Hey All!

I'm kicking around some ideas for a new passion project in writing, and I'm wondering if anyone on Royal Road has posted nonfiction works? Or if these are even allowed?

I did a quick one over on the rules but to be honest I didn't see anything about posting on fictions. So this is more of a curiosity question, rather than a practical one. I don't have any plans I'm posting a nonfiction, purely curious. :-)

I think they used to have a tag/category for it, but since it was hardly utilized, they did away with it.

I never considered posting non-fictions topics here or really any other platform. When I was on deviantart, I wrote a guide or two for writing because they had an entire category for guides and such. And that was it. I wouldn't want to write personal crap. Poetry or prose and neither do I want to read it. Personal stuff, to be honest fits a blog. I wouldn't mind writing an essay on a topic of some kind, but this isn't the place for that. I doubt anyone would read me ramble about how the 2008 recession has affected today's media.

I think it'd probably be allowed, but that it might struggle to gain any traction here. I've heard of writers writing memoirs in the form of fantasy novels and such before, though, and that might go down better with the RR readers!

I think it kind of depends on what kind of non-fiction. Diary? Guide? History? Religious? Instruction manual? Cook book?
I'd just have it in bold in the blurb that it's non-fiction, so no one gets confused.

I recently started posting a hybrid non-fiction which combines short stories with science lessons. It's actually done better than I expected (300+ views, 7 follows, and 4 favorites). For me it's a passion project so even though its audience is small, I'm very happy with how it's doing.

Depending on the topic, non-fiction is best reserved for another site, honestly. I write programming and statistics tutorials on Medium, which receive a much larger amount of feedback and views. Plus, if you meter your story, you can get paid.