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[RepresentingCaution]

2 days before I had a kid. Now, two months.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

2 days before I had a kid. Now, two months.

I could not be isekaid into K5.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

Its very intriguing to me when I hear this response. I know it is a very common take from people on scribble and other web novel sites.

While I can agree to upholding a certain quality standard in grammar etc, I always want to know why other authors burn themselves out working so hard on maintaining absolute plot consistency and other minutiae for a web novel? Is the final goal just the web novel?

I have an outline of my plot. Vol1-Vol7 so far and what I want to cover major plot wise in each. Then, I just write. Do a quick once over for grammar (which some things always slip through, and readers point out and I fix, and am grateful for).

The reason I ask, is my final goal for anything I'm writing would be self-publishing that work as a full light novel. Which means the web novel is essentially just a first draft. There will be things I want to fix and change for consistency or quality. However, the web novel lets me get immediate feedback from readers, and test the waters for interest.

Maybe I'm just naive because I'm relatively new, but it seems like a lot of web novel authors burn themselves out doing multiple edits and putting a lot of professional level work in for other people to read for free.

I guess, if it is paying your bills, then go all out, its already your job though.

Well, I write because I love to tell stories, and part of my 'work ethic' as an author is to give 'satisfaction' to my readers, with or without the monetary compensation. I do get that others wanted money for their hard work, and I don't blame or look down on them for it. But me? I want a solid work attributed to my name; that lasts even longer than money (the reputation).

Besides, I have other ways to support myself financially. Writing and drawing for me are just labors of love; it fulfills my 'self-actualization' needs. Hence, while I do get depressed (and suicidal) from time to time (it's not even related to writing/illustrating), I can still bounce back and recover faster than the usual internet sad boii.

Damn, your brain must be processing fast.

I should. It's not a joke going through 16 volumes of books with an average of 60k words per book, then realizing you have to start over again.

And it's not my only story.

 

[AuthorsDread]

Well, I write because I love to tell stories, and part of my 'work ethic' as an author is to give 'satisfaction' to my readers, with or without the monetary compensation. I do get that others wanted money for their hard work, and I don't blame or look down on them for it. But me? I want a solid work attributed to my name; that lasts even longer than money (the reputation).

Besides, I have other ways to support myself financially. Writing and drawing for me are just labors of love; it fulfills my 'self-actualization' needs. Hence, while I do get depressed (and suicidal) from time to time (it's not even related to writing/illustrating), I can still bounce back and recover faster than the usual internet sad boii.


I should. It's not a joke going through 16 volumes of books with an average of 60k words per book, then realizing you have to start over again.

And it's not my only story.

I respect that.

If I stock up chapters, 2 hours at most. I like to pile up unedited chapters and finish them all in one go.

about how many chapters are we talking about, and the context length?

 

[Deleted member 54065]

I respect that.

Thanks!

I forgot to add that keeping money off my work also keeps readers from demanding too much and greatly altering my work far from what I intended it to be.

 

[LilRora]

I usually pay a lot of attention as I'm writing, so I don't have a lot to edit afterwards. Although I often spend a lot of time reading through the story and looking for errors and things to improve, which takes me 30~60 minutes for a 2-4k word long chapter as long as I don't find much to change. If something large pops up that I feel like I need to change, it gets to the point I spend more time editing than writing initially.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Spoiler: How I edit

HOW TO BE YOUR OWN EDITOR

1. Write the chapter yourself.

2. Run it through a simple spell checker like word.

3. Go to ChatGPT and type "Rephrase The Following Paragraph" Take one paragraph of at least 3 sentences and save it in a separate file. Feed that paragraph to ChatGPT. Copy resulting paragraph to the separate file. Make a hybrid paragraph of the best of both.

