Non-system-apocalypse LitRPG worlds make less sense than xianxia worlds.
Assuming the leveling system existed before the MC arrived, and people in this world understand that killing monsters equals wealth and power, why haven’t all dungeons and boss monsters already been wiped out?
MMORPGs can respawn their monsters and loot. Without that, every chest would have been emptied and every monster hunted to extinction by the time the MC shows up.
And if resources do respawn, then powerful factions would wage war to control dungeons and restrict access to their members, like in xianxia. People at the top would be those with the highest levels, and society would organize itself around leveling up and joining powerful factions, again, just like in xianxia.

>>25219409
I read mostly koreanslop and dungeons are usually controlled by factions whether they be guilds or noble families or other large organizations (like the mage tower)
When it's not its usually a secret dungeon only the MC finds or a city built around a dungeon that treats it as a tourist attraction (with majority of loot being cleared, with the exception of the MC stumbling across something incredibly valuable through sheer plot armor). Or it could be a dungeon that is just too difficult to clear, but those are usually still gatekept
A common plot point in Korean wns is a regressor buying the rights to a dungeon no one thinks is valuable then obtaining some random powerful artifact

>>25219409
Video game mechanics thrown into a real (fantasy) world. No need to try and find logic in litrpg (because there isn't any).

>>25219409
You can have a world with a system without the apocalypse part.

>>25219325
>Sanderson's Writing Lectures 2025
I just clicked on this for the first time, to find out Sanderson is the Ninja of authors.

>>25219422
because of his prose? you're in the wrong genre if you're expecting award-winning prose here in the web novel scene.

>>25219426
bot post

>>25219434
:( I just wanted to start a debate

>>25219426
>>25219434
Even though this is a bot, no. It's because his advice amounts to Ninja's advice on streaming.
>Step 1: Become the best player in the world in one of the most popular games available to play for free.
>Step 2: Try streaming it.

>>25219409
>why haven’t all dungeons and boss monsters already been wiped out?
Resources respawn. People don't. Most people aren't going to risk their life to get stronger or last long if they try to. If you don't want to risk your life, you need a lot of manpower to secure resources, which slows down everyone's growth substantially.

>And if resources do respawn, then powerful factions would wage war to control dungeons and restrict access to their members, like in xianxia. People at the top would be those with the highest levels, and society would organize itself around leveling up and joining powerful factions, again, just like in xianxia.
Wow. It's almost like RPG worlds commonly feature either deep high level resource rich dungeons in capital cities, frontiers built explicitly to secure resources around high level dungeons, and/or have an adventurer societies which exists to catalogue dungeons and monsters and control the gathering of resources from them.

>>25219409
>People at the top would be those with the highest levels, and society would organize itself around leveling up and joining powerful factions,
This isn't some unique idea but the base premise in most koreaslop and jap Isekai. Read danmachi for a prominent example

>>25219491
so are they the equivalent of private military companies or those umbrella business corps with multiple companies underneath it?

only thing I can think of that's somewhat similar to such factions would be like the Mishima zaibatsu in tekken.

what could keep them in check if they're strong enough to topple the government?

>submit my novel for approval on RoyalRoad
>there's a checkbox to automatically launch it publicly once it's been approved
>leave it unchecked
>log in three days later
>it's been automatically uploaded anyway
Well, my launch is botched. Thank you, RoyalRoad. Very cool.

>>25219569
>what could keep them in check if they're strong enough to topple the government?
Varies by setting and in some they're very much not kept in check, using their outsized international influence to control governments from the shadows or functioning as a parallel government themselves regulating large portions of society in a system not dissimilar to the way some military dictatorships have functioned historically. In others, they are considered part of the government.

Another setup you might see is the power of the organizations being limited by their international nature, if they tried to take power from one or more governments, they'd risk fracturing themselves along the national lines of their members, causing a costly internal civil war. So they maintain at least the appearance of international neutrality to gather resources equally from all countries and maintain their own internal peace.

