Honestly gaming is the best way to make friends. My currwnt friend group came from me being invited to a World of warships clan discord. There i met a drunk finnish dude [aka a regular finnish man] who invited me to a smite discord where i met a scottish guy me being english led to some funny...
Here's advice I'll give you. Dont care about metrics yet. You're just starting, and this is a marathon, not a sprint. Instead, keep writing and posting. People don't like reading stories until there are many chapters. Because nobody wants to read a story only to have the author drop it after 20...
1.) Not really sure about Google docs as I use the Microsoft office suite but if it works anything like office he should be able to store his chapters on the cloud and edit them through the Google equivalent of MS word
2.) If he wants to store images privately then he should be able to use...
Honestly still pretty good you managed 3 in 3 weeks. Im full time employed. And Its hard to find time between work, life and rest to write. However I am able to write 1 chapter a week
Its okay to have an explanation too how magic works in your story. But be carefull how you reveal that information. Don't just lore dump the whole thing in a 5k word chapter. Because I guarantee people will check out half way through. Do it in digestible bits. Or have it as bonus content that...