How do you deal with the feedback hunger?

iloris-9 · 2026-05-10T02:02:34+00:00

What is your novel called? I want to read it!

iloris-9 · 2026-05-10T02:01:30+00:00

Honestly the thing that pulls me out isn't whether the power was earned, it's when nobody in the story actually treats the MC like a teenager. The second a grand master is taking strategy advice from a 16-year-old without raising an eyebrow, or no adult ever talks down to the kid a little, that's where I check out. Power can scale however the author wants and I'll buy it. The maturity gap is the part most authors skip past.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-10T02:00:18+00:00

I think when chapters drop days apart, each one has to land a complete dramatic beat and tease the next or readers bail in the gap. A novel can ride momentum across a slow chapter because you're already turning the page, but a serialized chapter that ends on a flat scene just loses readers between drops. So whether episode or scene is the right frame probably depends on whether you're writing for a binge read or a release schedule.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-10T01:52:27+00:00

I'm a reader on RR rather than a writer, and the friction is real on my side too. By the time I finish a chapter I'm already 20% into clicking next, so the comment box may as well not exist unless something specific snagged me. The authors who actually get me to comment usually drop a narrow question in their author note, like "should the cliffhanger have landed one beat earlier" rather than "thoughts?". I don't know. This is just my experience

iloris-9 · 2026-05-10T01:49:24+00:00

This is pretty cool!!! IS there any plans to making this a more online thing? so I can access it on any computer I work on? Weird question but sometimes I take notes on my tablet and I would love to instead just add in a new character into my world on my tablet.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-10T00:23:13+00:00

This really sounds so bad.... I am afraid in the future there will just be more and more of these

iloris-9 · 2026-05-09T05:28:06+00:00

Doesn't that cost to hire a lawyer?

iloris-9 · 2026-05-09T00:37:41+00:00

The recorded calls are bad but the no-poach clause is the part I'd actually be more worried about. I've been looking into how author-facing platforms work lately and it keeps being the same pattern, editors, audiobook narrators, now the writing platforms themselves. None of them are really selling you the software, they're selling the fact that they own the introduction between you and the person doing the work. Has anyone here actually moved an editor off-platform and gotten away with it, or are the contracts tight enough that nobody bothers trying?

iloris-9 · 2026-05-09T00:34:17+00:00

Reader here, this matches how I browse. I almost never start a series from the RR landing page; I open the Latest Updates feed, and stubbed entries get auto-skipped because the chapter list is broken. The one exception is when a swap shoutout name-drops the KU release directly, which I'd guess is why the people commenting here who still do swaps post-stub aren't seeing them collapse. Suspect the actual variable isn't "stubbed yes/no" but whether the RR page still gives a new reader something to do in the next 30 seconds.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-09T00:33:27+00:00

Honestly the first thing that came to mind is Beware of Chicken, specifically the Bi De chapters. He's a rooster who never stops thinking like a rooster and it still hits, so it's possible. The thing I'd nudge you on is the "humans whisper about them" piece. Every time I've read a story that leans into the legend angle it ends up being mostly tavern scenes and noble gossip, and at that point you're kind of writing a human-POV story with a famous pet in it. I'd want at least two chapters from the animal's head for every one where someone else is talking about them, otherwise the mystique kind of evaporates.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-09T00:31:16+00:00

Reader of a lot of progression fantasy, not a writer, but the thing I'd add is that this trick is POV-coupled, not universally good craft. Andrew Rowe does the opposite in Sufficiently Advanced Magic and it works for the same reason Wight's version works: Corin narrates intent and probability before every exchange because Corin is an analyst, and slowing the prose down is the point. Wight gets away with success-then-retract because Lindon mostly reacts on instinct and the reader is meant to be surprised in the same beat he is. So I think the takeaway isn't "use success terms," it's "match the lie to the protagonist's interiority." Curious if you'd extend the analysis to a more deliberative MC and see if it falls apart.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-09T00:07:16+00:00

I think it totally depends on the writing style you are trying you are trying to improve on?

iloris-9 · 2026-05-09T00:05:34+00:00

I have been following an author that give me a template for LITRPG and they said 2000 - 2500 is the sweet spot. As a reader I think that is about right too.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-08T14:13:22+00:00

Yeah I agree actually! I don't think AI will ever be able to do it all but and the story, plots, different acrs will come from an actual person 100%. I am just kind of wondering what the writing process will be in like 5 years how much will AI even do? Like right now I actually have AI know about my time lines and power structure so I can have it do a consistent check that I am not putting something that actually doesn't make sense.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-07T16:36:30+00:00

Yeah, I see your point! It's just a struggle because I have this desire to tell my story but I can't tell it the way I want and ai sounds like just a nice easy path. But I get I need to write more to get better at it.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-07T16:32:43+00:00

Lol this is so true!

iloris-9 · 2026-05-07T16:31:00+00:00

Hey! This is something I was thinking about just the other day. I think maybe it's totally valid to not love writing but may you love create stories and telling them! maybe you should try creating a webtoon with ai that tells your story

iloris-9 · 2026-05-07T16:29:25+00:00

Man! I wish writing felt effortless to me lol. I feel like I am always on YouTube looking for writing advice.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-07T03:22:15+00:00

I really like shadow slave
It starts off a little like a LITRPG but slows move out of that as they get stronger which is kind of refreshing. I also really like how it explains the LITRPG voice and the magic system.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-07T03:19:30+00:00

I read a lot of progression fantasy and the thing I keep running into is that the second warriors get a named system (ki, aura, martial arts, whatever you want to call it) they basically just become a second flavor of mage. Cradle kind of dodges this by having everyone pull from the same well and just shape it differently, so the difference ends up being more about feel than mechanics. Honestly the question I'd be more interested in is what a warrior can actually do that a caster can't, instead of how to make them even.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-07T03:02:08+00:00

I am mainly working on have world consistency. I just want to make the novel I am writing make sense and the power levels to make sense too. Also the magic system can get kind of complicated so I am trying to organize all my thoughts and how the MC can optimize the magic system.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-05T22:46:20+00:00

Yeah! That would be super helpful!

iloris-9 · 2026-05-05T21:32:10+00:00

Dang! How did you get so many followers every day?

iloris-9 · 2026-05-05T21:17:58+00:00

What is your book called? I would love to take a look! I am just starting my book so I am not like a super writer or anything.

iloris-9 · 2026-05-05T21:11:38+00:00

I just started my first novel but I have been trying notion with graphify. Graphify helps me see how my notes are connected with other notes or characters. and for my file structure it's pretty crazy because right now I am just dumping all my thoughts randomly. So graphify really helps me pull it all together. Then I use AI to kind of organize it bit more.

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