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LLSix posted:I just blasted through all 30 chapters of https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26294/he-who-fights-with-monsters Well, a biased source (the author), has pointed out that the MC in "He Who Fights With Monsters" has taken repeatedly blows to the head, so expecting sensible decisions is wrong.
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Cicero posted:I suppose that's possible, but Pirateaba just being kind of a weirdo who writes a metric shitton would also be far from the weirdest thing on the internet. I haven't read the Wandering Inn, but how much of the chapters are just meaningless nonsense or outright repetition? The Chinese web novel authors that are on the daily release (with each chapter costing money) tend to write chapters like an English teacher would have you write an argument. Saying the same thing over and over and, in a lot of cases, feeling like a find and replace feature was used for "new" arcs. When writing a serial is your primary income putting out a ton of words isn't an issue, but quality does tend to suffer for it. Also some people are just capable of writing endlessly.
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KamikazePotato posted:This depends largely on the state of the author's Patreon and their general fanbase outreach. The fact of the matter is, if you want to make a living off this profession, Royal Road on its own means nothing. Think of the site as paying you in exposure. As amazing as it is to have thousands of people reading your story, that won't pay your bills or make sure you can eat dinner. I've seen extremely successful stories on Royal Road with Patreons that don't exceed $100. Maybe they don't make Patreon attractive for people (standard practice is to offer quite a few chapters in advance), or maybe their story just isn't the type to create dedicated fans. In this case, stunting Royal Road growth is no loss at all, because they weren't getting anything from it in the first place. Might as well throw the story on KU and make a few bucks. From my limited (non-author) experience, those that complain the most about chapters being taken down are complete rear end holes. They don't tend to be Patreon supportors, don't use KU and don't purchase the books and are extremely hostile to the author. If you support an author on patreon I doubt buying the book would really be much of an issue and even then if you just politely ask the author on patreon they may even send you an epub of the chapters. I view RR as a site to try and build an audience and don't hold anything against anyone who moves to KU because they'd like to actually make money. I don't know how much it hurts for bringing in new readers if you don't have the early chapters. I notice that He Who Fights With Monsters and Defiance of the Fall both include a few chapters (13 & 7) before you have to go to KU or buy the volume, but This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder completely removed 1 to 25. Though that author just started KU stuff and I don't know KU's rules, so maybe someone can tell them that they can add the first few chapters back. Honestly I prefer the KU model over the Qidian (webnovel) model which might be endemic to Chinese webnovels of pay per chapter and highly incentive authors to write like you pay per chapter because you do (e.g. 50k words to say nothing). Granted a similar accusation has been leveled at KU authors.
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Megazver posted:I've read in multiple sources that you're allowed to have ~10% of a book out there as a free preview. I can't be bothered to read all the documentation to find out if that's actually a thing I decided to skim through the KDP terms and yeah I don’t see anything allowing authors to keep up any chapters. “KDP TOS” posted:1 Exclusivity. When you include a Digital Book in KDP Select, you give us the exclusive right to sell and distribute your Digital Book in digital format while your book is in KDP Select. During this period of exclusivity, you cannot sell or distribute, or give anyone else the right to sell or distribute, your Digital Book (or a book that is substantially similar), in digital format in any territory where you have rights. I r not lawman, but that looks like if your chapters are part of a book in KU they probably shouldn’t be available elsewhere. Though I guess for an author the easiest thing to do would be to contact Amazon and just ask them.
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Sep 24, 2021 11:15
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Peachfart posted:I have now started 5 or 6 serials that go from interesting plot -> generic magic school story. Please writers, stop this. It is so boring. Fine, they’ll now go from uninteresting plot to generic magic school story. Also please list what you read so we can know if there is going to be a generic magic school arc coming up. On a different subject, is there a word for a person that completely misses the tone of a story? I don’t know how many times I’ve read comments in Beware of Chicken with people that are upset that it isn’t a murderhobo or harem story.
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Today’s Beware of Chicken I know I shouldn’t read the comments, but too many people seem certain that the villain survived. Like Jin punched him hundreds of miles away into a mountain while destroying five talismans that attempted to save the “young master”. Sure if this was any other bog standard cultivation story, odds are the dude would survive and be back, but this isn’t one of those stories. If this was one of those then someone from the Fa Ram would have died, but once again not in this story. So when combined with the land Jin is effectively a Sky Realm cultivator. With this arc winding down I wonder where the story goes next. Are we going to see gramps show up? Will any of the other disciples assume a human form? Will Rizu and Meiling attempt to heal Loud Boy’s cultivation?
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Missed updates is whatever, but at the very least Beware of Chicken's author does update Patreon with a general message. Some authors just flat out vanish. No message, no nothing, just stop updating. Like they don't need to get into details, just be "Hey I'm having issues and won't be able to write/post more chapters for an unknown amount of time." Though I guess social anxiety can play a big part in to that. Also I like the person complaining about a certain author deleting reviews and then being all I read the rules. I'm fairly certain that Royal Road isn't going to see mentioning whatever amount someone makes on Patreon as a fair or valid criticism for a review on RR itself. The review has obviously been deleted and I can't go back in read it, but the person has the whole "why have I been banned?" energy when the response from mods is usually like "showing your dick on stream" or "racial slurs".
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Feb 3, 2022 04:34
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SerSpook posted:Misread the first line as "None of the skeletons were working" and I really hoped we'd have a skeleton strike to force necromancers to provide them with more mana or some poo poo. Time for someone with talent to write a story about skeletons overthrowing the necromancers and forming unions for better pay and conditions.
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Ytlaya posted:Ar'kendrithyst 133 - I like Tenebrae. I hope he can become friends with Erick. I also think he might be correct about Erick's approach largely working because he's a Wizard (which means he can presumably directly convert his intent into magic even more than other savant mages). Maybe Jane will be able to progress more using the more standard methods. My advice, never read the comments. I don’t take said advice, but I should. Comment sections are routinely filled with people who have the worst reading comprehension. I don’t even think I should count the times I’ve seen comments assert something as fact that clearly did not happen. Or people somehow completely miss the tone of a story and think x side character is going to die or the protagonist should turn in to a mass murdering psycho. I should go back and read Ark from the start, but drat is that a lot of words.
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Oct 18, 2022 08:25
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Kyoujin posted:Got a link? Not seeing anything when I google Monroe web serial. Going to guess they're referring to this one: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/35398/monroe
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fez_machine posted:Has there been any noises about an Amazon or ebook release? Last patreon post mentions book 1 being edited and put on Amazon (not KU), so should be ebooks eventually.
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