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Could also try, say, /r/noveltranslations and /r/rational. You'll need those people as well if you want to succeed. I'd give your stuff a look but I don't have PMs, I'm afraid.
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Ytlaya posted:Does Ryoka in Wandering Inn ever become less obnoxious (or have her behavior portrayed as a negative thing, at least)? I think I trust the author to deal with her well, but it can be hard to tell sometimes with characters like this. Characterization in TWI is p. clumsy at times (I try to be forgiving about these more difficult aspects being a bit rough in web novels, what with them technically being serialised first drafts) but the author defibitely intends it as a big character flaw. You can see by the end of Book 1. And yeah, I believe she's a, to put it in proper fantasy terms, demi-Asian.
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Sep 6, 2017 11:20
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sharktamer posted:Bit of a long shot but is there an iPhone app that lets me read all/any of these? Convert them to epub, read them with whatever. https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/3fgjsz/convert_web_novels_to_epubpdf/ Unsong is already available as epub.
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I've read the cleaned-up Amazon version of [url=http://www.ironteethserial.com/web-serial/The Iron Teeth: A Goblin's Tale[/url] and it's pretty simple, but enjoyable.
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Sep 25, 2017 21:03
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Mother of Learning updated, btw.
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Oct 9, 2017 18:08
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Jade Mage posted:It might be that I'm starved for reading material at work right now, but I read the entire backlog in the past 4ish days and it's real good and only gets better. Though I've skipped like every interlude but two. It's light-weight, but fun, and eminently readable.
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Oct 10, 2017 19:54
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He should have just stopped writing for a few months and edited Worm full-time. I doubt it'd even be a problem with the Patreon people, especially if they got sent re-edited poo poo depending on their contributions.
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Oct 21, 2017 13:59
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Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:That's a horrible idea. He's already been editing Worm for years alongside Pact and Twig, and publishing that even in pieces would defeat the purpose of shopping it around for publication. Publishers don't want something that's already been distributed. I am assuming he's probably going to self-pub. If he wanted to go tradpub, he would have gone it a long time ago. There days, selfpubbers whose books became successful get them signed by publishers anyway.
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Oct 21, 2017 18:56
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Like I said, publishers republish breakout self-pub titles all the time now. Anthony Ryan's Blood Song, Jonathan French's Grey Bastards, Josiah Bancroft's Senlin Ascends, Michael McClung's The Thief Who Pulled On Trouble's Braids are just some books that I am personally aware that were all self-published on Amazon, did well, then got pretty good offers. poo poo just needs to be popular enough that they think it'd make money for them and wildbow is, like, the biggest serial guy.
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I've started reading A Practical Guide to Evil and it's pretty dope but boy is there a lot of it. I've been chopping away at it for days now and I'm still less than halfway through the epub I turned it to. Page 821 out of 1821, yeesh. I think if/when the author publishes it, he's better off breaking up the second volume, at least, in two and selling them separately.
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Oct 24, 2017 22:12
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New Mother of Learning's out.
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Oct 30, 2017 00:11
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The protagonist winning conflicts every time they're tested and the protagonist eating poo poo for the duration of the story then barely squeaking out a win at the end are are equally valid storytelling approaches.
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Dec 18, 2017 11:10
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TBH I recently gave it a go and dropped it after ten chapters or so. I imagine it might get better eventually but eh, I've got other, actually good poo poo to read.
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Affi posted:I'm honestly creeped out by how well she writes depression. Like is she just writing Erin from her own experiences? Cause Erin is depressed as gently caress. She's on internet, so probably. quote:Also new mother of learning is out! Mother of Learning is dope. quote:I think I have it figured out though Red Robes identity. It's one of Zachs simulacrums that broke off. We keep having the characters talk about murderous simulacrums and Zach is honestly kinda unhinged to begin with. That is my theory at least! cough
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Affi posted:Well drat it. Or rather yeah that is exactly my thoughts on it. I mean, at this point I am pretty sure Red Robe left the simulation?
