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>What is /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: Royal Road, 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 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'.

>/wng/ authors.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSNZali-jIk2MASsAWVf8N7A8BlSyzPbAFV_BhsA5Ip3SWfMPWKxaXf8Pdb7f0TgFyWis31BzirtPeR/pubhtml


>Advice for Noobs!

##READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP##

Running your story like the business it is:
www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/116847

On writing web serials:
alexanderwales.com/how-to-write-a-web-serial/

Sanderson's Writing Lectures 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUh_y1IFZY&list=PLSH_xM-KC3ZvzkfVo_Dls0B5GiE2oMcLY

Recommended web novels
rentry.co/d2yvczro

Anon's guide to success
rentry.co/RRBasicGuide

FAQ
rentry.co/pytefpxn
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>search Train/Trains
>the only novels that pop up are pokemon trainers
There's an absolute void of train stories in webnovelling
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For me, the stronger an ability is, the fewer words in its name. Up until a point. Then longer names are more powerful.
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>>24867945
gun
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Chapter review of the week

DCC (patreon) : holy shit , maybe the best chapters of the last 3 books.
Pale Lights (patreon) : not bad but set up for next chapters
Years of the Apocalypse (patreon) : Nice combat chapter. Why the need for measurements though?
Objects in Motion : Preaty mid compared to the chapters above. I think it was the slow inflitration pacing.
Player 0.4 : perfect chapter. We are back , baby!
Apocalypse Rebord : meh , gay chapter
Demon Princess : so slooow , I think I'll drop it
Max Level Archmage : two chapter of nothing happening, Yeah , this gets the chop as well
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>paying for content
I simply cannot respect you as a human being. It's one step below subscribing to twitch streamers
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>>24868101
based
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>>24868101
What is worth paying for?
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>>24868101
Nta I will read first and if the book is really good I will pay for it.
I have also supported a creator on Patreon because I'd found his work worth paying for.
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>>24868101
>he lacks critical information
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>>24868107
not that which can be accesed for free, for starters
>>24868120
the lion does not pay, he takes
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>>24868101
>paying a creative
based
>paying a corporation
cringe
if you really respected yourself you'd shoplift
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>>24868144
>if you really respected yourself you'd shoplift
That's too much risk for almost no reward. If you steal, steal a million.
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Why it's always bad to pay creatives: by creating a monetary incentive, the art itself suffers. The purity is diluted, and the product made inherently worse. The focus leans into profit and the original vision is lost.
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>>24868171
both the carrot and the stick are in your hand
if you respect their work, pay them. if you lose respect for their work, say they called someone a nigger on xitter
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A cult-like following simply isn't enough.
If my readership doesn't organise itself into an actual cult, I will consider my work a failure.
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>>24868159
>If you steal, steal a million.
You'll have to become a pedo first and join a club with cool handshakes
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>>24868174
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>>24868183
if yudkowsky managed it with his dogshit harry potter fanfic then so can you
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>>24868171
I don't want my favourite authors to become baristas and give up writing , fuck that.
We can talk again when UBI comes.
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>>24868245
>when UBI comes
lol
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How schizo is this general compared to /wg/?
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>>24868330
less schizos but they're of "higher" quality
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need to write like 800 more and post two chapters
but my eyes are crossing
it's 11pm, i want to take a nap til midnight
but there's a high probability that if i go to sleep now, even with an alarm, i'll just honkshoo mimimimi for 9hrs
writing... is a struggle
because i am retarded
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>>24868265
Marshal Holt walked into the saloon. The barkeep taking his order gave a derisive snort, but Marshal Holt did not really care, because he had repressed his aura down to the .22 realm, and a fool would not be able to tell his true level of gun slinging.

"Give me... a whiskey!"

The barkeep’s face flickered before he finally regained his composure and laughed. "You couldn't afford a whiskey. Get lost! Don't you see that there are double .45 realm slingers waiting behind you?"

Marshal Holt slapped his bag of holding and threw 80 billion spirit greenbacks onto the counter, causing an earthquake which demolished half of the bar. Everyone dropped their jaws. None could see how this was possible!

"I'll take that whiskey with a side order of tequila, " Marshal Holt said. He was as calm as the ocean in a painting of an insanely calm ocean. "And let me see your boss!"

The bartender coughed up a mouthful of blood. He simply could not handle Marshal Holt’s killing intent, because he was only at the .45 realm himself. Even though Marshal Holt had suppressed his aura, because he had trained the Heavenly Shootin’ Qi, this was enough to kill people a few levels higher if he truly wanted.

