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A couple years ago, before the site completely turned evil and uncontracted stories still had some visibility, I can really say that RR is bigger than them in traffic. So with uncontracted stories having no visibility, those are probably bots

Is it a contracted story? Uncontracted stories don't have any visibility that you'd have to ask yourself how are people finding you if you're uncontracted.

That's mine on the first. :blob_cookie: Pretty rare for me to get there because I have an old story.

Just a guess, maybe percentage change in traffic and other statistics. Like for my story, my readers are mostly binge readers, so they shelve my story when a volume is ongoing, then come back when the volume has ended. So I'm going to like chill traffic, to a burst of traffic and other stats...

Because those stuff you listed are the fantasy sold, and women should obviously be the villain in that case. Let's take Fifty Shades of Grey. It's not a correct representation of BDSM and it's actually a pretty abusive relationship and not healthy at all. BUT, it's a billion dollar movie...

This is kind of yours to answer though? The two extreme ends of the spectrum are absolute pandering to everything popular even if you don't like it, and the other is writing something no one cares for but that you love. It's your time that will be spent writing so you decide. If you want to...

Mother of Learning at 2011 is older than this. MoL is really old, even older than RoyalRoad. It's one of the earliest web novels I've read and inspired me to write during the early days of RoyalRoad. All You Need is Kill, the source light novel, was published 2004. And it's probably the oldest...

This is true. Take Fifty Shades of Grey and Twilight. More accurate perhaps to say romance fantasies. But if you'll be strict about romance genre, then male authors dominate it. But if you include Fifty Shades and Twilight, then lol those are the top sold books in history so they win.

Like you never edit anything the moment you type it?

It's a benefit. Web novel readers are extremely genre based. Just an example, I know some RR writers who don't write the "usual" genres and tropes, so naturally, they don't have many readers. Then, they tried using the mainstream ones, you know litrpg, put in isekai, rebirth whatever there. And...

So not a comment, but a review I just got on RR. Essentially the reviewer said she's giving me 3 stars for grammar and 0.5 for everything else. I'm writing a psychopath main character by the way, and she goes into a very long analysis that the main point was, in her words, "It makes her...

Go Konosuba route. Mana pool large enough to cast one strong spell a day. Should be fun to make scenes and plot the story with that. There are already a lot of stories with super regen.

Better for the normal author? RoyalRoad - Many say this is a harsh place, and yes compared to Scribblehub. But RR is pretty mellow now compared to before. Years ago, when SH still wasn't around, RR is a very, very harsh, and we writers there were fine with it. If you want to better your writing...

Can an uncontracted story even get seen there? I don't think so right? They changed it so only contracted gets pushed up.

I was saying the writers will just bend to the will of the readers. If the SH readers want ancient samurai x alien tentacle political space opera, writers will follow that if that's the demand. That's how web novel sites go. Readers dictate with their views/favorites/ratings what works will be...

It's the readers that control the site, the authors just follow. Complaints on why authors just follow the trend or do this or that should be redirected to the readers because authors who don't follow what readers want get buried. Why do stories look the same? Why is RR like that? Why is Wattpad...

^ which circles back to having majority male readers.

^ This. Men can get male turning female, not the other way around. Notice that female to male GB have mostly female fans.

If it's a fantasy world or something yeah it's fine. If you're going to compare it to real life, then that person will stick out in the crowd unless that's your intention. There are people who get white hair at a young age because of some condition, although the ones I know either leave it be...

Agree. Those high earning stories that crank out lots of content usually don't look back when they write a chapter. Me, I go back and edit a few times. But I'm now stopping myself from doing that, rereading and editing only when I'm finished.