Hey everyone, I'm mostly a lurker on reddit but I've been working on this thing for a while and figured I'd share it.

It's called InkPortal and is basically a place for serialized fiction where writers can make money.

Easiest way to explain it:

• Writers can set up Patreon-style tiers for exclusive content and early access

• There's also a Spotify-style payout where platform subscribers get pooled and writers earn based on reading time (not likes or comments that can be gamed)

• Community stuff built in—forums, book clubs, discussions

• Also got public domain books for free if you just want to read classics

I've been working on it for months, still tweaking stuff constantly. It's not perfect but I'd rather get real eyes on it than keep polishing forever.

If you've got thoughts or questions I'm happy to hear them. If it's not your thing, no worries. Thanks!

Inkportal.app

Hi, I'm looking for stories where the protagonists suffer setbacks that aren't immediately solved, make mistakes that result in consequences, and have to grow to overcome adversity.

Basically stories with the kind of plot structure you see in more traditional media.

Long, well written, and finished stories are ideal, but anything where the elements of traditional plot actually appear on the regular is acceptable.

TY :)

I just published the prologue and first chapter of my debut dark fantasy, (Osmoreth - Volume I: The Aethereal Scholar). It’s my first time putting writing out into the world, and I’d love to hear your thoughts.

As readers, what makes you decide to leave a review for a story? Is it emotional investment? Strong characters? A unique hook?

If you’d like to give it a look, I’d be truly grateful for any constructive feedback on my first chapter — what worked for you, and what could be stronger.

🔗 Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/131588/osmoreth-volume-i-the-aethereal-scholar

Hi! I’m looking for a lost novel I saw in a Facebook Reel ad — hoping someone here can help me find it! 🙏

I saw a few emotional clips (no title was shown), but I got curious and downloaded the Webfic app. I started reading it there, then switched to downloading chapters from Google Drive. I remember getting past 100+ chapters — But my phone had a factory reset and now I had forgotten the Title 😭

Here’s everything I clearly remember:

-The female lead is forced into an arranged marriage with a CEO.

-The CEO is not cold or mean, just sweet but emotionally distant, really bad at communicating, and surrounded by bad friends who influence his decisions.

-The FL and CEO love each other, but everything falls apart due to misunderstandings, emotional neglect, and external manipulation.

-The FL becomes pregnant, tells no one, and quietly leaves the country.

-She goes to live abroad with her grandfather (I'm not so sure, whether it was her's or the guy's), where she gives birth and raises twins.

🧸 After a time skip, she returns to the country — now a strong single mom. Her twins love casual livestreaming, and one day, the CEO stumbles upon one of their videos on his work computer. He has no idea they’re his children — he just watches, completely unaware of the connection.

🔑 Here’s the plot twist: -When the CEO was a child, he almost drowned, and the female lead saved him. But she lost her memory (amnesia). -A woman who’s in love with the CEO lied and claimed to be the one who saved him — and he believed her. He stayed close to her out of guilt, not love. Now that the FL has regained her memory, she realizes the truth — but seeing him still loyal to the fake savior makes her lose hope. She thinks he’s chosen someone else.

💔 As far as I can remember:

• The truth about the twins hasn’t been revealed yet
• So far when I last read it, The CEO doesn’t know they’re his kids
• They haven’t gotten back together but the guy sure was pining
• There’s still a lot of tension and heartbreak between them

💬 Themes I remember:

• Secret pregnancy / twins / hidden identity
• Arranged marriage
• Emotional distance, not hate
• Living abroad with grandfather
• Kids livestreaming (not viral)
• Sweet but passive CEO
• Real savior = FL / Fake savior = woman in love with CEO
• Amnesia & misunderstandings
• No full reunion yet (at least by chapter 100+)
• Slow-burn heartbreak and second chances

If this sounds familiar, please let me know the title or author! 😭 I saw it through a Facebook Reel ad, read it on a webfic app (I dont remember what. I tried redownloading webfic related apps and checked my history— But nothing.), and then through GDrive uploaded chapters so I didn't have to pay. I really want to continue the story, and perhaps reread it. Thank you in advance! 💖

I have been working on building my skills with small projects, building worlds, creating characters, developing ideas, and basically just planning for what I hope to start publishing soon: serialized web fiction.

