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21031652 No.21031652 [Reply] [Original]

tell me about RoyalRoad. I've been reading some fictions in the Rising Stars sections and they're pretty cool. I'd like to write something similar and upload it there soon. RR sure seems to have a great, very supporting community

>> No.21032222

>>21031652
I put a crappy story there and people were still nice and supportive, so it was a good experience. But of course they're not very sophisticated readers. I tried to make my main character have flaws, and they didn't like that. Should have just made him a generic overpowered Mary Sue who's good at everything with no flaws whatsoever, that's what people want and expect.

>> No.21032342
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21032342

>>21032222
can i read your story?

>> No.21032437

>>21031652
RoyalRoad is pretty great to introduce new writers to the public. One of the perks is that if you get successful you can make loads of cash by just publishing on the regular and having a patreon set up. You don't even have to worry about communication or publishing hardcovers unless you want it.
That said, there is a pretty huge writer turnover because the readers are adults and won't give a shit about your story being great in the beginning if it's a fuck up later on. I personnally read such stories and I don't have any shame putting 3 or 4 star reviews for the effort so that the stories poofs away from my recommendations if I'm not engaged or if the ending is shitty.

>>21032222
If everyone thinks your main character is shitty, then he's shitty. Put away your book and come back to it in 4 months, you'll see for yourself if your "flaws" are justified.

>> No.21033709

>>21032342
No

>> No.21033781

>>21031652
>tell me about RoyalRoad
It's a website

>> No.21034109

>>21032437
>>21032222
What is the main demographic of royal road by sex and age? What genres do they enjoy? Id like to know who to pander to.

>> No.21035250

>>21034109
>Id like to know who to pander to.
You'll be pandering to readers.

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21036339

>>21033709
pleeeeeeease?

>> No.21036451

>>21036339
Stop bumping your shitty thread.

>> No.21036486
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21036486

>>21036451
s-sorry. i wont do it any longer...

>> No.21036505

>>21031652
>>21032342
>>21036339
>>21036486
How can 3D womemes compete with this?

>> No.21036662

>>21036505
Easily.
You’ve never been blown.

And one of them is supposed to be a male

>> No.21036835

>>21032437
>If everyone thinks your main character is shitty, then he's shitty. Put away your book and come back to it in 4 months, you'll see for yourself if your "flaws" are justified.

NTA. You underestimate the sperg levels of people who comment on stories. 90% are 'Thanks for the chapter!' and the remaining are two or three guys who fucking rage out about every little thing they don't like.

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>>21031652
Let me tell you about the worst side of RoyalRoad: the brazilian founder and his propensity for drama.

The website was founded by a few programmers, a literature graduate student and one brazilian (no qualifications needed). The brazilian was the largest stick in the mud imaginable, acting like a complete jerk to anyone who used his platform, refusing to add mechanics to facilitate the search for content and outpowering his associates to deny any partnerships with similar websites that could have provided a platform for a broader audience to their writers.

Then one day everyone in the community got piss tired of this guy's bullshit. They found out he was trying to make a brazilian RoyalRoad-like website using the website's code, and that was all the staff needed to smash this guy out of the platform.

It was a backstab, since he had legal ownership of the site. Except the agreements were all made in English and a brazilian could never try to sue and win.

>tl;dr: brazilian autist founder who treated everyone like shit got backstabbed while trying to backstab, tried to sue and failed because brazilian trying to sue an american business and because every single user hated him and were happy he was gone

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21038375

>>21036505
by having real, live, breathing pussies

>> No.21038441

>>21038254
gee i'm glad this all got resolved before i even found out about the website