Or governments syphon off their most valuable manpower and resources through taxation and either recruitment or even an explicit system where their present manpower effectively functions as a secondary levy for whatever country they are stationed in under the law.

Or governments might directly compete with them for resources and have advantages of legal support allowing for them to maintain a dominant position.

Or maybe there are powerful forces like gods or long lived races that prop up governments.

There's all sorts of arrangements.

>>25219569
they function like WoW guilds because that's basically what they're meant to be

>>25219449
>Resources respawn. People don't.
Don't NPCs respawn or are even immortal.
PS. I know nothing of this genre it sounds so unbelievably fucking retarded.

>>25219576
Isn't it a button to click it you want to schedule it for later?

File: you dun goofed.jpg (66 KB, 2416x240)

66 KB JPG

>>25219576

>>25219576
>>25219650
>leave it unchecked
>if set
Reading comprehension fail.

>>25219653
based retard

>>25219654
based retard

>>25219642
I'm glad I publish relatively normal fantasy

>>25219654
anon... I... uh... you know what carry on

>>25219642
>Don't NPCs respawn or are even immortal.
There are not NPCs. LitRPG and VRMMO aren't the same thing. Albeit there are some weird crossover stories like a VRMMO actually being connected to another world or skills transfer to the real world or something and I think there are some LitRPG isekai stories where isekai'd individuals are considered analogous to MMO players and get respawn powers, but those aren't the norm.

>PS. I know nothing of this genre it sounds so unbelievably fucking retarded.
It's literally just bog standard fantasy but magic is conceptualized as RPG skills, stats, and levels.

File: Shark.png (3.38 MB, 1125x1362)

3.38 MB PNG

OK, scouring though Amazon has started to yield results. I’ve found stories with castaways, cavegirls, dinosaurs, sea monsters, buff amazons, and RPG systems, and even some with goblin girls - would’ve preferred orcs, but still - but never all of these together, and never quite in the flavor I’m looking for.
Hopefully, the popularity of Windrose should pump some life into this niche. Or maybe that one anon would finally stop talking about wanting to write a survival crafting story and actually write it. Here’s hoping.
>why don’t I write it myself?
I would if I could, but I’m a dumb ESL, so the change of writing something good is slim to nil.

>>25219828
>I would if I could, but I’m a dumb ESL
you could always slop it up anon, but if your english isn't that bad then i'd rather read occasional errors than llm output
>slim to nil.
never mind, maybe your english is that bad

>>25219828
webnovels aren't known for good quality and if you're not looking to make a job of writing slop then it doesn't matter to begin with
you clearly have an appreciation for the genre and tropes that 99% of people writing them won't. your writing would have value for that alone
glad you found something to read

>>25219850
misremembering idioms is only bad when it changes the meaning and english speakers do that more than ESLs
>I could care less

>>25219872
the biggest tell for an ESL are phrases like "how it was called" instead of "what it was called", even ESLs that speak nearly perfectly seem to fuck up those adverbs in that specific context
if i see that shit i drop whatever i'm reading immediately

what's the big Resource© in your story?

File: 1773515169108212.png (168 KB, 477x593)

168 KB PNG

>>25219935
Heh. Information.

>>25219589
>>25219616
sounds fun but this feels like mental worldbuilding work that wont ever be explained outside of extras.

I don't want to fall prey on worldbuilding too much because I get way too engrossed in it and write nothing of value in terms of moving the plot.

I will admit that my guilty pleasure is worldbuilding major wars or civil wars in my head with a hitler-esque figure in the middle of it all. Influencing the world in a major way or another prior to the story.

>deep-seeded

>>25219992
go on...