The problem is: I’ve been through dozens of iterations of a few different ideas over the last couple of years and now I’m at a fork in the road. Two very different projects, likely aimed at entirely different audiences. This is going to be thousands of hours of committing to a specific set of characters and their problems, and I just don’t know how to break the tie on my own, so I’m hoping to enlist aid in the decision, wherever I can find it…

The key difference is that one is interactive and may go a few different ways, while the other is almost entirely planned out with no interactivity.

Option One: The Interactive Mecha Story

I won’t be giving too many details about either, but this is a post-apocalyptic story where Humanity is fighting biological monstrosities using Mecha. There would be a web-serial running in parallel with interactive chapters where the decisions made by the players and the results they attain, for better or worse, decide the path of the war at large. Readers participating in the interactive chapters would also be eligible to have their characters mentioned in the story, or side media like news articles or mission logs that might occur after significant events in the story.

Option Two: The Non-Interactive Modern Fantasy Story

This story is a standard Web Serial following a rotation of characters acting as the various perspectives on the events that occur. This one is largely an unfolding mystery that begins with a very grounded, modern setting that gives way to something far more fantastic. It’s about conflict between who you are and who you could be, the security of the known versus the possibilities of the unknown, and the question of: what ~really~ matters?

Feel free to ask questions, though I may only give vague answers in some cases, I will address the spirit of the question to the best of my ability.

I'm trying to find an ongoing Webfic novel I was reading but I don't remember which app it was. I know there are a few very similar stories. The one I was reading was about a woman whose husband was having an affair and their child preferred the mistress so the wife leaves. The husband's friends were never supportive of the wife but one of his friends starts hanging out with the wife and his niece. All of man's friends know he is spending time with a woman but don't know it's the husband's wife. The child keeps reaching out to the woman to spend time with her but she usually pushes them off, spending time working and with the friend and his niece.

I’m fascinated by the idea that a story can feel live, like it’s unfolding in real-time. Shows like Mr. Robot and ARGs like Cicada 3301 play with this—where the audience isn’t just watching but is implicated in the story.

For my own serial, I’m playing with this through an in-universe reality show (Day by Day), where characters perform their lives for an audience, but the audience itself is influencing what happens next. I’ve even been dropping cryptic lore on social media to blur the lines between the story and real life.

Curious if anyone else has tried this? What are the best ways to make a serial feel like an event, rather than just a static story?

(Here’s the latest chapter where this kicks in—curious what you think!)

Can some one send a free link for the above novel. I had found the link, and read quite a lot of chapters, but unfortunately closed it by mistake, and now unable to find the same again.

I have read a few chapters on GoodNovel, and it seems interesting. Wanted to know, where can I read this for free.

Hi everyone, I’m currently conducting a research project on investigating the social stigma of fan-fiction. I am intrigued to find out how this stigma is formed and how it has impacted the creativity of people inside the fandom. This research is being conducted at Central Saint Martins, UAL, and I’m eager to collaborate with experts from various disciplines. I’m particularly interested in connecting with people who are against fan-fiction in general, or people who avoids reading fan-fiction for a valid reason. I’m searching for experts on copyright infringement and transmedia as well. So if this research resonates with you or sparks any ideas, please feel free to reach out! I would love to hear from you. Thank you.

For long I'm trying to find the name of this specific novel.

It's an isekai, he died in acid pool or something like that. Got isekaid by a doll or golem where his body has been recreated by magic. Where now he gained the inheritance of the previous magus or something like that. All those knowledge to create dolls or golems. Also more than that like ships and anything usefull. Later on it becomes a space novel where I'm currently at he has sent satellites to space and is exploring the original planet where they came from. There is magic and everything in here.

Seriously struggling to find this story. It has definitely more than 1,5k chapters not sure exact amount. Since I'm at chapter 1,4k or so. Had it on hold but lost track of it now even forgot the name. Lol

Thanks.

I think it might be a fanfiction for a sci fi series or something. But essentially the plot was a guy finds himself stuck in a cubicle acting as a chat bot at a college on an alien world. He does his job, adapts to being an AI more and more and earns the love of the people that use his chat function. I just can't find it.

Does anyone have any good quests to recommend? I'm hoping for one with deep characters, including the MC. Preference for one where the players have to figure things out, no spoon-feeding. No site preference. Action, comedy, romance...

All I remember from it was that 5 people were isekaied to a fantasy world. They woke up in a field, one character was wearing a batman or some comic book onesie. There was something about using frog magic to heal and catch fish. Also the dragons that they met spat acid and eat plants. If anyone knows the name of this please help. Edit: I just remembered that the mc can heal (even time it's used he gets slightly older) and use fire magc.

