>two books of Speedrunning the Multiverse
>BuyMort (quickly dropped)
>LotM (same ^)
>DCC and K:BS
>Infinite Realm
>100some chapters of Shadow Slave
>ISSTH/AWE/currently reading AWWP
>CD/DE/ST by IET
>Heaven's Laws (western xianxia, two books atm)
>Soulship (western prog, six books atm)

I won't be back until I finish MoL so feel free to include your overall thoughts on that one as well. I hope the ending is not a BIG STINKER.

>>24725314
Read Worm

>>24720054
>>24720201
Recommend me some good webnovels with strong, competent and threatening antagonists that push MC to his limits.

>>24725325
Also read Worm

>>24725318
Don't read Worm. In fact, read nothing that that hack Wildbow has ever put out. It's just edgy slop with nothing to redeem it.

You know who loves Worm? Spacebattlers. Do you want to be a Spacebattler, anon? I don't think so.

>>24725344
Yo know what space battlers also love? Drinking water. Stop drinking water right now, you don't want to be a spacebattler

would you still love me if i read worm

Superhero stories are boring.

>>24725314
PGTS is way better than anything else I've read. It's way better than MoL that's for sure. It's not finished tho. And seems like it won't be for a long time. Author releases 1 chapter in 4 days but the stuff that's written is peak.

>>24725535
*Blocks your path*

>>24725552
This is slop. But fun slop.

>>24725552
This is even worse. If a story description or title contains the word villain it villainess I don't give it a second glance.

>>24725539
imo PGTS was A tier but not S tier. It has decent prose and plotting and characters and such, but in the entire series there was only one 'wow' moment for me, the string scene (iykyk). it does have some consistently fun gimmicks with the mistaken identity stuff

>>24725356
Nice try, Spacebattler, everyone knows they're only allowed to drink cum, jizz and sperm exclusively

need a list of things that make /wng/ immediately not look at a novel so I can write something that offends nobody sensibilities and sucks in every possible way as a result

>>24725721
pick any word starting from a to z

>>24725721
>superpowers
>passive protagonist
>possibly feMC
>NTR
>DEI or conservative real world politics stuff
>MC is a writer (it just takes me out of the story)
>cliches like "you can't kill him or you'll be just like him!"

>>24725615
what the hell is S tier then in your opinion?
Also you mean the aberrant strings?
It's just consistently good, that means more for me than some sparse wow moments.
The way MC progresses is also pretty good. Magic system is top tier.

>>24725748
amongus

>>24725928
Passive MC

>>24725867
Why does the MC being a writer take you out? I've read a few that do it well enough. I've also listened to one that was so god-awfully cringe, I felt real physical relief I didn't buy it.

>retarded mother flushing money down the toilet on pyramid scheme while whining to me that I'm not contributing enough to the household and whining to my roastie microsoft daycare-job sister who in turn again whines at me
>want to go back to story I hiatus'd
>but need cash mone and know that starting a new one is the way to get that

>>24725552
>aislop
>all rights reserved
nobody tell him