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So, this is a viable way for me to make money? I can stop going to my local labor ready company and become a member of the bourgeoisie? I have stories about mmos I played for a week. Horror tales of stomping on the heads of ghouls till my free trial ran out. Existentialism at its finest.
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I'd like to order an erotica E-book about the misadventures of Sandy Benders.
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:The slippery slope is real Actual prose from a LitRPG novel. "Damage taken. Hit Points reduced by 5: 11 (weapon damage + strength) - 6 (armor). Total: 35 of 40." It was released last year. It has 2360 reviews on Amazon. The average is 4.6.
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Oct 30, 2017 14:10
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Lol armor as straight damage reduction? What trash
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Oct 30, 2017 14:11
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Milky Moor posted:Actual prose from a LitRPG novel. Who would read this? All joking aside, I find this to be fascinating. Like when you watch a kid get hit by a train.
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Oct 30, 2017 14:12
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will people pay to read about me placing blocks in Minecraft?
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Oct 30, 2017 14:13
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Do the yeti yaoi instead. That sounds like it would feature more literary experimentation.
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Oct 30, 2017 14:15
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Let's Play: Dark Souls: The Novelization
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AllNewJonasSalk posted:Who would read this? All joking aside, I find this to be fascinating. Like when you watch a kid get hit by a train. I don't really know. But they exist. I'm actually uploading a web serial myself at the moment and, something I heard from a few people in the 'scene' was to get the LitRPG crowd 'on side'. People would say that they pay money and they'll proselytize without much regard to quality. For example, read the sample of Survival Quest that you can get on Amazon and wonder how it got so many positive reviews when the prose is in obvious need of an editor. This is how the story begins: "They say that God is Truth. I don't know, really. Maybe that's how it is - it's not something I ever checked, so I'm not going to argue. But all arguments are evil and a great evil at that. And that's a Truth against which there's no argument. A play on words, if you like." What?
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The vanquished slug queen had dropped two purple axes. The one in his left hand increased strength by 3%, which increased to 6% once his endurance reached 12. The one in his right gave a flat +1000 to damage. Steeling his mind once more, Velk'smur removed the graph paper from his satchel.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:just a heads up, encouraging people to kill themselves is prohibited in gbs. Stop holding me back! Argh! As God's my witness I will make it happen for the OP!
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I could see this being an exercise if you've never really written before and just want some practice filling out a bare-bones "plot" without actually having to come up with a plot, but I can't imagine people wanting to read that, especially if it's as literal as the stuff being quoted.
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I feel like on the one hand at least people are writing and that's always good. On the other hand, people are reading this poo poo and that is bad. Definitely all bad.
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Oct 30, 2017 14:46
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AllNewJonasSalk posted:I feel like on the one hand at least people are writing and that's always good. can't they just write more Protocols of the Elders of Zion or something
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:can't they just write more Protocols of the Elders of Zion or something That's how you get the Vril as a playable race in someone's book.
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I could see this being interesting in a sci-fi sense but, uh, not the number crunching part. A lot of William Gibson's novels had parts of the action taking place in virtual reality, for example. Iain Banks managed to write a book about an obese autistic virgin playing not-WoW while taking care of his cancer-ridden father just before he croaked, and it was fascinating to read. But I'm guessing this LitRPG thing is nothing like that lol.
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Is this like a choose your own adventure book or just about people playing RPGs? Do you read this to reminisce about all the time you sunk into video games? My nightmare is listening to someone sperg out about an RPG's lore, or how they grinded x hours for x loot and it was all totally worth it. I couldn't imagine that being a story worth telling.
