Progression fantasy · LitRPG · serials
The story comes to a fork. The readers choose the road.
povesta is a home for serialized fiction — progression fantasy and LitRPG first, every genre welcome. Authors publish chapter by chapter; at key chapters they open a vote, and readers decide where the story goes. The road not taken stays readable — a side story, not a deleted scene.
For readers
Binge a living serial
Follow stories mid-flight and vote at the fork — your vote counts once you’ve read the chapter, so the crowd that decides is the crowd that reads. Some stories bind themselves to the vote, some treat it as counsel; each says which before chapter one. When the next chapter opens down the road you chose, part of the story is yours. The main story is free, start to finish.
For writers
Write with a crew
A weekly vote turns lurkers into regulars, and your comment section into a weekly event. Tips go to you, not past you. Your rights, your readers’ emails, your earnings — yours, in writing, with the economics published for everyone to see.
The writing instrument
An editor’s eye, built into the desk
In 1928 the folklorist Vladimir Propp showed that the wonder tale — the oldest adventure story there is — runs on a fixed grammar. A warning is given, and broken. Something goes missing. The hero is tested before being given anything, fights, wins, comes home marked, and gets recognized by the mark. Every beat opens a promise to the reader, and every promise expects its answer.
Structure check reads your draft against that grammar. It writes out the story’s formal scheme, keeps a ledger of every promise you’ve opened, and flags the unpaid ones — with the place it happened and a concrete fix. An unpaid promise is how a serial loses readers; the check finds it while it is still cheap to fix. Report-only: it diagnoses and suggests. It never writes a word for you.
Every chip is a beat of the grammar — γ a warning given · δ the warning broken · a something gone missing · D–F the test and the gift · J a mark taken · H–I the fight and the win · K the answer. A red chip is a promise the story opened and hasn’t paid.
The pair ledger
Finding · load-bearing
A mark without a recognition. The brand on Arlen’s wrist is set up and forgotten. Spend it — let the warden of the ninth gate know the mark — or cut it. An unspent mark reads as a forgotten gun on the wall.
Founding promises
01Your work is yours.
Non-exclusive license only. Export everything, always.
02Your audience is yours.
Readers opt in; what they share stays yours. No walled garden.
03We never train AI on your writing.
Contractual, in the terms. Anti-scraping by default.
04Fair, published economics.
A public model contract. A 10–15% take band, no gag clauses.
05If we ever shut down, you lose nothing.
Data escrow, export guarantee, refunds.