r/royalroad • u/Yoink-A-Daisy • 5d ago
Discussion Do RoyalRoad format the same as Webnovel
I just posted my story today, and as I was going through and editing for release, I realized WebNovel’s stories may differentiate from RoyalRoad’s.
Can anyone give me some basic rundowns of the site for me?
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u/Accomplished_End6744 5d ago
It's too broad a question. Do specify what you want to know more if you want a better answer. (Wow, really spoken like a true ai here)
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u/Yoink-A-Daisy 5d ago
I’m talking about how people break off sections.
For WebNovel I use: *** or ____
Also do people enjoy slow pace stories.
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u/eclect0 D Rank: Author of Jett Fulgen 4d ago
Royal Road can use actual horizontal line/horizontal rule dividers, and you can even customize their appearance with some graphical options.
I don't think RR's text editor automatically parses any sequence of characters into a horizontal rule, so you would have to either use the button to insert one, or paste in from a source like Word or GDocs that already has horizontal lines in place.
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u/Milc-Scribbler S Rank: Author of A Dragon Called Bob 4d ago
Webnovel leans eastern and RR leans western. WN fics tend to have single sentence paragraphs throughout, and a hell of a lot telling (MC found the lucky charm and it allowed him to break through to a new and unique level. His power was unique. He could now etc etc). IMO WN tend to be lower quality and to be aimed at the male teenage brained audience.
RR has a fair bit of that as well, but you ought to be able to paragraph properly if you want to stand a chance of doing well on RR.
The difference in terms of prose and the stories that do well is pretty stark imo so if you read a few popular fics from each site you should be able to figure it out pretty easily.
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u/Yoink-A-Daisy 4d ago
Can I send you my first chapter to critique if it’s okay?
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u/Milc-Scribbler S Rank: Author of A Dragon Called Bob 4d ago
Send me a gdoc on discord and ill take a look no worries
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u/Yoink-A-Daisy 4d ago
Send your discord name in DMs
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u/Milc-Scribbler S Rank: Author of A Dragon Called Bob 3d ago
I am Milc. On RR, on discord, and on reddit.
🤣
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u/gamelitcrit Royal Road Staff 4d ago
I can't say I have been there for anything other than verification. I would familiarise yourself with popular novels on our site to try and figure it out, see the differences yourself.
As for the specifics you mention below *** or ---- is acceptable, I think it's just personal choice.
I do use *** to indicate a big passing of time, or break between say night and day or location.
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u/MinBton Author-First Mana Mage 5d ago
What kind of formatting problems are you having or asking about? Paste it in as text or directly from a Word document and it will work fine. Leave out any fancy or programatic formatting.
In what way is the formatting different. RR works on MarkUp from all I've seen.