a surge of r*dditors EditionStubbed >>25593148>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/116847On 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 novelsrentry.co/d2yvczroAnon's guide to successrentry.co/RRBasicGuideFAQrentry.co/pytefpxn
>>25601379Doing some research and there's a fuckton variants of dragons. No wonder they can work on everything. There's always one type that can fit in anything.
>>25601493There are only few types, real dragons, elemental dragons and various creatures with some dragon ancestry (wyrms, serpents etc.)
RR tells you to remove political content from your story or else. What do?
>>25601691i'd have to remove my story, the idea of brutally murdering people is a key part of my story.
>>25601691only if it references real world stuff
>>25601691They don't do that they tell you to remove the specific parts but that author had a melty for having to follow the same rules everyone else has to and deleted his story.
>>25601691chances are your politics will fly under the radar unless you get millions of views. I was worried people would get upset that there's a scene where a woman makes out with a little boy while he's asleep, but my readership was small enough that everyone turned a blind eye.
>>25601740Meanwhile I get monthly "ugh yikes, 26-year-old woman mildly flirting with an 18-year-old in one chapter out of 200?? gross!"-comments
>>25601691Phew, I'm safe, as long as I don't have to remove my fugue state rape scene
>>25601790Oh, is western webnovel scene finally healing?
>guy gives my novel 0.5 stars>a few days later changes it to 5 starswhat the fuck was his problem
How do the writers here usually price their advance chapters? I've seen a few on RR charge upwards of like $10-15 for sets of advance chapters.
>>25601854Probably an audio-fag that misunderstood something and then later realized they were wrong. You can turn any story on RR into audio with a browser extension.
>>25601691I've be gravely sad but it just means I'll have to put up a chapter notice that the story as it is on RR is being axed, and then I'll post links to the 6 other platforms I posted it to. The really sad thing is nearly no one will be converted over to any of them.
>>256018950$. With a I think a 2 or 3$ option expressively stating it has no support chapters and its just for general support.
>>25601934And how much do you make off of that?
>>256019370$
>>25601895If you're asking because you're wondering what to do yourself, just copy what the big authors do. It's a solved issue. I'm shocked how often I see this question honestly
After reading the laundry list of why the soccer fic got put down, insta dropped from tbr
I tried reading Clara Casewell finally and it had the biggest red flag for knowing when a story is going to be shit: the character interactions for a dramatic event weren't realistic in the first few chaptersGirl tries to kill herself and the head maid is like "ok cool get cleaned up". the villainess, her best friend, addresses it a bit more, but also in a super weird way as if the author knows it needs to be addressed but also wants to brush it asidehad high hopes based on the rating but nah, very bad first impression, will not continue. How can I trust how the author will handle any future dramatic event now?
>>25602074what if the girl threatens to kill herself every single day and the maid is sick and tired of her bullshit
>>25602079if my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bicycle
What are gu?
im just having a blast, billions must draw.
Holy kek pooist and turdfucianism ""scholars""" btfo they will never recover
>>25602452>wall of chinese translated textlol not reading that, are you insane?
>>25602452what language is this?
Hi /wng/! I'm looking for recommendations for, or at least directions towards, magical girl stories. There don't really seem to be -that- many posted to royalroad. Are there any other websites you'd recommend checking out?
>>25602074i don't think anyone would care if a servant were suicidal if she really did die they'd just hire a new one.
>>25602557I Became the New Member in a Magical Girl WebtoonSuccubus Building a Magical Girl HaremVillainess Executive Enrolls in Magical Girl AcademyDoes Saying Sorry End Your Life as a Magical Girl? Does It?Magical Girl of Chaos: Magical RampageI Became the Slit-Eyed Character in a Magical Girl Battle Series.The Duty of a Magical Girl — CongratulationsMagical Girls Don't FallGet Dominated By Magical Girls
>>25602583Is the genre situation really so bad you have to "recommend" some bottom of the barrel dregs from novelpia?
>>25602074Literally explained in text lolIn the short term the original maid gave the villainess the poison they're on trial for. So the head maid who is loyal to the villainess's family is pissed off about that and sees original maid trying to kill herself as a cowardly way for her to run from responsibility for the shit she pulled.It's also shown later that the maid who tried to kill herself was a cooky religious lunatic that almost nobody in the house liked.
>>25602622>bottom of the barrel dregs from novelpia?That wasn't the bottom of the barrel, lmao. That was a curated list.If you want the bottom of the barrel I can give it to you. Check out Executive Mesgaki in a Gender-Reversed World with Magical Girls.
>>25602622>>25602641Or how about Becoming a Magical Girl in a Place Where Futanari Are Villains
>>25602641>>25602644>lvdokino is somehow bottom of the barrel
>>25602650Executive Mesgaki in a Gender-Reversed World with Magical Girls is bottom of the barrel because a chapter is missing from the translation several hundred chapters in and there's a special place in hell for series that do that shit.
>>25602632This is fun because ????
>>25602688it sets up later plot points
>>25602557Most magical girl stories are incorrectly tagged on RR. I'm debating whether or not to tell the mods of the site so they can force remove it off stories that are girl focused with magic
>>25602752>Most magical girl stories are incorrectly tagged on RRI regret to inform you that "magical girl" as a genre just means girl with magic powers and is applied to everything from sentai adjacent works to horror to slice of life to military/police dramas to bog standard fantasy about bog standard witches.You could call the next fucking Witcher game mahou shoujo and you wouldn't be wrong.
>>25602837You are overly pedantic
Clara Casewell is a magical girl
>>25602851We're talking about genres. Pedantry is the point. The only time I've seen fuck ups with the magical girl tag are when it's a trap or an all magic is actually just sufficiently advanced science series.
Why are we getting raided?
>>25602837>"magical girl" as a genre just means girl with magic powers Wrong
>>25603001The third oldest recognized magical girl story (Second if you don't count Princess Knight) is pic-rel
magical girls have transformation sequences
Clara Casewell transforms from a lawyer into a maid.
>>25603045Her soul is inhabiting a different body, that's transmigration
>>25602632I could forgive the head maids reaction. The villainess was the real issue.
>>25603026Magical girls pre-date transformation sequences by decades. Sailor Moon did not invent magical girls.
>>25603008Ok. But that doesn't mean any and every female character with magic powers counts as a "magical girl" story. This is some "native isekai"-level stupidity. The genre is defined by very specific tropes and conventions that the audience expects to see.
>>25603077i will excuse legacy magical girls but modern ones should have them. otherwise they are just female mages.
>>25602570The villainess is her best friend and she did care, but in a weird brushed aside way. It read super unrealistic and amateurish. Did u even read my post
>>25603079>This is some "native isekai"-level stupidityRequiring transformations in magical girl stories is closer to being "native isekai" given it's a post-facto change to an already established genre.
