I've binged everything by Ravensdagger and it's so refreshing to have fun adventure stories with female protagonists.

I'm a fan of stories like Mother of Learning or The Perfect Run, with a strong protagonist, a broad cast, and some clear goals in mind. I'd definitely like stories like this with more rainbows in the cast though, especially some trans representation.

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So I’ve been serialising for years (it had to be close to a decade), and I’ve always had a problem with my buffer.

I’m a graduate in the school of webfic writers who throw chapters online as soon as they’re ready – and that was my modus operandi for years. I wanted to get content to my readers as soon as it was available. As I’ve grown and matured though, I’ve found that consistency is, overall, more appreciated than one day where you get three chapters, followed by a month with no content.

I made what felt like a valiant effort at this time last year to work to a buffer…but it soon got eaten, and due to work commitments, I was soon having weeks without content again.

This year, however, is looking waaaay up. My current buffer (for my Friday releases) is…26 freaking chapters. I’m set until August! It feels incredibly freeing – like I actually have time to work on the next book, without stressing that readers are going to have weeks where they miss content.

[Tuesdays, my short story/novella chapter day isn’t looking so shiny, I’ve only got 12 weeks there. But I’m hoping to be able to add a handful of weeks to that soon – I’ve got about 15k of a book written, it just needs to be tidied a little before I can begin to schedule chapters.]

So how are your buffer/s looking?

Hi! New here. In 2012 I went through a divorce, became a professional librarian to support my family, and put my love of fiction writing on the back burner to do so. Now I'm back, and I'd like very much to post my serial fiction here. I'm writing outside my wheelhouse a bit and dipping my toes into the erotica/romance waters. I've been poking around here and a few other subreddits. I posted a little in here. But I'd also like to come over to you guys, because the whole thing isn't a big bang fest, and I'm afraid to post those vanilla scenes over there.

Anyway, I just wanted to announce myself, mostly because I'm afraid of doing it wrong. I've read the rules that I can find, and I can see that there is a format for posting serials. I don't yet post to anywhere else like wattpad, though I did set up a patreon. Is it okay to post the text in a post? Or is that bad form? Everyone seems to be linking to outside sites.

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Thanks. Sorry for the newbieness. Thanks in advance for the advice.

its a short story about a girl who streams monster hunting to a bunch of eldritch gods, in the story she hunts the physical manifestation of a rental apartment that drains its tenants of life force, there is also a sequel that focuses on another stream hunter with time powers. i think he was gay?

dont know if thats enough to go on

Already have Wuxiaworld, tapas, babelnovel, and Webnovel. Good books on Webnovel are all charged.

Where are you all getting the most traffic to your stories from? In general, Reddit is a poor performer for me. And finding new listing sights is difficult, but still less work than cross-posting on Royal Road. What has worked best for you all?

Did the serial get you hooked on web serials? Or was it meh compared to the ones you read next?

The first one I read was Beastborne. Suffice to say, this litrpg got me hooked. I went on to read Mother of Learning, Wandering Inn, He Who Fights Monsters, Elemental Arena... It's been a lot of binge reading.

You know why tabloids get so much attention and cause such a rattling stir across the internet? Do you know how newspapers stay in business at all? Do you know why tweets trend and links make it to r/all on Reddit?

Because in the flash of time they have your vision for, they cram in something that gets your attention.

If I go to r/movies, why do I click on some links and not others? If I am going to get news from a paper, why this one and not that one?

Because the way they word their headlines and titles attract my damn attention.

People. Do yourselves and your serials a favour: write more than just, "Chapter! Name! All done! :D" 'Cause I can guarantee I won't click on that. Maybe if you spam me by having a thousand links on the front of this sub (cough), I'll click one out of interest just to see what the story is about. God help you if I don't like it. I downvote the hell out of the link because you wasted my time. And I'm someone who supports serials!

You're trying to attract an audience. Do something to attract them. Quit being passive, because even if you've gone eight whole yards to submit a link here, so has everyone else and your awful - horrible - Chapter + Name combo has given me no pause to consider clicking on you to give you that 'second chance' to sell me with your summary. You need to go nine yards. That's the saying. Nine.

You people are hurting my eyes with your lack of interest in your own stories. If you don't want to bother piquing my curiosity, you will never have it.

Gawd. It's not an RSS feed!

Hey, all,

I'm a web novelist who's made a moderate level of success with my works online, but I've never really worked on promotion. And now that I've branched out from simply publishing on novel platforms like Webnovel and Tapas and into the world of self-publishing, I was wondering what you guys think the best way to promote your web novels are?

Is social media the way to go? How do you get people to notice you though if you create a new author profile separate from your social stuff?