File: 1759752685798298.png (268 KB, 640x549)

268 KB PNG

>>25219984
80% of worldbuilding never makes it into the story, it's an author's reference so that you don't end up contradicting yourself in the narrative
likewise, probably 80% of what a reader understands (or thinks they understand) about a fictional world is their imagination filling in the gaps of what's explicitly written, so if what they're imagining suddenly doesn't fit with the canonical setting, they'll be confused
you only need to explain stuff that will bring their imagination into alignment with the canonical setting you've established, they only need to understand that there was a war and that there was a hitler figure that was important once upon a time, they don't need to know how or why he rose to power unless that rise to power is important in understanding the current story's narrative
a lot of people worldbuild thinking that anything they don't mention in the story is wasted, but really most worldbuilding is just connective tissue that gives excuses for how or why the interesting things occur
pic related is unironically true, but not because worldbuilding is fascist, it's just boring having your imagination constrained to the exact details of one autist who can't leave anything to reader's inference

>>25219576
>Well, my launch is botched. Thank you, RoyalRoad. Very cool.
Try not being retarded and reading the submission page correctly, next time
Anyway, just delete the fiction and launch it again when you want to.

>>25219984
>sounds fun but this feels like mental worldbuilding work that wont ever be explained outside of extras
Actually civil law, economics, and international politics are usually significant plot points in LitRPGs, since the plots tend to be about the MC disrupting that shit or having to learn the ins and outs to survive.

>>25220031
>>25219984
On that note, the last LitRPG I read involved the MC becoming an independent mercenary, starting a state licensed mercenary company with the help of a local magistrate, arguing multiple court cases in the imperial capital, and refiling her mercenary company from one under state control to an independent one operating internationally for multiple governments with the help of an ambassador and multiple royals, as well as shit like regulation of mining rights during wartime and treatment of POWs.

A lot of the plot of LitRPGs is about licensing procedures.

>>25220051
At that point why even make it a LITRPG?

>>25220000
While I do agree with trying to maintain consistency or coherency in the story through exerting a little bit more effort in the worldbuilding end, I'll stick to being a pantser because I believe I won't ever be popular enough to warrant correcting my worldbuilding for the most part.

>>25220031
fair enough, I tend to skip those for the most part and only ever focus on MC and maybe their slice-of-life chapters after a major arc.

the 'glazing the MC chapters through the eyes of others and worldbuild at the same time' chapters tend to be a bit boring for me,

I think the only novels I've genuinely wanted to learn more about the other characters are "Surviving the Game as a Barbarian" with the world's (the game in this story's context) creator but I think that's less on the writers in this genre as a whole and more on other readers not really wanting to read about side characters for the most part so they get sidelined or written to a point where they aren't too interesting to warrant focus.

>>25220054
because few readers would care about licensing procedures if they're portrayed as the minutae of the real world, exploring how those systems function in a game environment is the point
it's mostly satire on how games only show you the fun and flashy parts without thinking about how the game's setting works, both outside of the action and from the perspective of its inhabitants

>>25220055
outside of the genre, I guess only Dungeon Meshi has interesting side characters for my taste.

>>25220054
>At that point why even make it a LITRPG?
To justify characters learning new abilities allowing for more diverse fights and social interactions without any specific training?

File: yyy.jpg (1.92 MB, 3151x2427)

1.92 MB JPG

>>25220000
KNEEL.
If your story has no economy and no civil wars within a larger civil war, then your setting is shit.

File: possible cover.jpg (268 KB, 832x1216)

268 KB JPG

I've written my Lit RPG, I feel really good about it, and I want to release on RR but I want to make sure I do it right how's this blurb sound?

White Centurion Attacks for Maximum Damage: LitRPG Deckbuilding, Comedy

"Knights of Saturnus is the world's most popular Trading Card Game and when a tournament with a grand prize of Two Million dollars is thrown, the reluctant retired World Champion Blake Wheeler finds himself shuffling up and getting back in the game where he'll be competing with old rivals, a Billionaire Tech Mogul, and even his Ex-Girlfriend. But the biggest threat lies in a mysterious young rookie connected to an intergalactic threat that puts the entirety of the human race in danger"

(It's kind of a yugioh rip off, the cards project holograms ect. though it is rated mature)

I have finished the first arc, 50,000 words and features 8 fully scripted games in it. Also features full card rules and I really worked to try and make the actual game believable and fun. (Under the hood though I of course did my best to make the playstyles and cards people use reflect their personalities)

Was thinking I release the first 20k words or so, up to the first dual of the tournament, then do releases of each dual and the breather chapter.

