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asur posted:Prac Guide That was expectedly unexpected. Get hosed Yara. EE really stuck the landing on this one. Bodied twice in two chapters by people who were supposed to be powerless.
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my only possible complaint is that this means that we are not ending the story on Chapter 69 unless....? Ramie fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Feb 18, 2022 |
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Feb 18, 2022 18:07
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NinjaDebugger posted:EE really stuck the landing on this one. Bodied twice in two chapters by people who were supposed to be powerless. I always had faith that the ending would at least be satisfying. There's a reason why I consider PracGuide to be the best web serial of its type (not sure what to call this type, but the same structure as something like Worm where you have arcs interspersed with "interludes" from other POVs). With most other web serials, the contents feel like the sort of thing I could conceivably come up with, given enough effort/practice, but the PracGuide author really has a gift for coming up with distinct characters/settings/scenarios. Probably the most impressive thing to me is how they can just knock out these Interlude chapters describing the backstory of some character and have them almost invariably be very interesting short stories that can stand on their own (like the recent Scribe one, or Roland's). Or stuff like all those little quotes at the top of each chapter. There's no way I could consistently come up with stuff like that.
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Feb 18, 2022 20:39
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Larry Parrish posted:The whole last act of the book very extremely obviously feels like the author suddenly realized just how much there was left to write. Yeah, I had this same issue with MoL. It is a great story overall but the ending act kinda sucks.
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Feb 18, 2022 20:39
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Larry Parrish posted:I read a couple thousand pages. The whole idea that consciousness can't exist at all in our universe, and arises because of extra dimensional entities 'living' in the energy pattern created by the structure of a brain. this is conclusively proven by the android who is totally mechanical and just emulates a human shape but still has a consciousness because it looks the same to the entities. it literally sets up three possible world-ending scenarios, and then the last chapter is all just dialogue from the "bad" character responsible being like "okay pick one of these six things that is not lovely to happen, other five will not happen and here's how it will suck", the end maybe I just don't appreciate art
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Feb 18, 2022 21:47
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I kind of figured it wasn't going to have a good one. But, you know, it's a good setting that I've thought about a lot, so I got what I wanted out of it.
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Feb 18, 2022 22:13
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yeah, now that im near the end the author is clearing running out of steam, which is unfortunate. still, the middle part especially was one hell of a ride
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Feb 18, 2022 22:14
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I definitely don't regret reading it, which is a reasonably high bar for me, so I'm not complaining, just wish it'd stuck the landing.
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Feb 18, 2022 22:29
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I am kind of accidently following 10 different books on Royalroad at once. So much to read, its awesome. Many of them have 10 or more extra chapters on patreon, and I'd love to pay one or two of them a month to read ahead, then drop them again wait for new RoyalRoad chapters later. But it's so inconvenient ! Reading 10 chapters at once backwards on patreon is just a pain, and then you have to update your RR progress manuall. Wish there was some kind of integration. Or maybe I shouldn't wish for something like this, it might turn RR into webnovel.com where nothing is really free.
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Feb 19, 2022 16:57
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MonikaTSarn posted:I am kind of accidently following 10 different books on Royalroad at once. So much to read, its awesome. Many of them have 10 or more extra chapters on patreon, and I'd love to pay one or two of them a month to read ahead, then drop them again wait for new RoyalRoad chapters later. I think about this problem a lot and it's why I only put my chapters ahead on my own website; I tried a couple on patreon but the readers really disliked reading there. But now I'm gearing up to write two stories at the same time, I might have to rely on patreon for advance chapters of the other project, unless I want to run two websites.
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MonikaTSarn posted:I am kind of accidently following 10 different books on Royalroad at once. So much to read, its awesome. Many of them have 10 or more extra chapters on patreon, and I'd love to pay one or two of them a month to read ahead, then drop them again wait for new RoyalRoad chapters later. I read pretty much everything on my Kindle, but patreon releases are still a bit annoying since I have to open each chapter in a new tab, then Ctrl-A Ctrl-C Ctrl-V them in order. All while doing my best not to start reading them and get spoiled. I wonder if maybe they'll ever add ebook functionality, but I don't know how webserial authors ranks as a portion of Patreon's userbase.