>Magical girl (Japanese: 魔法少女, Hepburn: mahō shōjo) is a subgenre of Japanese fantasy media (including anime, manga, light novels, and live-action media) centered on young girls, who possess magical abilities, which they typically use through an ideal alter ego into which they can transform.[1][2]>The genre emerged in 1962 with the manga Himitsu no Akko-chan, followed by Sally the Witch in 1966.[3] A wave of similar anime produced in the 1970s led to majokko (魔女っ子; lit.'little witch') being used as a common term for the genre. In the 1980s, the term was largely replaced by "magical girl", reflecting the new popularity of shows produced by other studios, including Magical Princess Minky Momo and Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel.>In the 1990s, Sailor Moon redefined the genre by combining "transforming hero" elements from live-action tokusatsu hero shows. The growth of late-night anime in the early 2000s led to a demographic shift for the genre, where series with more mature themes such as Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (2004) were created and marketed towards an older male audience.There you go. Look how easy that was
>>25603123Good job proving exactly my point in that transformations are post-facto to the genre with that third paragraph. So requiring transformations is native isekai bullshit.
>>25603128I'm not who you were responding to and I don't even know what "native isekai bullshit" meansI just find it absurd when people bicker about definitions that you can settle in seconds by googling so I did it for both of you
Clara Casewell transforms from a miad into a solicitor.
I notice that I can't take certain works seriously, particularly those where the "Hand of the Author" is moving the pieces around too obviously, without bothering to "cover them with the curtains first" so to speak.I notice that with Chinese works, this is usually in the way the author openly allows all the patterns to show, making no effort to hide that this is the fifth "young master shows up, causes trouble for MC, and gets face slapped" loop of filler.Whereas in Japanese works, it's more to do with the rules of the world itself. Japanese writers really like openly using arbitrary and completely unbelievable rules with no justifications, expecting the reader to simply accept them. E.g. the "kill a saint kill a demon" rule of FMD Muramasa, or the entire power system in JJK. The entire genre of Death Game stories is an embodiment of this.In Western works, the most common form of this is the inability to allow the narrative to take itself seriously. Whedonisms, reddit writing so to speak, and also an insistence on very specific tropes like "found family" and "sparing the villain." It's part the Chinese tendency to allow the mechanisms to show, and part a unique western mental irony-poisoning (And to an extent ideological poisoning, as western authors especially strongly shy away from portraying various things they find ideologically dangerous or distasteful even if the setting should have them). Only a Western author will have a medieval knight talk in pukey therapy-speak or have a villain simultaneously enact genocide and then have a soapbox moment where he kills a subordinate for using le heckin slur or whatever. end of blogpoast
>>25603107>otherwise they are just female mages.Did you miss the Mahou Shoujotai Arusu pic a few posts back?She's literally just a witch in a fantasy world.
>>25603211>have a villain simultaneously enact genocide and then have a soapbox moment where he kills a subordinate for using le heckin slur or whatever.Name 5 instances of this with direct quotes or clips
>>25603211>medieval knight talk in pukey therapy-speakits called an oath of honor, milord
8 hours until my scheduled chappy drops, I'm so hyped bross
>>25603220>Name 5 instances of this with direct quotes or clipsX-Men
>/wng/ — Web Novel General
>>25603280>No direct quotes>No clipsCouldn't even do that right
>>25603219that sounds like fantasy to me
What would Spectral Soul Demon Venerable do in this situation?
>>25602557Nowhere Stars is your best option.
>board and general so dead nobody even noticed the site was read-only for 20 hours
>>25604192Huh? I was literally refreshing every 30 seconds
>>25604218Based 4chan addict.
>>25604192I expected the site to go down for weeks again so I usually saved on tab space and had it closed, checking in to see if I could post yet. I mostly was really busy slamming words on the processor and making kino.
>>25603369>that sounds like fantasy to meAll magical girl stories are fantasy definitionally. Magical girl is a subgenre of fantasy.
Anons, I've got a stupid question for you guys.How do you balance your time between reading and writing? Do you read first or read after you write? Do you read more than you write? I cannot write for more than an hour, but I can read for hours on end.What do you anons do?
>>25604788I don't write.
Recommend me something like MLA (or similar to what I recommended). OP MC, some aura farming scenes, fantasy. Bonus points if it's a male MC and isn't RI. Extra bonus points if it has a lot of chapters and I somehow haven't read it.In return I suggest: >Saving the school would have been easier as a cafeteria worker It's a great story but the title sucks.
Would you be so kind as to critique my first chapter? Be as harsh as you like, just looking for some feedback.https://rentry.org/hqzqve7b
>>25604894I find it dull, and there’s nothing there to keep me reading. If you got something big planned for Chapter 2, I suggest you bring it forward or nobody will stick around for it.Then again, I only read Asian stuff so I’m not the best judge of quality.
Screw it, I'm GOING to write my MAGNUM OPUS despite my writing being below average at best. My story WILL have flaws but that is okay. I just want to write this out without any regrets. I'd probably re-write out later if I have the time.
>>25604799>Recommend me something like MLABoring dogshit without stakes that goes nowhere?
>>25604799>MLAThe fuck is MLA? Did you mean MHA? The Man with Hypnotic Powers Doesn’t Hold Back the Second Time Around. It's way less rape-y than you would think from the title.
>>25602837True. Worm is my favorite mahou shoujo light novel.
>>25604894>KleinStopped reading right there
>>25604923That's the spirit. Remember, you can always rewrite it to make it better.
Is there any point in releasing on substack?
>>25604894>Another, louder guffawThe comma after another isn't needed. Commas only go between coordinate adjectives. Another is never one such adjective.>for him anotherComma after him.>Klein had no choiceYou just started the previous sentence with Klein. This isn't gay romance. You're allowed to use pronouns.>the manure he heardComma after manure.>He turned to see a mostly bald man in what was probably once a blue overcoat along with well-worn travelling clothes standing over a saddle knocked in the dirt, holding a mug like a precious vase.Wordy.>stabs he grabbedComma after stabs.>he grabbed the pitchfork in his orthodox stance with his feet square and both hands grasping the pitchfork in front of himWordy. A bit redundant between grabbed and grasped. Also "his" orthodox stance implies he created an orthodoxy unless you're using orthodox to mean usual which would be an odd turn of phrase.>anyway, thereComma should be a period.>Now the mockingComma after now.>On moonless nights like these the inn was a lighthouse surrounded by rolling waves of green grass.It is odd to draw attention to the color of the environment on a "moonless" night. It is also odd to be mucking out a stable on a moonless night. Good way to get kicked to death by a horse or end up going to bed covered in shit.>barnStable.>Behind the bar was the kitchenRepetitive. Change behind the bar to in the back.>Klein's family lived"His" family lived.>When Klein was much younger he remembered his fatherComma after younger and delete the he remembered.>to Dumas and thecomma after Dumas.>thinking' and KleinComma after thinking.>imminent completion hisComma after completion.>that is if Klein's father had any sort of compassion or understanding of Klein's dream.M8, you started the sentence using he for Klein. Don't go back to using his name.>delver for the Halfway Inn hadDelete for the Halfway Inn.>to be a delver he'd expectedComma after delver.>he'd come accustomedbecome.
