Fiction reading guide

Sorcerer — A Web-novel by J.F. Danskin

A reading guide and contents page

JF Danskin
The Fiction Writer’s Den
8 min readJun 23, 2022

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A young man reading a burning book
Image by the author using MidJourney

Dear readers: this is a guide to my complete web-novel, “Sorcerer, Level 1”. It is a fantasy gamelit web-novel, with a Dungeons & Dragons flavor! Contents page below, with all chapters listed.

What is the novel about?

It follows Alcar, a young man in a mythic fantasy city, and his dreams of becoming an adventurer. Despite an absence of any talent, he finds himself apprenticed as a sorcerer. And from there, he gets embroiled in a great many adventures, and is soon very much out of his depth…

What is a web-novel, anyway, and what is gamelit?

A web-novel is simply a novel that is published on the web. Typically, however, these are published one chapter at a time, in contrast to traditional novels which are released all at once.

Sorcerer is a gamelit novel set in the Shadow Kingdoms game world. This means that it is a fiction piece set in a game, or in game-like world. Samuel Kenneth Kauffman discusses what is meant by gamelit here. The genre is closely related to LitRPG, but a key difference is that gamelit often doesn’t include stats (or is very light on them), and characters typically…

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JF Danskin
The Fiction Writer’s Den

Writing fiction (fantasy especially) and poetry, enthusiast for creativity, collaboration, community. An Editor at the Fiction Writer's Den.