Everyone who posts in this thread is CURSED and will never be a successful writer

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Pitch me your webnovel idea and I'll tell you everything that is wrong about it (I'm a highly successful writer).

>>25412119
I'll risk it.

>>25412119
I am a highly successful webnovel reader.

>>25412139
>(I'm a highly successful writer).
List your works.

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>>25412139
-isekai litrpg style, but party based
-you need to choose 4 other players to clear dungeons
-POV chapters of all five of them, so no single MC
-(readers can vote or voice their opinions if they find one of them too boring or annoying), with potential party member deaths and the addition of new party members for new dungeons
-stat levels are secondary to loot (equipment, weapon, skills)
-no exp by defeating enemies; instead the party performance will be judged afterwards based on clearance rate, survival, traps triggered, special areas found etc and then the points be divided equally and used to level up stats and skills
-every 10th dungeon is a mega dungeon that will be tackled by up to 10 different parties
-after the 10s dungeon people have the option to retire with their loot or continue to the next 10

>>25412197
I assume one of the genre tags is interactive fiction. If so, sounds like a perfect example of that genre.
You probably should design a board/videos games instead of writing webnovels.

>>25412197
Literally the worst kind of structure for your future (?) novel you could have come up with.

>>25412139
after 500 years of exclusion, the aloof kind-hearted necromancer finds out all her apprentices became genocide manics and goes on a quest to redeem the art of necromancy

>>25412217
>her
stopped reading there

>>25412139
Kind of a science fiction novel not so much about science but industry in a large Latin American confederacy trying desperately to not collapse from CIA economic sabotage and covert operations and lack of commitment by its members by their industrialization efforts they're trying to reach a point of power after which they will have stability and sovereignty.

>>25412139
A bow growing up in litRPG land accidentally ends up with the wrong set of rules. When he gains power, he tries to open his stats sheet and instead finds a frame data page! He learns this happens sometimes, and everyone it happens to becomes a social outcast. He goes on his journey trying to hide his true nature. He finds others like him, people that function under different rulesets.

>>25412197
Listen, anon. I've run a quest before. I had a shambolic sort of system set up, I had some plans for foes to face and quests to clear, protagonist motivations to hit, all of that.

You know what disappointed me? The players. They chose the most boring option every single time, tried to have it both ways, and were just generally lamebrains. I'm fairly certain anyone involved in quests can tell you much the same.

>>25412197
>POV chapters of all five of them
It's shit son

>>25412230
Female necromancers are sexier.
Simple as.

>>25412271
If I want porn then I'll just watch porn

>>25412304
If I'm going to be churning out slop on a regular basis I want to at least write about something I'd be attracted to, goddammit.

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>>25412304
>watching porn
But porn tends to have shit/no plots. At least watch hentai. Or better yet, read hentai.

>>25412330
>porn
>hentai
potato potato

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>>25412230
If I could trade you to satan for bakkerfag to haunt this thread somehow, I would.

>>25412139
Magic system based on chemistry.

>>25412318
>I want to at least write about something I'd be attracted to
Genuine question, why? Why write about physical attraction or about a person you would be physically attracted to instead of writing about interesting topics and interesting people (that you would not be physically atrracted to)?

Saving the schoolbro we eating good.

If there's something worse than adding a bad pun to your story, it's making reference to other characters laughing at it.

>>25412433
If you're going to have jokes in your story, at least make them IN THE STORY. Just making references to pop culture or saying "well that just happened" is not real humor.

>>25412351
We already have Bakkerfag at home (RIfag).

>>25412422
>Why write about physical attraction or about a person you would be physically attracted to instead of writing about interesting topics and interesting people (that you would not be physically atrracted to)?
I'd rather kill two birds with one stone.

>>25412422
Presumably, you're in every scene you're writing as you write it. I'd rather be around pretty things than ugly things. I don't even highlight my monsters being ugly desu, unless ugliness is a specific feature of theirs.
The women are sexy, the men are handsome, the children are cute, the supernatural creatures look cool. That's just how it is.

And among sexy characters, sorceresses are at the top of the sexiness chart. Combining unnatural beauty (beauty being the same as power in women) with magical power. They'll be full of hubris, so they can go to battle wearing a fucking bikini and it will make sense for the character.

>>25412139
I have choice paralysis. Which of these ideas is worth pursuing?

Survival Crafting GameLit
- The MC is a space trucker who crash-lands on a backwater planet.
- His only hope of survival is relying on his snarky AI companion and a replicator that can create anything he can dream of, so long as he has the right materials. He doesn’t.
- Now, he must explore, mine, craft, and survive in an alien world where danger lurks around every corner and mysterious ancient technologies lie hidden beneath the waves. And maybe bang a bunch of alien babes in the process.