Working on Arc 2 now, I've fallen in love with this story and these characters and its been some of the most fun I've had writing. I know that this isn't high art, but damn it I'm just having fun,

so how do I get eyes on this? Should I try to hook up with some other RR writers so we can review spot each other to try and get some traction? How do I do that?

>>25220121
>"Knights of Saturnus is the world's most popular Trading Card Game
you should restructure this so that it's "The world's most popular trading card game [this term isn't capitalised despite the TCG acronym], Knights of Saturnus, and blah blah blah"
people want to be introduced with terms familiar to them (a TCG) rather than a given name
>and when a tournament with a grand prize of Two Million dollars is thrown,
should be two million, or $2,000,000, also know that this is committing you to a setting that's very much grounded in the real, present world (or an alternate version of it) if you're using a current valuation of (presumably) US dollars
>the reluctant retired World Champion Blake Wheeler
just say the former world-champ
>finds himself shuffling up
"shuffling up" doesn't mean anything, this isn't a term anyone will be familiar with
i know you're trying to use shuffling one's deck at the start of a duel as a euphemism for a more general term of getting back in the saddle of something, but that general term doesn't exist, so it just sounds awkward
commit to "shuffling his deck" if you're insisting on that imagery
>and even his Ex-Girlfriend. But the biggest threat lies
you should try to learn about how compound sentences are structured; the first sentence of the blurb is far too long with too many clauses, and then following it with a sentence starting with "But" seems to indicate you don't have a good grasp of language
>a Billionaire Tech Mogul, and even his Ex-Girlfriend
why are you capitalising any of these words
>But the biggest threat lies in a mysterious young rookie connected to an intergalactic threat that puts the entirety of the human race in danger
are you sure you want to reveal this much in a blurb?

for a webnovel you can get away with shit grammar and whatever but the blurb should really be tight, it's a slog to read those two sentences and they seem to both reveal too much (random specific details about prize pool) without revealing anything at all (idk what makes the story interesting other than retired MC gets back in the game)

>>25220121
cover is too sloppa for an already sloppa blurb. only one can be the propa sloppa

>>25220148
>and then following it with a sentence starting with "But" seems to indicate you don't have a good grasp of language
Nta, but if this is wrong, how come so many novels do this? I've seen it many times in Lord of the Rings, even.

>>25220121
tl;dr

>>25220186
it's one of those things that's only taught as a rule because it reads poorly when done by amateurs 99% of the time
it's a habit bad writers need to break before it can be done well. that excerpt is not doing it well

>>25220186
because it's not wrong, he's a pseud

>>25220186
It's easy to abuse, so it's better not to do it unless you really know what you're doing.

But in some cases, you can make it work. Sometimes you can even go for just "But." as a single line and then start a new paragraph.

File: 1256217385336643.png (1.58 MB, 1809x906)

1.58 MB PNG

>spend a year writing my webnovel
>resist temptation of using AI for anything, even basic editing
>final product has absolutely no AI generated material, it is 100% my own creation
>publish on RR
>days go by without any reviews or ratings
>finally, after a month updating a new chapter from monday to thursday, i get a notification, a review
>reader is respectful and sort of praises the story for being entertaining although "it isn't very original" in the first part of the review
>in the second part he starts raising suspicion of AI-generation: "I have no way of proving it, but I feel that [specific paragraphs and one-liners] are AI-generated"
>at end of the review, he point-blank outright accuses me of using AI and not tagging the story properly
>a few hours later, another reader accuses me of using AI
>I go to sleep
>wake up, 10 notifications
>I'm basically getting lynched at this point
>I'm getting bashed on Reddit too
>fiction gets taken down from RR
>account logs out on its own
>try to login again, can't
>despair
>spend the rest of the day crying
>nighttime, go to bed
>wake up to orange light coming in through the window and extreme heat
>see outside
>the neighborhood is on fire
Nobody told me writing webnovels would be like this... I just wanted to write a cute little story about an autistic ninja who saves Japan from aliens...

