/lit/ - Literature

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I'd say it's autism if the story wasn't so focused on people and emotions. The author is almost anti-STEM in his thought process, basic numbers or details escape his notice. It's just an obsession of a person who rarely leaves home. IIRC Wildbow (Worm's author) is the same.

I don't think you understand how TWI is structured. At some point chapters have become longer because more was crammed into them, since Volume 5 each chapter is like a very small book with its own small fragment of the story, complete in its content. Also, the point of the author writing a webnovel is that he doesn't want to be constrained by normal publishing. He literally just writes what he likes. It's not bigger and longer on purpose, it's just the refined way of this person's approach to writing. Judging it by printed book format is silly.

Another thing about cuting 'fat' is that readers don't want to read it. Yet people want to read it here. So either it's not bad to have fat...or there isn't any fat. I'm not saying that TWI hasn't got issues with pacing, because it has, but it's funny how people keep having some insane ideas about what the story is without even reading it.

If you want a relatively self-contained TWI chapter, read this Interlude:
https://wanderinginn.com/2021/01/24/interlude-the-revenant-and-the-naga/

A short, 20k words long chapter. Short for TWI, that is. An average is 30k words long.

By the way, gunny thing about publishing, you don't need to be officialy published these days. TWI is selling a shitload of ebooks and audiobooks.
What if Amazon makes a thing where every ebook in their shop can be printed? Then everyone would be able to have a physical edition of whatever they want. Publishing industry may very well crash overnight.