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August 24, 2019
Webfiction Statistics: Fictionpress.com
This is part of a series of posts sharing some of the research material I collected while researching my book How to Write Light Novels and Webnovels. There was a lot I found that I couldn’t fit into the book, so I thought I’d share it here. The categories listed are translations of the ones the sites use, not my own categories.
Fictionpress.com is one of the oldest English-language webfiction sites, being a sister site to Fanfiction.net, which is the oldest and largest collection of fanfict...
August 23, 2019
Webfiction Statistics: Wattpad
This is part of a series of posts sharing some of the research material I collected while researching my book How to Write Light Novels and Webnovels. There was a lot I found that I couldn’t fit into the book, so I thought I’d share it here.The categories listed are translations of the ones the sites use, not my own categories.
Toronto-based Wattpad.com is the largest English language webfiction site in the world, with over 80 million users. Those users are primarily female, with 70% of Wattp...
August 22, 2019
Webfiction Statistics: Qidian.com
This is part of a series of posts sharing some of the research material I collected while researching my book How to Write Light Novels and Webnovels. There was a lot I found that I couldn’t fit into the book, so I thought I’d share it here. The categories listed are translations of the ones the sites use, not my own categories.
Qidian.com is China’s largest webfiction portal, with tens of millions of users and a steady stream of stories being published on it. They show their data by category...
August 20, 2019
How to Write Light Novels and Webnovels
Rob’s newest book is available online! After three years of research and writing, your guide to the secrets of writing successful webfiction has arrived!
How does 7 million readers sound to you?
Not enough?
How about 70 million?
That’s how many people are reading online serial fiction on right now Wattpad, the largest English speaking webfiction site in the world. Seventy million avid readers, and Wattpad is sharing their profits with the best authors to keep their readership entertained....
July 29, 2019
Rob on YouTube
I finally completed a project I’d been meaning to do for a while – convert my various podcast episodes to YouTube videos so that a whole new audience can find them. Thanks to the amazing folks at repurpose.io, the various old episodes of Kung Fu Action Theatre and The Department of Nerdly Affairs are now available on YouTube for anyone’s listening pleasure.
The Department of Nerdly AffairsTwin StarsThe Adventures of Little GouTeam Iron AngelWarriors of Old Japan (audiobook)D-RangerEach in...
July 2, 2019
How to Write Manga
My new book is up! What started as a revision of Write! Shonen Manga turned into an almost complete re-write with lots of new material and approaches. This book now covers how to…
Write both Shonen and Shoujo manga.Master the Ki-Sho-Ten-Ketsu story structure that makes manga unique.Create epic battle manga like Naruto, My Hero Academia and One Piece.Design manga characters that your audience can’t get enough of.Grab your audience and k...June 24, 2019
J. Michael Straczynski on the secret to his writing
Yep. That’s basically it. You need to write until it’s instinctual, and that comes with a whole lot of practice. (Which he’s had, in spades!) Always keep writing!
March 31, 2019
Write! Shonen Manga is now available on Smashwords for Free!
Last summer, I began revising my book Write! Shonen Manga towards a second edition, however the more I wrote the more it turned from being a second edition into not one, but two different books! The first of these was All the Write Moves which was published last fall on Amazon, and the second one is the upcoming How to Write Manga, which will be released this summer.
How to Write Manga will be an almost a totally different book, and at first, I just removed Write! Shonen Manga from publicati...
February 10, 2019
The Rise of Webtoons
I’m not sure if many people know about this, but Webtoons.com is just starting to majorly take off. My tween tutoring students all read it, and I think it’s going to be huge in the very near future.
Here’s an artist talking about his first month’s experience on it I recommend watching…
The site is actually the English webcomic branch of Korea’s biggest web portal Naver, which is a huge company and it has real money behind it. They were smart enough to see manhwa (Korean comics) were gettin...
January 12, 2019
Writing Manga: The Three Cycle Plot
Japanese comics, or manga, are written as episodic serials- which means they’re broken down into a series of semi-self contained chapters where each episode represents a piece of a larger story but is also a smaller story on its own. This style developed because they were publishing stories in weekly magazines and never knew if the reader had read the previous chapters or not, so they tried to make each chapter as accessible as possible by making it a mini-story. This isn’t much different fr...
