u/Icohalliday

The Doomsday Reaver

The Doomsday Trials had one purpose: forge the ultimate warrior with the ultimate progression system.

Not one place, not one time. All of time, to fight across every age of man, from the brutal stone age to a future of demonic hordes and twenty foot mechs. But the plan failed. No-one advanced. Everyone died and the trials were forgotten.

Then Felix falls from the sky. Naked. Broken. Five hit points. Oh, and there’s a sabretooth tiger about to decorate the jungle floor with his guts. Great. Blasted to the dawn of humanity, Felix awakes in the savage past. No tutorial, the system hasn’t even been updated in centuries. But this place has rules and stats, and Felix knows how to exploit the hell out of both. Suddenly he’s doing what hasn’t been done in centuries – winning, advancing. Because the trials never needed a perfect warrior. Just an obsessive gamer.

Right, plan. First? Don’t die. Next? A working HUD. Maybe some pants 

Updates twice daily at 12 PM ET and 6 PM ET throughout May, then M-F 5x a week 

Cover by Alan Gomes 

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/165573/the-doomsday-reaver-litrpg-isekai-progression

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I LOVE litRPG, and I always wondered, how do you keep progression meaningful across a long story? Then I thought, what if the progression was the story? What if it literally spanned all of human history?

Hi everyone! I've just launched my story on RR and want to say a huge thank you to all the great advice and friends I've made. One of the first things I learned is that consistency is the name of the game, so writing fast is important. I see this quite a lot - how do I write fast, so i thought I would offer my thoughts.

1. Work your way up. Writing fiction is like cardio, painful at the start, you'll feel like you're writing through treacle, but every day it gets a little easier. i worked my way up to 5k a day 5x a week, but it started as 1500 words, then 2.5k, etc etc. If you go for gold at the start, you're going to break something
2. The first 500 words are the hardest, by far. You sit down, you procrastinate. Totally normal, push through, and the next 500 are easier, the 500 after that are easier still.
3. Writing consistently. Write 5x a week - the longer you leave it, then when you come back you'll be out of flow, you won't remember who's doing what or why, it'll take half an hour to just warm up.
4. Do not outline - this is controversial I'm sure, but as someone who has both heavily outlined and heavily not, i advise against it. Why? Because its way more fun. If you sit down to write any you know what's going to happen, its boring. If you sit down and you have a kind of vague idea and you write through - then its like a video game or a DnD campaign. You're excited to see what's going to happen next.

Of course the * of this is - have an idea of where you're going. I had in my mind the main beats of each arc so I knew vaguely where I was going.

5. be disciplined- there were days i absolutely did not want to write a single word, but i'd made myself a promise to stick to a word count and i did. if you're writing 1k a day, 3k a day stick to it.

edit - for everyone asking here's my story

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/165573/the-doomsday-reaver-litrpg-isekai-progression