Spy LitRPG
- The MC is forcibly recruited into a shadowy, interdimensional agency tasked with safeguarding Earth from multiversal threats.
- Turns out, his late, deadbeat dad was actually a top-tier spy, and it’s up to him to fill the shoes left behind.
- Now, he must embark on high-stakes multiversal missions, squaring off against larger-than-life Bond villains and saving the multiverse by the skin of his teeth. And maybe seduce a few exotic femmes fatales in the process.

Doomguy Parody LitRPG
- The MC is a misogynist with social anxiety so severe that he goes completely mute whenever a pretty girl is near.
- When the hellgates open, he finds himself trapped alongside a group of drop-dead gorgeous women, accidentally becoming their silent protector.
- As he slays his way through the invasion, the legend of the silent, badass demon slayer grows to ridiculous proportions, leading more and more scantily clad women to throw themselves at his feet while he screams internally.

>>25412373
So... The Archmage Coefficient?

>>25412635
Worth pursuing in what sense? If the goal is to put off as many people as possible, I think any of them will work.

>>25412635
the last one is hilarious
but the first one will probably do better

>>25412139
A LitRPG using an actually open source/licensed TTRPG system

>>25412119
we have multiple successful anons

>>25412558
>They'll be full of hubris, so they can go to battle wearing a fucking bikini and it will make sense for the character.
It's completely unrealistic, it's sounds like you are recording your sexual fantasies instead of crafting and actual story and and characters.

>>25412695
>hubris is unrealistic

>>25412703
Where you get your sense of "realism"? Anime? marvel movies?

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>>25412712
You fucking stupid, bro?

>>25412333
I've been reading the same futa hentai about mind controlling aliens for 25 years.

Comparing that shit to whatever plotless fake ass stepsibling incest you last fapped to is nonsensical.

>>25412430
>Finally becomes a cafeteria worker
For one brief moment he lived the dream

>>25412877
not all porn is hentai but all hentai is porn

>>25412712
>hubris is an anime theme
you are so far gone

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>>25412966
Paradise Lost was the anime of its time, if you think about it. It's an isekai, even.

>>25412897
>not all porn is hentai but all hentai is porn
Depends on your definition of porn. Some people require it to lack artistic value.

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>pick up Nowhere Stars from LitRPG con
>get around to reading it
>get emotionally obliterated by a fucking coloring book
What the fuck, man

>>25412139
PROLOGUE
>Main character is a child soldier who, through chain of command collapsing, becomes a commander of a unit comprised entirely of children
>The story is a long series of drama and conspiracy within the group as a traitor tries to destroy them from within
ARC 1
>the main character manages to oust the traitor and, enraged, gives the order for their execution
>Upon awakening the next day though, he discovers the traitor's consciousness still present and active in his mind, taunting him throughout the day
>the main character begins to develop psychosis as he loses his humanity in his hatred for the traitor
ARC 2
>a murder mystery in the group, after their medic is discovered dead inside her room
>the story progresses with the traitor and the main character seeming to work together well on this, putting their past grudges aside
>as the main character 'discovers' who killed the medic, he executes them as well
>the traitor reveals that he actually performed the murder that night, having possessed the main character's body to do it
>the next chapter is a standard war story chapter (these will have been much of the WN, a majority of the work will be somewhat episodic but this is just the main plot)
>the final notes say "The next update will be out soon", but there will never be another chapter (for thematic purposes)
I'm ashamed of my white skin and wish I was born Japanese where this kind of hack shit would be praised. Instead I right more conclusive stories.

>>25413241
Is that even a litrpg?
Also do you have pics of the booths?

>>25413357
>Is that even a litrpg?
Nah. Maybe a really roundabout progression fantasy if you squint? I don't know why it was there. I didn't expect it to go that hard.
>Also do you have pics of the booths?
Nope.

>>25412695
That's been sci-fi/ fantasy writing for decades

>>25412966
Females going to battles while wearing bikinis is an anime theme >>25412558

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>>25413436
females going to battles wearing bikinis is heroic fantasy. this is how a sorceress should look, and if you disagree you're a faggot

>>25413436
Anime is derivative of western works

>>25413444
if this was drawn by a modern horny artist her hand wouldn't be covering her armpit

>>25413444
No (female) character should look like that outside of porn.

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I'm in desperate need of something new to read. What are you guys reading atm and is it any good?

>>25413644
Just The Crow and the Rabbit right now. Everything else I'm following is stuck in hiatus. Outside of winnies I'm also reading War and Peace.

>>25413579
get that cringe mormon shit outa here

>>25413241
it's really good

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Alright shilling my thing. Erased on Royal Road.
Gonna be stubbing this in august when I send it to KU with, obviously, a better cover. I'm also going to start releasing the sequel then, too, but this book is done if anyone wants to read it before it gets stubbed.