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I've been reading Threadbare (Royal Road, Amazon) and it's pretty good. It's about a teddy bear who got turned into a one-of-a-kind sentient golem, who's trying to protect the little girl he was made for in a fantasy world that's gone to poo poo. It's an LitRPG, but not a particularly obnoxious one - TBH I mostly just skip the numbersy bits. The writing and characterization are competent, despite the insane daily rate at which the author releases new chapters. It's pretty Paddington, with glimmers of Pratchett occasionally shining through.
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CaptainJuan posted:I will never not recommend Ra. Fairly short so if you hate it, youve only wasted a few days The author has mentioned he's been reworking it to create a better ending, like, a year ago. Don't know where he is with that now. Personally, I'd suggest Practical Guide to Evil and Mother of Learning. These are the two best ones, IMO.
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Oh, also, Unsong. Just remember it's okay to fast forward through the qabbala pun sections. The numerous, extensive qabbala pun sections. EDIT: https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/ https://qntm.org/ra
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Cicero posted:Finally caught all the way up in Practical Guide to Evil. What a great serial. Now I feel empty inside though, like I do whenever I catch up to the current end of a serial/series. Oh well, think I'll tackle Wandering Inn next. I'd be very surprised if we didn't see them resolve all the big problems (invasion, necromancer, his brother probably dying, etc) once they're out.
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Ytlaya posted:So I just got to the part of Mother of Learning where the nature of the time loop was revealed, and I find it a little strange that (probably not necessary since this is from chapter 50-something, but spoilers just in case) Zorian doesn't seem particularly bothered by the fact that all the non-Zach people he's interacting with, like Kirielle, Kael, etc, are all totally doomed and definitely gonna die. He does like Phil did it in Groundhog Day, by not dwelling too much on what happens to everyone else after the loop reset. The nature of the loop itself doesn't really matter here, it's weird no matter what, but, likewise, there's nothing he can really do about it either.
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This is why authors rewrite books in drafts.
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Ytlaya posted:Basically what I'm trying to say is that I have an abysmal imagination and tend to benefit dramatically from stuff like concept art of characters and locations when reading a story. I don't understand how people manage to hold an even remotely detailed mental image of a scene in their minds. http://aphant.asia/have-i-got-aphantasia
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A fun new thing that I just found is The Daily Grind. An IT guy accidentally figures out that a certain door in his office, when opened at 3:32AM, leads to a weird, seemingly endless office-dimension. The office snacks are edible, but their packaging, like all other text inside, reads like neural network gibberish. The cash inside the desks and jackets and so forth seems real enough, which promises to solve a lot of his problems, even if it's mostly in small denominations. And sometimes denominations that actual dollars don't exist in. So that's good. Unfortunately, some of the office supplies inside want to eat him. But when has that even stopped someone gripped with loot-lust?
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Apr 7, 2018 23:58
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mossyfisk posted:MOL I think he probably ended up severely wounding either or both Z&Z.
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navyjack posted:Double post, but I’m jonesing. I need some more web series to read. I’m on PracGuide, Ward, TGAB, TWI, Taint, MoL, and Worth the Candle. I finished all the rest of Wildbow, And Threadbare and I’m working on Ra. Try The Daily Grind and Iron Teeth. Oh and I guess the Threadbear guy is working on a new story now, but I haven't tried it yet.
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DarciisFyer posted:I see The Zombie Knight has not been mentioned yet. Great worldbuilding and a steady but constant power progression. Bad thing is the author updates by page, not chapter, which makes it really annoying to follow on a day-to-day basis. I basically have to let the chapters build up and binge it every few months. I kinda hated this after the first, uh, ten chapters. It might get better afterwards, I guess?
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Just google for maps, there are a few.