>>25220281
>>resist temptation of using AI for anything, even basic editing
>>final product has absolutely no AI generated material, it is 100% my own creation
Well you're stupid. The reason people will accuse you of using AI now is because in the normalfag mind AI = shit writing. Why would you not use AI to edit your shit or catch weird turn of phrases?

>>25220281
loomao git fukt. make this an isekai premise and you're gold

>>25220281
:(

>>25220281
never happened

what gave it away is the fact that they never take action against untagged ai slop

>>25220281
don't think this happened but on the off chance it did: lmao owned

>>25220303
>they never take action against untagged ai slop
did you miss the part where they roasted his ass on reddit and burned his neighborhood down for being a moron who doesn't tag his stories properly?

Thoughts on unnatural hair colors?

>>25220347
depends on whether you're trying to depict a character/race as attractive or not
NB: unnatural hair colours are not attractive

>>25220347
manic pixie dream girl archetype or bust. if you're doing it to make them lgbt quirky transvestite explode because this aint the genre for that.

>>25220347
Isn't that basically required in anime?

>>25219828
good news anon, i’ve got chapters 1-5 drafted and am currently working on getting a backlog of at least 20-30 chapters before i publish it.

>>25219850
>>25219864
If it’s just phrasing and typos, I could ask AI to fix them. My problem is my voice. It’s too try-hardy, but at the same time, too rapid and lacking the connective tissue that makes a paragraph flow. It doesn’t make for easy writing or fun reading, even though I wrote it.

Boom. Boom. Boom.
A sound like crackling thunder rumbled through the jungle. The ground shuddered beneath me, each impact sending tremors up my spine. I rushed forward, forcing my way through dense underbrush and over thick roots that twisted across the wet earth like a den of snakes.
Thorny branches slapped my chest and legs, tearing my clothes and flesh alike. But I couldn’t slow down. I couldn’t afford to look back. I ran until my shins were slick with blood and my clothes hung in shredded strips.
The sound grew louder.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
My heart hammered against my ribs, and a sharp pain flared in my side, as if a hot coal had been shoved into my gut. My lungs burned, and a searing, acidic taste scorched my throat and nostrils with every ragged breath I took. And still, I ran.
A root snagged my foot, and I slammed face-first into the muck. My ears popped. The taste of dirt and copper flooded my mouth as spots of black and red danced across my vision.
For a moment, I lay there in the cold mud, feeling the full weight of exhaustion crash over me. Every fiber of my being cried out in pain. And I couldn't tell if it was muddy water or tears that clouded my eyes.
Was I dead? Could I get back up? Did I even want to? I couldn’t tell, so I let the tide of sensation pull me under. Pain was there, but so was a strange, whispering calmness. It urged me to let go, to just breathe. Forget the noise. Forget the pain. It promised that if I rested now, it would all be over by the time I woke up.
It was very convincing, probably because it was exactly what I needed to hear. So I listened and let it lull me into a serene stillness.
A minute passed, or maybe a fraction of a second. Through blurry eyes, I saw a shallow puddle nearby. Its brown surface rippled in slow, heavy pulses.
I couldn’t hear anything through my ringing ears, but I imagined it sounded something like this:
Boom… boom… boom…
Boom… boom…
BOOM!
Dammit.
I gritted my teeth and crawled forward, nails digging through the mud. My bloody knees seethed with every movement. Like a wounded deer, I inched forward with everything I had. Finally, my left hand struck something solid. I seized it and ripped myself free from the clinging mud.

