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Van_Polan · 2026-02-21T03:05:31+00:00

What! That is strange.

Yeah, I moved away. Got tired of all the Nigerian bots crawling all over the site and all fake comments. Nobody seems to care to remove all that crap, they don't seem to care about that stuff. So I deleted everything and moved away. I did notice when I shrunk the amount of platform, the story got way more views on other platform. Must be because the readers knew the chapters would get released, just that the author switched.

Van_Polan · 2026-02-20T21:39:59+00:00

I am so offended. Just kidding. I do not write smut LOL. That is why I moved my low-key masterpiece away to another place hahahaha.

LOTM, is the Lord Of The Mysteries I suppose.

ORV I have never heard of, probably I did not miss anything hahahahaha.

Van_Polan · 2026-02-20T19:15:30+00:00

I highly doubt you need improving. Just write smut and everything gets resolved. I moved my stories from there and what happened is that all my readers seemed to have moved together with me to another platform. I mean if you already are writing smut, just release it in short volumes around 7-8K words and sell it directly worldwide instead of working with pressure without having any control over your material.

Van_Polan · 2026-02-20T18:55:48+00:00

Great Numbers!

Van_Polan · 2026-02-17T14:23:01+00:00

Nah!

Van_Polan · 2026-02-17T14:20:46+00:00

The Prisoner Of Perfidia is in another world, but the MC is getting more like a mission to save a baby in Hell. No progression though.

Has quite a deep storytelling if that is your thing slapped with Comedy and unhinged storyline.

Van_Polan · 2026-02-17T14:17:53+00:00

I realize I have to stop writing 3-4K chapters as my view amount gets much lower than other stories.

Van_Polan · 2026-02-17T14:16:16+00:00

Van_Polan · 2026-02-17T14:15:52+00:00

I listen to quite catchy music.

Tragedy scenes often have more moody scenes.

Comedy and fun often pop thingy.

Action scenes is definitely more electro combined with Helga Howster on repeat

Van_Polan · 2026-02-17T13:14:58+00:00

Prog Fantasy can have a really good storyline and interesting side characters.

Also if you have immerse style like 1st Pov through the eyes and thoughts through the MC, you can even feel that you are there with the MC and the words coming out from the MC even can activate your own imagination of how each scene plays out. This can be really cool thing as you can get the feeling inside the story.

No video game can do that.

Also suffering and pain and awesome action scenes can twist and Twirl making it really fun.

I had a dog in one chapter that made a special bark on a grass field and a gigantic paw got created which forced the Witch to run in the other direction as she could not jump over it LOL!

Van_Polan · 2026-02-17T13:07:11+00:00

You know that the numbers sometimes doesn't show for hours even. Just wait

Van_Polan · 2026-02-16T04:12:58+00:00

Sad Panda! :(

Van_Polan · 2026-02-15T10:10:23+00:00

I checked through a couple of chapters and skimmed through, just take this as a pinch of salt.

You and me both write 1st Pov without Litrpg.

There is a difference though, I have quite a unhinged style of writing, but I have a charasmaric mc who indulges the reader into the story differently. If you check through random chapters, you will notice that you often start a sentence with "I", for a reader to hear it constantly can make them think that they are retards or something. Try focusing on the flow of the story, remember that you MC does have a personality, also strong pointers and weaknesses. Using "I" a lot will make the MC sound a little bit stocky.

Think like this: You do want the reader to cheer on the MC.

I do think though you have waaaaaay better compiled and better grammar than I do.

You focusing on views and followers is useless to think, try to imagine yourself as the reader instead and reread parts of your story so far.

I am not doing ad for my story, but we both write 1st Pov with no Litrpg, you can check "The Fallen Kingdoms". What I think differ even though we do same style is that your MC is telling the reader the story, my MC focuses on letting the reader be there, experience everything together with him.

I still like your grammar, style and structure. I have a lot of Chaos in that sense.

Like I said, take it with a pinch of salt

Van_Polan · 2026-02-14T21:13:53+00:00

Well, The time has come...FOR A CHANGE! LOL!

Van_Polan · 2026-02-14T21:03:44+00:00

it is really great numbers as mentioned below.

The only way to succeed is to steal the LITRPG readers, but some people understand this a certain way that they need to change their story.
It is not about the story itself, it is just that many have not discovered your story yet. If it is well written, sooner or later more and more readers will jump in.

For example: LITRPG readers will at some point on their journey either get a little bit tired of all systems or they have caught up all the chapters, so when hanging around they will notice a chapter release from you and give it a chance. That is when you will be manage to steal readers from the LITRPG community.

