u/AloisiusJGrandville

I went from gaining like 10 a day to only gaining 1-3. I fell off three genre lists and now I'm like...maybe 15 chapters from wrapping up the first book, but I hit a wall of "nobody cares, why bother".

If you guys have any mental gymnastics I could try to get myself to open word and finish this thing up. I'd probably draw the line at demonic summoning rituals, unless it's one of those sexy ones that's all like "I'll help you but first you have to help ME" and I'm like "Oh, no! Isn't there another way?!" and she's like "Sorry, it's literally the ONLY way I can help" and I'm like "Well, I guess if it's the only way...."

ahem.

Sorry. Got a little sidetracked there. Anyway, if you guys can help a brother out with some tips to regain motivation for a story that's floundering, that would be great.

PS - Link, because people usually ask for them at some point: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/158167/moxie-the-ironic-fate-of-rockland-hall-formerly

What's the dumbest thing you've ever said? I'm not talking about mundane idiocy, here. What's the absolute most dunderheaded, completely imbecilic phrase you've ever uttered? Got it? Are you reliving the moment? Sorry about that.

Now imagine that you unknowingly said that stupid thing to The System...and The System said "Bet." Now you're stuck in a new world, reincarnated with the dumbest thing you ever said turned into a literal subclass. Good luck.

Link: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/158167/oedipus-protocol-so-i-was-given-the-dumbest-possible

Rocky Hall has just had the worst day of his life; a cascade of petty catastrophes that ended with him screaming the dumbest, crudest insult imaginable at a Brooklyn construction worker. It wasn't clever. It wasn't brave. It was just the last thing he ever said before he died.

Then he woke up in a fantasy world governed by a System that talks like a guy from Queens and holds grudges like one, too. His class? Infiltrator. His hidden subclass? Built entirely around those five stupid words he screamed on the worst day of his life. Every quest, every ability, every impossibly awkward encounter traces back to an insult he can never take back.

Now Rocky has to find a way to survive in a world full of monsters, aliens, and gods...and the only thing standing between him and permanent death is a class designed to humiliate him. 

Oedipus Protocol: For everyone who's ever said something ridiculous and had to live with the consequences.

Note: Before you ask: no, he doesn't bang his own mom. His rivals' moms? Definitely on the table. The title is a joke that went too far, just like everything else in this story. Oedipus Protocol is an on-going action-adventure LitRPG webseries.

New chapters released daily M-F. What to expect from my story: comedy, progression, found family, slice of life, competing love interests, multiple lovers, dungeon crawling and kingdom building.

What's the dumbest thing you've ever said? I'm not talking about mundane idiocy, here. What's the absolute most dunderheaded, completely imbecilic phrase you've ever uttered? Got it? Are you reliving the moment? Sorry about that.

Now imagine that you said that stupid thing to The System...and The System said "Bet." Now you're stuck in a new world, reincarnated with the dumbest thing you ever said turned into a literal subclass. Good luck.

Link: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/158167/oedipus-protocol-so-i-was-given-the-dumbest-possible

Rocky Hall has just had the worst day of his life; a cascade of petty catastrophes that ended with him screaming the dumbest, crudest insult imaginable at a Brooklyn construction worker. It wasn't clever. It wasn't brave. It was just the last thing he ever said before he died.

Then he woke up in a fantasy world governed by a System that talks like a guy from Queens and holds grudges like one, too. His class? Infiltrator. His hidden subclass? Built entirely around those five stupid words he screamed on the worst day of his life. Every quest, every ability, every impossibly awkward encounter traces back to an insult he can never take back.

Now Rocky has to find a way to survive in a world full of monsters, aliens, and gods...and the only thing standing between him and permanent death is a class designed to humiliate him. 

Oedipus Protocol: For everyone who's ever said something ridiculous and had to live with the consequences.

Note: Before you ask: no, he doesn't bang his own mom. His rivals' moms? Definitely on the table. The title is a joke that went too far, just like everything else in this story. Oedipus Protocol is an on-going action-adventure LitRPG webseries.