>>25220393
Cool. I look forward to it.

>>25220550
it's mostly good, but did you embellish parts of this with AI? it has a lot of tells that don't fit with the more natural sounding parts
>sharp pain
the word sharp, ai loves this shit
>as if a hot coal had been shoved into my gut
similes that aren't relatable to anyone, ai loves this shit (i kind of like it too desutbh, you could probably keep it)
>as spots of black and red danced across my vision.
anthropomorphising subjects that are otherwise featureless and non-descript, ai loves this shit
>to let go, to just breathe
to X, to Y, ai loves this shit
>Forget the noise. Forget the pain
see above
>searing, acidic taste
>strange, whispering calmness (whispering calmness? really?)
>slow, heavy pulses.
doubling adjectives that either add nothing or outright contradict the first adjective or noun it's describing, ai loves this shit
>I seized it and ripped myself free from the clinging mud.
sentences like this are extremely tiring to read with human eyes since it's overloaded with words like seized, ripped, and clinging, all super evocative words in close succession. AI just calculates the odds of the following word without considering the piece as a whole, which also means, it loves this shit

it's possible that all of this is your own voice and you've unfortunately internalised a lot of AI writing tropes, since the structure isn't typical of AI prose at all, but if you are going to use it then you have attempt to rewrite its suggestions in your own words and cut the parts you yourself have described as "too try-hardy"
i'd also commit to the bullet-like sentences more, it suits your natural voice

>>25220051
Sounds based, how do I find this litrpg?

>>25220051
>arguing multiple court cases in the imperial capital
Fucking kek. I bet something around 40k words were written on this.

>>25220575
I did use AI to fix my grammar, but funny enough, most of the stuff you pointed out is the stuff I wrote myself.
And I already cut out a lot of similes before posting, but, oh well.
As for my natural voice… there isn’t one. Or at least, not one that I’m happy with and want to stick to.
I’ve posted a bunch of excerpts here throughout the years, and they’re all different depending on what other media I happened to be consuming at that time.
For example, here’s when I let myself go full millennial: https://pastebin.com/cSKUhUnA
My real pain - and the pain I mentioned in my last post - is that my “serious voice” for when I try to write serious stories is a mess. It’s tainted by all the half remembered writing advice I got from YouTube: vary your sentence length, avoid conjunction other than “but” and “and”, use strong verbs, etc.

>>25220575
>ai loves [standard syntax]
man

>>25220631
things like "A sound like crackling thunder rumbled through the jungle." is clearly human because the words sound nice together, they aren't just describing something. The rest of that line is overwritten but definitely feels human
it's the line starting with "My heart hammered against my ribs" that make me feel like this is probably AI, going from "ribs" to a "sharp pain" could be a bad coincidence, but then the simile and the double adjectives immediately after stopped me from reading whatever you're actually describing and made me hypervigilant as to whether you even wrote it or not
if one specific line seems suspect then i'll definitely overcorrect as a reader and read AI into things you've probably written on your own, but if ALL of these words and descriptions are actually your own, and i don't really believe they are, then that is very, very unfortunate, because i won't be the only one that would read that and feel like something was off
i skimmed your pastebin and it's far more charming than what you wrote there anyway, much more suited for a WN format as well with easy to follow descriptions
>>25220633
one occurence doesn't mean anything, but nine red flags in a relatively short excerpt makes me think it's been slopped up

>>25220679
Dude, I’m not trying to convince you that I can write. This whole conversation started with me saying that I can’t.

>>25219785
You think a story has to be VRMMO to have respawning NPCs or game mechanics? No. I can write a LitRPG story where every other person recycles lines, respawns when, they die, and with dungeons and cities that rebuild themselves every night.
The MC is not in a game, they've been truck-kun'd into a world that simply works that way. It's not a video game, its not an MMO, there is are no apocalyptical events, there is no god running a system.
The world just works that way. Everyone knows a spell that can check their stats. Everyone in the world accepts the commonly reused phrases as normal. Everyone gets the currency from dungeons and doesn't know where it is minted.
The story will be about how these things happen and way according to the strange natural laws of this world.

