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Well, I decided to make this thread for those who might be looking for other platforms to upload their works. If there's a violation in site rules for doing this, (or a similar thread) please feel free to have it deleted.
In any case, I don't mean bad for doing this.
So yeah, here are some other sites you can look into if you want to expand your audience. Please do take note that most of what is written here is based only in my experience.
The Major Sites (or so I think)
1). RoyalRoad - pretty much for litRPG, but infamous for its blunt (and sometimes unreasonable) readers. Excellent UI.
2). ScribbleHub - smut and gender-bender. Better (and more forgiving) community than RoyalRoad. Honestly, SH is the go-to of authors who evacuated from RoyalRoad. UI is similar to RoyalRoad but I think it's better with the feature that lets you connect your other stories into one universe.
3). Wattpad - though it's been the largest writing community before, now it's pretty much dead. A lot of stories that cater to ladies. Excellent UI.
4). FanFiction - dead site. Even when I was uploading subpar stories back then, no one dissed me. As in zero interaction. They say it's used to be one of the largest writing communities before though...
5). WebNovel - pretty huge site, though attracting readers to a non-paid work (like mine) is difficult. If you entered a contract with them, you might as well be dead, for you'll be forced to spit out 1k words minimum a day. UI sucks too. But you can answer your critics, and they can't hide behind the 'It's my Review!' reason.
They say that some of WN subs are robots. Well, here's my experience: there's this one time when I woke up and found that my story got 900 subs in a day. Then, I realized, it must be some kind of a bug, since for an entire week, it kept on increasing and decreasing by hundreds.
Yes, it can happen in WebNovel.
Other Sites
1). HoneyFeed - it's like Wattpad Lite, catered to anime and light novel fans (like me). My only problem with its UI is that, you can't upload in-chapter illusts, and limit is only three (four if you have a separate cover) images per book.
2). Pixiv - yep, there's a novel feature in Pixiv. UI is pretty confusing, and formatting is nearly non-existent. You can upload images though (up to 30 per chapter, though I think you should just make a comic if you'll upload 30 images in one chapter).
3). Penana - pretty weird UI, and stories mostly cater to K-Pop fans. Memorable to me because an old user there accused me of stealing my own artwork. How can he tell? He saw it in his dreams. (Yes, I don't know what drugs he took.)
4). Inkitt - pretty nice simple UI but you can't upload images, save for the book cover. Stories cater to ladies, so I only use this site to format my manuscript.
5). Syosetsu - I don't know why many are surprised I'm uploading my English story in a Japanese site like Syosetsu. Well, I have readers there. Japanese feedback is pretty nice (and polite), but yes, the problem of language barrier exists. I don't MTL my work, btw. I upload it there as is. UI is similar to WebNovel, and Pixiv, but you can upload images inside the chapters. You'll need a separate Mitemin account to do that though.
And yes, Google Translate can help you navigate the site.
6). CreativeNovels - ugh...if you think WebNovel UI is bad, I think CN is worse. Nevertheless, you can upload images in chapters. And there's this weird feature in that site where your story can 'earn' money. I don't know if it's legit though, since of all the months I stayed there, not a cent came into my account (even though I got readers there).
Well, those are the sites that I experienced so far. Feel free to add yours for others' benefit. And yeah, everything I wrote here are my opinions. I don't care about yours, so it's futile to argue with me.
In any case, I don't mean bad for doing this.
So yeah, here are some other sites you can look into if you want to expand your audience. Please do take note that most of what is written here is based only in my experience.
The Major Sites (or so I think)
1). RoyalRoad - pretty much for litRPG, but infamous for its blunt (and sometimes unreasonable) readers. Excellent UI.
2). ScribbleHub - smut and gender-bender. Better (and more forgiving) community than RoyalRoad. Honestly, SH is the go-to of authors who evacuated from RoyalRoad. UI is similar to RoyalRoad but I think it's better with the feature that lets you connect your other stories into one universe.
3). Wattpad - though it's been the largest writing community before, now it's pretty much dead. A lot of stories that cater to ladies. Excellent UI.
4). FanFiction - dead site. Even when I was uploading subpar stories back then, no one dissed me. As in zero interaction. They say it's used to be one of the largest writing communities before though...
5). WebNovel - pretty huge site, though attracting readers to a non-paid work (like mine) is difficult. If you entered a contract with them, you might as well be dead, for you'll be forced to spit out 1k words minimum a day. UI sucks too. But you can answer your critics, and they can't hide behind the 'It's my Review!' reason.
They say that some of WN subs are robots. Well, here's my experience: there's this one time when I woke up and found that my story got 900 subs in a day. Then, I realized, it must be some kind of a bug, since for an entire week, it kept on increasing and decreasing by hundreds.
Yes, it can happen in WebNovel.
Other Sites
1). HoneyFeed - it's like Wattpad Lite, catered to anime and light novel fans (like me). My only problem with its UI is that, you can't upload in-chapter illusts, and limit is only three (four if you have a separate cover) images per book.
2). Pixiv - yep, there's a novel feature in Pixiv. UI is pretty confusing, and formatting is nearly non-existent. You can upload images though (up to 30 per chapter, though I think you should just make a comic if you'll upload 30 images in one chapter).
3). Penana - pretty weird UI, and stories mostly cater to K-Pop fans. Memorable to me because an old user there accused me of stealing my own artwork. How can he tell? He saw it in his dreams. (Yes, I don't know what drugs he took.)
4). Inkitt - pretty nice simple UI but you can't upload images, save for the book cover. Stories cater to ladies, so I only use this site to format my manuscript.
5). Syosetsu - I don't know why many are surprised I'm uploading my English story in a Japanese site like Syosetsu. Well, I have readers there. Japanese feedback is pretty nice (and polite), but yes, the problem of language barrier exists. I don't MTL my work, btw. I upload it there as is. UI is similar to WebNovel, and Pixiv, but you can upload images inside the chapters. You'll need a separate Mitemin account to do that though.
And yes, Google Translate can help you navigate the site.
6). CreativeNovels - ugh...if you think WebNovel UI is bad, I think CN is worse. Nevertheless, you can upload images in chapters. And there's this weird feature in that site where your story can 'earn' money. I don't know if it's legit though, since of all the months I stayed there, not a cent came into my account (even though I got readers there).
Well, those are the sites that I experienced so far. Feel free to add yours for others' benefit. And yeah, everything I wrote here are my opinions. I don't care about yours, so it's futile to argue with me.
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