>>25604894>Instead thereComma after instead.>In hindsight KleinComma after hindsight.>Klein saw that as the moment his childhood had endedMelodramatic, especially for a 9 yo.>his fate of "heir" beganI think? this should be his fate as "heir" had begun.>Afterwards his motherComma after afterwards.>anymore she'dComma after anymore.>Instead he plannedComma after instead.>Next heComma after next.>the rest butComma after rest.>like that evenComma after that.>floor delver andComma after delver>scoffed.Don't start a new paragraph after this.>arse butComma after arse.>warning andComma after warning.>the table a horse'sComma after table>in no mood to be called "boy,"He was called boy earlier without annoyance by Yarlin. Yarlin also asked for his name before introducing himself which is generally considered rude.>common room the messengerComma after room.>taking care not to dirty her uniformComma before and after all this.
The revenge of the comma professor
>9 chapters into one story idea>6 into another>10 in yet another>Full outlines for these and more>Keep bouncing between themI hate ADHD.
>>25604911Thanks, you reminded me to put some setup for the protag's power in the first chapter other than just saying "he trained". >>25604999>>25605000Wew, thanks for the blindspot check on the commas. I think in trying to erase my comma splicing habit I just started obliterating commas. You're still a cunt and I want to stab your eyes out.
>>25605018Oh, also, you should describe the MC. At all. You give more detail for a passing drunkard who I hope is meant to be a recurring character at least.
I only like three current cultivation novels - Sky Pride, Leaving a Legacy and Common Sense is Overpowered in the Cultivation World.Please recommend something that isn't litrpg or korean or 'read 1200 chapters and it's fine' like ri.
>>25605049I've been enjoying Ten Thousand Tragedies. It's kind of litrpg lite with the death loop thing, but there's no stats or anything. Although I think Wu Hao could use a bit more meat to his character, the plot is engaging.I also like the more grounded Murim setting instead of the asian high fantasy vibes you get in most xianxia.
>>25604894There has to be a more interesting way for you to start your story than forking horse manure in a barn. And you tell us about that twice in the same chapter. I refuse to believe even you find any of this fun. What were you thinking?
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>>25604788>Anons, I've got a stupid question for you guys.>How do you balance your time between reading and writing? Do you read first or read after you write? Do you read more than you write? I cannot write for more than an hour, but I can read for hours on end.>What do you anons do?I gave up over 99 percent of pleasure reading because I wanted to write. Other than rare exceptions, I only read my own stuff.
>>25604308but will this javascript upgrade, somehow prevent rampant faggotry. I think not.
>>25603231>>medieval knight talk in pukey therapy-speak>its called an oath of honor, milordthese days, it could well be milady, remember where you are.
>>25605049Journey to the West
>>25605067Oh. That one too. I should have listed that.>>25605112I assume you mean the original rather than something on RR.
>>25604788I'm illiterate and can't read.
>>25605068>There has to be a more interesting way for you to start your story than forking horse manure in a barnI'm pretty sure the point is for it to not be interesting so the audience understands the main character's willingness to risk his life doing literally anything else.That said it wouldn't be unusual to show something tangentially related to the plot that helps set up the future stakes before introducing the main character to act as some sort of hook. Maybe the party about to clear the 100th floor in struggling in their endeavor?
>>25605209>so the audience understandsWhat many fresh writers fail to grasp is that there's a world of difference between life being boring for the character and the story being boring for the reader. It's possible to describe an uninteresting situation in an interesting way. That's where skill comes into the picture.
>>25604788I just write/read. There were a few days where I woke up and from morning to miday I read in my yard, and spent the few days after till now just writing. For me, leisure reading and studying to read are something you do simultaneously and subconsciously. I was glued to the book I read and couldn't help stimmy like mad, like I needed to write badly.
>>25604788I just read when I can't write. I read at work, mainly. My home free time goes like:Writing gooner smut until i buss, writing (real), reading in the rare occasion i have writers block.
>>25605289>What many fresh writers fail to grasp is that there's a world of difference between life being boring for the character and the story being boring for the reader.Counterpoint: It's generally better to try and immerse the reader in the thoughts and emotions of the PoV character for escapist fiction, which this undoubtably is. Not every literary technique is suitable for every genre.Also deliberately trying to separate the PoV character's experience and the reader's can easily come across as pretentious.Also also, it's not like nothing happens in the chapter. Did you even get past the horse manure?That said, the MC training could have been something more complex than just doing reps.
>>25605289>>so the audience understands>What many fresh writers fail to grasp is that there's a world of difference between life being boring for the character and the story being boring for the reader. It's possible to describe an uninteresting situation in an interesting way. That's where skill comes into the picture.And I will begin by stating that I completely agree with you. That's my take on things as well. I know I've read slow starting stories before and if I would have quit, boy would I have missed out. But here's how it was explained to me...if you buy a book, maybe a used cheap book, if you even find it for free. You are invested now in that book. You paid for it, or you picked it out, or something made you want it. Even so, that's the book you have right now so you'll give it a chance. But the problem is WEB NOVELS and the people that READ WNs have thousands to pick from. The reader can browse the first page of ten different similar looking stories and pick one. You can *have* a slow start with a slow build, but only if you take certain steps.>PS - I like to read slow starts and slow build-ups, but the advice against it makes sense.
>>25605368If that Anon couldn’t get past the horse manure, it only proved his point.Nothing in this world is free. The price of a web novel is time: time readers could spend on a hundred other things. They don’t have to read the first chapter, the first scene, or even the first line. They don’t have to do anything. It’s the author’s job to hook them from the opening sentence and give them a reason to keep reading.
>>25605506>If that Anon couldn’t get past the horse manure, it only proved his point.Okay, but it's a shit point if he's arguing you can't have more than 2 seconds of downtime or else the 0 brain cell ADHD scroll addicts will click off forever.You can't write for everyone and writing for some people produces objective shit.
>>25605529>Okay, but it's a shit point if he's arguing you can't have more than 2 seconds of downtime or else the 0 brain cell ADHD scroll addicts will click off forever.It's shit if he's arguing a straight up fact? You need to grab your reader as hard and as fast as possible.
>>25605368>Also also, it's not like nothing happens in the chapter. Did you even get past the horse manure?I read the whole thing. Nothing happened in it. The horse manure wasn't the lowest point but the most memorable part.
>>25605375Nothing wrong with starting slow. But again, there's a key difference between taking your time telling a story and being dull and uninspired
i think i read all the good wnshaven't found one i liked in so long
>you need to hook the reader immediately FUCK slow pacingb-but what about my "living the slow life after i was reincarnated as a country stallion on an isolated dwarven nunnery" isekais???
>>25605863I'm genuinely curious as to how you can slow pace that, that's more of a hook than any I've seen in this general for like a month
>>25605927Chapter 1: Country Girls Make DoChapter 21: Country Girls Make Do Pt. XXI
>only the first volume of lord of mysteries available on anna's archivehowI'm talking about the yen press translation, I'm not reading the dogshit fucking original one.
