Xianxia Medicine EditionStubbed >>24725258>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'.>Advice for Noobs!##READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP##Running your story like the business it is:www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/116847On 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_Dls0B5GiE2oMcLYRecommended web novelsrentry.co/d2yvczroAnon's guide to successrentry.co/RRBasicGuideFAQrentry.co/pytefpxn
ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK!Post how many words you've written the past week!I'll start. 3000 words but half at worldbuilding since I forgot about my power system (soft magic for the most part )
Have any of you considered how hard it would be to actually fight a rat with a sword?>>24732417127
If I want to start posting a new fiction, do I delete all my negative reviews of other fictions, or do I just make a new account?
Is this actually good despite the AI or is the average web novel reader fine with literally anything?
>>24732491make a new account
>>24732394Does this general cover Chinese web novels, specifically xianxia?
do people actually appreciate good quality (in prose, plot, characters, etc.) or are webnovel just fast food and people only care about it being "good enough"?
>>24732498Read it and make up your own goddamn mind.It's trash
>>24732489I'd probably fight it with a sword because I don't want their filthy blood on my gloves, even if it's harder to do it that way.
>>24732558Nobody has any fucking clue what is "good quality." As if you could just print gold on demand. Do the best you can and it might just be "good enough." Probably not.
>>24732543No one ever got banned from talking about it
>>24732543Yes.
>>24732498It's not very good, no.
>>24732491>>24732510Why?
>>24732730retaliatory bad reviews for oneit's just smart as a general principle to separate your author account and your personal account imo
>>24732779I misread his post. I thought he meant "If my other works are badly reviewed, do I make a new account?"
>>24732498I would say if you're going to use slop, use it to create a "vibe" rather than definitive characters, like the obscuring his face with shadows, make the surroundings more detailed as to not call too much attention to the design itself, etc.
>>24732868am I vibeslopping?
>>24732583You get banned for being off topic? Is this a new thing? I've never seen that happen on 4chan.
>>24732417I wrote 5100 words today and damn if that last chapter wasn't the best one yet. I got so hyped writing it I had to get up and walk around to burn off nervous energy, and then once done I immediately re-read it.Royal Road's going to fucking love it in February. (My backlog is too big)In the future I have to make sure I don't backload all my hypest scenes.
>>24733095female "roland" gunslinger.
>>24732417At 32k words total. I feel like I'm just slowing down. I could get 2k out daily, but now it's slipping.
I am turning my free verse into prose for the readers ;-; The first three chapters have broken free... goodbye!https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/128737
>>24732498He looks like a supporting characterProompt him a pot helm and a more dynamic pose
>>24732558It's mostly just power fantasy stuff.Readers will forgive things like the mc being liked for no reason but you could still do better if you wanted.
>>24733143better send link someday or else...>>2473324532k words in a week is crazy. I'd be burnt out doing that so props to you. 2k a day is my goal so I hope I can reach that one day.pic rel is a character in my story and keeps me going to get better at writing so I can give her justice.
>>24733378Anon...
>>24733100only place I know that has power-tripping moderators are /gif/ and /tv/. those guys are megalomaniacs on a good day.
>>24733533In my defense I haven't look at the site in forever
>>24732417Eight thousand this week
>>24733550It's not your bad. I know you shouldn't just a book by it's cover but fuck.
Do people not like space ship based stories?
>>24733599for some fucktarded reason noit can have a lot of spaceship stuff but the "main world" has to be a planet or something like that
>>24733602Damn that is stupid, a ship could be large enough for the mc and all his allies to live on but I guess people have some psychological hang up about it.Damn landlubbers
>>24733599I really wanted to pen a WN about a generation ship en-route to a planet, and each book was gonna jump 100 years to new characters. But it seems like yeah, no one fucking likes ship stories.
