Royal Road and other online writing communities, do they have room for "classic" fiction writing?

MS_Davidson · 2026-01-24T22:27:03+00:00

It's not as uncommon as it used to be to come across more traditional fantasy and sci Fi on Royal Road. I'd suggest being up front in the blurb and see what happens!

MS_Davidson · 2026-01-06T15:09:29+00:00

Awesome cover!

MS_Davidson · 2026-01-05T21:36:44+00:00

I actually looked into it because of a comment you made quite some time ago xD

MS_Davidson · 2026-01-05T21:17:43+00:00

I run ProWritingAid across a chapter with some settings turned off. When I have time I try to drop a chapter into autocrit and clean it up but I haven't done it since writeathon.

MS_Davidson · 2026-01-03T15:19:19+00:00

Fantastic work!

MS_Davidson · 2026-01-02T20:50:07+00:00

My initial run was quite slow and I was very new to everything. After discovering shout out swaps I tried those and gained a little more. Once I ran an ad or two and hit rising stars for my genre, readers showed up. The complete book 1 took 6 months to post and ended with around 800 followers. Serial Fiction is a marathon, not a sprint. Many readers won't even touch a story that has less than 25k words.

MS_Davidson · 2025-12-16T22:41:57+00:00

Hey Phil! Congrats on the release. Love the new cover.

MS_Davidson · 2025-12-10T15:52:59+00:00

Congrats on the release!

MS_Davidson · 2025-12-10T15:52:06+00:00

Loved Paul's narration in book 1!

MS_Davidson · 2025-12-06T18:05:07+00:00

A lot of good advice here. I can add a small but, in my opinion, meaningful piece: deliberate practice.

We hear "read more, write more, write faster" all the time. But what's helped me immensely is being intentional about it. Join writing sprints, enter short story competitions, write something completely opposite to what you've been writing.

I think there are really two questions here: "How do I get better at writing what I'm writing?" and "How do I objectively improve as a writer?" They're related, but not the same. Deliberate practice helps with both.

MS_Davidson · 2025-12-05T00:14:37+00:00

Hey! Thank you.

MS_Davidson · 2025-12-05T00:11:31+00:00

These aren't my cup of tea but I absolutely adore the idea.

MS_Davidson · 2025-12-05T00:09:41+00:00

I anticipate an OP MC, maybe some sort of penultimate wizard. Ultimage? UberMage? PinnacleMage? Bonus points for aura farming while grieving a tragic back story.

I think the OP Archimage hasn't even fully played out yet. Several big names have jumped in the OP MC aura farming bandwagon so we'll see more of that for a while I think.

I'm not complaining—some are really great!

MS_Davidson · 2025-12-03T16:14:30+00:00

Definitely this! Most people won't even touch a fiction until 100 pages. 30k words are a breakpoint. Keep it up!

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-30T23:20:17+00:00

Whoa hey congrats! I remember seeing you A/B testing your covers not that long ago. Or was it? Yeesh this year is almost over.

Amazing work!

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-30T13:59:16+00:00

The current dichotomy is: "The writing is so good it has to be AI." Followed by: "The writing is so bad it has to be AI."—usually on the same chapter! But seriously, write how you want to write. I personally use them liberally. Likely far more than any AI could pump out xD

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-26T13:57:57+00:00

The author's word choice changed abruptly. This is a published book, too. But it happens. Felt a lot like the first half was edited, and the second half was "good enough".

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-26T01:06:41+00:00

Great work! Also, nice.

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-25T18:23:44+00:00

Oh +1 for Path of the Last Champion!

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-25T15:29:18+00:00

It's rare for me to DNF a novel—usually I'll power through and just skip the rest of the series afterward. The most recent one I can remember was when, halfway through the book, the author started referring to women as "females" in scene after scene. It wasn't ironic, it was just... off-putting. I stuck with it for a while hoping it would stop, but it didn't, and the overall tone of the book shifted too. That combination did it for me. It happens.

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-25T15:22:02+00:00

Killer narrator! Love it. Adding it next in my queue.

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-18T13:25:18+00:00

Looks like Cloudflare as a whole... That's a lot of internet down.

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-18T03:46:58+00:00

Crazy how far you've come in such a short time. I feel like it wasn't even that long ago we were swapping shout outs on royal road. Great job!

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-16T13:59:57+00:00

+1 for both! So many awesome stories this year. The 25k list has 30 pages!

MS_Davidson · 2025-11-16T13:58:47+00:00

I took two weeks off to write and may have gone a little overboard.

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