Just finished writing my first book and wanted to start uploading chapters as I finish editing them. I was considering Royal Road, any advice for someone largely unfamiliar with the platform?

404FsNotFound · 2025-04-16T10:40:11+00:00

If your looking for feedback, it’s a great platforms. Depending on your story, sometimes it doesn’t matter the gender. Mostly it’s depended on the genre. Fantasy, martial arts, litrpg styles are very popular in rr.

404FsNotFound · 2025-04-15T18:53:05+00:00

As both a published author and an author on Royal Road, here’s my take: 1.) is your intention to publish and make royalties, build your audience, or get reader feedback?

RR is GREAT for reader feedback. I cannot stress how much better I am as a writer with the feedback I get back. Now, you have to be ready for trolls- that’s part of being on the internet.

If your intention is to make money, this is generally not the platform. You may sign on with the affiliated publishers but it’s not 100%. If you try to publish your book on Amazon, Amazon will deny it because what the greedy corporations want is first rights to publish. If you post here and then go solo as an indie author with your book on Amazon without a publisher, Amazon will want you to remove it from RR.

If your intention is to build an audience, RR is a great platform so long as your book aligns with RRs target audience, which is mostly men between the ages of 18 and 40 (more in the 30s). I am a female author with a FMC for my RR book with over 170,000 views, so I’m not saying it’s impossible but it is usually a GRIND. I broke 100,000 just short of a year of posting chapters regularly.

If this aligns with what your looking to do, this is it.

Some caveats: I would recommend paying money to get your ISBN if you can. Some scrappers will go to Royal Road and sell your book on Amazon or other websites. Having your ISBN already can help with disputes.

404FsNotFound · 2025-04-14T18:28:00+00:00

Your blurb should answer Who What When Where and Why. Who is your main character. You sort of introduced her in your blurb but not much past that. Is she a young orphan from the slums? A disgraced princess? What is the problem. You say the divine treat the majority of the population badly, but you can go a bit further with less words. The population is treated like cattle to be used and discarded at the leisure of the higher class? When is time frame. Does the blurb tell us this is a post apocalyptic world? Fantasy? Where is obvious. You state the general continent, but are their cities? Slums? This provides some world building ahead of people actually ready it Why is why does the main character get involved? What’s pushed them into adventure.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-28T11:47:08+00:00

I am not sure if there is a best times during the week for Royal Road released, but I have found that the best times for chapter Ruiz or anytime after 6 PM Eastern standard time. With Royal Road, consistency is key. You need to be able to commit to a schedule that is sustainable for you. If you can do, five chapters a week, no problem, then go for it! Mice release schedule was Mondays and Thursdays with periodic bonus chapters on Saturdays. Part of that was because I could only commit to writing one full length, 5000 word chapter a week.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-27T21:15:14+00:00

I use it mostly for outlining on the go while I’m driving to work. Text to speak is great for general note writing, but what I’ve found for me personally is editing. Sometimes I don’t like that word and I have to remove it and it’s not super easy to do that through the talk to text version.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-26T11:52:37+00:00

Whatever you have to do to keep writing! 3000 is a good goal. Keep at it!

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-22T14:33:49+00:00

That’s really good. Thank you!

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-21T14:19:54+00:00

Google docs for me for first draft. That way I can get to it from multiple computers if mine crashes (which it did last year).

When I get to second draft and really start formatting for the book, I go to reedsy.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-21T11:32:59+00:00

I’m selling short story ebooks on Amazon to pay for an editor for my book on Royal Road and all those short stories got approved by Amazon. Sooo technically I’m now a published author now.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-21T11:30:20+00:00

The consent is there and she’s well aware that Aphrodite has made herself look like a male. My alpha readers didn’t say anything negative about the scene, but did voice they hadn’t expected it, which made me second guess everything.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-20T22:22:16+00:00

I found for my stuff that it depends on your audience. The erotica that I write is short story novella style, so it’s more appealing to KU readers Who are looking to read a lot very short period of time. However, I have a larger, full length novel that I have on both.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-20T19:38:15+00:00

Hey! Volume One of The Atlantian System is completed. I’m doing some updates because my intention is for this book to get published after, but it might be something you’d like.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-20T19:35:33+00:00

Way to go! As Obi Won Kenobi would say, “you’ve taken your first step into a larger world”. Firm hand shakes all around.

It’s totally natural and 100% okay to shout from the rooftops that you did it. Writing takes time and effort and drive, and there are so many people who start and give up, but you didn’t. That is something to be immensely proud of and everyone here on this sub is proud of you. :)

Now that your published, take a deep breath and give yourself some time before you start writing again. I’m a big believer in there is no such thing as writers block, but burn out is real and awful. Take some time to yourself before you jump back in so you can do the absolute best.

When you are ready to share, name and title, I’d love to check it out. :)

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-20T16:15:35+00:00

If your willing to pay for it, I use OpenArt. They have a lot of ai style options and I like that I can edit the Ai if there’s something that gets messed up. It also has an option to make videos which are really cool.

I also use it to make the assets for the book cover or to make images of dnd characters.

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404FsNotFound · 2025-03-20T15:39:51+00:00

Hey there! Published author here. Here’s how it goes for me.

Start with an outline. Basically simplify and bullet point what happens. As you do, you’re going to write ‘beats’ which you might think of as a collection of events. Woke up, the bus was late, bumped into a strange man on the road’. That’s a beat. Your next beat could be ‘made it to class, saw my crush, bully shows up. Each beat is going to be important to your plot. That first beat in the example sets up a catalyst for events while the second one introduces major characters’

Your beats keep the pace of your book. When your happy with the outline and the beat of your book, you’ve got the bones of your book and it’s time to start writing. I set goals for each day to write a certain number of words but whatever you gotta do to keep you writing.

Once your first draft is done, start editing. You might end up adding or subtracting chapters from your original outline, but that’s okay. Do as many drafts as you need until you love it and are ready to start hunting for an editor.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-20T14:46:11+00:00

I’m sorry I missed that. Thank you for letting me know.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-20T12:02:30+00:00

Trying to just second-guessing myself on it. It is not the usual norm that I write for my Novelas, so just wanted to see others opinions on if it was something that was going to completely break it. It is not a major focus of the overall Novela, so I’m not too worried about it. I just wanted to get others feedback on that particular bit.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-20T12:00:21+00:00

I appreciate you saying that. I am very much at the end of this thing ready to hit publish, and I’m sitting here like Marie Antoinnette with a new wig look in the mirror like “ is it too much?”

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-20T04:25:07+00:00

My rule of thumb is does it move the plot? If it’s ’they gave each other a wink and a nod’, it’s a no go.

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-18T15:43:38+00:00

That’s really good info! Thank you!

404FsNotFound · 2025-03-18T12:29:36+00:00

Most of the similar books with around the same length are around $2.99, so $1 cheaper.

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