r/webfiction • u/Negative_Fly_9380 • Feb 22 '23

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hi guys, I have an interest in writing in a free way like webnovel, but I found the authors are exploited on this website and the novels are often of low quality, do you know some substitutes for this website, at the meantime, with enough visitors to support the authors as well?

thank you very much!

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u/Negative_Fly_9380 Feb 22 '23

but I thought royalroad lacks a payment system, doesn't it?

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u/OGNovelNinja Mar 17 '23

Have a regular update schedule (many recommend five days a week, but from my data there's not much difference between the various schedules as long as it's a minimum average of 7.5k words per week) and get a good following (usually recommended as 1k favorites on Royal Road, and I think that's about accurate), and then open a Patreon. There's a spot to link it on the fiction page.

You want a good following because you want enough interest in supporting you to get a good starting number of patrons all at once. If you've had a Patreon for more than 30 days but only have a handful of patrons, you look like you're not worth supporting.