Rynjin
2018-10-19, 04:11 PM
For those not in the know, web fiction (or web serials) are stories released in serial format online, and usually for free. There are a lot of good stories out there and too few people reading them in my opinion.
Here's a good thread for people to share recommendations and chat about web fiction in general aside the more focused threads.
TopWebFiction (http://topwebfiction.com/) is a good place to start if you're new to the medium.
My current reading list:
A Practical Guide To Evil: Metafiction turned into a magic system and some really stellar character writing. My top serial right now, and one I look forward to reading the instant any new chapter comes out.
The Gods Are Bastards: Apparently finished, but I'm just now catching up on it. Great series if you can manage to push past the god awful, no good, very bad first 10 chapters or so. DD Webb is lucky I'm so bored all the time. Gets consistently better over time, and has some amazingly memorable characters.
Mother of Learning: Great writing, good characters, and an intriguing plot that keeps manifesting new mysteries to solve as soon as answers are uncovered for one. I love this serial, it'd probably be my top if it updated more often.
Ward: Obligatory Wildbow story. I enjoy it, but it's definitely the second weakest of the four he's written so far, coming in just above Pact. Everybody is horrible in this serial and I don't know who to root for. Kenzie by default? Still, it's a decent story and has the POTENTIAL to surpass Worm or Twig eventually.
Harry Potter And The Natural 20: Fluffy alt-fic where a D&D wizard is swapped into the Harry potter universe. All D&D rules still apply. Basically nerd porn, and there's little of substance here, but it's a fun and breezy ride.
What are you guys keeping up with right now?
Here's a good thread for people to share recommendations and chat about web fiction in general aside the more focused threads.
TopWebFiction (http://topwebfiction.com/) is a good place to start if you're new to the medium.
My current reading list:
A Practical Guide To Evil: Metafiction turned into a magic system and some really stellar character writing. My top serial right now, and one I look forward to reading the instant any new chapter comes out.
The Gods Are Bastards: Apparently finished, but I'm just now catching up on it. Great series if you can manage to push past the god awful, no good, very bad first 10 chapters or so. DD Webb is lucky I'm so bored all the time. Gets consistently better over time, and has some amazingly memorable characters.
Mother of Learning: Great writing, good characters, and an intriguing plot that keeps manifesting new mysteries to solve as soon as answers are uncovered for one. I love this serial, it'd probably be my top if it updated more often.
Ward: Obligatory Wildbow story. I enjoy it, but it's definitely the second weakest of the four he's written so far, coming in just above Pact. Everybody is horrible in this serial and I don't know who to root for. Kenzie by default? Still, it's a decent story and has the POTENTIAL to surpass Worm or Twig eventually.
Harry Potter And The Natural 20: Fluffy alt-fic where a D&D wizard is swapped into the Harry potter universe. All D&D rules still apply. Basically nerd porn, and there's little of substance here, but it's a fun and breezy ride.
What are you guys keeping up with right now?