I'm pooooooooooooblishing
I decided that I'm just gonna publish the fricking thing I've been working on as a fricking web novel. I realized I might never finish it, the fricking bar is fricking insanely low for free online self pub and having even a fricking handful of readers is fricking better motivation to write.
It also frees me from word count constraints, and in all fairness I don't think it's a fricking work that would ever get the fricking time of day from actual publishers.
Any of you do this, b-word? Thinking of uploading to Royal Road.
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Being published by one of the big four carries a stamp of legitimacy, especially for film deals, but the money you're left with isn't really worth it these days unless you're a beast who fits their inane, myriad criteria
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Agreed. It's actually a fricking really interesting time to publish and im coming around on self pub. Lots of people actually become successful from self pub now because you can monetize via patreon
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Did you know that the person that writes a pokemon fanfiction called Pokemon Trainer Vicky (Pokemon SI) and Ghost in the City: Cyberpunk G*mer SI, a Ghost in the Shell fanfiction, makes 9,000 dollars a month, keyed r-slur economy
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trad pub is basically dead for all but the biggest names, the people who actually read more than one book a year these days are doing it on webnovel sites and kindle unlimited, especially in speculative fiction. Used to be that if a self published book was big enough, a real publisher would pick it up, but now the big self published titles don't even want that, there's nothing trad pub can offer for someone who's made it in self pub except a smaller cut of the profits
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How does one make it in self pub though?
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Market yourself aggressively, maybe get a Youtube, set up a Ko-Fi or Patreon account. You can do an official
server or subreddit. Unironically shill your stuff on 4chan if you have comic panels
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on kindle unlimited, by getting a lot of people to read your work, it's a subscription service and Amazon pays based on how much your book is read. Insanely hard to grow a following there though, which is why a lot of authors build a following on one of the free webnovel publishing sites, like Royal Road, and then move to KU, their existing popularity allowing them to avoid wallowing in the slop pits.
If an author doesn't move to Kindle Unlimited, or is still releasing on Royal Road as they're pulling earlier sections for KU, then they can make money on Patreon. You've probably heard of it in other contexts but basically it simplifies creating a subscription service. Webnovel authors will have several chapters ahead of what is free and public on their Patreon, usually around 10 but up to 100, and people will subscribe to get those earlier chapters. Probably the biggest example of this, Zogarth, author of an extremely decent at best work that had a ground floor advantage and became extremely popular, rakes in around 65k a month from Patreon alone, and also has his slop on KU which may be even more money. There are tons of other ways to make money with self published online literature but those are the major established ones
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It's actually hilarious tbh, self pub went from a fricking laughing stock for failsons to one of the only fricking places work succeeds based on merit.
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It's absolutely bonkers how much of a fricking turn around self pub made in my lifetime
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if he was writing fanfic he'd just post to ao3, royal road is for neurodivergents and primokino webnovel gigaslop
there is some fanfic on rr but exclusively the most neurodivergent and r-slurred kind
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I wish
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