>>25220725
yes, you as the writer can do whatever you want. that's how fiction works
his point is that conventionally this is how people tend to write it. VRMMO is the set up in which you see more video game conventions and all but a complete disregard for realism

>>25219935
If you mean the material that is valuable and drives the plot, its a magical gemstone that can cast elemental magic, turn objects into elemental versions, and transmute lesser materials into living creatures.

>>25219992
>deep-seated
by the way (unless he planted his load deep inside)

>>25220317
That was still believable reddit behavior

>>25220000
storytelling is fascist

File: 1746954119953769.jpg (34 KB, 500x500)

34 KB JPG

>>25220733
>>yes, you as the writer can do whatever you want. that's how fiction works
wait... what? that's how it works?

>>25220000
They can pry worldbuilding from my cold dead hands.

File: G2xgu4Sa0AAAKyR.jpg (131 KB, 1100x822)

131 KB JPG

>>25220000
Checkd

File: 1772303157306155.jpg (52 KB, 593x680)

52 KB JPG

>0-400mg caffeine
barely eke out one chapter
>400-560mg
Crush an entire second chapter and have a lot of fun

Caffeine is crazy overpowered.

>>25220927
writing on stimulants is pretty fun
writing not on stimulants is also pretty fun
there is a common trait between these two propositions... but i'm not clever enough to figure out what it is

File: 1768607927921036.jpg (338 KB, 994x857)

338 KB JPG

>>25220930
I struggle to write without caffeine. I'd cut my output by like 80% probably, and usually I don't even bother when I'm detoxing from caffeine. Which I only do when I'm ill and need quality sleep anyway.

The good thing for me right now is for the next 2-3 weeks, I have NOTHING going on. No meetings, no family visits, nothing to distract me from writing and the gym. I am ASCENDING for the next fortnight.

>>25220000
I feel the same number of book covers that show the protagonist's face. Because inserts cover artist's interpretation as canon and diminish the reader's imagination.

>>25220000
Also, I feel that cunt doesn't even know what worldbuilding is.
She probably has an extremely narrow definition of it. Like "muh magic system".
But in reality, everything that the story establishes about the setting is worldbuilding regardless if it fantasy or a contemporary story.
E.g. Office (UK) does worldbuilding by establishing that Dundee Smithland exists.

>>25220966
My issue is that I don't have the money to pay an artist to make a series of covers for me. Because I'm working on multiple books, I need all of the covers done by the same artist.

>>25220000
>Storytelling is fascist
Autocratic.
You mean to say autocratic.
Fascism is essentially the assumption that democracy is correct but not radical enough and that good leadership is an emergent phenomenon of a population that has been successfully & sufficiently purified.
It's way more specific, collectivist and occult than "leader says thing".

>>25220000
your take with worldbuilding is way too pretentious and high-brow. muh 'imagination ruined' people like you discourage most of the budding authors and should go back to tradpub. not all of them have the budget to commission a symbolical cover that's interesting outside of eye candy characters through ai or whatever they can muster as of the moment

we're looking at the lowest rung of readers, most people just want to pass their time. you put this genre as if it'll be criticized by a board of illustrious judges when it's just young teens or adults just doing it for a pastime.

people can still discern the vision of the author with their own interpretation but to outright say it's fascist for an author to share their view on their work is just exaggeration. then again, I am in 4chan, so everything is taken to the extreme instead of taking their time to step back and process what they're reading or seeing but your take struck a nerve with me so I don't agree with you at all.

Weekends really are dead, huh

>>25221558
Yeah I keep refreshing and nothing happens. XD

I have to stop showing samples here.
It kills my motivation to continue every time.