>>25606553>I'm not reading the dogshit fucking original one.they're both dogshithonestly the anime is dogshit too i really thought that this "peak story" that people rave about stripped of its abysmal prose would be good but the anime is awful as wellmaybe the most overrated story i've ever run into
>>25606556anime skipped 75 chapters lammo
>>25606620it was just incoherently put togetheri know online commenters are retarded but like 80% of the comments on the opening episodes was "wtf is going on?" and i'd read the first 30 chapters or so, so I did know what was going on. and even I was thinking "what the fuck is happening? wtf is this pacing?"why is it rated so high? did all the LOTM fanboys 5 star the anime on all the sites?
How did Super Supportive explode as much as it did? I'm currently reading it and it starts really slow, prioritizing characterization instead of plot and the protagonist constantly getting wins and overcoming obstacles. Is it just because it's so well written that it can afford to ignore all the RR posting meta and still blow up like that?
>>25606644it's completely random whether something gets popular or not
>>25606644>How did Super Supportive explode as much as it did?explode implies fast growth. it was slow but consistentit's like the only story i know that hit rising stars a year after releasing BECAUSE it hit the very top of Best Rated and started picking up enough traction to impossibly hit the high-growth list (RS) way after releasing>Is it just because it's so well written that it can afford to ignore all the RR posting meta and still blow up like that?yes
>>25606646obviously not. it's whoever launders the most money and advertises
>>25605796>haven't found one i liked in so longTry The Princess to Be Castrated After 100 Days
>>25605712>The horse manure wasn't the lowest point but the most memorable part.The most memorable part was the rider arriving and announcing the dungeon hadn't been cleared. The manure was mentioned thrice in passing and literally did not factor into the plot.
i don't think this thread deserves to exist anymore
Literally no winnie does politics, rationally portrayed conflicting interests, layered schemes and twists, etc. well.With the sole exception of Reverend Insanity, of course.
>>25606644not really related to you question but it intrigues me that the author is so obviously a woman and a yaoifag at that, and yet it's still so well received by RR.
>>25606773>obviously a womanDoes he know?
do you guys ever read stories with ai-generated covers on RR? i don't tend to. if you have so little respect for your story that you can't even shill out a hundred to some random artist on xitter to draw one for you why should I care either?
>>25606773>so obviously a womanLOL
>>25606779i only read stories with ai covers because human covers in 2026 means you're a left-leaning fag who deliberately gets a stupidly shitty cover for virtue signaling purposes
>>25606778>>25606780Trans women are real women, chudcels.
>>25606778was the author found or did they post themselves recently or something? i last read it late 2025-ish and the stuart/alden chapters were so incredibly yaoi-fied it's ridiculous. alden himself has no masculine traits at all and reads like a woman self-inserting herself into a man.if it's not a yaoifag then the only possible explanation is gay man
>>25606787are you fucking stupid? do you think gay men and women have remotely comparable perspectives? i was trolling you a bit but this statement blows my fucking mind. you're just a retard
>>25606786>>25606780>>25606778>>25606787wait what it's a troon?!?! actually, i can kinda see that. autism + faggotry + estrogen pills would explain the extreme homosexual vibes.
>>25606779>do you guys ever read stories with ai-generated covers on RR?Sure. Ultimately the cover is just window dressing for WNs. A good cover just means the writer had money to burn, not that their writing is any good.
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>>25606789>do you think gay men and women have remotely comparable perspectivesalden and stuart are essentially gay boyfriends. the most likely option to me seemed woman but if not then there was no way at all a straight man wrote it, so gay man. troon splits the difference
>>25606773It also has absolutely nothing to do with it's premise. The whole demon thing became nothing more than background dressing except for that one time on that one moon for like five out of 300 chapters. Other than that it's just slice of life stuff
Have you anons been genning your slop covers yet? I've been having a blast with NovelAI V5 but not actually writing.$20 wasted and I'm proud of it!
>>25606885*25$ fuck. I can't even remember how much it was...
I remember how early /wng/ was known for being a ragtag bunch of /wg/ refugees who wanted a place to pitch their slop and brainstorm publishing hacks without being laughed at by tradpubfags. Those daily writing challenges sure feel like they happened a decade ago.Is there anyone from that time left? What progress did you have in webnovel scene thus far? I faced a writer's block after an underperfotming launch, but I also learned a lot from my mistakes. It would be high impossible to grasp my story if I wasn't forced to see the issues in it, so now I'm returning with a fresh and solid plot this time.
>>25606885It looks like shit...
>>25606885The entire point of generating a cover is that you can do so for free. What the fuck are you paying for?
>>25606939I'm here. Finished volume two of my more traditional fantasy story, procrastinating on outlining the third simply because I was starting to get sick of writing it. Nearly done with the intro arc of my dungeon core which is about 25% of it. I keep moving between it and other projects, but on the upside, I'll have at least two things I can use to jumpstart contests at places like J-Novel Club if I feel like it.>I faced a writer's block after an underperfotming launch, but I also learned a lot from my mistakesI feel you. I'll likely relaunch that fantasy story of mine once I have the final book done to see if it might catch better numbers with daily updates. I hate how they do Rising Stars, but eh, it is what it is.
>>25606939I've been on /wg/ and here since ancient history. My first winnie kinda flopped, but I changed my approach and started a new one with a more appealing concept. It's been working out a lot better. I'm about halfway through the story now and just hope readers won't abandon it before the end.But all this time, I really wish I were writing the older story instead, because that was my passion project and I really enjoyed it. Everyone who read it rated it highly too, but the concept was just too niche to grab the masses.
>>25606942I know...>>25606951I'm tech illiterate and I don't have a strong PC.
>read the 1% lifesteal book 5 finaleabsolute peak>read the latest autistic archmage chapterwhen does this shit get good? I'm already 151 chapters in, wtf is happening?
>>25606994>I'm already 151 chapters in>when does this shit get goodSoon ;^) Just hang on for 200 chapters more
>>25606779There aren't enough good webslops around to start eliminating ones based on stuff like that brewski
https://fucknovelpia.com/novel/these-lewd-things-are-idolshttps://fucknovelpia.com/novel/i-quit-the-non-virgin-partyhttps://fucknovelpia.com/novel/i-raised-the-scoundrel-hero-too-well
>>25607181I quit the non-virgin party is abandoned (you should always check this shit when using fucknovelupdates because the status listed on the website is usually complete bullshit), but what I've read of I raised the scoundrel hero too well was funny and these lewd things are idols looks interesting.
>>25607194>fucknovelupdatesfucknovelpia*lmao
>>25606644If you write something good, people will read it.>>25606773Not a real one. But yaoifagging actually is a really effective way to appeal to one of the largest demos on RoyalRoad (young men). The same thing fujos like happens to be really popular among young men too (for differing reasons). Amuro and Char is one of the original yaoi pairings.
>>25606994>when does this shit get good? I'm already 151 chapters in, wtf is happening?why would you read something for 150 chapters if it isn't good?
