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Anonymous06/17/25, 22:22No.24474794/wng/ Web Novel General
A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as:
>Royalroad, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more
>Why read web novels?
Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.
>Why write web novels?
Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.
Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.
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Anon06/18/25, 24:07No.24475049
Post your samples nerds I'll tell you what you're doing wrong.
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Anon06/18/25, 01:13No.24475202
>genuinity
I'm officially throwing out all writing advice I receive on /lit/. The man who wrote that word is making thousands of dollars a month on patreon. Quality doesn't matter AT ALL.
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Anon06/18/25, 02:27No.24475306
Reverend Insanity is the only one worth reading.
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Anon06/18/25, 02:54No.24475337
What are some common web novel tropes that might be fun to satirize or parody? I’ve been working on a series of short stories—almost like episodes of a tv show—which is a parody of “Soulful White Boy in a Strange Land” type stories (e.g Shogun, Lawrence of Arabia, Dune) as well as Martial Arts films (think of the overall tone as being similar to Rush Hour, but with more politics). Since it’s also an Isekai web novel I think parodying some aspects of these stories might give it more appeal and heighten the humor. I already have a harem episode coming up and a play on the trope of the “chosen one who is stronger than everyone else” (he’s simply a tall white guy who worked out regularly, which makes him larger)
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Anon06/18/25, 06:23No.24475598
This is a dumb question, but are you allowed to cross post from Royalroad, Webnovel, Scribblehub, etc?
Or is it just depending on the site's rules?
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Anon06/18/25, 06:47No.24475612
[/lit/thread/24460169#p24474195]
Damn dude, I specifically said I wanted to hear you explain what parts of these stories you like and that I'm not here to argue or diss your response, and not only do you refuse to answer but get all hostile too.
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Anon06/18/25, 09:18No.24475768
Anyone else burnt out on xianxia?
Trends are cyclical and I think the scene is ready for more wuxia again
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Anon06/18/25, 16:20No.24476573
Remember to read my series, almost 50,000 words are already out!https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/119783/fff-class-unlucky-antagonist-villains-origin-story
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Anon06/18/25, 18:54No.24476932
i linked my story once and I will not link it again.
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Anon06/18/25, 22:33No.24477475
the reason ln and wns are bigger in Japan is because its a pipeline into anime which is huge. the west has no such thing
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Anon06/18/25, 23:28No.24477625
how can i tell my readers a female character has an enormous rack without sounding cringe
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Anon06/19/25, 04:39No.24478246
What does a shout-out swap involve?
Will I look like a gay retard if I agree to do one?
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Anon06/19/25, 07:01No.24478565
Damn I love dropping a 5k word chappie after two weeks of not posting
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Anon06/19/25, 07:57No.24478628
interesting points on genre, mode, and voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOmTvC77p9w
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Anon06/19/25, 14:10No.24479132
>the first chapter introduces 10+ character names, each with a forgettable nickname/sobriquet and each coming from a different village neighbouring a different town in close proximity to a different city belonging to different regions/provinces with all place names being mentioned
why do people do this?
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Anon06/19/25, 16:45No.24479453
>Post unhinged, unapologetically fetishistic stories
>Get overwhelmingly negative feedback
I am convinced my haters are all middle aged women.
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Anon06/19/25, 17:31No.24479571
>made an ad on royal road
>had Chris-chan JD Vance in it
>autist DMs me to let me know that someone is using ads to make people think my nobody writer ass is Chris-chan
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Anon06/19/25, 21:05No.24480160
I broke 100 followers today.
I've also got a better ad idea for RR so I can beat this pathetic 0.5% CTR.
Life is good author-bros.
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Anon06/19/25, 21:10No.24480172
I wouldn't partake in this thread nor have I partook
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Anon06/19/25, 22:17No.24480333
Actually that's a good question, which popular web novel authors even are female? I can only think of Hungry Thundamoo and HonorRae
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Anon06/20/25, 09:01No.24481293
So anon, pick up any good non-litrpgs lately?