It was then that another man which a much more fierce aura stepped forward. "You dare make trouble here?"

"S-Sheriff Hambrook!"
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>>24868330
If you restrict yourself to RR-pub talk? Insanely sane
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>>24868379
one of the biggest resident retards is a RRetard doughbeit
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>>24868379
>>24868385
A person’s absolute freedom is insanity.
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>>24868389
what if i told you i am a... reverend of insanity
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>>24868377
Holy fucking kino
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>>24868377
lol
Peak.
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>>24868385
Nobody among "RRtard" authors and readers who composed the entire posterbase of /wng/ up until a while ago when secondaries began flooding in are nearly as comparable to the recent wave thread disrupting schizos.
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>>24867927
Stories about locomotions? About living on a train? Or like the maintenance?
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>>24868067
>Max Level Archmage : two chapter of nothing happening, Yeah , this gets the chop as well
stay subbed to the patreon pls
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I've never been impressed/convinced by the writing of unnaturally long lifespans. Long-lived individuals/communities/races are almost always handled badly.
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>>24868494
>>two chapter of nothing happening
>>Yeah , this gets the chop as well
>stay subbed to the patreon pls
What would Fang Yuan do in this situation?
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>>24868528
the author will starve without your support
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>400 words
my brain is broken
I stared at the screen for two hours. no alt tabbing, no distracted doom scrolling, just pure mental lock up
every sentence feels like pulling teeth
what shadow is haunting me. I wish only to write the funny stories
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>>24868530
Best solution is to raise your cultivation level.
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>>24868621
try writing a poem to describe your current situation
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>>24868635
just regress lmao
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>>24868450
Anything that revolves around a train for the majority of the story. My favorite fiction so far was Snowpiercer, and I guess Maitetsu for visual novels.
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>>24868621
Go get some inspiration, ever listened to thematic ambient like Cryo Chamber?
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>>24868443
really should've just been a royalroad general. the RI tard really did win, even if it's just because of the false flaggers it attracted
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Damn, this thread is really fucking dead now
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>>24868411
>what if i told you i am a... reverend of insanity
Greetings, RI. I can see you're a regular fixture now.
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>>24868743
>>24868771
stfu go bake /rrg/ or shut up
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>>24868795
>bro just make another thread to get this deleted
You're not tricking anyone, RIbug
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tina anon checking in. I know, I know, you can rest easy now that you know I'm okay. Just got out of a three day "flu coma". The leftover now that I'm moving around, seems to be from no food and water for three days. Honest, it was like covid but without the bad pneumonia. Still pissing darker than any ice tea I ever saw before. It comes on slow, couple several days before the flu-coma. The slightest scrap of light? was agony. No way to lay and get comfortable, aches and pains all at once for everywhere. If you get this, schedule a coupe days to ramp up, then at least three days for the flu-coma. I only get one day to recover before a demanding job, so that's me fucked. This ain't one of those "you can soldier through it" things. It'll put you down.
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>>24868771
only just now woke up desu, finished up whats basically first act of my story and woolgathering if I do in fact need to revise the outline for the rest of the story before I start diving into writing the second act.
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>>24868795
honestly would if i wasn't certain it would get deleted
>>24868823
at this point nothing of value will be lost. the /wng/ i liked is gone and that's true for lots of the regulars seeing how much it's slowed down
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>>24868621
Same here. Though, I am currently distracted by queen of /v/ shitposting.
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are there any crafting-heavy/autism wilderness survival WNs you anons would recommend?
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You DO remember to seed future plot points/world elements hundreds or thousands of chapters before you plan to use them… right?
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>>24869112
of course, I have already outlined all my 16 sagas in detail
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>>24869112
yeah. claude ai really hates this with a burning passion though, but I do it anyway.
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>>24869124
based
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>>24869112
I honestly think lots of the long-term threads of various web serials are imagined after the fact, not intentionally hinted at beforehand. when you write millions of words of scattershot ideas, you can pull on them for later as you please and then be called a genius
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how do I make the main heroine a futa in an incestuous relationship with her sister without making it feel like too much
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>>24869157
Add LGBBQ as one of the tags and you'll be lauded as a visionary
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>>24869157
Maybe the reason why it feels like too much, is because it *is* too much.
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>>24869162
obvious tradpub fag
this is why this thread is dead
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>>24869157
>not topping both femboy brother and tomboy sister
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>>24869189
I've noticed that 4chan is surprisingly less active on the weekend nowadays. Not just here, but on other boards too.
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>>24869192
>surprisingly
4chan is normie now (well has been for years but is getting increasingly so) and normies do stuff on the weekend



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