>>25607496because I want to know what happens next
>>25607518can't only something that's good do that to you?you get invested in shitty stories?i just don't get it
>>25607417put on a tripcode, breh
Here's hoping you all get some good writing in today.Or find something really good to read this month.
>>25606779I generally pay ai covers no mind
>>25606779So you read nothing on RR? They're ALL AI-generated, dumbass
>>25607636simply not true
It seems only yurifags from leddit read my winnie now and the next major arc focuses almost completely on two men. I'm so completely fucked, aren't I? I don't even dare to guess the financial losses I'm tanking for this decision.
>>25606885I've been making them from scratch by hand as of late. It's fun you should try it. I never drew much before, tried loomis 14 years ago and gave up. I just picked it up out of the blue and been on a crude drawfag spree. I bought a XPPen Deco for cheap so i can't wait>>25606939think I was one of 2 or 3 that did some of them. one of them was a combat scene that I sketched and posted; then I posted it later as an expanded RR chapter, but it wasn't well received at all. I've had 2 anons reply saying it was bad and reminded me of their writing and how it dragged us both down. Anyway that Combat quest helped me jump-start my serial again since I was in a slump. I haven't posted it much since. I finished Part 1 at 83k words and I'm steadily writing and serializing Part 2 which is about 40k words at the moment
>>25607661if i was reading a story focused on fmcs and then it pivoted to two men id be pissed toovery retarded decision
>>25606885over the years i slopped like several 10000 pictures of diffrent style and quality. (mostly for pen and paper games) so the main part of work is it gonna be selection, improve quality if the stuff is very old like this then A/B test. so far its just throwaway for campaigns or prototyping and random proooomting
>>25607694It's not like the MC or pov changes and the existing characters don't go anywhere.
>>25607734I don't get what you mean by your next major arc focusing almost entirely on two men thenIs your mc not female (hence yurifag readers)? How is a major arc "almost entirely" not about her?
>>25607804Is Ishmael not the mc of Moby Dick? How is not every chapter almost entirely about him? Are you an idiot?
>>25606644Good writing, decently original narrator voice, good characterization. It's slow as fuck but since it has cultivated the reputation of being slow as fuck, people who don't mind slice of life don't mind it.>>25606773Honestly the implied gay ass "soulbond with your bro" when the only other soulbonded people we've seen are a couple is pissing me off, but we'll see how the author resolves that. Also annoyed there's zero inkling of a straight romance aside from that. Brother is literally allergic to interacting with women in any other way than platonically.
>>25607911nice disingenuous argument, retardif your MC and POV is irrelevant to an entire major arc something is fucked up major time
>>25607991Why are you always here, you fucking schizo? You hallucinate things just for the sake of arguing.
>>25607723I like that third one on the left.Could do without the blood halo/reticle.
>>25608014you said some retarded shit and got called out for it, don't have a meltie
>>25608014When you poll for an opinion you're supposed to take note of them m8 not melt down into calling disagreeing posts as idiots or schizos. I thought more or less the same as the other anon btw
He wasn't asking for opinions, he just wanted validation.
>>25607911>web novel thread>references classic literature as an examplewhy does this happen so much?
>>25607661>the next major arc focuses almost completely on two men.Genderbend them
>>25604894>>25606720Maybe reorganize the chapter a bit? Could put the announcement that floor 100 was cleared at the beginning. MC is crushed and reminisces about being an adventurer, maybe the stables work from the night before, and now he's stuck for life. Then end with the cliff that floor 101 opened. Would this clear up most of the "boring" arguments for OP?
Why are you wasting your time chasing yurislop femc garbage? Following trends will never get you anywhere.Write a cultivation novel. Your foundation will be deep and stable, as unshakable as Mt. Tai. You will be able to outlast winnies several stages more popular than yours, as their mindless fanbase moves to the next popular tag.
>>25608738yurislop is deeply unpopular compared to most other WN genres so why are you saying "chasing"? anyone writing that shit is writing it because they like yurislop, periodto schizophrenically psychodiagnose how this post came about, i think you yourself are a trend chaser, because it makes no sense otherwisewrite what you enjoy, anon. stop chasing trends. p.s. xianxiashit sucks
My story?Following the ruthless massacre of their entire clan, it falls to the sworn brothers Chicken and Dog to uncover the secret of their clan’s destruction and exact revenge on the ones who killed their family. Coming soon to a slop site near you.
>>25606939based on the responses it looks like many maybe most of us are still here (i am another who has been here since the start). so, i think we got tired of each other and/or ran out of shit to talk about and the thread degraded
>>25608810I think it's more likely that the writers here have been dissuaded from talking about their work aside from vague things and snippets. We can't deal with the various bad apples that ruin this for everyone else because of how the site works. Who would want to have their work associated here when spiteful schizos could randomly decide you've slighted them? Honestly, 4chan is probably the worst place to be if you're trying to make a name for yourself.
>>25608060>>25608071Notice how I took special care not to directly state if my story even had a feMC or yuri, or gave any details about the plot. Because I know you would've tried to track it down and attack it directly. Since you couldn't, you just made up some shit on your own and kept on raging at strawmen. Insane circus freak
>>25609144>I took special care not to directly state if my story even had a feMC or yuriIf your story has any of those then it's not literature.
>>25608738is a femc cultivation novel fine?
>>25609324If that's what you want to write, then write it.
>>25609324Only if she gets raped a lot
>>25609324Why wouldn't it be? Cultivation stories are fairly egalitarian as far as the sexes are concerned since cultivation level matters infinitely more for strength than sex.Also there are a ton of femc cultivation stories.
>>25608015i have like a million of these somewere but mostly with crowns/halos because of a setting at the time. i should sort all that slop at one point... but that the nice part you can slop a cover or inspo pretty quickly
>>25609144>Notice how I took special care not to directly state if my story even had a feMC or yuri, or gave any details about the plot. Because I know you would've tried to track it down and attack it directly.actual schizophrenia>Insane circus freakpeak irony
>>25609477Of course. In cultivation the lily is nurtured until it can weather any storm
>>25609511>Cultivation stories are fairly egalitarian as far as the sexes are concernedwrong (unless you are talking about non-chinkshit)
>>25609603>wrongRight. The stories being egalitarian doesn't mean the characters in the stories aren't sexist/rapists. Cultivation generally features powerful female characters at the tops of cultivation society alongside males. Your isolationist jade immortal fairies and terrible empresses.
>>25609664>Egalitarianism (from French égal 'equal'; also equalitarianism) is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds on the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people.[1] Egalitarian doctrines are generally characterized by the idea that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or moral status.>generally characterized by the idea that all humans are equal in fundamental worth>The stories being egalitarian doesn't mean the characters in the stories aren't sexisti understand what you're trying to say, but you're using your words wrong. the existence of powerful female cultivators doesn't at all make the story egalitarian.
