Recent content by winterwhereof

There's all sorts of paths to take when it comes to writing for money, true. But I think these days writing novels/web novels and using patreon and amazon is the most straightforward (and most likely) path to earning a living wage as an aspiring writer. Far less likely to be affected by AI as well

I would think commissions aren't the best way to make a living as a writer, lol. They're hard to get, especially with enough consistency to make 30k+ a year A marketable web serial + the patreon model (or even amazon) probably supports more full time authors than commissions do, by I expect a...

you can expect around 5% of followers to support you on patreon if you have a good, engaging story. that means 1000 followers = 50 patreons = ~$400/month. So 3,000 for around $1,200. Obviously these are extreme simplifications Will ads get you to 3,000 followers? Probably not even if you run...

You've seen authors run ads on a fiction that didn't hit rising stars and they saw a "drastic increase" in followers after starting a campaign months in? I've never heard of something like that. This might be a difference in perception: a big increase in followers to me is 1000s of followers...

If you want to run ads, presumably you want some level of popular success. With that in mind, the primary goal for a new author on RR is to hit rising stars, and ads are used to get you there. So you should start running ads probably around 20 to 40 days after release, and around 20 chapters...

Yes. The issue is audience. What do you expect people to say? You have run into the oldest plight of authors ever: that what they want to write isn't necessarily what people want to read.

You should observe what works and emulate. Barring that, you should take advice from those who found success themselves. Advice from random people is... not the best.

Perfectly fair to be frustrated, then. However you made an advice thread, not a vent thread, and so people are trying to give you advice when there is no advice to give.

Sounds like you're doing everything correctly then, but there just isn't a market for what you're writing. It's a reality all writers have to face eventually. It doesn't matter how perfectly you execute a story if nobody wants to read that particular story, or that particular execution...

Alright then convert it to first person, yeah? "I wasn't sure I'd make it through one more day of this. Maybe today was the day I'd get lucky and a bear would eat me." Lots of people have described general approaches for stepping into a scene. We can't give you good specific advice unless we...

It's possible you're struggling to create an engaging opening line because the scene in general isn't engaging. Is anything special happening while she's out foraging? Perhaps you should start the story at a more interesting point in your plot, some event with inherent intrigue where an opening...

The point of the patreon model which nearly all popular web novelists use is that you release constant advance chapters, so subs are always reading ahead and receiving new content. So paying for a month and canceling does nothing? Not sure what you mean The patreon model is pretty much a solved...

No, Patreon has always been prudish with their guidelines and frequently ban even smaller creators for violations, though it isn't necessarily Patreon's fault. Their major payment processors don't allow certain content, so they have to uphold those rules else they'll lose their payment...

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/08/elderly-woman-ruins-19th-century-fresco-in-restoration-attempt History repeats itself

The analogy falls apart when you're talking about writing that's been posted online, completely free for consumption, with no promises made (any assumed promises to keep it up permanently are in your head). So, what, these authors are scamming you out of your 0 cents and assumed promises? Even...