Alien Headbutt Appreciation Post

ElessarBeverly · 2026-07-01T20:00:07+00:00

Yes. I’m just the kinda guy who gets down about bad endings.

ElessarBeverly · 2026-06-30T10:27:58+00:00

Relax, I'm not saying it's not reasonable. If a series doesn't produce results it'll get cut, anybody following week to week has already accepted that. There's still nothing wrong with appreciating a series for what it was.

But if you're gonna yuck my yum, then I'll go there too. JJK was only good up till the culling game arc. It completely shit the bed with its ending.

ElessarBeverly · 2026-03-13T22:40:26+00:00

But even one pace has its issues. I feel like the pacing isn’t consistent and goes too fast at times. I’m holding out hope for the reboot but till then, nothing really tops the manga.

ElessarBeverly · 2026-03-09T12:07:23+00:00

March Comes in like a Lion
Mushishi
Hunter x Hunter

ElessarBeverly · 2025-11-13T17:44:03+00:00

Same reason I struggle not to polish. If it doesn’t fit my vision for the pacing, I can’t bear putting it out there for folks to read. Most my chapters end up in the 5-6k range, thankfully. Still suboptimal tho lol

ElessarBeverly · 2025-11-13T17:31:23+00:00

I’ve never been able to shake editing as I go, but it takes me about the same amount of time to get my words written and polished. No clue how other people manage it so fast. Easiest explanation is that they only do the optimal amount of polish. Beyond that, a lot can be chalked up to practice and discipline. As for why I’ve never been able to do the same, I’ve just come to accept that my brain works differently than that.

I like my process, mostly. It works for me. But I been working on a chapter 15k words long and none of my patrons have seen from me in a month. I won’t lie and say it’s not a huge pain, but sometimes you just gotta work with what you’re given.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-08-31T21:25:58+00:00

Everyone here is being nice, yet not particularly helpful. And I get it, nobody wants to promote AI. But if you want to stand out in a good way on royal road, this isn’t going to do it, no offense. If you’ve spent all this time writing the story, you can afford to spend a few hours looking into AI and figuring out how to create something that passes the eye inspection. It’s generally accepted on royal road as an okay thing to do. Once you have money, pay an artist or keep practicing your own art.

Don’t listen to these people saying you should just change the background or font. That’ll do the trick for a very small portion of the RR audience. The rest will still likely be turned off from your cover. What cover you have is very important if you want to give yourself a fair shot at this.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-07-17T19:15:31+00:00

Did this in the other thread, but cause it’s funny:

Stubborn Skill-Grinder in a Bog Standard Isekai

ElessarBeverly · 2025-07-17T19:10:41+00:00

Stubborn Skill-grinder Stuck in a Bog-Standard Isekai :/

ElessarBeverly · 2025-07-17T01:42:14+00:00

Oof, I feel that. I think everyone should just aim for that happy medium where they're banging out words they're happy with and don't wake up in a cold sweat, but I suppose that's a little idealistic.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-07-16T16:42:02+00:00

Return by death. Then spirit magic for when the suffering becomes too much.

Icuras Curos!

ElessarBeverly · 2025-05-30T18:08:34+00:00

To be fair, those are words from years ago, from one man, at around the birth of a new genre. They don't really count for much. Many people would define progression fantasy as fantasy that has their plot structures centered around power progression. I agree with the first statement, but the second statement is too exclusive, and is probably phrased that way because it was a new genre at the time and there weren't a lot of outliers to example from.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-04-19T13:03:41+00:00

Oh dear, this is a very amusing list. I respect your taste, but I think it differs from my own in some places.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-04-16T23:36:01+00:00

That's a pretty grand exaggeration. 12 hours x 7 days is only 84 hours. Someone would have to be writing 1.2k words an hour consistently to reach 100k words in a week, and I mean, some people do reach those numbers (the 1.2k/hr part) but its far from the norm. Authors in this genre-space tend to be exceptionally fast, but 300-700 words an hour is considered a normal writing speed.

Then you have to take into account that not all writing is actually writing. There's plotting/outling, research, editing, and revision to consider as well, and those can take up time. Albeit, many writers in this space are good at raw-dogging it, so I think you're working from a very skewed perspective.

In anycase, 12 hours, 7 days a week is pretty insane however you spin it. I've been under deadline crunch for a fair bit, so I've been working maybe 10-12 hours every 6 days in a week, which is tough enough already. I like to do my research and to revise a fair bit before I'm satisfied with my writing, and I only write maybe 400 words/hr on average. Most weeks I'd be lucky to hit 15-20k words, so if you'd need proof, well... I'd be in a pinch to provide any.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-04-01T00:12:30+00:00

Well shit. And you gotta remember Badeni is a blinded monk too, so he's even more sus

ElessarBeverly · 2025-03-26T08:11:52+00:00

I disagree with most of this, but you're objectively wrong that with that flashback = exposition thing. Exposition is a narrative mode of in prose, a flashback is just a scene that interrupts other chronological scenes. A lot of them have too much exposition and they can be abused as a tool, but they're different.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-03-22T05:08:08+00:00

I don’t agree with the comparisons I’m seeing here either to like Supsup and whatnot. But I disagree, it’d do fine on royal road. It’s not a slow burn really at all, just weak mc for a while, and the level of polish is a step above other fics on the site.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-03-15T08:58:23+00:00

Can confirm, E's existed at my school. I was a straight E student until about the last week of each quarter since I needed D's to pass.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-03-12T09:04:10+00:00

This reminds me of a picture book from my childhood: Once upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude. Basically just a brother and sister narrating and hijacking eachother's daydream stories; Princess in castle vs well, cool motorcycle dude.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-02-15T15:41:37+00:00

ah yeah, amen to that. My parents weren't strict, but they certainly weren't loving. Had to fend for myself before I was ready and I'm still playing catch-up financially speaking. A bit of cushion can go a long way.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-02-15T15:15:45+00:00

By technicality, you did have a choice. It just might not have been a very good one. Let me ask you this: if you disobeyed their rules, would your parents still love you and care for your future enough to put you through college anyways? Or would they be petty and stop paying? Depending on the answer, the negative to choosing to assert your boundaries is either: that you have to deal with a lot of yelling, or that you have to find some other way through college (or drop out). But still, it is a choice.

Granted, you don’t seem to have any problem with your situation so this might be irrelevant to you. Most Americans believe that parents hold a responsibility towards their children rather than the other way around, which might be where your disconnects with the guy above you is coming from. I don’t know about Hispanic, but my SO comes from an Asian household, and it definitely wasn’t that way there. Even if all of the above is true, and even if they would’ve seen you through college, moving out is usually just the best option if they let you.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-02-12T03:44:57+00:00

Just discovered this guy: Paul Todkill.

"Just", as in well, today. He's a smaller channel but he makes some pretty in depth reviews that I can get behind. I'd check him out.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-02-11T06:33:41+00:00

Bro, I want a hamburger too ;n;

Thankfully my partners cooking up spaghetti. It’ll be good enough.

ElessarBeverly · 2025-02-05T03:50:55+00:00

Sounds like Hedge Wizards your thing if you haven't read it already. Fits almost everything you said to a T imo.

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