>>25609511This. Reverend Insanity is all about equality and non-discrimination
Gu Zhen Ren is pro trans right
>>25609717Correct, few if any cultivation novels explore the trans perspective.
>>25609681People conflate the concept of “equal worth” with other humanist principles. Taoism is egalitarian, not humanist. Equally worthless is still equal.>Recognising and going beyond, treating all as equal, all is equal.>Thus, Buddha sacrificed his body to feed tigers, cutting off his flesh to feed eagles. This was the benevolence in his heart, seeing all in this world as his own, loving everything, and his great love for everything.>No matter if it's me, others, animals or plants, or even the lifeless rocks and water, even those that do not exist, we have to love them.>If a mortal standing there watches the bear eat a person, some hot-blooded teenager would jump out and scream, "You beast, don't you dare eat a person!" or 'Beauty, do not fear, uncle is here to save you!" etc.>This was the mortal's love and hatred, loving young girls and hating large bears. Not going beyond and still fixating on the superficial, not able to see her red human skeleton.>If Buddha stood there and watched the bear eat a person, he would sigh, chanting, "If I do not enter hell, who would enter?" He would save the young girl and feed himself to the black bear.>This was Buddha's love and hatred, loving the young girl and loving the bear, treating all as equal.>But right now, Fang Yuan was the one standing here.>Seeing the young girl's tragic and violent death, his heart was unmoved.>This was not because of his numbness to death, but he had gone beyond the superficial, having no obsessions. >Without a sense of self, without a sense of person; to be detached of all living things, detached of the sense of time...>Seeing all living things as equal, the world is equal.>Thus, the girl's death is no different from a fox or a tree's death.>But to a mere mortal, the girl's death would trigger their anger, hatred, and pity. If it was the girl eating the bear, they would not feel anything. If an old lady was eaten, the pity in their hearts would be greatly reduced. If it was a villain, a murderer getting eaten, they would clap their hands in joy, praising.>In actuality, all beings are equal, and heaven and earth is just.>Nature is fair, disregarding love or hate; it is emotionless, and never gives differential treatment.>Rule of the strong, victor takes all!>The disappearance of a lifeform, towards the entire natural realm and the infinite cosmos, to the long river of history - what does it amount to?>Death means death, who can choose not to die? What talk about a girl, bear, ant, fox, tree, old lady, murderer, they are all lowly! Humble! Mongrels!>Only by recognising this and going beyond the superficial, arriving at the truth, does one gain divinity.>This divinity, taking a step towards the light, it becomes Buddha. If it takes a step towards the darkness, it becomes a demon.>Demonic nature!
>>25609812im not reading all thatcultivation stories are full of rampant racism, sexism, and every other -ism and -phobiathis is by definition not egalitarian. there's really nothing to argue you're just using the wrong word for what you're trying to convey
>>25609852>if the story is x how come the characters are not x?????
What would Spectral Soul do in this situation?
>>25609890if you call a story egalitarian yes the society in that story should be egalitarian. egalitarianism is a social philosophy and it applies to people. I'm realizing you're just really dumb though and this wont go anywhere so good luck with life
If the moral of the story is that you are not supposed to cry wolf, why does the boy cry wolf? Is he stupid?
>>25609916are you suggesting cultivation stories thematically condemn the racism and sexism as a moral lesson? like the boy who cried wolf does?okok my bad I wont be baited by this dipshit anymore
>every post I dislike was made by the same anon
of COURSE its the Pokémon retard lolit always is
>the schizo is back
>>25609942it's scary how often this is actually the case
>>25609946Not sure who this is in reference to, but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Pokemongs, even in the web novel space. I did a review swap with one guy who was doing a fanfic (It was shit of course, but that's to be expected), and that two timing nigger deleted his review after a few months.
>>25610371nah I just mean the guy who spouts the same handful of catchphrases like he's a pokemon
>>25609908>if you call a story egalitarian yes the society in that story should be egalitarian>A story can only imply the validity of an ethos by direct advocacy of the characters in the workAh yes, the tell, don't show, school of writing. Bravo.>egalitarianism is a social philosophy and it applies to peopleYes, who people are, not what people say or do.
>>25609923>are you suggesting cultivation stories thematically condemn the racism and sexism as a moral lesson?Are you suggesting they advocate for rape and murder?I don't think cultivation stories are generally fables.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable handled matters and conflict with basically one method.That was to kill!You do not relent? Kill!You are an eyesore? Kill!His own mood was bad? Kill!He was bored? Kill!
Can you fags at least argue about something interesting
Only righteous path hypocrites are racist and sexist. Demonic path cultivators are magnanimous, they are not small characters concerned with such worldly concepts. All things, men and women, human and non human, living and non living, are equal. What true dao seeker would turn down a 0.000001% power boost simply because the soul they would have to consume is that of a woman or child, or relative?
>>25610560Sure. I'm fine with MCs being edgelord murder hobos, kumbaya hippies, and anything inbetween. Shallow or deep, doesn't matter. What actually matters is consistency. Contradictions break characters, and if there is a change in how they act, it needs to be worked toward and not dumped all at once.
>>25610563True Dao seekers don't discriminate.
how the fuck do you write in a straight lineI keep getting distracted by writing scenes that are going to take place a hundred chapters from what I'm supposed to be releasing nex
>>25610516retard
>RacistPrimordial OriginStar ConstellationGenesis Lotus>SexistGiant Sun>NeitherParadise EarthRed LotusThieving Heaven>AutisticSpectral SoulLimitlessReckless Savage
got any really fucking WEIRD shit on RR to rec me, friends?
>>25610560newfags jump into the newfag rhetoric of "making somebody else MAD" instead of actually debating their "opponent" and dismantling their argument.
How do you guys manage to work full time AND write at least 3 chapters/9,000 words per week, without neglecting chores and girlfriend/lovers? I'm exhausted all the time since the year started, but being able to eat out every single weekend feels so good, I'm not letting my masterpiece go to hiatus, not now not ever!
>>25610837Make your gf write for you
>>25610837Let your lady linger around and on top of you while you write.
>>25610847She don't even speak english lol
>>25610837Write at work, duh>b-b-but my wagecage forbids writingThen mentally write at work and when you get home pen that shit down asap
>>25610911retard
About to read >Eternally Regressing KnightWhat am I in for
>>25611004brain damage
>>25610837larp
>>25610833>instead of actually debating their "opponent" and dismantling their argument.nobody in this thread will ever admit if they're wrong, they will double down and begin trolling as a defense mechanism if their argument is "dismantled". it happened like 4 times this very threadso there is no point in discussing contentious topics in good faith.
drawing cover arts is so much fun bros
Words fail me
>>25610837>wants to be a successful [insert hobby or a profession]>has a gfYou may only pick one.
>>25608738>Why are you wasting your time chasing trends?>You should be chasing trends!
>>25609148If literature has no yuri, then literature is worthless.
>>25607661>writing about menStop being gay
what the FUCK is a yuri?