>>25413644
i've been enjoying The Thirteenth God

>>25413848
oh an anon wrote this one?
I liked it. good job anon

>>25413863
thank you. I've been having a lot of fun with the sequel. at like 170k currently, trying to get it closer to 200 when it releases. I'm thinking it'll be like 300k by the end, but the last one exceeded my expectations and hit 350 so we'll see where it goes

>>25413848
Enjoy your 1-star review!

>>25413848
I was raped by a serif font upon opening this, and I would like an apology.

>>25413908
I like serif fonts. If I could use Times New Roman I would, because that's what it's written in. Instead I have to use Georgia on RR. What would you rather read it in, instead?

>>25413903
tyty. better than the 0.5 drivebys I've gotten when people get very upset

>>25412976
I think Il Inferno was the isekai. Paradise Lost was a sort of diatesseron between 1 Enoch 1-36 and the Bible.

>>25412635
Doomguy paroudy sounds hilarious. Would read the fuck out of that

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>>25413644
Clara Casewell, Attorney to the Villainess by cocopi

>>25413848
><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 1.1em">
0.5 star rating

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>>25413241
Nowhere Stars is fucking sick.

>>25414122
>Nowhere Stars is an ongoing fantasy-horror web novel about traumacore magical girls
stopped reading right there

>>25414125
Dark mahou shoujo /is/ a niche.

what the FUCK is a mahou shoujo?

>>25414129
lurk moar

>>25413644
Off work, Then I became a magical girl.

Somehow, this web novel is the one that made me like the mahou shoujo genre, even though I dislike that genre after watching Madoka.

There are a ton of other novels inspired by this, especially on Qidian because the author updates once in a blue moon.

As usual the author is raped by qidian with awful AI adaptation

>>25414171
>Off work, Then I became a magical girl.
Somehow this isn't the first time I've been shown a Chinese story about a dad who used to be a magical girl.

>Gold Digging is getting a japanese TL
is that a common practice for web novels?

>>25414200
No, and especially not for webnovels that small. Some publisher probably scammed the author into signing rights away and it'll get machine translated.

>>25413644
Silhouette
guy gets isekai'd into a kitchen sink superhero setting (magic, aliens, superheroes, etc) into the body of some sort of shadow entity. pretty cozy. fairly twee found family themes but I didn't find it overbearing
The Last Diabolist
urban supernatural where the protagonist is a kid that inherits his european dad's devil summoning tradition, and his asian mother's curse magic. cool worldbuilding and mythology tism but kind of annoyingly YA. it also reeks of diaspora which is off putting, but it isn't an active part of the reader experience or pushed forward

>>25414200
>>25414204
There's no publisher. It's either a fan translation or the author paid for it using patreon bucks. More than a couple of the top performing stories have this going on.
Then there's the extreme example of MelasD paying over 100k to commission a webtoon of their story. It didn't even break even and they actually did it again with another story and actually seemed to have made a profit as it's continuing.

holy shit there are a lot of douluo dalu fanfics

>read gook wns on tl sites
>barely edited mtl
>have the audacity to demand money for advanced chapters
how many of these sites are run by indians?

>>25414129
The essence of magic and girl

>>25414345
what sites? That just sounds like the Novelpia business model.

>>25414187
If it's chinese then blame this author popularizing it.

>>25413401
Anybody has that meme of in the format of what the author means going over readers head and its sci-fi authors saying in the future their fetishes will be seen as normal?

>>25413848
The synopsis and tags make me think this is trooncore litrpg slop.

What even made system invasion into a genre? It sounds like it comes from from a one-hit wonder like time loop did.

>>25414252
>holy shit there are a lot of douluo dalu fanfics
It's one of if not the most popular Chinese webnovel series. No shit. There's also a lot of Highschool DxD fanfics.

>>25414541
>What even made system invasion into a genre?
Gantz?

>>25414122
is this one of those books where the fights read like "the whimbelibomb nogellifrumphed the dododeliflemp"?

>>25414541
Video games.

I'm intensely bothered by the people who can't tell the difference between the words "advance" and "advanced"

>>25414585
no.

I wanna read something that rips off the Made in abyss setting, but all the dungeon or tower tagged stories sound really sterile and boring in terms of their presentation, are there any that aren't just super generic?

If I ever get bored enough to write, one of my stories will be about a fantastical mountain that no one has managed to climb and survived to talk about.

>>25414426
it is them, other sites that charge at least have good fan translation like Noveldex or DreamyTranslation

>>25414122
>Yes, Roland recognizes that face. Exactly what purpose brought Ciaran Fianata here, he can’t be sure, but it’s only natural for someone to return to their own home.
stopped reading right there

There's nothing to read on RR...

