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Question for the thread: I’m preparing a web serial and I’m writing it now getting a bunch of chapters ready ahead so I can have some time to write then edit ✍️  So my question is, most of my chapters are close to 1,000-1,500 words closer to 1k usually Spacing it out should I release them 1,2, or 3 chapters a week? Or just pick an amount and stick to it. I’m trying to write 7 chapters a week right now to get the world down pat and yeah just wanted to see it from a reader’s perspective. Thanks  Related: I’ve been reading beware of chicken on royal road and it’s been pretty inspiring.
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Thank you all this has been very helpful. Well let me just try to get fifty chapters ahead cuz drat.
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Aug 11, 2021 03:45
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Galick posted:So I'm plinking away at a story right now and for the authors on RR, how do you market it to get the early hits? And I assume the actual profit from RR comes from linking a Patreon to it for earlier chapters and tiered rewards? I’m doing a ton of review swaps(swap with me!) And non authors read my web serial now in week 2: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/46687/red-mist
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Sep 30, 2021 01:43
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My book got to #1689 on Royal road after ten chapters,(Red mist) But my satire book is #4000 with more tiny chapters soooo idk.
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Oct 13, 2021 02:05
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shirunei posted:Man, I get way too excited every time someone recommends something as similar to forge. It always ends up being trash or only superficially similar. As a writer I gotta ask what makes it better than the similar stuff? Better prose? 2 dimensional characters? Something it just lacks?
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Oct 14, 2021 23:57
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My one story I started with 40 chapters and posted 3 a week-it’s been on rising stars and consistently gets great reviews. I write about 4-7 chapters a week for it. The other one? The spin off, I write about 200-300 word chapters each day but I finally hit the midpoint… that’s a lot more manageable but it’s every drat day, and I didn’t do a buffer. I heartily recommend a big old buffer, because after nanowrimo and this trash novel challenge… I’m just going back to one novel at a time. That and kids woof. It’s hard to write when you’re slammed at work and at home.
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Nov 9, 2021 00:33
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Cicero posted:300 word chapters? Isn't that equivalent to, like, a single page of text in a paperback? Sounds super tiny to me. Yeah. I’ve divided the chapters up into tiny parts but that’s part of the current challenge.
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Nov 9, 2021 12:58
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LLSix posted:I was reading a proglit story recently where the stats came from nanites. I really like that idea. Can anyone recommend good stories that use that concept? Or play with the source of stats in interesting ways? I’m writing a tournament ish arc for one of mine and it’s the finale and yeah it’s a bear.
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Nov 13, 2021 21:16
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I finally finished my two month long web serial. And of course I immediately have an idea for the next volume of what was intended to be a standalone. Anyway it's short, it's silly, it's fish on a stick. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/46916/fish-on-a-stick-a-redmist-story
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Nov 21, 2021 20:39
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Narmi posted:Bit of an odd question, but I've been thinking about this for awhile; authors, how would you feel if someone sent you a book cover fanart? One of the series I'm following on RR wrapped up its first arc, and I decided to make some covers for fun. They ended up pretty nice IMO, and I thought about sending it to the author, but it seems a bit like I'd be overreaching. The series' author doesn't really interact with readers much, so I'm not sure how they'd take it. I would put it in a planned post and credit the person who made it. Sounds awesome.
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Nov 29, 2021 20:51
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Jeez now I am rethinking my Isekai-ed main character is called to be the sect leader of a cultivation school. Alright no school tropes like that. Got it.
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Jan 12, 2022 00:53
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Peachfart posted:I would totally be down for a school from the admin side. And hell, you can put schools in your story if you want to. I just think some authors need to add their own twists on things instead of doing exactly what everyone else has done. Well I am working on introducing the part where people die a ton during training, but the first four chapters are up here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/49962/sect-leader-cold-hard-truth-isekai-cultivation
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Jan 13, 2022 03:59
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Jazerus posted:"sects" in the last sentence of the description blurb should be "sect's" drat like five people checked it and nobody said any of this. Thanks.
