u/AdeptnessWeak606 — reddlx

These are the kinds of reviews that keep you going.

https://preview.redd.it/cjmzk4aygjuh1.png?width=1164&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ec5f8bf7f8f706d6e22a901bfc795a2d045e4c7

Let's be honest: climbing the ranks on a platform like Royal Road is tedious, and in many cases pretty exhausting work. There are people who leave bad ratings just to drag down a story's average, sometimes without even reading it, and they never tell you why they rated it the way they did. You just have to accept it and keep going. Then there's the mass trading of swaps and 5-star reviews. And yes, it happens, and even if RR says it's allowed... you realize something's off when, ten chapters in, a story has 30 writers giving it 5 stars, and somehow all of them fail to notice it was written with AI.

As a writer, I decided to go without swaps or shoutouts, so growing has been harder. I understand those who do it, but to me it's cheating the reader. So when comments like this come in, it's satisfying. You know something genuinely resonated with the reader, something real. And that you have to keep going.

Thanks to Glorya, wherever she may be.

What experience gave you that same feeling?

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/182687/sons-of-the-abyss/chapter/3726183/prologue

Author: Asdrubal Vargas

COVER ARTIST: Asdrubal Vargas (me)
AI USAGE: No AI used

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u/AdeptnessWeak606 — 6 days ago

▲ 27 r/zombies

HOWL OF DEATH: Thoughts on these illustrations?

I began publishing my zombie novel on Royal Road, so it's freely accessible. For now I'm not sharing the link here, I just want opinions on the illustrations. Should I introduce all the characters, or just focus on posting images of zombies and maps?

u/AdeptnessWeak606 — 2 months ago

▲ 33 r/litrpg

Sons of the abyss

Sons of the Abyss is a classic LitRPG with elements of dungeons, stats, human reality, economy, politics, and adventure.

I'm not here to tell you that my novel is unique and the best in the genre — you, as a reader, will be the one to rate it. What I am here to tell you is what kind of story you won't find.

You won't find a super-powerful protagonist from level 1 who always knows what to do and never makes mistakes.
You won't find a story where nobody dies.
You won't find a story that's comfortable all the time, where despite the disaster there's still time to crack 7 jokes.
You won't find inconsistencies like: "I had 2 free hours, so that night I made 200 bombs and stuffed them in my pocket." Yeah, you know which book I'm talking about.

Sons of the Abyss is about a boy who arrives with no memories in a world full of creatures, with a huge abyss that's a dungeon spread across floors. The whole economy revolves around the abyss and what's pulled out of it — the politics too... Though at first our protagonist won't see any of that. He's worried about surviving with no money, no knowledge, no job, and no exceptional skills.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/182687/sons-of-the-abyss/chapter/3726183/prologue

COVER ARTIST: Asdrubal Vargas (me)
AI USAGE: No AI used

Author: Asdrubal Vargas
A story created between 2017 and 2018, so it was made without any AI — right now I'm just in the process of editing and proofreading. It's 6 books, and I'd like to change the ending (in the first version I rushed the story because I didn't have time to dedicate to it).

u/AdeptnessWeak606 — 2 months ago