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Anon06/20/25, 13:36No.24481705
Are you using your real name, a pen name that's a normal-sounding name, a more fanciful but still plausible name, or an online handle/username?
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Anon06/20/25, 13:40No.24481714
I found a neat tool to check if your RR slop made it to any of the Rising Stars pages.https://stepan.chizhov.com/author-tools/rising-stars-checker/
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Anon06/20/25, 13:43No.24481719
On the topic of romance, there's this main character trio in my story but I'm heavily conflicted on whether to make the relationship two-sided + third wheel or harem. I'm leaning toward the former, but readers who enjoy the third character (likely to have the highest engagement) could go wild over it
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Anon06/20/25, 17:42No.24482307
do you think having an MC murder an entire family/bloodline, chinese style, would be a turn off on RR?
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Anon06/20/25, 20:01No.24482699
Essence of Cultivation is kinda cute, anything similar?
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Anon06/20/25, 20:29No.24482777
Do people actually make money writing this slop? I can't believe it. This shit is ass.
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Anon06/20/25, 20:30No.24482778
Now that my story is nearing two hundred pages, I finally bit the bullet and shared it with my cousins who read webnovels (shadow slave is their favorite).Thank for the anon who didn't leave a five star review, makes it look more professional now. I'm gonna take a look at your chapters on RR now that I just finished a 21 page chapter
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Anon06/20/25, 21:12No.24482892
Any sort of guides for this stuff before I ask a bunch of retarded newbie questions or spend days reading the popular works on RR?Curious about breaking into this, most of my other writing is either /d/-tier, or "real writing" that has to try to not be too self indulgent. Webnovels seem like a good place to lean into milscifi autism and also throw in harem femdom bullshit, but how close to erotica can you get on RR?
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Anon06/20/25, 21:31No.24482953
What's the best place to post your shit without getting fucked over out of the rights to your stuff?Also policy/advice for doing stories with public domain characters like Winnie the Pooh, Lovecraft/Chambers mythos, Great Gatsby, etc?
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Anon06/20/25, 22:25No.24483125
>release big climax chapter
>ask for rating/reviews(I usually don't)
there is only cope left
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Anon06/21/25, 06:14No.24484026
Does anyone know what most web novel's covers looked like before people used AI to make covers? I'm very curious. Was it SOULful photo bashing?
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Anon06/21/25, 07:00No.24484108
>check views on my RR chapters
>newest chapter published today has like thirty views
>first chapter gained about twelve views today alone
What constitutes a view anyways? Can views be people seeing the chapter got an update from their notification board?
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Anon06/21/25, 14:21No.24484893
Can we discuss storytelling here?
For me appeal of the story is seeing characters overcoming challenges and growing from it.
So, I don't get the appeal of overcompetent characters who can solve everything without effort.
For a loser, any victory, no matter how small, is a triumph; for Legolas, nothing is.
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Anon06/21/25, 14:53No.24484981
What's the rundown on rape content on these sites? What can I get away with?
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Anon06/21/25, 20:17No.24485745
My story is in top 150, with barely 500 followers and I haven't made a cent
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Anon06/22/25, 04:22No.24486645
May have been asked already but could I publish on more than one site? RR and Scribblehub? That way you get more exposure
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Anon06/22/25, 12:30No.24487163
According to my 4 beta readers, I have a decent story and cool characters but my power system is absolute dogshit
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Anon06/22/25, 18:48No.24487957
On the subject of power systems, any examples of successful litrpg series with a soft magic system as the main one? It might be too contradictory, but I'm curious to see what someone could do with that.
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Anon06/22/25, 23:59No.24488689
Finished volume 2.Volume 1: 81 chapters (1st chap is a news article so its more like 80)Volume 2: 80 chaptersWasn't planned to be near exact, I don't plot out my stories in a way where I know what each chapter is going to be. Interesting how it finished up at essentially the same chapter mark.
