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I KNOWWWW!!! The first time I saw someone mention the em-dash thing I was very surprisedpikachuface.jpeg I cut my teeth on a lot of Tumblr Golden Era fanfics growing up and you didn’t DARE upload a fic in the 2010s without at least one pretentious and kind of pointless parenthetical

AWWWWW THAT'S SO SWEET, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! :blob_melt:

I do understand this, but it also makes me a bit sad. Many AI models were trained on the voices of prominent tradpub authors, who certainly do use more experimental syntax than the average webnovelist. I grew up reading this way, and now I *write* this way, and I always imagine at least a...

It’s an amateur webfiction site, so people reworking their own stuff is pretty common! I do think if you want to change something you should probably do it before you gain any real traction, but try not to get into the habit of making major alterations often once you really get going; it sort of...

Yeah that really is the perfect summary LMAO

Hi! This post is going to be a repository of all the advice I’ve scrounged together for new authors posting on ScribbleHub for the first time (that isn’t just “have a nice cover and post consistently”, haha). Quite a few folks come through the forums looking for advice on getting more readers...

Also worth considering: creating a more collectivist culture! Hostile environments don’t just drive people to pillage and conflict; they also push them to cooperate.

Not necessarily! Some people just have private profiles, but those folks usually aren’t commenting or DMing you. In my (limited) experience, bots and scammers target new authors and new stories more frequently but generally don’t bother with older stories. I’ve had a grand total of zero bot...

That’s wonderful! Congratulations!!!

1. I posted my first novel years and years ago on Wattpad, and I actually ended up meeting a bunch of lovely people that way (including my best friend, actually! We've been friends for around a decade now) even though the novel is long dead! 2. Oh, absolutely LOL. I used to get so nervous about...

Setting aside grammatical issues and overall poor writing, I can usually tell whether or not I’m going to like a novel in the first chapter.

Oh, that's so awesome! Congratulations!!!!

Oooh, that’s interesting to hear and makes perfect sense, thank you! Aggghhh, I know what you mean; interpreting the silent majority is challenging. I tend to think of my reader base as, like, people whose names I recognize. Not necessarily ones who favorite or comment all the time, but if I...

I’ve seen a few posts now from people wondering how long it takes before your story starts to gain traction, so I thought I’d ask: if you have a reader base, no matter how small, how long did it take you to develop it?

Unfortunately, I’m someone who’s hugely motivated by external feedback, haha. Without any outside pressure to put words to paper, I can (and have!) let my ideas marinate for YEARS. This isn’t exclusive to writing; I’m notorious for needing a deadline to get any work done. Sooo… I post my stuff...