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Omi no Kami posted:I really don't buy that red robe left the simulation already. It's tough to theorycraft since we just plain don't know that much about him, but my kneejerk assumption is that he couldn't gather the artifacts together himself, so he's waiting for Zorian and company to do it. I feel dumb speculating about his identity, since we plain don't know much, but in descending order of likelihood: That could work I suppose. That said, here's my theory!
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The early chapters of Zombie Knight that I've tried weren't good. Try The Daily Grind: the handsomest boy in this thread posted:An IT guy accidentally figures out that a certain door in his office, when opened at 3:32AM, leads to a weird, seemingly endless office-dimension. The office snacks are edible, but their packaging, like all other text inside, reads like neural network gibberish. The cash inside the desks and jackets and so forth seems real enough, which promises to solve a lot of his problems, even if it's mostly in small denominations. And sometimes denominations that actual dollars don't exist in. So that's good. I also enjoyed the first two books of Iron Teeth. It's not the deepest, but it's entertaining if you like gobbos.
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Lone Goat posted:hey I'm like 70 pages into Zombie Knight and does the character ever stop being an autistic anime cliché because I'm getting nauseous trying..... to...... read.... this..... horrible.... stilted..... garbage........... protip: don't read bad things in hopes of them ever getting good, when there are so many nonbad things to read instead
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Sampatrick posted:What's the best xianxia web novel that's been translated/is written in English? I'm assuming there's some good stuff out there somewhere even if I have no idea where it would be. I don't know about 'best' because, quite frankly, it's all pure pulp getting churned out at insane word rates, but I enjoy Library of Heaven's Path and A Will Eternal because they're both comedic takes on the genre with trickster types as main protagonists. I found the few works I tried that are just straight martial arts xianxia to be harder to get into, because, I dunno, I find the martial arts and obsession everyone in these stories has with them a bit too goofy to take 100% seriously. Omi no Kami posted:Oh man, so I got bored and read The Good Student. It was interesting enough to keep me reading in spite of the mary sue main character, the rudimentary writing, and the weird sexism/entitlement thing that permeated everything, but holy freaking crap I can't remember a story that had more unlikable characters in it, and I read The First Law recently. It feels like almost every freaking person in that school is a sociopath; it's telling that easily the most likable person in the entire story is a mass-murdering child soldier (well, child battlemage). Yeah, I stopped reading it a dozen or two chapters in because of that.
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Cicero posted:I like the Daily Grind. Now I really want a poster that says WORK HARD AND ALSO WORK HARD. Yes, it's good.
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Mother of Learning updated!
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Jul 16, 2018 09:07
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The Wandering Inn Volume I is for sale on Amazon now.
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:edit: And, on a personal level, I'll probably never see 'here's an Ebook of the thing you're all already reading' as anything but double-dipping your audience's wallet. quote:It’s out! The e-book is on Amazon right now for the price of $3.99! I encourage you not to buy it! Megazver fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Aug 4, 2018 |
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It's literally available for free in its entirety? You're just being... a little weird.
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Rand Brittain posted:So, I finally got around to finishing my upgrade of a friend's site after the original WordPress site got eaten by malware. If you haven't read Hitherby Dragons, by Jenna Moran, author of RPGs Nobilis and Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, now's your opportunity to do so on a site with faster loading times and some neat little features that were included by people savvier than me. This is really weird but also awesome. I also vaguely recall writing a very similar reply to a very similar post of yours. Either way, I've always been bit too dumb for the main meta-narrative, but I do enjoy the little side-stories and if anyone reading wants to check something out, I'd suggest trying The Legend of Perfectly Defensive Samurai or Ragnarok or The Land Where Suffering Is Remembered.
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Omi no Kami posted:
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M. Night Skymall posted:Shouldn't everyone effectively get out at the same time in the real world? I thought the loop was like a time dilation black room thing so you go in then come out and no time has passed. Everyone who's going to get out should also be out with Zorian, they just had more time in the loop after he left. Yes, that's my impression of it.
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