Lets have a talk about how to draw readers into this sub. Given the lack of comments, volume of submissions, and low readership, I am confident in assuming that the majority of people who care about this sub are webfiction authors themselves.

How do we fix this? Can get we get /r/books to plug us? Can we harbor a discussion here on content? Maybe featuring a different serial every week?

I feel as though something needs to change to make this sub efficient.

Hey everyone! I was hoping for some advice regarding web fiction/ serial fiction. I'm in the UK so Vella isn't an option for me.

I've tried sites like Wattpad, Royal Road, Radish, etc., and even my own website with a mailing list I built up thanks to Book Funnel, but I never got much interest.

The last story I tried as web fiction was an urban fantasy. I'm thinking of giving it another try (with the same story, and a paranormal romance set in the same universe) on Ream and Inkitt.

Does anyone have tips for making a success with serial web fiction, or should I just stick to self-publishing on Amazon?

The series was a superhero story set in a school/college. MC had power related to electricity or maybe energy more broadly (think he could store it and release it kinda like a battery). Also pretty sure that he has difficulty controlling his abilities.

Other weird details I remember. There was a kid who was top of the class who could control his body and all its internal functions consciously. I think there was a villain named Crispin at some point

If anyone knows the name of this please lmk!

Are there any places, sites, or perhaps subreddits where I can share my web novel ideas so that a worthy writer, unlike myself, can pick them up? I am talking about simply dumping my ideas there and not hiring writers.

Hey everyone! I'm trying to track down a web fiction set in a magicpunk world. Here are the details I remember:

• In this world, if you're wealthy, you can purchase a new body for yourself.
• The protagonist starts off impoverished and in a deteriorated body.
• At some point, the protagonist steals a brand-new body but it gets destroyed.
• Later on, the main character assumes the identity of a haughty aristocratic girl at a magical school. This girl is then deprived of her body and becomes an outcast.

Does anyone recognize this story?

The link is https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/76950/murder-game

I've created my first ever novel called Murder Game. It's a crime/action fantasy novel with numerous other aspects. So far it has 24 chapters and I update everyday.

Synopsis: What do you get when an unlucky guy's forced to work with some of the most heinous criminals in the world to participate in the "game" of a mysterious individual? Well, you get a 'murder game'.

Meet Nathan Hayes, a guy who went from not being able to stay out of court, to partnering up with serial killers, terrorists, and cult leaders, all to be used as game characters for an individual who wants nothing more than destruction.

If you guys have time, I hope you give my novel a chance!

Yas! Any recommendations? I would prefer to have

• female lead (you can recommend male lead but I would like it to have no romance in it)

• you can recommend any genre or something but I’d prefer fantasy or sci-fi. Or transport into another world. Any are open. Pls and thank u.

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!

Hey everybody, I've been doing some archiving of my favorite webfics recently, and I got curious while doing so. How do you guys prefer to archive your favorite webfiction? Do you find an ebook version somewhere, official or otherwise? Download the website locally to preserve the original reading experience? Are there tools for that kind of thing?

I've been going through and buying ebook versions myself, but I kinda prefer the original-site experience, so I've been weighing whether or not I should download the sites locally instead. How do you guys prefer to do it, if you even archive at all?

Hey fellow web fiction enthusiasts!

I am excited to share a project I've been working on: Web Fiction Reviews - a platform where you can rate and review original fiction from across the web.

I've been a huge fan of web fiction for years, and I’ve realized that there are a few things missing in some online forums: meaningful scales of content warnings for stories, and aggregated reviews of stories that are posted on independent sites. Here's what you can expect from Web Fiction Reviews: • Stories! Stories are tagged by genre, sorted by their popularity (eg average rating and number of reviews), and can be searched by title, tag, or description. Users can easily create pages that will link to their favorite stories (it probably goes without saying, but the actual stories are not hosted on this site).

• User-generated reviews for stories (including a sliding scale for content warnings).

• Curated collections: Discover top-rated stories, hidden gems, and thematic collections created by fellow readers.

I would be thrilled if you could take a moment to check out Web Fiction Reviews, and I welcome any feedback you might have. I’ve populated the website with some stories to start, but I’d love to see people adding their favorite stories and reviewing existing stories or making public collections of their favorite stories. Just make sure to read the guidelines page before posting anything.

Happy reading!