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Jan 13, 2022 12:38
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Jazerus posted:hmm well in that case i would be happy to annotate the four current chapters to point out what seems strange to me. i'll pm you a google doc in the next day or two with my thoughts. i can't be your editor long term but i do like the concept a lot so it would be nice to see it succeed. I appreciate any help you are willing to give!
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Jan 14, 2022 18:34
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Fates parallel is free on kindle 1200 jan 25 to 1200 am jan 26 PST.
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Jan 24, 2022 23:52
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Larry Parrish posted:Also re: romance stories for men I guess that's a good point. I would like a romance book intended for me to enjoy but sadly it's rare to see something that's not a frail woman being rescued by the alpha male whether literal or figurative, or a mostly generic stand-in who has 7 girlfriends. And have a happily ever after or a happier for now ? No not insane.
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Jan 29, 2022 14:28
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RBA-Wintrow posted:The Essence of Cultivation Also my story is non standard https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/49962/sect-leader-cold-hard-truth-isekai-cultivation It's about a woman who is isekaied into the top spot at a cultivator school and how she works out all the details of running it after most of the leadership dies. There's aunties, jokes and most of all the path of the thrown sandal.
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Apr 13, 2022 12:22
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This is where I find out that Selkie myth is a goon. drat. Anyway I finished Red Mist volume one, now I can go back and edit Sect Leader. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/46687/red-mist I'm always surprised that Sect Leader is way more popular than Red Mist. But hey. Anyway LET ME RECOMMEND ALL THE DUST THAT FALLS. It's pretty drat sweet and was on rising stars for a while.
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Dec 25, 2022 01:47
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Hungry posted:Okay then! I'm here for the lesbian necromancers or lesbian soap operas. In other news, taking a hiatus after finishing Red Mist Volume one is nice, but my brain wants to just finish all of it, so I started writing it again a bit. However, Sect Leader, which I am currently editing for publication, of course hit 100k views months after being done. ...Yep next book is a LitRPG.
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Jan 14, 2023 20:17
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I mean I have a web serial where the main character is a mouse.
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Feb 15, 2023 03:45
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I just mainlined BTDEM books 1-3, immediately got the audiobook for four and yes. So far so good. Now to ask Selkie for more shout outs.
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Apr 17, 2023 03:57
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Selkie Myth posted:I have to know what I'm shouting out Finished book four and that last couple of interludes were like... °chefs kiss°. I immediately began Forge of Destiny because of all these recommendations and drat. It makes my Cultivator novel (Sect Leader) look like garbage. I'm definitely taking notes on this one...and probably buying three more Audible credits so I can mainline books 5-7 of BTDEM... And work on my other books. Hopefully my second Cultivator WIP is nearly as good as Forge of Destiny. But really five stars.
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Apr 19, 2023 22:39
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Honorraes new fic dropped. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/67496/totem
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Apr 22, 2023 22:35
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Forge of Destiny Books one and two are great. I can always tell when something is good... because I buy the next one in the series before I'm done with the current one. Also finished BTDEM book five and I know as authors we like to torture our characters, but drat Selkie Elaine can't catch a break. It's just one thing after the other. Still good though and I got book six for after Forge of Destiny V3.
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May 6, 2023 02:53
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Just finished BTDEM book seven and that was a heavy heavy ending. The night chapter at the end was very thousand year old vampire esque. I have to say that I didn't know where it was going but yeah. I got pretty invested in him and hope he shows up again
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May 12, 2023 22:01
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Listening through BTDEM book seven and what a super change in pace but totally Elaine goes with it. I'm loving all the little side notes like the cultivator with a chicken there or "she who fights with monsters the class" and others. Totally the way to do a homage. Also everything is just so thoughtful.
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May 29, 2023 00:11
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"I'm a boy now!" he gasped. I snorted at him. "You always were."  BTDEM Chapter 46. Thanks for making me bawl in this parking lot.
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May 30, 2023 17:22
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I did a few trials and when Sect Leader was coming up I could get two 2k word chapters out a week. That's like one 4k chapter. I somehow prefer longer chapters myself but my other one(Red mist, far less popular) is 1-1.5k words. It's doable to do more if you're established but this is with a 2-6 month old and for the Royal Road community magazine challenge.