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Feb 19, 2022 18:02
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Ar'Kendrithyst's Patreon updates provide an ebook for each new weekly chapter, which I really enjoy.
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Peachfart posted:Ar'Kendrithyst's Patreon updates provide an ebook for each new weekly chapter, which I really enjoy. It is a full ebook with the current chapter at the end, or just a epub release of that week's chapter?
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Hungry posted:It is a full ebook with the current chapter at the end, or just a epub release of that week's chapter? Oh, an epub with that chapter, sorry.
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Hungry posted:I think about this problem a lot and it's why I only put my chapters ahead on my own website; I tried a couple on patreon but the readers really disliked reading there. I post my advance chapters to Patreon, and my readers have been pushing me to post them to a static google docs instead for how easy that makes typo corrections. That might be a less janky option. Side note, if you guys wouldn't mind me doing a bit of obnoxious market research, how do you generally find new serials to read? Beyond the top lists on RR and, well, this thread I guess.
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PoorWeather posted:I post my advance chapters to Patreon, and my readers have been pushing me to post them to a static google docs instead for how easy that makes typo corrections. That might be a less janky option. i chat with my friend about it but mostly I just look at the top list on RR and skip anything that has too anime poisoned of a description. you know what I'm talking about here. Skipping a genre list like a loving restaurant menu has steered me well so far.
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PoorWeather posted:I post my advance chapters to Patreon, and my readers have been pushing me to post them to a static google docs instead for how easy that makes typo corrections. That might be a less janky option. recommendations in other stories have turned me on to a lot of cool stuff recently. i generally find that i trust the author of a thing i like to link to other stuff i'll probably like. i also keep an eye on spacebattles for both original fiction and fanfiction although 12 miles below and wizard space program are the only original things i've really liked that were posted there.
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PoorWeather posted:I post my advance chapters to Patreon, and my readers have been pushing me to post them to a static google docs instead for how easy that makes typo corrections. That might be a less janky option. Author recommendations on RR work ~25% of the time (a lot of them end up in my read later list which is too long to be useful now). Author recommendations from serials that have their own website. (e.g. Katalepsis or this translator lists all the stories they've translated: https://dreamsofjianghu.ca/ascending-do-not-disturb/) Word of mouth on discord (not helpful when picking marketing avenues, I know). Googling with keywords like litrpg or progression fantasy. Google often leads me to reddit posts of either serial tier lists or some random story with at best a 5-10% chance of being tolerable. Very rarely I'll find a series via recommendation from other forums like Sufficient Velocity or Space Battles, but their recommendations are extremely hit or miss for me. SV is very receptive to new authors, so cross-posting there is probably not a bad idea as long as it doesn't lead to burn out. There's other sites than RR with lots of webnovels, but they generally feel pretty sketchy so I don't read on them if a story is available anywhere else.
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PoorWeather posted:Side note, if you guys wouldn't mind me doing a bit of obnoxious market research, how do you generally find new serials to read? Beyond the top lists on RR and, well, this thread I guess. I search for a tag or three and sort by last update. I read a lot during the 80% of downtime that is my job, so whenever I'm looking to add something I'm looking for stuff that's still updating.
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This Quest is Bullshit is now complete, and was pretty good all the way through. Worth a read.
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PoorWeather posted:Side note, if you guys wouldn't mind me doing a bit of obnoxious market research, how do you generally find new serials to read? Beyond the top lists on RR and, well, this thread I guess. I sometimes read whatever is sitting next to my own updates in latest updated. It's a win/win because if it's good you found something to read and when it's bad you can say 'this is my competition'. If there's a popular story you read and don't like, see what a reviewer who also didn't like it DID enjoy. I have a few things on my to-read list because I found someone who did a lot of reviews that had tastes close to mine.