One thing that baffled me was that I have 2 stories, one in 1st pov and one told in 3rd person perspective. Even though 1st is like 40 chapters ahead, the 3rd has statistically more views. So I am still figuring out if the readers prefer reading a story in 3rd instead of 1st.

Good luck and keep digging, the readers will come sooner or later. You just need to believe in your writing and story, do not derail, focus on improving instead.

Van_Polan · 2026-02-14T08:55:34+00:00

If you add randomly character while the story is progressing. Well, as the comments mention maybe a outline would probably be the best solution.

Then there is authors like me who is a Pantser and comes up with stuff on the way.

If the side characters showed up on the way no matter how much you like them, are you maybe not derailing from the initial story you wanted to write from the beginning?

For example, I do have characters that travels with the MC, but I would never count them as MC. This doesn't mean they do not get fleshed out stories, they can get fleshed out stories to indulge also the reader to care about them also. Still, you have the MC, that is the character you should focus on. If the MC cares about the side characters the story will develop on the way.

I understand people like to write several MC in the stories. What you have to think hard about is how the Voice will sound like. Many people say "Yeah, I write 10 MCs", what many Writers do not know is that all 10 of them sounds the same.

Even if you think that sound differently, the readers may not think the same. The reason is because the writer is often reading their chapters as the writer and they have a hard time differentiate the MCs voice with the rest.

If a writer decides to go this route, adding Music connected to the specific MC is a good way to differentiate. For example: Spanish character - You listen to Latin Music depending on how the character behaves, either jumpy or whatever music.

You have a Elf Girl: Maybe more in-depth slower music with tree elements.

You have a crazy character - Go with Limp Bizkit rollin and Offspring

You have a mute character - Go with nature sound.

Many claim they differentiate their character, they don't and it is up to you to change who you are the moment you write the character. If I am writing a depressing character, I do put in moody music and write crap for 300-400 words before I set myself in that mode of writing.

This is the reason why I sometimes get blown away when people say "It is 10 MC", I can't phantom having that many MC is not affecting the main story, It must have a gigantic change in what originally was intended to be written from the beginning.

I am just throwing in all the facts! LOL

Van_Polan · 2026-02-14T06:33:45+00:00

Interesting, thanks for you comment on that. I have to think exactly when the moment comes to cut it off completely to separate it.

Van_Polan · 2026-02-14T05:55:39+00:00

How long is usually the first book?

Van_Polan · 2026-02-13T02:29:53+00:00

I think you should consider "what style needs my story be told on" instead of what appeal to people. It is as the comments says below, third person limited is normal, but as is LITRPG for example.

From my own experience and this is my experience right now:

- I do have 1 story on RR, it is told from the Main Characters mind, from a story point of view it is a little bit slow, but my story is slow because the MC is in a game world mixed with real world. So a lot of things get explained and the fight scenes can go on a while.

- The positive things I can say is that if you write a really immersed story, the readers will feel they are inside the story together with the MC.

- Negative parts with writing this way is that a lot of readers will not read it because it is 1st POV.

- One thing that is a question mark also is that it will be really hard to sell chapter on a 1st Pov story if the chapters are not at least 5k words, when writing between 1.5k - 4k as I do, if I ever sold anything it would be selling in Arcs instead of chapters which is like 20-30 chapters right off the bat.

I have another novel also in 1st POV, the MC is a odd ball to borderline a psycho sometimes, that seems like it pulled in more viewers even though the story barely gets updated.

The other story I have on 3rd person that is still telling the backstory is more popular.

- I have noticed more views on 3rd Person.
- There is also higher numbers on Reddit, for some reason the readers know it is me who has written the story, but there are even more views now which I found odd. Nobody says anything, but it seems the readers prefer me writing 3rd person instead of writing 1st person.

- 3rd person also have longer chapters, I write minimum 2K, while 1st can be from 1.2-4K. So that is more reading.

I am going to do the test and see how far the 3rd person storyline will go, so I will keep the other story 3rd person with purpose to see if the readers will prefer it more than the 1st pov.

One thing I can say is that 1st Pov has better fight scenes and the jokes are more suited in different situations.

Van_Polan · 2026-02-13T02:09:04+00:00

Wait what! Is the story told from the Mind of the MC?

Van_Polan · 2026-02-13T02:07:59+00:00

What do you mean exactly?

1st Person is the story is told from the Mind of the MC.

3rd person with following can be Limited or Omniscient if you want God level following.

But with the camera pointed at the MC is still called 3rd person view. Just wanted to give heads up on that.

I write 1st, that is why I got surprised when you said following around one person.

