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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Royal Road is a great site for just writing something, if it's good and within the genres that Royal Road users come to the site for, then it'll get readers without needing to spam advertisements or shit up reddit posts. The farther away you get from what RRoids are looking for, the longer it will take to accumulate readers, but, again assuming that it's somewhat decent, you'll get them eventually. Pick a schedule for chapter releases and stick to it, keep a decent backlog, and you really can't go wrong
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Is it normal for RR stories to be presented one chapter at a time instead of having the whole manuscript finished and uploaded?
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yup, they're like old timey serials. Typically the book is being written only a few chapters if any ahead of what is being released, and chapter release schedules are usually anywhere from daily to weekly. Typically the more frequent the releases the better, but there are works that go months between chapters and hold some of the top spots on the website.
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It's fantasy slop, dark fantasy
specifically. It's YA adjacent imo, and I think it will work for online publishing maybe even better than rl
But it could be copium. At least this way I stand a fricking chance of finishing and moving on
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YA adjacent fantaslop is well within the RR genre umbrella, you won't see any problems from that
send a link when it's up, I enjoy reading slop and if it's good I'll drop a rating, maybe it'll motivate me to get back to my RR novel I haven't published a chapter of in three years
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Will do, king
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