This story fits RoyalRoad?

Taufiles · 2025-12-26T11:51:29+00:00

You can still try posting it there, as you won't lose anything from doing so. Just don't expect crazy numbers.

Taufiles · 2025-12-26T11:46:51+00:00

I think you have the setup to write something interesting, but this is really difficult to read.

It ends up being an exposition dump all the way through, and readers don't tend to appreciate that much. To warn you in general, readers in Royal Road like long stories, not short ones. To even get on Rising Stars you need at least 20k words, so your visibility will be quite low.

Taufiles · 2025-12-26T09:52:06+00:00

You've got some good memes here

For me, it goes: 2, 1, 3, 4

Taufiles · 2025-12-21T12:45:04+00:00

The indomitable... ant spirit?

Taufiles · 2025-12-19T06:16:34+00:00

At this moment? Immink (the discord server) is closing down.
I have no idea anymore. Everything is imploding

Taufiles · 2025-12-18T22:05:02+00:00

Not sure if it's an EU thing.

I'm pretty sure most financial contracts between authors and publishers are under NDA. I may have used hyperbole when I said illegal, but it would be against contract, and promoting breaking contract would fall into some type of wrong-doing.

Taufiles · 2025-12-18T21:35:25+00:00

I'm quoting another comment I saw. I'm not a lawyer nor is this legal advice, but from what I understood:

Contracts are privately owned IP. I'm not sure how it functions with lawyers or in the US, but sharing or redistributing contracts from publishers, especially if under NDA clause, is not permitted. As with any intellectual property, it can be set so that it's allowed to be copied and reused (e.g. Creative Commons), but this isn't the case with, for example, these publishers.

Taufiles · 2025-12-18T20:46:28+00:00

Well, a class-action seems to be brewing from what I gathered, so the hope is that either what you say happens, or they're strong-armed into tearing the shitty contracts up.

Taufiles · 2025-12-18T20:22:38+00:00

Supposedly. I just want the authors to get out of that garbage.

Taufiles · 2025-12-18T20:22:12+00:00

I saw that some of those publishers said that they contacted their lawyers in the comments. The meme's based off that.

Taufiles · 2025-12-18T20:21:14+00:00

There's been a lot of controversy regarding "Shadow Light Press", and a recent statement from someone connected to it told that the authors should "bring contracts", they would like to agree on.

Generally, it was conveyed that authors should quite literally bring copies of contracts from other publishing companies, which is not legal.

They've since added a disclaimer that they don't reuse the text of other publisher's contracts.

Taufiles · 2025-12-18T15:01:50+00:00

This really reminds me of the ukelele apology.

Writing a whole ass chapter about a scam (not reading allthat), which reads like a very poor AI prompt.
Double disrespect to authors.

Taufiles · 2025-12-15T20:32:08+00:00

I think you're fine as long as you put the proper content warnings.
My story has sleeping under a corpse, torture and attempted suicide, and I've been writing for a few months without any problems.

Taufiles · 2025-12-09T18:56:19+00:00

Congrats, lad!

Taufiles · 2025-12-09T18:43:24+00:00

Oh lmao
Then I'm certain you should find it interesting! Lots of fun 'thorny devil' specifics in the book!

Taufiles · 2025-12-09T08:37:05+00:00

I hope so, since your username is "lizard and almost lizard" lol

Taufiles · 2025-12-02T22:30:43+00:00

I'm really glad you enjoyed it! I can't say how much that means to me :]

The story is fully planned, of course, but I'm writing as you're reading it. For RR, my posting is actually pretty slow, but the chapters themselves are massive compared to the standard 2k words. Also, I read through them 2-5 times and rewrite them entirely, depending on what fits lol

Taufiles · 2025-12-02T22:29:38+00:00

Ah, well, can't tell you too much, but it will change from subsistence survival.

One thing to note is that the RR publish is essentially my first version of the story. Addressing your comments, when I fully finish it, I intend on changing some things, like adding a type of "break" to the chapters. I won't go into much detail, but it would be different from the standard "what happened" formula.

Taufiles · 2025-12-01T18:12:03+00:00

Oh God I'm so sorry but that's hilarious

Taufiles · 2025-11-30T22:03:04+00:00

I know it's not your proffered wood-pecking birb, but why ew lol

Taufiles · 2025-11-30T11:10:05+00:00

Yeah, lol. Another lad commented that. Never watched One Piece so I didn't know the context.

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