>>25611291The best Tales MC
>>25611004Read the manhwa insteadthe WN might give you brain damage
>>25610705M8, if you can't accept the ideas that a setting's principles can be dissonant with those of the characters in that setting, I'm not the one that's mentally challenged.Read something more challenging than a fucking picture book.
>>25611155>Captain Titans RichardsBig Black Dick
>>25611291>what the FUCK is a yuri?Depends. In Japan, it's works about lesbians. In the west, it's mature works about lesbians. In a garden, it's lilies. On ice, it's a gay dude.
>>25611656retard
>>25609946>>25610385>pokemon retard who spouts his catchphrasedoes this mean your name is retard? >>25610705>>25610990>>25611804
>>25611828why are you still trying to respark the same argument, you stupid fucking retard?
>>25611848what you say fuck me for, i was just askin lolwas i not supposed to point out your anime girl verbal tic?
>>25611876retard
>>25611876Actual retard ITT
>>25612021any good schizo novel recs?
>>25611291Exactly this.
yuri but instead of women it's men (women)
>>2561210819 Gold Cheat Mode Strategy Game Munchkin BarbarianYandere dreams of lily pure loveuck, Don’t Call Me a Thunder SquirrelI Figured Out the Fantasy World VTuber's Red PillI Became a Parasitic Cock!!Just a smattering of random novels from various genres in my backlog. I make no guarantees any of them aren't flaming dumpster fires, but all but the last one are at least complete. I'm basing their schizoness pure on their titles.
>>25612419That should be <3uck, Don’t Call Me a Thunder Squirrel, but replace the <3 with a special character for heart.
>>25611109Astronauts floating in space?
>>25610837>Things that never happened.And the name of that girlfriend? Albert Einstein.
>>25612419I Looked at one of these and then clicked on a random "similar" storyAre Koreans okay?
>Explore RoyalRoad for a new favorite webnovel>SearchExclude the following tags:>AI generated>AI Assisted>Profanity>Sexual Content>Ruling Class>Hiatus>Inactive>Cozy>Deck Building>Gender Bender>Lesbian Romance>Kingdom Building>LGBT>Male Gay Romance>Non-Human LeadYup. Time to read!What tags do you simply not tolerate under circumstances?
>>25612779>removing cozy, profanity, and sexual contentwtf is bro cooking
>>25612779Does ruling class only count if the MC is part of it or does it mean there are nobles in the story at all?
>>25612796Yes.
>>25612766Yeah, that one's on my avoid list. Don't remember why, but I don't recommend. Shit only ends up there because it's NTR, because the writing is pants-on-headed, because it's abandoned, because the author plagiarized their shit, because the ending sucks donkey dick, because it's misery porn because the protagonist is an irredeemable asshole, and/or because the entire comments section on the site I found it on is just people calling the author a fucking dipshit.
>>25612645the scene is precisely that, yes, inspired by a mix of F91 movie and Zeta's TV ending
>>25612779>fanfiction not excluded
>>25612889Looks cool. Keep it up, anon! <3>>25612951Ah, yeah, I also exclude those.
>>25612796I feel like it would only apply if the MC is part of it or if the dynamics have a heavy influence on the story. There is almost always a top dog, might be academy dean. Guild master, major, captain, commander etc. Society has haves and have nots. And army commanders are the ruling class for the soldiers. The headcook is the king of the kitchen aids
>>25613357I'm not really into all that BDSM shit, but you do you.
What should I read now between Sky Pride, Mother of Learning or Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint? Also after finishing Regressor's Tale of Cultivation, Seo Eun Hyun became my favourite MC from all the webnovels I've ever read.
>>25613531Mother of Learning is peak
>>25613531>Seo Eun HyunMy FVARKING HERO!
>>25613531orv is fun but also meta commentary on being a writer. only read if that appeals to you
>>25613531read Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
new: i find all the stuff i read from novelupdates, are there alternatives?
>>25613531ORV actually sucks balls. Hundreds, if not thousands, of chapters, and despite supposedly respecting and dealing with the original hero, there's absolutely nothing about that original to respect at all. In that sense he's an on-brand reflection of the average WN protagonist in that he's got zero depth to him.Read it if you want to see how a true professional baits the fujoshi. Otherwise don't bother.
>>25613602Almost like that's the whole point, retard
>>25613531>>25613544I also like Seo because he's basically the most insane and delusional webnovel MC.
Besides the discord there is no other place to talk about Shadow Slave. I just want to say that the latest arc is really fucking good, the best even and it's barely starting.
Guess the archmage trend is far from dead
>>25613719I don't think there's any RR trend that's actually all the way dead instead of just being dormant, if even that.
>Book 5 is done, and thus, I will be going on a prolonged hiatus. How long? 3 months at the very least, possibly up to 6.
>>2561387410000 tragedies? Don't even think of any stupid hiatus? Drop 150 chapters, then I might consider letting you go on a break.
>>25613531Regressor instruction manual is basically ORV but good
>25613593cheerless lot.went to your site RR, titles are shit - theres a reason novels are long as fuck and blunt nowadays, no one wants to have to guess if coiling cock - and a novel description of a setting is or is not another jilted at his wedding day cuck that has a bajillion grudges after getting a systemanyway im reading GoT fanfic in the RS list, how well does GoT shit do in a site like RR? its no spacebattles thats fo sho, but ill give it a shot.maybe start writing on my own: what software you losers working with? hey im a writer now, make sure to do reviews for me, yeah?
RR's rolled out browser verification. Makes me think someone successfully pulled off some botting attempts.
>>25613881Not me, chief. Book 5's been done for a while now, and anyway it's book 4 that's being posted at the moment. If you want 150 chapters you're gonna have to pay for them.
>>25613531What was his problem?
>read the got fanfic at RR, what did i think of it?shit. verbose, none of the unique POV chaptering, feels world warpy towards the MC even if it tells that it isnt. ive read better/10 (4/5 stars)
>>25614089spectral GOAT solos
>>25614291absolutely not
>>25614322he would find a way
>>25611004translations too shit as you go on further. and for this story it sadly matters quite a bit more.otherwise, seriously one of the better stories you will read. it has very well thought out writing in combat - so much so that you could believe in learning some of that shit.it turns its biggest flaw into its biggest strength - world warps around MC because he is just that fucking special in the best way.pretty much a mirror of this guy and his story >>25613531 though a certain stoic/less emotive in certain ways.
>25614260 (me)story was so shit im actually thinking of writing now (zero experience writing for real for real)
>mc is a sad sack millennialTrash.>mc is an underdogYawn.>mc is neither too weak nor too strongFine.>mc is op but doesn’t know itOk.>mc is op and acts opEh.>mc is op and acts op… in a funny wayKino.>mc is op but hides his strength Edge kino.>mc has an overpowered true form that he can transform into for a short duration or under specific circumstancesPeak edge kino.
i definitely need some sort of wheelchair software, cuz im already tired as fuck writing this shit - and i already forgot where i was going with it.anyway, tell me that i write better than you
>>25614419>tell me that i write better than youI would, but you have to learn how to write first. Randomly smashing your hands on the keyboard doesn’t cut it.