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Jun 3, 2023 20:30
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Finishing Waybound was the zen moment of the year. Also the whole Yerin getting Isekaied was most wonderful.
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Jun 24, 2023 23:16
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Horizon Burning posted:pretty accurate but i think the yonder version of practical guide is still paused at the end of book 1 for unclear reasons (which was months and months ago, i stopped checking) and some authors on royal road have mentioned that yonder isn't responding to enquiries which might indicate something bad happening there Yonder works with publishers generally not directly with the authors. Think of it like a sublet from Aethon. (That got chock full of romance.)
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Mar 14, 2024 01:30
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Selkie Myth posted:RavensDagger consistently puts out amazing, sometimes wacky stuff. I can't stop laughing at the blurb of Ivil Antagonist: I thought of you when I was thinking about how ridiculous to make an ad for my writeathon fic. I was going to do the Drake thing about my LiTRPG deckbuilder x zombie apocalypse comedy. Now I'm not sure which meme to use. Also formatting for RR ads is poo poo. but also can I get a shout out I just got to 25K words so I'm proud, especially since I started on the second of the month. Caravan of Blades
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Apr 15, 2024 22:31
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LLSix posted:I'm reading the print version of "Oh, Great! I was Reincarnated as a Farmer: A LitRPG Adventure." I can't decide if I don't hate it enough to continue reading. Despite the name and the cover art, there is no farming. It's all about fighting monsters with traps. You really should. The author is a treasure and it builds upon itself in such a compelling way.
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Apr 23, 2024 03:15
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Cicero posted:I am once again asking you to This. I'm trying to find other deck builders to shout out in Writathon, and so far I have seen like two. And shouted them out. So if anyone has seen a good Deckbuilder, let me know.
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Apr 25, 2024 00:07
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Nettle Soup posted:I'm not sure I've ever read a truly good one. A Summoner Awakens is so good. I literally checked to see if the audiobook was being done for book two because that book one man. I hope that I get some traction on Caravan of Blades though.
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Apr 25, 2024 19:06
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I'm following All the Skills but it's fairly mediocre. Tower of Cards is, I think, still updating.
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Kyoujin posted:Is that the one with the old man with a cane (Rowan?)I thought that got dropped since I used to follow it then it had delays for awhile before disappearing from royalroad altogether. One and the same. It's very well done.
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Apr 26, 2024 01:06
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I swear that the ads for it are everywhere. Or maybe I'm just in the spaces that ads for it are appropriate for.
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Apr 27, 2024 16:41
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Ytlaya posted:Skill Thief is the one I've been reading and keep posting about - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72327/skill-thief-the-color-of-another-world-litrpg There's some rule in heist writing where if you detail the plan, then it's destined to fail(detailed before it begins). The obvious thing is that if you don't tell the plan, then it's supposed to succeed. It's part of the genre. As someone who has written a fantasy heist and a sci-fi heist (stealing a spaceship, anyone?) you have to be a little opaque about these types of things.
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Apr 27, 2024 22:42
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Selkie Myth posted:It’s crazy how hard interpersonal conflicts are when people are reasonable and communicate well. Countless conflicts ended by people honestly and frankly talking with people. I suspect a lot of authors find it better to write unreasonable people and have the conflict easily arise there. My favorite btdem “people” conflicts are Augustus vs Elaine over immortality, and Iona vs Nina on morality. Everyone was reasonable and communicated- but the difference in desires and worldview caused conflict Meanwhile I'm making my traumatized apocalypse deckbuilder babies thirst after each other like they're in a drought. Interpersonal conflict? No that hunk is my meat shield. I don't have time to argue with Kronk.
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cumpantry posted:imagine making GBS threads on this media diet As someone who wrote a fiction with a rationalist/EA as the MC, there's an audience there. But also it's a cultivation novel so- also terrible skyscraper sized enemies. Jess, the MC of Sect Leader isn't a particularly good rationalist. (Also Sect Leader is complete, so yeah, enjoy as I take forever to finish the edits for publishing)
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