>>25414777
IT'S OVER

>>25414777
see >>25414103
it's peak

>>25414103
>Clara quickly put her phone away. Ugh, I hope nobody saw it. She plucked a glass gracefully, a natural reflex resulting from attending far too many of these corporate functions. “Thanks.”
stopped reading right there

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>>25414787
ok, try Super Soldier in Another World by Nivilack Werdrite

>>25414666
I don't believe you

>sort by release date
I hate AI.

>>25414829
Saar please my village is starving saar.

>>25414787
The fact this piece of shit prose has 4.8 makes me think RR ratings rely on nothing else but astroturfing massively.

>>25414965
>muh prose
go back to /wg/

>>25414806
Ok. Your "gotcha" didn't work.

>>25414998
the reviews say it reads like that. I believe them more than the reflexive 5/5 spammers that slam that shit on anything that makes them feel an emotion at one point in a story

>>25415015
>he trusts reviews
LOL

>>25415015
So you were looking for an argument where you asked a question while having an answer already prepared? What a surprise.

Why is it easier for Japanese stories to evoke strong emotions in me than Western stories?

>>25415064
Popular Western meta involves virtue signalling that includes telling you how you are supposed to react and think and feel and what to believe.

>>25415064
It's because you are attracted to prepubescent children.

>>25412139
Larper didnt even follow up on his larp

>>25414977
What is the point of writing all those words if they're barely strung together and deliver nothing of value?

>>25415156
>barely strung together and deliver nothing of value
just like your post btw. also, post an example of what you consider to be good prose.

>>25415160
bodied that freak

>>25415160
>just like your post btw
My post isn't trying to sell or tell a story.

>>25415174
>no example
lol

>>25415178
I can easily tell you that the quoted line was an example of dogshit prose.

You can prove me wrong if it's not indicative of the entire work. Post the best excerpt, the golden line, the best prose from that shitpile.

>>25415181
>still no example
keep going

>>25415182
Exactly. It's indicative. All you need is a band of discord trannies to get 4.8+ on RR.
Which is why most troons are baffled, completely shocked when their friendfarmed story flops completely on Amazon.

>>25415187
>muh troons
are you mad because nobody reads your novel?

I've attracted the notice of a discord cabal and they have agreed to propel my novel into the top 500 for the low low price of me starting estrogen injections

>>25415181
>Post the best excerpt, the golden line, the best prose from that peakest of mountains.
Then, using every bit of strength she could muster, she brought the sword down on Leofric’s wand arm.
“OBJECTION!”

friendfarming doesnt even get you royalroad followers, stop coping. it gets you onto lists but you can be (and people often are) on those without actually developing a healthy reader base.

>>25415191
Nobody reads the shit you shill either and that is exactly my point.

>>25415210
>he thinks his winnie is better than the popular winnies

>>25415215
>the popular winnies
If they are popular, why are you shilling them?

>>25415217
because it makes retards like you mad

>>25415220
And me commenting on dogshit prose makes you mad.

>>25415217
>why do people talk about and recommend stuff they like
brainless

>>25415222
I'm mad because a story I'm following just released a new chappie saying that there will be no chappie today. Like wtf???

>>25414585
It doesn't really dump a bunch of jargon on you, if that's what you mean. It more just gives you a sense what the characters involved can do and a bunch of implications as to why and rolls with it. A lot of the action as far as I've read is mixed up with horror, too. The Harbinger/eldritch monster fights tend to double as these nightmare sequences based on whatever the thing's deal is, and the main character's go-to tricks are draining health and inflicting disease, which puts the Harbinger on a timer to kill her or do something worse (usually something worse), so she seems sort of tailor made to have to figure out how to deal with whatever bullshit the enemy throws at her. Most of the fights are her and the monster struggling to survive each other until one of them cracks, and after the first time there's always been some other plot point being dealt with piled on top of that.

What are gu?

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>>25415452

>>25415452
the essence of izzat

What is updog?

Well, it's official. I've searched through every series on fucknovelpia for shit to read and there were 544 completed series worth a damn out of 7655 total series. A fairly high hit rate all things considered. Other sites did way worse.

Weirdly 418 of them were at least partly smut, give or take 33 yuri series that may or may not be explicit. So maybe not the best site to go to if you're looking for shit to read with no sex scenes. Great site for haremshit though.

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>>25413644
Read
>https://fucknovelpia.com/novel/surviving-as-a-knight-in-murim

It looks like it would be up /lit/'s alley.

>>25414531
the message in the book is pretty much exactly the opposite, and I've gotten some negative ratings because of it. trying to tell people fantasy is not reality and that they shouldn't cut themselves up because of small hat delusions is controversial.

How many cocks does one have to suck for his winnie to take off?

Let's assume I'm a korean for this hypothetical.

>>25415529
What the fuck is izzat?

>>25415599
it depends on how good at writing slop you are.
zero if you're sufficiently on market and a good entertainer