>>25614419Reads like machine translated chinese proseCan't stand those webnovels for this reason
Wuxia is actually pronounced "Woo-ja"Does that mean Xianxia is Jan-ja?
>>25614433fucka outta here tell me this shit is not not interesting, and n'aint novelupdates readynow tell me what software you're using.i have at least 3 other different premises and im raring to submit to RR
>>25614448yes>>25614443i see the ai in the beginning. i think it fits more the webnovels i read in the grains part; do you not like that sort of writing style? (in the grains part)personally i hate the verboseness that the western stuff i read, has.i think a catalog post mentions something related, modern readers dont have time to read a description of a couch
>>25614457I just don't like the writing style. It works well for what you were aiming for; and the audience will usually read stuff like this so you're fine and dandy
so theres like 2-3 posters here i guess, better check in for any more advice later.anyone here ever tried listening to that soundcloud couch to 2k? it gave nice exercises in 1/20th of the inane yapping. i never finished itanyway it was sorta disillusioning that writing can be made so systematic in a way.. this is the post.
>>25614449There’s a difference between having poor control of the English language and not being able to string together a coherent sentence.AI would actually make this more readable. That’s not a good thing.>ChatGPT, revise this, no ESL:>Woodland Ridge, in a ramshackle house at night.>Bright stars streaked across the dark river of the sky, their movements foretelling the order of all things, the workings of fate. Their light spilled into a bare, unwelcoming room, devoid of ornamentation. Everything was functional, much like its owner.>An Lin was an unremarkable man. His posture bore no trace of youthful vigor, and his character possessed nothing particularly distinctive.>He remembered a past life. By now, he had long since come to terms with his new one. Beyond the window stretched fields of budding spirit grain. Every day, he tended to them, hour after backbreaking hour. It was exhausting, agonizing work, but—>“Compared to that world, there’s something far more satisfying about working with your own hands.”>Lately, An Lin had found himself growing nostalgic, even sentimental. He wasn’t usually one to dwell on the distant past, but recent events had given him plenty of reason to reminisce.>It all had to do with his profession: spirit farming.>Spirit rice, also known as Spirit Pearls when harvested from barley grains, was a powerful tonic for a young cultivator’s body. It gently nourished and expanded the pathways through which Qi flowed, helping cultivators uncover hidden meridians. Its effects were comparable to those of a low-grade pill, without the toxins that came with one.>The rice and its pearls possessed these benefits. The plants themselves, however, were another matter.>Like most spirit crops, spirit grains absorbed the Heaven and Earth Qi in its raw, turbid form, purified it, and stored the refined essence in their kernels. The impurities and residual toxins had to go somewhere.>And that was precisely why no cultivator in their right mind would willingly set foot on a spirit plantation.>Of course, there was more to the story than the uninformed might assume. Spirit farmers weren’t simply mortal serfs or condemned laborers. Reaching this point was, in its own way, an honor and a privilege.>Still, none of that changed the reality for an ordinary mortal who lacked the extraordinary talent needed to leap from river fish to dragon. For someone like that, time was always running out.
>>25614371what if mc is indoctrinated?
>>25614371>mc is op but doesn’t know it >Ok.>mc is op but hides his strength >Edge kino.sloppy jalopy>power limited >Peak edge kino.must be bait
>>25614089He was really grumpy I guess
>>25614371what about>mc is op but he was just born so you gotta wait for him to grow up
Read Reverend Insanity
Read Foolish Game of the Gods, Murim's Bitch, The Hidden Buyer, Genius Wizard Takes Medicine>>25614539not going to out of spite of reddit loving it.if the MC is evil leaning then definitely wont.
>>25614539I got filtered by the prose
>>25604894Cut up your sentences and vary the length more. You've got something alright on a content level but you are overloading all of your sentences with unnecessary hedging and details. It's directing the reader's attention too much and costing their investment. Try to be more precise with how you land story beats.
>>25614549Deep Sea Embers for you bitch (the title "Lord of the Mysteries" would fit this story better funnily enough)
>>25614547>out of spite of reddit loving itIt suddenly makes much more sense why it gets spammed everywhere. Same as Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Reddit Inanity
>>25614547>not going to out of spite of reddit loving it.There is an official RI subr***it but other subreddit like r litrpg hate it.>if the MC is evil leaning then definitely wont.Fang Yuan is a righteous character.
>>25614620>Fang Yuan is a righteous character.First of all, this is a lie. Second of all, righteousness isn't, strictly, a moral position. Third of all, righteous means something particular within the context of martial fiction, something akin to orthodox, and he absolutely isn't that.
>>25614448>Wuxia is actually pronounced "Woo-ja"I don't know who told you this, but they were very fucking wrong. It's woo-shya.
>>25614601yeah his newfag ass has been doing this since 2019
>>25614448>>25614673I pronounce it wucks-ia
You think reddit goyboys are the champions of an anti-moralist, anarchist, taoist webnovel? They can’t even understand why someone would want to read something that doesn’t conform perfectly to modern neoliberal sensibilities. Hence why they go crazy for Brando Sando, Marvel, Star Wars, etc.
>>25614806same desu
>>25614812You think in absolutesReddit is also full of sfe edgy atheist neckbeards that don't actually support libshitism but are also too scared to type nigger
>>25614812Well, those subreddits usually get sniped down pretty quick
>>25614812Yes, because r*dditors are anti-western values at heart.
>>25614862Dawkins reddit atheists are textbook enlightenment humanists.
>R**dit is anti western values, >4chan is pro western values. >some chinese site is pro ccp chinese valuesAnd all of them hate RI because Fang Yuan is a free thinker, a man not bound an ideology.
still looking for a writing software rec for writing webnovel tier shit. xianxia is a good template, so i want to make sure i get the character and place names i made up right. do you CHUDS just write in notepad++ or what
>>25615259>do you CHUDS just write in notepad++ or whatYes, although it's actually Sublime Text 3. I've also made a few simple scripts to turn the .txt files I write in into shit I can just copy and paste into RR or Patreon, do wordcounts etc.I know of people who put worldbuilding documents in Obsidian and run it through Claude to make sure it's all internally consistent or whatever. They seem happy with it, but quite frankly none of them have ever actually released anything ever since doing things that way. With things like these, if someone goes looking for the "perfect" software that's just an excuse not to buckle down and get to the hard part, which is actually writing.Only reason not to use as basic of a text editor as you're comfortable with is if you're gonna include blue boxes or other LitRPG shit, since that requires a little more formatting, but if you're not gonna do that then you don't even need the ++, notepad will do.
>>25615259I use Obsidian for notes/world building. There are also dedicated programs for this like offline wikis, yWriter and Fatasia Archive but I feel like these are too much work/overkill unless you're writing something really involved or a setting for multiple stories.
Deco 01 v3 came in and it was good time as any to finally give this one a proper revision. finally I can go back go to wroitin the next wip chapter.
>>25615259>SoftwareMan I just write everything in a notebook
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