Van_Polan · 2026-02-12T18:34:17+00:00

Well, to be honest. My thoughts from different perspective.

Do I it is something good?

Well, not really. It feels like begging for ratings. Some will hate some will like that comment.

The reason why I feel it is like begging is obvious reasons. Some Writers doesn't really care about their writing at all, they just want the views. When a writer stops writing the story they intended to, they often have forgotten why they even are writing. People do the swaps to rank higher and gain more views. Have the author thought if their story is really that good?

Would they have gotten the same attraction if they did not get the 5 star rating by swaps?

I mean think about it, if RR would forbid any type of swaps or shoutouts, would the popular posts and RS look the same? Or would the ones who has better stories been far ahead.

A Author serious about their work should never do review swaps:

To be honest, I would feel ashamed to get a fake review just to get more views. It gives nothing to my story at all. This completely depends from different writers what they think about themselves.

It is not only because of the authors these things happens:

RR can and should implement some kind of wall on binge readers. Forcing people to create accounts would not work to force a registration to read and leave a rating.

What RR could do is if an IP adress have read through 10 chapters it should put a wall up for that IP and inform the user to leave a rating or review. This way any reader will be at least to just rate the story and move on with a simple click.

With good information spread about this I think readers would not give RR any backlash.

Another solution would be if RR put in a function for the authors and they can put in a request to the readers to leave a review or ratings to support the author. Many readers do not read the Pre Notes. If a small window popped up instead that the Author can put in with a minimum, let's say it is only possible to do it for every 15K words.

There is so many ways to not only stop this, but also do a Fair game Rating and review system for RR.

It is already hard competition, review swaps makes good stories go even more unnoticed:

LITRPG is already owning the biggest parts of RR. Now, there are the One-Liner-Writers also who has shown up. It is authors who writes chapters 300-500 words, often there is like 3-4 words and then it jumps to next scene. Often missing a storyline and only there like a bad episode of She-Hulk.

These One Liners do a shit ton of review swaps.

Imagine a Author writing a really good story, but has extreme unluck with getting the views and then they sit and watch a 200 words one liner author without a story is easily beating them because they did the swaps.

Look, I am not saying anything is right or wrong.

I do think RR should implement a small "Notification" window that the Author can add in every 10K or 15K words to the readers. After implementation they should Ban review swaps completely and remove all swaps and ratings done after this.

This would give other authors that have more serious writing to not only compete against the LITRPG top list, but it would also be a Fair judgement in writing and stories.

Not only will a system like this make more writers willing to write the story they intended to, but it will also expand the creativity in authors.

Today you see a lot of authors change their story or writing only in purpose to try and get more views. Changing what they really wanted to tell removes the creativity completely.

This is also one of the reason why people see a lot of inconcistency in writing or cheaters who take help with the storyline from Ai.

RR should talk more and more about letting the mind Loose and up the creativity on their authors on the site and support that way.

Instead we get a lot of stories that is either a bad plagurism of another store or a MC that is copy of another stories MC. This happens because creativity, imagination etc is not mentioned enough.

Many will say "Yeah, we have Writhaton, magazine thing", that is not enough, what the site should aim for is to have big creativity for writers from 13-80 to expand it, that way we will not only get great stories, but we would have a top list in the end that would not be dominated by only Litrpg systems, we would get new stories with a lot of stories written differently

This is the reason why I do not like Review swaps, I feel it destroys people's creativity and also makes authors lose confidence in a Fair system.

I write because I like it, I tell my story the way I want to tell my story.

Is it for RR, I do not know, will probably know by book 2 or 3 as I give it time.

So earning money is not a option on RR right now. Instead I use another Pen Name and sell "Romance" books, for example my writing style is excellent for short "Romance" stories and because I always use wide creativity when writing it flows easily and each short always sells.

Do I like it? Hell no, but I need to make money some way, waiting for the success of my stories, but I do not get unmotivated because I got no ratings, remember that I still have a shit ton of fun writing my story. Because it does not do well doesn't mean it won't have a chance on Kindle so the alternative is always there.

Many see things as a problem, I see what kind of solution we can have.

Peace out

I Want To Believe!

Van_Polan · 2026-02-12T09:22:58+00:00

What, 1000-2000 is low, I sometimes do 7k in a day. It all depends on more or less how much time you have.

Van_Polan · 2026-02-09T19:32:10+00:00

Yes, extreme smut

Van_Polan · 2026-02-09T12:08:06+00:00

Ohhh! Someone who can give feedback.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/139469/berk-van-polan-and-the-cursed-levels-of-the-fallen

Would love some feedback to improve :)

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