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Hi Yet here.
Megaslime was a passion project because I kind of liked the Litrpg genre and wanted to try it myself. It wasn't intended to be sold as a product.
However, lately, my situation has changed. Remember the hectic release schedule? Well, long story short, I'd been sitting ducks in my parents' place for the last three years after high school; a lot of drama took place in these three years but I'll spare you. I enrolled into Uni literally this week. I actually got into the one I really wanted to go last month but couldn't afford it cause me broke. Which was why, I'm having to settle down with this one, in a city I utterly hate. Quite miserable to be honest.
I will be moving cities and I need cash. This is where Webnovel comes in. They offered me a contract on this novel. I used to write there and then stopped since their 'All your copyright are belong to us' didn't sit well with me anymore. But such is life XD. Mega Slime is doing pretty well there and signing the contract means I'll be making at least a hundred bucks. Might not be much to you, but that's a lot to me.
I think I will sign the contract and that means MegaSlime will be pulled from RR and SH or maybe it'll be left here like this with no future updates. The contractual process usually takes weeks, so for the time being I'll continue to upload here. No, I haven't signed it just yet. I plan on doing that tomorrow. It's pretty late today actually. I kind of wanted to keep this thing free but shit doesn't work out the way you want to. Feel free to rant or send me hate mails. Lately I'm only getting scam mails though.
Sorry guys; thanks for reading.
I wish you all a great day.
UPDATE!
I've decided to keep the story free and not sign the contract in favor of starting Patreon. 5 Advance chaps for 3 bucks.
After A lot of back and forth, I've decided to not sign the contract.
Let me give you my reasons.
If I publish on Wn, I'll get guaranteed promotions and the book will sell. I would get some money. But they'll have my rights and I won't be able to use the same story again, I won't be able to publish it anywhere else, ever. They will keep my copyright even after my death for 70 years.
However, even if I start now, eventually Patreon would give me the same if not more money (it'll be hella slow though) and I will keep my rights and can just give you the chapters for free.
I have written purely for money before and I know how soulless that is. That's literally the reason why my current ongoing novels arent monetized. I want to write what I like. And if I'm pressured to write just to sell, I don't think I'll be able to maintain a proper story. it'll just get boring at that point. Has happened before and I'd rather not repeat that.
Long story short, this novel will remain free and I will upload 5 advance chapters on Patreon starting next week. Support me if you can.
Updates will be 5+ chapters a week from now on. No updates on sundays or fridays (Unless I'm feeling fiesty).
Thank you for everything guys. I was really glad to have you support me. And I'm glad you guys are reading this.
Have a great day.
Thanks for what you have written so far. If anyone yells at you for this decision just block them. Yeah it sucks for the casual reader, but you owe us nothing. You don't have to justify your decisions to us, do whatever you think is best for you.
Thank you, dude.
If you had advance chapters on patron would that not give more money than that? It could probably take some months to build up to that, so maybe not. In the end, you do you.
Its a good idea and I'm of course considering it. However, would anyone join my patreon?
be very careful. from what ive heard, webnovel often makes predatory contracts
It is one actually 🥲
@Nr_Yet1208 im no lawyer but i've heard people going to other sites to publish
unfortuately i only know of one other alternative and it's meganovel. even then, im not sure if theyre any better
@Hyde2467 Having read the whole thing (the webnovel contract), they'll have all rights . Every single one, even audiobook and fanfic and movie stuff. Obviously, I'm not naive enough to think I'll get that far but they will have the rights and they can do whatever with it (they will pay me 50% supposedly though). Maybe I should just say screw it and try patreon lol.
sigh