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Anon06/23/25, 01:20No.24488831
>woke up
>wrote 6000 words
>30 minutes later feel like both little story arcs I wrote were completely unnecessary to the larger plot and bloat the work
>spend hours thinking about cutting it but not wanting to
>eventually decide it works as foreshadowing and as long as it's entertaining, it can stay
I am exhausted. I need to stick to my outline better and not let little one line story fluff sentences turn into mini story arcs.
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Anon06/23/25, 11:15No.24489625
>most of the posts here are about money making schemes
where is the love for the game
do any of you actually like what you write or do you see this as a side hustle?
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Anon06/23/25, 12:27No.24489709
accountants pretending to be artists is vulgar and obscene
reply with your sincere slop and I'll read all of it. if you host on a platform like RR, I'll leave a good review if I like it. if I don't like it I'll wait a few years for you to improve as a writer then leave a good review
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Anon06/23/25, 12:45No.24489727
I mean, it's a matter of supply and demand, isn't it?
if there was a site like Royalroad where I could advertise my military techno-thriller novel to fans I would happily write nothing else for the next five years at least
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Anon06/23/25, 14:26No.24489881
>writer for solo leveling has unhinged levels of hatred for the japanese, it shows in his work
>thundamoo hates men and is obsessed with disabilities, lesbianism, and transhumanism, it shows in its work
>wildbow is a canadian, it shows in his work
what are some interesting characteristics of authors you can surmise from the things they seem to subconsciously write into their works?
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Anon06/23/25, 14:38No.24489913
I have to stop showing samples to Chat GPT, it kills all my motivation by insisting on rewriting it.
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Anon06/23/25, 14:56No.24489978
I have slop fatigue. It's to the point that I gave up and started writing my own novels. Part of me wants to publish but another part doesn't. The problem is that I am a neurotic retard and take the criticism of others quite hard. It makes me scared to publish anything. How do you deal with it? Imagine yourself as smug toad with a suit on and not care? Imagine they are all dumb toddlers that read shounen web novel sloppa so their opinions don't matter? Accept that your writing is shit and try to improve?
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Anon06/23/25, 17:54No.24490346
There's literally nothing wrong with writing what an audience wants so that the author can get paid, and nothing wrong with an author explicitly trying to farm money out of the audience. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot who probably thinks art as self-expression is the height of art.
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Anon06/23/25, 18:42No.24490486
isn't all this nonsense exactly why we split from /wg/? why is the "if you pay attention to the market, you're a fake writer" garbage here too, now?
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Anon06/23/25, 21:07No.24490860
Methinks the problem is that guys like him can't comprehend that the vast majority of people here (and /wg/ too for that matter) aren't trying or even want to be artist, we just want to entertain people and that's it.
I will say though, I respect the sloplord who writes those gigantic chink xianxia story because he's little autistic brain likes that kind of stuff (even if I would never read garbage like that). I do NOT respect the guys who write a normal fiction story and then say "I'm going to add one (1) stat table thingies to be able to put that litrpg tag paypiggies on royal slop love!" Just to try to game the algorithm
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Anon06/23/25, 21:24No.24490895
i only ask "what can I do to get people to read my story" because I want people to read my story. I want my ideas to be known. I do not want to change my ideas so that they are popular, I want to share my ideas as they are with the world. If I did not want people to read my work, there would be no reason to write it down - I would simply rotate the images in my head until the day I day.
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Anon06/23/25, 22:08No.24491034
also im not reading those ridiculous blocks of text when you're just trolling btw so idk if you addressed what I said, I don't really carewhy are you even here? I'm still waiting on your favorite web novels because I'm damn near positive you don't actually read them, you're just the /wg/ troll come to add /wng/ to the list or some shit
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Anon06/23/25, 23:07No.24491164
for me, I just like writing big mechas and even bigger ships shooting at each other with a side order of politics desu
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Anon06/23/25, 23:32No.24491202
I can't tell if I like this dipshit or not
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Anon06/24/25, 24:30No.24491330
Yo, kneegrows. Shouldn't we make a new thread already?
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Anon06/24/25, 01:18No.24491420
who here uses AI. Best tools for writing, automation, what's your workflow, do you make money? do your readers care if you use AI?