4. Repeat step 3 until you have done every paragraph.

5. Turn on Grammerly. Just use the spell checking feature. Screw the suggestions.

6. Go through your chapter to search for the following words:
Suddenly
Very/really
Started
Just
Somewhat/slightly
Somehow
Seem(s)
Definitely
If you see any of these words, reconsider them. Usually these words are misused. If someone is speaking, no problem, but outside of conversation, they usually are a bad sign.

7. If there are any sections which don't feel right use the following at random:
prowritingaid.com/rephrase
sudowrite.com/app
writesonic.com/
But they do not allow unlimited use, so just use these occasionally to get a different perspective on how you phrased something.

8. Put it through Text Edit and turn on the text to speech feature. Listen to the chapter and fix it as it reads it out loud to you.

9. Turn on Grammerly one last time for spell checking.

takes about 1-2 hours per 2k words.

 

[TASTYLEADPAINT]

It depends what do you call editing? If it's just a spelling and grammmer check. I could probably so that amount in 2 to 3 days. But if the editing involves partial rewrites and changes to how entire chapters flow then that would take me 1 week. I mean I've had editing sessions where I've pretty much re written the entire chapter. So what would you call editing?

 

[ManwX]

2 hours tbh.

 

[AuthorsDread]

I usually pay a lot of attention as I'm writing, so I don't have a lot to edit afterwards. Although I often spend a lot of time reading through the story and looking for errors and things to improve, which takes me 30~60 minutes for a 2-4k word long chapter as long as I don't find much to change. If something large pops up that I feel like I need to change, it gets to the point I spend more time editing than writing initially.

Editing takes longer when you are looking specifically for errors, I can relate to that.

Spoiler: How I edit

HOW TO BE YOUR OWN EDITOR

1. Write the chapter yourself.

2. Run it through a simple spell checker like word.

3. Go to ChatGPT and type "Rephrase The Following Paragraph" Take one paragraph of at least 3 sentences and save it in a separate file. Feed that paragraph to ChatGPT. Copy resulting paragraph to the separate file. Make a hybrid paragraph of the best of both.

4. Repeat step 3 until you have done every paragraph.

5. Turn on Grammerly. Just use the spell checking feature. Screw the suggestions.

6. Go through your chapter to search for the following words:
Suddenly
Very/really
Started
Just
Somewhat/slightly
Somehow
Seem(s)
Definitely
If you see any of these words, reconsider them. Usually these words are misused. If someone is speaking, no problem, but outside of conversation, they usually are a bad sign.

7. If there are any sections which don't feel right use the following at random:
prowritingaid.com/rephrase
sudowrite.com/app
writesonic.com/
But they do not allow unlimited use, so just use these occasionally to get a different perspective on how you phrased something.

8. Put it through Text Edit and turn on the text to speech feature. Listen to the chapter and fix it as it reads it out loud to you.

9. Turn on Grammerly one last time for spell checking.

takes about 1-2 hours per 2k words.

Appreciate it.

It depends what do you call editing? If it's just a spelling and grammmer check. I could probably so that amount in 2 to 3 days. But if the editing involves partial rewrites and changes to how entire chapters flow then that would take me 1 week. I mean I've had editing sessions where I've pretty much re written the entire chapter. So what would you call editing?

spelling, grammar checks and also rephrasing sentences sometimes or add more context if needed. A future chapter might also make you go back and edit previous details.

 

[ZephBaxter]

So today i finished editing roughly 14K words. It ruffled my feathers for 3 days. Which is shocking because it would take a lot less to read this bit. How long do you usually take to edit this amount?

Editing my own work is the hardest thing for me. So I cycle. I write 400 words then listen to it out aloud and edit. Then write 400 words again. And so on.

 

[AuthorsDread]

Editing my own work is the hardest thing for me. So I cycle. I write 400 words then listen to it out aloud and edit. Then write 400 words again. And so on.

I've tried your method before, using TTS to listen to my text. It turns out that it helps me identify errors easier that i would have glanced over while reading. but i still prefer reading because it is faster.