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Infinity Gaia posted:That reminds me of a different webnovel I was reading (I've been on a binge lately so I can't remember which one) that had a small authors note celebrating hitting 100k words. I'm pretty sure that was a year in or so. Pirateaba is so goddamn overpowered. Yeah, mine has just passed 100k and that's been two nano months of work, ridiculous!
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Whenever pirateaba has to take a break she comes back even more powerful, she's like a super saiyan when they lose fights.
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A big flaming stink posted:lmfao pirateaba just released a chapter 59k words long That isn't even the most hilarious part. They split it into 3 parts, but released all 3 today ....
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Apr 26, 2022 17:00
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Apr 26, 2022 18:25
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MadHat posted:That is a hard ask, Romance generally does decent couples in whatever configuration you want and rapidly becomes random harem nonsense when any more numbers are added. Katalepsis has certainly gone from 3 to 4 in the polycule much faster than it went from 2 to 3, but Sevens is the only character involved that hasn't been around for a bazillion words so it's not doing the "introduce new characters just to inflate the harem size" thing.
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Apr 26, 2022 18:32
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I just want a decently written, happy throuple, The Web Serial Thread
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Apr 26, 2022 19:19
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Anias posted:
i stand by my mission statement and regret nothing
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Apr 26, 2022 19:30
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I imagine pirateaba posting one of those typical question or advice theads about how sometimes you can't write anything but instead of being about writers block, it's her ask if there was a way to continue to write while asleep.
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I'm tempted to make a graph out of her words per month output, and see if it is actually exponential
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Apr 26, 2022 22:09
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Whaleporn posted:I imagine pirateaba posting one of those typical question or advice theads about how sometimes you can't write anything but instead of being about writers block, it's her ask if there was a way to continue to write while asleep. iirc Stephen King was known for this; when he’d do events with other writers and talk about their processes, he didn’t understand why everybody couldn’t just sit down and write a lot every day
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TWI Patreon, Part 2 of 3. I'm speechless and upset. e: read all three parts, a word of advice for when it goes public? read all three parts in a row, don't break it up like I did I want to get off Pirateaba's wild ride tithin fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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Apr 27, 2022 08:33
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One day I'll catch up on TWI, but the thought of it is just so intimindating.
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Apr 27, 2022 10:15
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Yeah I'm never gonna read it regardless of quality, that's too much time
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I'm still in book 7. It feels like she is writing faster than I read!
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I'm not sure if he just enjoys writing Mizuki, or if it's just that she butts her way into everything. 
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I just started reading TUTBAD since people have talked about it in this thread a lot. It's good. It has whatever vague element to it that makes it "readable without friction" (which is the best way I can explain the difference between the serials that I find enjoyable and the ones I don't).
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Ytlaya posted:I just started reading TUTBAD since people have talked about it in this thread a lot. It's not a serial but I've been trying to read Three Body Problem and it's such an absolute loving slog compared to being able to rip through a TWI chapter in an hour or two.
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Ytlaya posted:I just started reading TUTBAD since people have talked about it in this thread a lot. 1. It's well written. 2. It's without many difficult metaphors or load bearing difficult words. I'd say the prose leans towards George Orwell rather than Ursula Le Guin, and both of those writers are very accessible. 3. The story's content is interesting, but its not emotionally challenging. Like, I've yet to cry while reading it. Total digression on load bearing words: Fallen London posted:A spider promenades across a window-sill with obscene casualness quote:A spider crosses a window-sill TUTBAD chapter 1. posted:Mizuki wore culottes that stopped just above her knees, looking like a skirt when she was still, but short pants when she was in motion.
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Apr 29, 2022 20:01
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OddObserver posted:... Is the author fluent in French?
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OddObserver posted:... Is the author fluent in French? I know the term from fantasy games.
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I know the term from the Simpsons... but also they drew them wrong??  YEAH, THEY ATE ALL MY SOCKS. I HAVE TO WEAR LISA'S TO SCHOOL TODAY. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE CULOTTES, BOY? I HAVE TO COORDINATE, DON'T I?
