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I have a pirate fantasy, but it's actually a romance. Didn't get much traction at all on RR, but I did get some comments and one person thanking me. She said she read the story in a single sitting. It's 30,000 words. About a hundred pages.

Oh yes, of course. My mistake.

I wouldn't put it past them. Google is a globalist corp, the kind that would do well in a cyberpunk apocalypse where everyone is destitute and desperate. Fk google and their free keylogging software. They literally scrape everything you write to train the very AI that will be policing us all in...

Well, I don't read or write that dross they call LitRPG. (No offense to people who want to read their video games :ROFLMAO:.)

It doesn't have to be a life or death cliffhanger, it can literally be as small as a line of dialogue the reader wants the answer to. The writer asks questions and withholds the answers--that's what keeps a reader reading a lot of the time.

Maybe your style is too wordy. Short chapters lend themselves well to fast pacing, a la "thriller" pacing, or in the fantasy genre, the "sword and sorcery" genre, and no, S&S is not interchangeable for heroic fantasy or that stuff they call grimdark either. S&S is the thriller of the fantasy...

I enjoyed reading this. It's not often that people convey their appreciation for writers and their craft, so thank you. So I can actually answer your question. It's a psychology thing. When you're sitting there imagining things in your head, you're in a mental state of fun and relaxation, and...

Editing doesn't improve a novel, and you won't learn by editing. You learn by writing. Write some new stories and improve with each story, take note of the things you didn't do well in your previous stories, try to focus on a single aspect and do it as best you can.

Up to you, but personally I'd rather leave a story unfinished than to have cowriters on my art.

I love romance and I do have a big slice of life series on the backburner of my mind.

I've been away from the writing scene for a bit, but I may be coming back. Was wondering about what to write. What do you readers want to see? I write a lot of different genres and in different styles, but all under the main umbrella genre of fantasy. Hit me. Tell me your preferences. -...

This. Oni Rokura did a lot better on this site than it did on Royal Road. I hit Trending on RR for about three days but it got knocked off and for some reason I got a lot of bad ratings over there, but people here seemed to enjoy the story a lot more. Go figure. I call them boobime. Didn't know...

Only as deep as the story requires. I write fast paced stuff "stories" not DnD adventures.

Most one star ratings come from readers who are pissy about something. It's an emotional reaction more than half the time, which is fine. If you piss them off, that's a matter of taste, not skill.

Nonsense.

She'll be back... ?

? Why have a target word count? Why not write the story and leave it at the word count the "story" demands?

I was doing 3k a day, or 12 pages, for six month stretches. My goal was a million words a year to write like a pulp writer. I succeeded, because my methods and the word turn out every day was manageable for me. Then I doubled it and did that for a month straight, got burned out and didn't write...

This is a form of writer's block. It's a critical voice problem. I learned that I'm more suited to write shorter pieces. I always finish them, and I write a lot of them to fit together to form a larger story/narrative. You could try doing that.

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