The Slopper, Your Writer Next Door EditionStubbed >>25491377>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
>>25499952Uh, hot woman! What's this one about? Is it just like. gateslop but with femc?
>>25499958It's gateslop reverse-harem. I'm not sure where anon gets these random gook covers from.
>>25499995>reverse-harem
Even 2D girls are not immune from the thousand yard stare.
>>25499995>reverse-haremA cool way to say "MC is a massive slut"
>>25500042Sounds great to me.
>>25499995>reverse-haremwhat a waste
I need a 1 week break after my current arc but I feel guilty doing that to my patrons, I wish there was a way to extend all their memberships by a week
>>25500083Make up ahealth issue.
>>25500049Read romantasy then
>>25500083>run into basic issues due to having no backlogstupid people's problems
>>25500083tell 'em your puter exploded
>>25499958Never understood the idea or appeal of a reverse-harem. At least a "harem" implies spreading your oats farther. But reverse-harems just seem like situation of thinly veiled simp orbiters mixed with cuckoldry/ntr for all the rest who don't get to impregnate their "queen".
>>25500083give them free shit to make up for it
How hard is it to make some money with AI writing? AI seems pretty good at it: >"No," Cornelius said.>Lucas blinked. "I'm sorry?">"You heard me. The table is ours until we ask for the bill, and the lady is nobody's compensation. She's my colleague.">For a moment Lucas simply stood there, as if the word no were a coin he'd never seen and couldn't decide whether to be offended by. Then the color climbed his neck.>"Do you know whose town you're sitting in?" His voice rose to fill the room. "Peasant upstarts. You come into my town, eat at my table, and — " He stepped back and rolled his shoulders like a duelist. "It seems you need a lesson in Martindale hospitality.">"My lord," a thin magister said from the side, "perhaps — ">"Quiet.">Lucas spoke three syllables in the High Tongue, sweeping his hand in a wide theatrical arc, and fire gathered along his knuckles and uncoiled into a whip. The Emberlash. Ten feet of living crimson that hissed and spat as it licked the air.>Cornelius remained seated, unconcerned with the showy magic.>Magic, before it is fire or force or anything else, is a knot of intention — and Lucas Martindale tied his knots loudly and left the tails hanging everywhere. Cornelius had been watching the weave since the first syllable. He lifted two fingers and plucked the keystone thread the way one pulls a loose thread from a hem.>The Emberlash came apart in midair. It unraveled, strand by strand, into a drifting cloud of harmless orange motes that rose toward the rafters and winked out one by one.>Silence. A single mote settled on the lady's sleeve. She picked it up, sniffed it, and looked disgusted.>"Saffron," she announced to the room. "He perfumes his spells with saffron.">A snort escaped from somewhere near the kitchen door before terror could catch it.>Lucas's face had gone the color of his doublet.I could see myself reading a story written like this.
>>25500237Now extend it to several thousands of words and watch as any notion of reality or consistency completely collapses.
>>25500237>AI writingI want out of this timeline. At least write something. It's not that hard. You're writing right now. At least AI vs drawfags makes a little sense because drawing takes a lot more skill. But most people learn to write as part of a formal education.Just write the damn story... omfg...
Do you create calendars and keep track of them for your not-on-earth stories? Do you care, do readers care? Not only different names for months and days of the week, but full-on different month lengths and names, maybe different weeks, different hours in a day. How long seasons last, the cycles of the moons. Weather.
>>25500237it might be an indicator of how much fantasy slop AI has been fed that this does seem to approximate typical fantasy slop, whereas when I ask AI to generate a murder mystery it gives me rubbish
>>25500237>I could see myself reading a story written like this.Well, I wouldn't. There's no story. It's aimless gibberish that has no point and goes nowhere
>>25500244The AI already managed to do so even in this scene. I had to rewrite a few of these sentences and delete like 30% of what it wrote.The AI wrote stuff like this: >"Do you know whose town you're sitting in?" His voice rose to fill the room, because it was clearly a voice accustomed to filling rooms. "Peasant upstarts. Wtf is the point of "because it was clearly a voice accustomed to filling rooms.">The Emberlash. A display spell, Academy-certified, guaranteed to ruin a dinner and scar a table, which was precisely the point.They point of the spell is to scar a table?>>25500245I don't know how to write. I can write a scene description. I can change what's already written and extend it a little, but writing it from scratch is just really hard for me. >>25500251That might be the case. It might also be down to how you prompt it, which AI you use, or even just bad luck.
>>25500237>"I'm sorry?"cuck response
>>25500274>writing it from scratch is just really hard for meThat's what we call being inexperienced. You can only improve by doing the work, anon.
>>25500274>I don't know how to write. I can write a scene description. I can change what's already written and extend it a little, but writing it from scratch is just really hard for me. Gotta start somewhere, and all your creative flaws create a more unique artistic pattern and expression than an AI ever could. Just write and see how it goes and ignore the fags who are just trying to troll. I've messed with AI writing myself just to see what it could do, and on a technical level it's good, but, it lacks any real panache or style. It's too smooth to the point of literary plastic. Perfectionism is the trap, striving for excellence in your own journey is what's important, since excellence still leaves room for flaws.
>>25500249You're in the wrong thread, bud. We write slop here. Go find a high fantasy one.
Greetings, fellow Daoists.
>>25500376Greetings brother. How goes your cultivation?
What are gu?
>>25500451Spinach given insectoid form.
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>>25500249The only point of stating month names is to inform the reader what season it is, and the message is kinda lost if you write "it was the twentieth of Umbraltaath"
>didn't like how two chapters came out, the mood was all off>committed to rewriting them>wordcount blowing up like crazyI cannot for the life of me write a fast paced story. I need to learn how people take narrative shortcuts. Although it's possible I'm influenced too much by Tolkein and GRRM and Brown and Hamilton and other epic length SFF. Maybe read some Heinlein and... who even writes short one shot fantasy novels these days?
>>25500496>The Smurn'ing of the Gwonka>It's was the second Quala'naka of the fourth Sama. It was that time again. The rains of Jumma would come and wash the scrum down out of the grutters. The Grizzlers would come soon, half past the hour of Tokna'. To clean the glumpies away. Fredrick Flint Cliff Reich Reinhart Lionsgate Goldenberg the Third would soon be ready for his Slunkie studies. More depressing literary studies in the oppressive season of the Korma. He sighed in defeat, brow lowering, his hand going to cradle his aching head. The only reassuring thought that perked his interest would be to see his mistress professor's giant bazinga gozanga'longas as she was in her Sniggle Snapple phase. When her fertility would at his Krumm.