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TUTBAD is sort of a sequel to Worth the Candle, right? Is it readable without going through that because drat I could not mesh with that one at all.
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Not really, no. One is a story about accepting your dead friend and the ultimately futility of life dressed up as an Isekai adventure and the other is a slice of life that's written by the same author and kind of shares a few broad background ideas.
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Yeah TUTBAD is very much by the same dude as Worth the Candle, but it is a very different kind of story, both in tone and pacing.
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Infinity Gaia posted:TUTBAD is sort of a sequel to Worth the Candle, right? Is it readable without going through that because drat I could not mesh with that one at all.
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It has similarly quirky world building as Worth the Candle, but without being grim and dark and hosed up (though there's still the occasional thorny ethical question). And the author has confirmed that it's not some demiplane or secret adventure of the WtC cast.
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Infinity Gaia posted:TUTBAD is sort of a sequel to Worth the Candle, right? Is it readable without going through that because drat I could not mesh with that one at all. I didn't enjoy Worth the Candle at all but I'm enjoying TUTBAD. I think part of my issue with Worth the Candle might have been that I don't have any familiarity with table-top RPGs (beyond "knowing in broad strokes what they are"). Rob Filter posted:Yeah their are a few things that I think contribute to how easily readable TUTBAD is: I didn't mean to imply #3 (which is also part of how I'd interpret "friction" in a story if someone else mentioned it, so that probably wasn't the best word to use). Mostly just a combination of prose and characterization. I actually initially thought I wouldn't enjoy TUTBAD based off of quotes in this thread. The quotes gave me the impression that it would have the same issue that prevents me from enjoying Wandering Inn; something about the characters in TWI feels "off" to me, like their traits are exaggerated or their characteristics/actions are directly meant to appeal to the audience in some way (dialogue is the biggest issue). For whatever reason, the "quirky" characters in TUTBAD feel more believable and "alive" to me. One way to put it is that, in many stories, it feels like "characters' actions are derived from their characterization." A character is established as "this kind of character," and the actions they take are the actions you'd expect "this kind of character" to take. But in others "characterization is derived from actions" - you learn about the characters from the things they do or say, rather than the other way around. I get the impression of the latter more with TUTBAD (and the other serials I tend to enjoy more). You get the general gist of who the characters are early, but they will still say or do things that make me reevaluate my understanding of them (but in ways that don't feel unnatural). I can't really pin down what causes this difference in perception.
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Incidentally, I did start reading Pale, though I caught up on TUTBAD first (which is good). The premise of Pale is pretty fun, at least; Pact's horror fantasy by way of Nancy Drew is a neat twist. And it's plenty enjoyable when it's doing that. The plot gets sidetracked pretty easily though. I recently finished the 5th arc, which I can only call a sidetrack from within a sidetrack, and wasn't that happy about that part. I do appreciate that it hasn't been nearly as bleak as Pact was. I think that's an upside of having child protagonists (admittedly that didn't save Syl, but maybe there's an exception for genetically engineered super soldiers).
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Sibling of TB posted:Wait. Is wandering inn ending book 8 or is it ending period? Pirate said she’s taking a month off between volumes 8 and 9, so presumably it’s not ending with 8.
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She's taking a 1 month break for the end of book 8, it's not the end of the whole story.
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Yesterday's chapter of Beware of Chicken was truly excellent.
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The Shortest Path posted:Yesterday's chapter of Beware of Chicken was truly excellent. A new chapter just dropped as well.
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Cinara posted:She's taking a 1 month break for the end of book 8, it's not the end of the whole story.
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Ar'Kendrithyst is funny because it definitely has pacing problems but I feel like they aren't like, regular web serial pacing problems. It is definitely split into major arcs and the author doesn't forget what they are supposed to be building towards during each arc (which is the major problem with a lot of web serials.) It's just insanely slow. When it is cool it is cool though. I really liked when Erick went through the teleporter and everyone suspected he had died. The series shines when it talks about the big movers and shakers in its fantasy world and how Erick relates to them.
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