Shōsetsuka ni Narō

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Shōsetsuka ni Narō (小説家になろう; lit. "No Matter What Happens"), known in English as "Let's Become a Novelist"^[1] and subtitled "A novel posting site for everyone" (みんなのための小説投稿サイト, Min'na no Tame no Shōsetsu Tōkō Saito), is a Japanese user-generated web novel publishing website created by Yusuke Umezaki (梅崎祐輔, Umezaki Yūsuke). It was launched on April 2, 2004. Users can upload their novels free of charge and the novels are also free to read. As of May 2021, the site hosts over 800,000 novels, has over 2,000,000 registered users and it receives over 1 billion page views per month.

Over one hundred novel series uploaded to the site have been acquired by various publishers, such as Log Horizon, serialized from 2010 before being acquired by Enterbrain in 2011, and The Irregular at Magic High School, which was serialized between 2008 and 2011 before being acquired by ASCII Media Works.

Futabasha's light novel imprint Monster Bunko was established on July 30, 2014, which exclusively publishes series that originated on Shōsetsuka ni Narō.

In May 2024, the RyokoAI project was accused of scraping the site for use in large language models. This may be illegal in Japan, where the fair use rationale used in other countries does not generally apply.