Recent content by Ruyi

just by genre alone i almost wanna say you should do some crossposting on Royal Road. sure they're heavy into litRPG there but i think fantasy would be well-received. you have a very traditional novel writing style which is a bit "denser" than typical webnovels that are just "read on the go."...

1) “wow did I really write that line? I don’t remember this at all…” 2) yeah more or less. because I’m writing for myself when I write so it’s pretty fun. Sometimes I feel like I fall short of what I want to express, but I’m overall satisfied with what I managed to type out. 3) honestly if it’s...

in one of my current works in development, I like the MC most because I put all the traits and setup I want for my ideal MC into him at the same time I can’t advance because the ML is still stuck being stereotypical; I’m trying to come up with ways to make him unique so he doesn’t fade into the...

2-3 times but my curse is to always spot the typos AFTER I hit publish so I end up editing the chapter anyways. incredibly annoying if you crosspost to different platforms and subsequently have to update it on each site…so I think for any future stories I’ll have one primary site to upload to...

also recommend https://postimages.org/ which is purely a site for hosting images if im lazy i also just do a private post on tumblr and link to that. seems to work fine enough so far lol

Crocodile. It’s really strange—the texture is like fish and the meat is flaky, but the flavor isn’t too much different than chicken, except sweeter? I like it but my brain was so confused.

hah... a sense of responsibility for finishing what i started—which clashes horribly with a need to "make it good" so i'm stuck at a standstill and the fact that no one else will tell my story exactly the way i want it to, unless i finish writing it myself. also it just feels nice to close the...

chapter counts are meaningless to me because authors choose different wordcount lengths for each. like there was this one BG novel i remember from china that had some ridiculous number of chapters---8000? 15000? but the chapters were more bite-sized than a dollar-menu-value chicken nugget from a...

i feel like movement is part 1 of it, but you cannot disregard pacing. like HOW you write the fight scene completely dictates how it "plays out" in the reader's head. you need long sentences, short sentences, fragments, a healthy sprinkling of onomatopoeia...some internal thoughts but not too...

support backlogging 100% i used to wing it as i write, maybe just planning ahead of time etc.. as a result i haven't finished any of those stories i published except the oneshots :s_eek: while they languish in hiatus hell i'm fully (or at least 90%) writing out my next projects. don't be like...

the best way to write realistic dialogue is honestly just listen to how people talk. you don't have to include all their ums and uhhs and ahhs, but you can see where they pause and take cues from there. or read young adult fiction—people talk a lot there. or any fiction in the genre you wanna...

now waiting for you and charles and thisadamguy to ALL write pirate academy isekai so i get more cake.

i don't think i've ever had issues with chapter numbers, because i don't reference them anywhere anyways before finishing the story. are re-ordering chapters messing up some index page for you or something? i do shift a lot of things around as i write the story, but i divide chapters into named...

i think your paragraph is fine. if it's the only paragraph in the entire novel that does this though, i can see how it'd stick out. tonally i don't see an issue however, and the concept of addressing the reader is quite fun and very effective if you wanna be meta on purpose. there are books with...

kinda? seems to happen when i neglect my body too much. remember that we aren't just all brains and typewriter fingers, we've got an actual body to take care of too. sometimes you might need exercise to get the blood pumping (and more bloodflow also helps the brain!), sometimes it's because you...