/lit/ - Literature

>>21965814
>>21965860
>proving anon right with over explanation.
>Success on RR isn't rocket science and it isn't luck. If you understand the progression fantasy demographic, if you have the patience to set up a decent backlog, to schedule regular posts, and to maintain consistent output, and if you are capable of a BARE MINIMUM of networking with either authors or readers on the off chance you don't get your fic on front page Top Reviews (8 to 10 upthumbs on a review guarantees your fic will appear on front page for a week or so), you are 100% going to make the Rising Stars list and get anywhere between one thousand and six thousand followers.

Yes anon, you cannot write how or when you want to be successful on RR unless you only want to be successful by pajeet standards, and even then they pander and sweat shop.

I mean look at: https://www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/126340 It has nothing in there about writing a story you want to be told but finding a GAP IN THE FUCKING MARKET! That is even discounting the fact that is is by a well established networked author WITH A BRAIN DEAD CULTIVATION FANBASE WRITING A STORY ABOUT A LITERAL PIECE WOOD AS A MAIN CHARACTER!

For a new author: https://www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/111469 basically tells you that "Be realistic about your expectations.
Don't expect lots of readers/views straight away."

>>21965860
>Talent is continuously flowing upwards and out of RR, leaving RR with a constant vacuum of quality fiction that needs filled with new authors.

Except nowhere have you provided any evidence that the success of the ones in pic related is being replicated.

Hell the most prevalent guide on the site is one about a guy saying how much work for so little reward it is: https://www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/102887..