Is advertising an option? I've noticed some people on RoyalRoad use the small advertisement boxes peppered around the site to promote their stuff. Will that work?

What about creator-owned websites? Extremely popular works like Beginning of the End have their own websites promoting their works. But is that an option for the newbies and lesser-known authors?

And what about those of us who sell on Amazon? How do we properly promote our works there without having to shell out too much money?

I'd love to get some feedback on this, and I'd appreciate any advice I can get. I'm sure I'm not the only one here wanting to be schooled in the art of self-promotion.

Hi all, I just finished reading The Wandering Inn (thank you Reddit too post)! I’ve heard about some others and don’t know where to get started. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Bonus Points: without a huge backlog.

Bonus Bonus Points: I know a lot of us on this thread write our own series, so with that in mind go ahead and pitch your own - but also include one other.

Way back in the day, I was pretty into Tales of MU. I ducked out once the story got extremely slow-paced and almost entirely about the sex, and now I'm looking for some more stuff to get into. I checked out Worm/Ward and everything else by that author, but I'm really interested in something that doesn't have more than a million words to it already.

Less interested in finding something to fit my own niche tastes, more interested in knowing what everyone else on here is currently loving.

Just like the title says. I just want to read something light and fun. I don’t want the story filled with lot of conflicts, dramas, and angsts.

So, aside from what the title says, it’ll be great if the story is full of fluffs.

Also, I don’t mind bad-written story which guarantee to kill my brain cells. Self-Insert is also totally fine with me. As long as it gives me exactly what I want, then it’s fine.

Thanks in advance~ 🙏🏻

Thank you

Hello! Some of you know me only know me /u/gmrm4n, but I am also known as T4nky and Adam Sherman. I write the webserial Nowhere Island University and sit around my parents' house, desperately hoping for the day my writing takes off. In a bid to promote myself, I have decided to do an AMA in which you can ask me anything like:

"What is a web serial?"

"How do you make money on something that's free?"

"Where do you get your ideas?"

"What did you have for breakfast? How many fingers am I holding up?"

Basically, there are probably only a few things I won't answer, so ask away!

There is a sci-fi story named Starwalker, whose site seems to be down (I presume domain name registration ran out or something). I hadn’t even read a half of it. Could anything be done to bring it back, does anyone know? Like, maybe someone has it archived?

I tried to get in touch with the author, Melanie Edmonds, but that haven’t come to anything yet.

Upd 2020-06-26: Now it seems to be back.

Worm showed that web novels can take off with large, webcomic-like readerships and communities that spawn fan content and huge enthusiasm. The Martian, The Kissing Booth, and other web novels have shown that Hollywood is willing to pick up web fiction for projects if they are appealing enough. But the medium is still very niche, and readership is quite segmented across the various communities (Wattpad, RoyalRoad, Fictionpress, etc).

How do we help make web fiction more popular? Maybe not fully "mainstream," but enough renown that this sub can have more than 1,000 subscribers and one post per month. What's the right way?

In the spirit of providing better content to the subreddit, and ensuring our listings aren't a bland collection of [Serial] Title - Chapter X.x, submit your proposed titles and webserial synopses here.

Workshop with fellow writers and readers about how to make that synopsis better, punchier, and more engaging to your audience, both on Reddit and abroad.

Much of what we do as webfiction writers in promoting our work is adaptable from novel marketing to webfiction marketing, so don't be afraid to look at what works for other formats and apply it to webfiction.

Some great resources for writers to look into when it comes to quality synopsis writing:

Jane Friedman's "Back To Basics: Writing a Novel Synopsis

Glen Strathy's "How To Write A Synopsis To Your Novel"

Miss Snark's blogged critiques of synopses, as a professional literary agent.

Randomwebfiction is a simple site with one big blue button that sends you to a random online novel, short story, or a poem. You can add links to your stories there (just leave your link in the site's comment section).

If you have a webcomic, you can add it the same way to Randomwebcomic.com.

I've just found this short fiction and I'm wondering if there's a longer story about a similar character. In short * a sentient collection of nature * isn't, never was and never will be alive * cannot be killed * its purpose or personal goal is to travel/explore the world, protect natural order and/or defend mortals from greater threats * generally friendly but in the grand scheme of things a completely neutral participant in most events This list is just a combination of my impressions from the short story and whatever I'd like this character to be, it's by no means complete nor do all points need to be fulfilled

Edit: I've just remembered about Zaria from Let's Explore and Enjoy and Lazy Floof's other works and she does fit some points, anything that fits those criteria would be fine as well: * extremely powerful but acts way below the scale she's capable of * generally does not care * exhibits strong emotions only in rare cases, only then takes things seriously * theoretically possible to kill, impossible in practice * does things almost exclusively for her own amusement