>>25221620
You should be thankful to be shown the weakness of your ideas and resolve. The boat couldn't hold water. Time to fix it and try again

>>25221620
same here
I been told that it's common for people to get a dopamine hit from talking aboht their plans whoch takes away fron their motivation to complete their plans
the solution is either to talk about parts of your writingtgat you're distant from (sharing chapter 1 when youre working on chapter 50) or grinding away in silence

>Cultivation novel
>Feudal western protagonist comes to Not!China as part of an exploration team
>Dragged into jianghu politics due to circumstances
>Focus given to the difference in techniques between the west and east in the setting, and the culture shock between the protagonist's old culture and the culture in the empire he's now stuck in

Would you read it? Do you think RR would read it?

>>25221655
>Cultivation novel
Yes

>>25221655
are you planning on leaning into the boxer war shtick or are you a coward

>>25221655
>cultivation novel but written by a guy who's never read any
sign me up!

>>25220604
>https://www.scribblehub.com/series/664073/rebirth-of-the-nephilim/

Hope you like 2 foot long cocks, Kingdom Death style monsters, Warcraft style elves, and consentacle

>>25221423
i see worldbuilding as a set of rules for the reader's imagination, and the "optimal" amount of worldbuilding is however many rules it takes for the reader to cultivate the image the author desires in their head
that image might be non-descript, and you just want the reader to have fun, in which case the worldbuilding should be stripped back to its essential parts, or you can establish a whole list of rules for their imagination to follow, in which case you as an author ought to do the work in making sure your rules don't contradict each other. arbitrary rules are fine as long as they're not confusing or fatiguing to follow
there's always the chance that your reader will simply ignore your contradictory rules by not making that first attempt to follow them but that's a happy accident rather than deliberate engagement with whatever you're writing. i think even if you're making a silly web novel with an audience you don't think will engage with what you're writing beyond a surface level then you should work within that framework, and establish as few rules as possible
>to outright say it's fascist for an author to share their view on their work is just exaggeration
i only realised i didn't call the original post retarded on reading these replies
my own opinion is that the blueskeet (?) had the right idea but came to a retarded conclusion by calling it fascist

>>25221676
What's wrong with that premise?

>>25221689
Alternatively if someone doesn't like the worldbuilding in my writing, or think it is too much, they can read something else.

>>25220725
>You think a story has to be VRMMO to have respawning NPCs or game mechanics?
No, LitRPGs universally have game mechanics and not all VRMMO stories have respawning NPCs. However if I were going to associate respawning NPCs with a genre, it would not be LitRPG, but VRMMO.

I explicitly said I was referring to the norm and responding to someone that was mistakenly treating respawning NPCs as an expected part of the LitRPG genre, and speaking as someone that has read A LOT of LitRPGs, respawning NPCs are very much not normal. There is a difference between something being allowable within a genre and something being a genre convention.

>>25221655
>https://global.novelpia.com/novel/888

>>25221705
This platform fucking sucks dude. You can't even reorder chapters what the hell?

>>25221794
>This platform fucking sucks dude
Yeah, that's part of why
>https://fucknovelpia.com/
exists, but I was just pointing out the existence of a series, so the official release was simplest.

File: 064b2ae3af3d7cdfdf53a70b6(...).jpg (457 KB, 2000x3000)

457 KB JPG

>>25221812
>I became a black person in NTR's novel
>his name is Black Johnson Anaconda

>>25221868
>Nants ingonyama bagithi baba

>>25221689
>>25221702
>onlys want to be right
>instantly wants to call other people retarded for not following your approach to worldbuilding
how disappointing. you're just another crab. you never wanted to engage in a discussion, you just wanted to flex your dunning krugerness to the board

>>25221877
Those two posts aren't from the same person.
I wrote
>>25221702

>>25221877
>replies to a twitter poster
>gets annoyed that they're a bad faith actor
you should know better