Rise of the Wordmaster: A LitRPG Apocalypse Fantasy [STUBBING IN 3 DAYS]

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All Daphne wanted was to get lost in a good story. But then she did.

Ever since that magic fountain pen mysteriously showed up, her writing career had taken off. She had everything she ever wanted: crowds of adoring readers, fantastic sales numbers, even a flourishing relationship with the long-time love of her life, Mark.

Then, one day, she and Mark opened the door to head out for lunch — and found themselves looking out at an apocalyptic, monster-ridden landscape: the very setting of her first failed fantasy series.

As if being stuck in her own dangerous story-world weren’t bad enough, it seems the story-world has started taking over the entire “real” world. Then one of the horrific monsters Daphne created snatches Mark, carrying him off to the fortress of the evil Wordmaster.

This is Daphne’s story-world, right? She should be able to control it. She should at least understand it.

But the story has taken on a life of its own.

Now the countdown is on to reset the lines between fiction and reality.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: Anne Crews

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 308
Views: 32,515

Chapters(41 total)

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Community Reviews(6)

AT ValentineRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Quite possibly one of the best female MC LitRPG stories on RR. There’s an interesting magic system, relatable characters, and impressive worldbuilding. It is still quite early to tell for sure, but I believe this will flourish into something truly great.
Style: The story flows extremely well. Nothing feels like it’s being repeated or just an info dump. Every sentence has its place, and every paragraph has its purpose.
Story: Story is where Rise of the Wordmaster shines. Daphne, the main character, is an author who’s sucked into her own story. It feels like there’s never a wasted moment. It’s nonstop action from the moment she enters her own story. And the magic system layered on top - one that uses chains of words - is extremely well done and unique as far as I can tell.
Grammar: No mistakes so far. Looks like they either have an editor, or have a really good eye xD
Characters: Character is another part that RW does really well. Each of the characters are distinct from each other with their own motivations, goals, and actions. There aren’t wasted side characters or illogical decisions made for plot reasons. Everything makes sense. I will admit that they adapted a bit too quickly for my taste, but one is the writer and the other one an avid reader of said world, so it is perfectly believable.
Good luck mister or miss author, please keep writing (and eating) these awesome words!
ArcaniusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I am honestly surprised it doesn't have more followers, this stuff is rad.
Competent characters over their heads? Check.
Wacky yet wonderful world consumed by an apocalypse? Check.
A talking griffin? Also check.
An author stuck in her own world and wondering why did she create horrors beyond her comprehension? Triple check.
Words have power? Yupp. They are also tasty. And nutricious. I really want to nibble on an H, maybe a W, I wonder how it tastes...
TL;DR: Read it. The intro is a bit rough, but that's acceptable because this is the author's first book. And she has put a lot of effort into this world, which I would be sad that you missed due to a misbehaving chapter or two.
All in all, 9.5/10.
DracolupusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It was a fun story. Not too complex, or world changing. However, it was competently done, and did not feel stale. I did not see any egregiousness grammar mistakes at all. Over all great job.
I hope to read more books from you in the near future.
Welp, good bye.
GwargoyleRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I am 21 (?) chapters in, but I was hooked from the beginning. Daphne, the MC, is a writer of fantasy who has finally started getting the recognition (and book sales) her talent deserves. What she hasn't told anyone, however, is that she owes her new-found success to a magical fountain pen. She and her wonderfully supportive boyfriend, Mark, find themselves sucked into another world -- one that she created in the less-than-successful period which preceded the finding of the fountain pen. They learn that her post-apocalyptic world is not only real, but has fleshed itself out beyond her wildest imaginings, and that conditions are deteriorating. What choice do they have, but to try and repair the damage?
STYLE: The prose flows effortlessly, and the revelation of backstory details seems quite natural. The dialogue never seems forced, although for some reason the griffins speak formally, using "thee"s and "thou"s and other somewhat biblical conventions, but they are an ancient race, after all. The action is well-paced; there are no boring, I'll-just-skim-through-this parts, and each chapter left me racing to the next.
