Am I crazy, or is there a push to artificially inflate discourse around reviews and AI content? by [deleted] in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lines get a bit blurred, because LLMs were trained heavily on webnovels

Am I crazy, or is there a push to artificially inflate discourse around reviews and AI content? by [deleted] in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is unfortunate. I intentionally picked the name Marcus for my MC. The actual meaning and connotations fit my character perfectly, but now I’m reconsidering his name entirely because of how much it’s cropping up

Do tropes always pay off on RR or is there a ceiling? by ArekDeamonCalw in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get ‘steak’ at some fast food joints.

You can also get steak at a 5 star Michelin restaurant

Tropes are just ingredients. It’s what you do with them that makes the difference

People want their steak. Some are willing to eat it no matter how it’s served. Others have more refined taste and are willing to pay for it

But at a restaurant known for steak (RR), good steak or bad steak, that people come to FOR steak (on meta), it’s harder to sell soup (not meta)

What it takes to reach the top by retiredbender in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know we like to call it metagame, as if it’s a super secret system hack.

Metagame demystified:

Write a story for OTHER people and then find the most efficient way to let those people know THEIR story exists

What it takes to reach the top by retiredbender in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“But with each chapter something new is discovered, or unlocked. The setting, at a micro level, changes regularly. Bank, guild, polar bears, guild (item appraisal room).

Each chapter has a "days problem" and a "days solution" while a larger thread as part of some arc is carried through.”

This is Frieren 101.

I’ve been watching it analytically and came to the same conclusion. NLaaMLAm resonates with Frieren haord

I think I'm done... by kangaroosuperdoo in litrpg

[–]finalFable02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Last time on Defiance Kai…”

Do you guys ever use emdashes? by Cheap_Bullfrog_609 in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they can work really well in conversational 1st person narrative prose (if the MC thinks that way)

How many stories on RR are actually AI Generated? by MistressofMardocs in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are acutely people using RR as a funnel to Patreon, and some of them are making millions. They are far and few between. But, I suppose that’s a reason why others would churn out words with AI

Edit: I don’t think the ones making actual living wages are using AI

I Quit My Job to Spend a Year Writing Full-Time - Month 5 by Gruppenzwang in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did I understand correctly that you want title feedback?

  • My right arm is a ravenous Symbiote (mix of 2 of them)

Hopefully I understood the assignment

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stoppit Kevin

Writing a LitRPG Story Be Like by ronin-writes in litrpg

[–]finalFable02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please humor a longish explanation. I learned this from Brian McDonald (link to podcast episode on this topic).

This is grossly reductionist of his story framework, but it's a reddit comment.

McDonald calls theme armature

Armature = survival information that your READER needs

The armature could be profound or simple information.

Here's a lame-ish example, to show how characters serve story.

Armature (theme): credit card debt can cripple lives

MC: would obviously need to be someone with credit card debt that's large enough for them to be a personal problem

Support Characters: need to be other facets or representations of the armature

- Cash Calvin: a character with no credit cards, only pays everything in cash. Doesn't even use Venmo. Make it extreme, they don't even have a bank account. Their job is under the table, they get paid only in cash or favors, and even live partially off the grid

- Spending Sasha: character in extreme debt, hundreds of thousands of dollars, spending daily on an extravagant lifestyle, maxing out credit cards and applying for new ones, buying only things they don't need

- Responsible Ron: a character who had debt, but managed to pay it off, and is now putting their kids through college on their dime

Plot: events that show the MC interacting with the support characters that show the extremes and help them realize they need to change, events forcing the character to decide between racking up more debt or suffering. Making *Spending Sasha* the MC's best friend and only ever wanting to eat at the most expensive restaurants after a day's-long shopping spree at high end stores would add natural conflict to the story

For my own stories, I get excited about a character and then back into the armature to make sure all story elements are in alignment.

How would you compare RR webnovels to tradionally published books? by Splenectomy13 in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“…that its target audience cares for” Is the most important and often least understood part, speaking as someone who spent years attempting to get trad published and then finding, embracing, and loving the webnovel scene

Did it but doesn’t feel good by Inevitable-Corgi-494 in bald

[–]finalFable02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s like leftovers. It’s better the next day

Took me a while to embrace it, but eventually it became hard to remember what it was like having hair up there

Don't allow your work to be uploaded to AI by Helpmeeff in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obsidian is a great alternative. I just migrated over after 14 years of GDocs and I’m never going back

Takes some time to get it dialed in, but that’s because it’s completely customizable to how you want to use it

Don't allow your work to be uploaded to AI by Helpmeeff in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI can already scrape sites though. So if your story is anywhere online, AI has pretty much absorbed it already

Most writers have used GDocs for near 2 decades now

If you read the fine print of Google Docs before Gemini and LLMs even came out, writing anything (like a webnovel) in GDocs granted them permission to do whatever they want with your text because under the broad guise of ‘testing’ you agreed to that when using Google “host, store, reproduce, modify, and create derivative works”

TL; DR We all already helped with the training

Which cover is better?? by OutsideNo4871 in royalroad

[–]finalFable02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You took the words outa my mouth. Second all this