I try not to spam in these threads, but I am writing a fantasy story you can read for free on Royal Road about a Necromancer, loosely based on my own trip to Nepal and the Himalayas. Aside from the chapter-by-chapter release style, it doesn’t really hold any connection to webnovels. (None of the standard tropes or short chapters). It’s basically my completely normal high fantasy slop, except I liked the idea of getting readers and commenters who could throw advice at me since I’m way too cheap to ever get an actual editor.
Anyways I recently got on the rising stars list on RR for the villainous lead category, and my fiction is two chapters away from being finished with book 1, so I figured now might be a good time to share this once again here.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/93931/born-under-a-black-sun
more than one of you has advised I switch to a less modern dialogue. When I finish the last few chapters I will go back and make sure everything looks okay and works right, and I’ll try to catch dialogue that looks out of place. But I feel that overall, aping a medieval dialogue I don’t actually understand would do more harm than good.
Also: I feel like my protagonist isn’t really a villain, just a heads up. But he is a necromancer, and a few chapters in he gets in a racially motivated altercation and murders a not-indian. And because of that I had some RR readers complain that I needed a trigger warning, so uh yeah, that’s why it’s tagged as such! :]