STORY: The story is quite engaging, and will be especially appealing to anyone who has ever pondered the power of words. I found the idea that, in this fantasy world, their power is more than metaphorical, intriguing. They can function as actual, physical weapons, and nourish the body as well as the spirit. The work is smart, often whimsical, and full of suspense. A page-turner! (Scroll-roller?)
GRAMMAR: This may very well be the only thing I've read on Royal Road that has no "edit suggestions" in the comments! NONE. No spelling mistakes, or errors in capitalization or punctuation. No confusing ambiguous subjects or objects, just everything in its place.
CHARACTERS: This is where most stories fall short -- but not this one. There are very relatively few characters to keep track of, but they have depth and dimension. They may be archetypical, but never clich
seimsiskRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Rise of The Word master is a wonderful book that inspires the imagination and reminds me of the joy of creating stories that I have felt ever since I was a child. The dream of visiting a world that you have created is enticing, and in this story, all its implications are explored via the thoughts and feelings of the main character. And yet there are misteries make me want to keep reading until they are revealed, each chapter giving only hints of the forces at play.
Maybe it's the plot, maybe it's the style, but something about this story reminds me of reading fantasy classics such as The Neverending Story, the Chronicles of Narnia, or Haroun and the Sea of Stories. This makes me feel so at home in this story that it was easy to fall in love with it even at the first chapters. The prose is familiar, the grammar is flawless (although I am a little annoyed by the griffins old timey accents), the characters are full of life, and the plot is intriguing. What more could I want from a story?
The characters in this story are also easy to love from the get go. Amelia herself is a very ordinary person who manages to have terrible impostor syndrome and low self esteem even after publishing several books, which tbh is very realistic. But that's what I love about her: she feels conflicted about everything she experiences, and through it all she is never 200% sure what the right choices are, and so she has to investigate her feelings and learn new things and grow all the time. Her boyfriend Mark is the kind of person who is born to be a fantasy hero - passionate, driven, self sacrificing, and, as a Reader, capable of loving the story even when the writer (and Wordsmith) herself can't. And when we meet the griffins - well, at first you think the Lorist will be a pompous, serious old man who knows everything, but then you learn he is actually young and rash (for a griffin) and that each griffin is very different and has their own point of view and personality even if they are nearl
SharpedgeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Don't take my rating too harshly. This story drew enough interest from me, that I actually bothered to log in and review it in the first place. The same cannot be said for any other fictions on RoyalRoad.
The Good:
1. Creative Worldbuilding: The World is a novel place. I started reading and was immediately invested in the place that the MC was thrown into. As someone who is now familiar with how samey stories are on RR, this was a pleasant surprise.
The use of words as literal objects, how they are used as weapons, etc, all felt like a breath of fresh air in comparison to the typical numbers go up/cultivation/“these are your magical affinities” stories on this website. It felt like an actual, fleshed out place, where thought had been invested into how the world fits together.
2. Characters: They feel like people, not caricatures.
3. SPaG: No glaring issues.
4. Prose: Functional.
5. Extended Metaphors/Allegories:
I enjoyed the extended metaphor of the pen, from more or less the moment it was first introduced. It's the kind of clever writing you just don't see in most stories on RoyalRoad, where most stories focus on “numbers go up OP MC.” There were some other metaphors I enjoyed as well, but that was a standout which was — in my opinion — well executed.
The Bad:
1. Exposition is ham-fisted and not handled well at all, often to the detriment of an otherwise great story idea. It reads as forced. The story begins with the core premise of the author of the world being thrown into the world. This, is fine. The problem comes from the fact that the author would be intimately familiar with their own work. They would not be explaining worldbuilding details to themselves, nor would they be relying on Mark to tell them about the world. It often felt like the MC was addressing the audience, when they really shouldn't be. I understand that the reader needs to be introduced to the world, but the way it's done doesn't work. Here are the broad strokes of "how I would rewrite the op