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Colonel Cancer posted:I could see this being interesting in a sci-fi sense but, uh, not the number crunching part. A lot of William Gibson's novels had parts of the action taking place in virtual reality, for example. Iain Banks managed to write a book about an obese autistic virgin playing not-WoW while taking care of his cancer-ridden father just before he croaked, and it was fascinating to read. for some reason i don't think Snowcrash counts. not enough numbers
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Milky Moor posted:LitRPGs are pretty gross but there is money in it Obligatory 
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who cares about the computer novels i wanna know why the OP keeps calling themselves a scumhole
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Oct 30, 2017 21:26
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Which is which?
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food court bailiff posted:who cares about the computer novels i wanna know why the OP keeps calling themselves a scumhole I think he is referring to GBS. Elucidate my illiterate scumhole.
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Colonel Cancer posted:I think he is referring to GBS. Elucidate my illiterate scumhole. nah man check their custom title they're way into calling themselves scumhole
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food court bailiff posted:nah man check their custom title they're way into calling themselves scumhole Oh. I keep avatars off so my refined sensibilities don't get offended by all the goddamn anime 'tars.
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I'm going to write a book about writing a book, but not like a guide to writing just a flow of consciousness about me writing. Call it Litlit.
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Oh so it's that ulillilia book or Dare's manifesto
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someone kill me and make a book about the act of killing me out of my cured flesh, i bet it will sell for a load of money on the darkweb. obviously i'd want some sort of compensation before the fact. please message me if interested.
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Pitdragon posted:someone kill me and make a book about the act of killing me out of my cured flesh, i bet it will sell for a load of money on the darkweb. obviously i'd want some sort of compensation before the fact. I've sent an offer to your exit node (do not ask how I got the encryption keys lol). Anyway confirm and a specialist will be dispatched to start the process(ing)
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Pitdragon posted:someone kill me and make a book about the act of killing me out of my cured flesh, i bet it will sell for a load of money on the darkweb. obviously i'd want some sort of compensation before the fact. ...and here is my unholy murder book, made from the flesh of its own victim. The story scribed on its pages in the blood of the deceased is really kind of sub-par fanfiction style writing and is littered with spelling and grammatical errors. The author also uses "lol" way too often considering the medium.
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one nerds adventure of sexual adequacy: Clitlit
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To date ~700 people have read/purchased my LitRPG book. It's been less than a month so that's not bad, given that the vast majority of self-published books are only purchased by the author's mom.
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Congrats on your battle log money.
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This might be the worst thing I have ever heard about in my entire life.
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Tobbs Gnawed posted:To date ~700 people have read/purchased my LitRPG book. It's been less than a month so that's not bad, given that the vast majority of self-published books are only purchased by the author's mom. How much money did you make?
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KillerJunglist posted:I'm going to write a book about writing a book, but not like a guide to writing just a flow of consciousness about me writing. Call it Litlit. I think you were in my creative writing workshop. I think you were in every creative writing workshop ever made.
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:How much money did you make? ~$1k in 3 weeks (so far). Sales are slower than in the beginning but it still makes ~$25 a day. Total investment was $55 for a pre-made cover. I'm tinkering with Amazon ads as well as promotion on Facebook. Many books do much better, but many do much worse as well. If I hadn't recouped my initial investment I wouldn't have continued, but I'll keep writing because success seems to correlate reasonably well with quality of work, and I can definitely do better.
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Tobbs Gnawed posted:~$1k in 3 weeks (so far). Sales are slower than in the beginning but it still makes ~$25 a day. Also look at RoyalRoad. It's a web fiction network but, based on my own experiences, it seems like it has a huge crowd of LitRPG fans.
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Fatdick the Bitch Slayer stared down the Kinkelf until it succumbed to his 69 Charisma. Then he pulled out his +69 Dicksword of Ejaculation and began stabbing the Kinkelf, doing 69 damage with each thrust. “Nice.”
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Milky Moor posted:Also look at RoyalRoad. It's a web fiction network but, based on my own experiences, it seems like it has a huge crowd of LitRPG fans. I had it up there for a while, but I used it more as a sounding board than a way to make money.
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:I think you were in my creative writing workshop. 
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