Beware the pipeline

LuoirM

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BigBadBoi

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Me: "Man, I don't have any readers. My story must suck!"

Me: *picks story at random off the trending list and reads the first chapter*

Me: "My story is amazing and I am an undiscovered GOD."
With the amount of LitRPG slop in royal road rising stars you should be proud of what you write. Most of them are soulless as hell and irony poisoned.
 

LewdWhisperer

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With the amount of LitRPG slop in royal road rising stars you should be proud of what you write. Most of them are soulless as hell and irony poisoned.
Oh, it is absolutely kept that way for a reason. Royalroad the most pervasive circlejerk since The legendary moonlight sculptor got removed. The risings star thing is killing the site.

And I've rambled onto my fifth complaint about royalroad for the day.
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Clo

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I don't understand '... goes brrr...' on the 2nd pic tho?

It's an old meme. People will usually go "[x thing] goes BRRR" now to mean a million different sort of things, but usually it means it's doing something. Or just vibes.


As for the post itself, I'm probably somewhere between "I get so little traffic/comments/feedback, this must be terrible" and "the few who review or comment it seem to like it?"
 

OscarTlau

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With the amount of LitRPG slop in royal road rising stars you should be proud of what you write. Most of them are soulless as hell and irony poisoned.
OMG, the amount of AI looking story I have read on that website is ABSURD!
My experience:



I'm trying to stay in "chapter goes brrr" mode. The only problem is that I don't know what side I'm on! :blob_frown:
EVERY. TIME. I. WRITE. TOO.
 

Golden_Hyde

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With the amount of LitRPG slop in royal road rising stars you should be proud of what you write. Most of them are soulless as hell and irony poisoned.
when the thing has become so oversaturated, I had to backpedal my plan on releasing a "unique" kind of LitRPG. Yes, I was trying to break the tide, but man, was I too distracted with something else.

Might gonna try it once again though ?
 

jthornfield

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when the thing has become so oversaturated, I had to backpedal my plan on releasing a "unique" kind of LitRPG. Yes, I was trying to break the tide, but man, was I too distracted with something else.

Might gonna try it once again though ?
Just go for it!

I never thought I would start writing a litRPG story or anything like it, but then it hit me: the rules of these series, both those that are inherent to the genre and those that you invent for your world, help me stay focused.

I have diagnosed ADHD, so sitting down and thinking "write a story!" only gets me a fuckton of ideas and notes that go nowhere. That's been happening to me since the early '90s. But working within the framework of a litRPG gives me boundaries while also letting me get creative with the ways I bend and play with those rules.

Also, I feel warm and fuzzy anytime I check an especially popular story and their spelling, grammar, dialogue, and so on is awful in comparison to mine.
 

StoneInky

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No matter how badly you write, you are at least better than AI. And half of other novice writers out there.

ESPECIALLY ONES WHO USE AI.

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LuoirM

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No matter how badly you write, you are at least better than AI. And half of other novice writers out there.

ESPECIALLY ONES WHO USE AI.

ARGHHHDDJJSAKSHKAKQLQ
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