Web Fiction General Discussion

[Rynjin]

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 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?

[Ibrinar]

Current ones an all imo worth reading:

The wandering inn, well I'm some chapters behind but will catch up sooner or later.

The zombie knight

Mother of learning (though I stopped halfway through, must catch up at some point.)

The Gods are bastards, also not quite caught up.

Harry Potter and the natural 20.

Threadbare was in webserial form originally I think so since I haven't read the last book yet it belongs to the list.

[Sapphire Guard]

Read first arc of Zombie Knight yesterday, dipping in and out of some of the others. Thanks for the list.

HP and the Natural 20 is very enjoyable.

[Ibrinar]

Reading "There is no Epic Loot here, Only Puns." now too, story where someone becomes a dungeon but she doesn't want to kill people nor does she want people to kill her monsters so she tries to build her dungeon around other things.

Takes a while to really get going but it is really quite fun once the cast expands, it has many colorful characters

[JeenLeen]

A friend recommended some web serial to me called something like The Last Adventure of Dr. ????. I forget the last part. It was about a speedster, I think named, Flicker. And it took the speedster physics rather seriously; she creates nuclear explosions with each step when rushing at full speed.

It was good, but I got bored with it. But I think more my personal tastes than anything against it itself.

There was a fantasy one that had a very 'hard science' approach to magic, like even having an article on how the invisibility magic worked by masking/moving light and the particles that let you detect magic.

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.

I'd strongly recommend reading Worm first, for anyone not familiar with the works.

[nadhim]

In a number of those cases, they were mentioning my serial too, and often talk would turn to, "Hey, are superhero serials a thing, now?" I'd stop in at that point to make suggestions as to other serials they might want to read.