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It's not quite kingdom-building, but in my story "Formicea", I'm pretty descriptive about the social structure and bases of a species of giant insects in a medieval world. The reviews are overall rather decent.

Probably 5000 a week. Three chapters a week with a lower limit of 1500. Though its only a hobby. At least I!m consistent without breaks since three years.

I guess I went lucky. I went into publishing without any expectations and suddenly was on trending two days later and stayed there for weeks. This led to a solid reader base I'm still benefiting from. When I got some hundred readers in the first weeks, that was enough to call it a thorough...

Oh, I got something! If the supposed MC from Earth has an utterly ridiculous name. "This is Athena, who was a normal office girl." "Solomon, an average Joe with a normal life." Something has to be wrong if the authors already at the naming phase have to be cringy. Also, if I read a man's...

Did you know that A Practical Guide to Evil is currently released on Webtoon? I always recommend A Practical Guide to Sorcery. Really like that one. Also, obviously, my own. If you're fine with the MC turning into a "Slime Girl" (roll credits).

Necroephilogos I got started. It's partly neat, but not quite the setting I'm looking for. Feels a bit too detached from settings I can relate to in general. Novelupdates would probably be fine, but no genderbender please. Those are in this kind of setting completely pointless and only...

Hi, like the title says, I'd like to know if someone can recommend me some good zombie progression stories here or on Royal Road. To be precise, stories with a modern world zombie apocalypse where the MC has some way to get stronger aside from their whits and gear. It doesn't necessarily have to...

I like the undefined body archetype. Slimes, or water elementals. Maybe even an eldritch horror shapeshifter. They can functionally always reassemble, no matter how they are obliterated. Though, from those three I personally am closest inclined to water elementals, or in my turn on them, water...

I find it a bit hard to believe that the laboratory wouldn't even have a locked door, but is solely built on trust to the monitored. Also, if he was inhuman the whole time you need an explanation why he wouldn't have noticed anything off until now. Also, why everyone is acting so weirdly, but...

Hope that doesn't come off as too harsh. I'm just trying to cater to the request: It looks very much like for a seventies movie. This can be a bit repelling, as it gives the impression of an old-fashioned story, which doesn't cater to modern tastes. Especially, as Hollywood doesn't have all...

Oh good. I just realized I'm safe! I was told that my style of writing, where I write the dialogues like this: "Did you think this through? (S) "Yep, eating this guy is the best course of action!" (L) Leads to plenty issues for trying to use audio on it. Good to know.

I can definitely concur with Nr. 2. For me, it helps to see my characters as beings whose stories I define. For my writing, especially my first story, I have less of a strict outline, with no set end, but instead, I'm treating the whole thing like some kind of RPG where I decide everything...

You also notice it's wish fulfillment if the story itself isn't all that creative. Like, the MC never gets into real trouble, stays always above problems, and can't fail. An author on the wish-fulfillment trip won't allow for his precious self-insert to live through hard times. That would ruin...

By now we're at a point where both extremes don't really leave space for a middle ground. People even called for a boycott of Baldurs Gate 3 because it was too diverse. The term "woke" itself is barely defined. Is a black woman as MC making a woke game? Is it forced politics that leaves barely...

High-elves. Though, there's this rather good manga "the embodyment of sin" in which it's goblins.

There would be 3 in my case. "Overlord", that got me into light novels, "So I'm a Spider So What?" that showed me that kind of adventure perspective exists. Yet then I got Core.001 on this site and it became my absolute favorite. Never again was I so compelled by a story. Sadly, it then went on...

I think it depends on the general circumstances. For example, modern armies have the issue that every idiot with a gun can do huge damage. Guerilla warfare is in modern times much more dangerous. A trained soldier in a sword and shield world would certainly fare far better, as they have the...

The ways to answer that, if you do, would be private message, their profile page, or simply add it to your next comment reply to them below your chapter, if they tend to comment.

I'd like to know as well. I'm soon going tofinish up a story, but want to post a number of epilogues afterwards. Is this okay?

It's not a favorite (who exactly likes stuff that makes them angsty?), but what makes me most apprehensive would be slavery without hope to escape. A collar that can't be taken off, a contract that bids the soul, worst is if it directly forces actions without choice. Those things make me really...