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Nettle Soup posted:This Quest is Bullshit is now complete, and was pretty good all the way through. Worth a read. It got bogged down pretty hard in one of the middle arcs around when the author took a break, but it did recover well in the second half.
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catgirlgenius posted:Has Amber Skies been brought up in this thread yet? I just got into it and I can't believe I don't see more people trumpeting how good it is A few pages back, but thanks for plugging this, it's rad.
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I bet you all can guess which story's author wrote this:quote:So thank you. Thank you all for reading. It means a lot that I’m bringing people that much enjoyment with a story that was originally intended to be basically a smut harem story.
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Plorkyeran posted:I bet you all can guess which story's author wrote this: War Queen?
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The Wandering Inn?
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That Time I Reincarnated Into A Smut Harem Story?
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I'm guessing Beware of Chicken think someone mentioned earlier it was originally planned to be smut.
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pgte epilogue 1 just dropped. quote:“It was an orphan, a Foundling, that led us to the edge of the world and brought us back. I’ll not let another name steal that deed.” Dammit, who's cutting onions?
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Plorkyeran posted:I bet you all can guess which story's author wrote this: Ave Xia Rem Y Wrong answers only; Tori Transmigrated
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I went looking for something to read, and came across Demesnequote:A (NOT LitRPG) Dungeon story It's been enjoyable so far. Lori (full name Lolilyuri, and while that might raise some flags there's nothing to worry about) is socially inept and an introvert, which when paired with a sense of superiority makes for an interesting, if slightly frustrating, character. She's often wrong, though not always, but she does take advice from Rian, the supporting character that handles actually running the settlement. A side-note if you're looking for something with inclusion: while romance hasn't really come up, there's been references to gay couples and Lori has two mothers. It's also got a great version of dragons, which are these quasi-eldritch beings that are more like natural disasters that warp the world and magic around them. The author also has a second story, Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers. I haven't checked it out yet, but the concept seems interesting enough to post here too. quote:In the city of Metro Manila, terrible beasts have appeared, possessed of impossible powers that stand against the principles discovered by science. These eldritch beasts run rampant through the city, causing chaos and suffering as public order breaks down in the face of this horror.
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The author has an extremely advanced case of anime poisoning. But yeah I like Demense. It's glacially paced and a slice of life though so probably not for almost anyone.
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It didn't seem that slowly paced to me. I do generally like slice-of-life stories though, so that's probably just my bias.
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Thanks for the input, you guys; I appreciate it a lot.LLSix posted:Very rarely I'll find a series via recommendation from other forums like Sufficient Velocity or Space Battles, but their recommendations are extremely hit or miss for me. SV is very receptive to new authors, so cross-posting there is probably not a bad idea as long as it doesn't lead to burn out. I already post on SB, but it doesn't really seem like SV has much in the way of original fiction, at least when I checked? Other than quests and the alt history stuff that have their own forums.
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Onean posted:It didn't seem that slowly paced to me. It's cuz it tricks you into not noticing relatively little happening in the plot with the town building and also never actually establishing an overall plot.
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of the chapters written for demesne so far, the first half is slow-paced and the second half is glacial the first half felt deliberately paced, but the current stuff feels kinda like the author is spinning wheels until they can get to some pre-planned plot event and feels obliged to show literally everything along the way. i like it well enough to keep reading but it would be kind of nice for something to happen
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Larry Parrish posted:It's cuz it tricks you into not noticing relatively little happening in the plot with the town building and also never actually establishing an overall plot. That's fair. I am only about 50 chapters in, out of 150, so there's a bit for me to get through yet. As for no overarching plot (aside from starting up a settlement in the wilderness), that's not too unusual for slice-of-life. Edit: Jazerus posted:of the chapters written for demesne so far, the first half is slow-paced and the second half is glacial Hmmm. That's unfortunate, though not exactly uncommon for serials. I hope it doesn't go on for too long. Onean fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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I should point out that l don't regard that as a problem at all, but it definetly does get even slower.
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