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Well, I wrote mine as a serial from the beginning. But if I was going to convert from a book, I would probably start by seeing how large my book chapters are, and see how close they are to serial chapter size. Mind, lots of people post in the 2k-3k chapter size, but you probably do not want...

So, to slightly expand on my experiences, to help give a little bit of a guide to anyone looking to have a publisher: I've been writing my serial for 3 years (started on RR), and I approached both Moonquill and Podium with my stats and links to my stories. I got offers from both, and *then*...

Agent. Get an agent. Always get an agent. (unless going full indie, in which case there is no contract for the agent to negotiate). Also, any 'publisher' charging you money is, at best, a vanity press, which is basically a scam. Money goes from publisher to author. it *never* goes from author...

I mean, a rough genre-description of my serial could be "A slice of life de-gamified dungeon core with cultivation-lite aspects included into all forms of gaining power, with a very strong romantic B-plot" Genres are only a starting point. And someone always write the first of any genre.

Alternatively, you can do a partial re-write while continuing the story, if there are just a few things that really need fixing. I edited my chapters 1-6, yanked out 7 and replaced it with a better idea that I could connect to other things, rewrote 8 to match the changes I had done previously...

Fortunately, that's just for traditional book format. Many publishers are specializing in serial to book conversions (I should know; just signed a contract with Podium on Monday. :D ) One easy tip: you want your 'books' to be about 100K-150k long, and you want *positive* cliffhangers. i.e. no...

Most of my 'wild' species/creatures are copied within variation from various myths and common fantasy archetypes. Occasionally a variant, such as a clan of mixed oni and lycans/wolf-shifter bloodlines caused by a small clan of each being trapped together in a valley for sufficient generations to...

Yes, they were quoting a song that is just as well known, if not more so. Actually, this is the single most memed song on the internet, so it is much more well known.

While this specific scenario was not the point, I did build an answer into my setting. Yes, strong monsters do have more resistant bodies because of spiritual/magical power. But: A) This scales; low power monsters can still be taken out by standard pistols, and stronger monsters can be taken...

None of the above/mix of the above? I started with a scene in my head. I added layers to the world as I went. I developed the character's backgrounds as they talked with each other. I discovered the antagonists through those background. Defeating the final antagonists was then set as my final...

I write events from the starting point, continue to at least 2K, and then keep going until I find a natural point to pause at. The pause may continue with the same character in the next chapter, or switch to a different PoV character, depending on what seems best.

Hmm, I guess there is a point to be clarified. There are two types of Aggregator sites, and my brain was locked onto the whole sale scraping ones. Those lift the story, but not the author's notes, and do not include any links (though at least keep the author's name, from what I have seen)...

My story is already available for free, and the scraper sites don't include authors notes, so people aren't given links to Patreon or Discord or anything else. They take the story, and give nothing back. So, they are not even helping via increasing popularity, given that they do not connect to...

Painfully. The chapters that are worst for me always come out feeling awkward and I am not entirely happy with the result. But they get that job done, and I can move on. Once I am through them, I can let them rest. My wife is my editor, so she can do some clean up on it, but I also won't be...

So, webtoons.com, but for visual novels instead of graphic novels. The "choose your own adventure" setup of many visual novels does make this more complicated, but I am all for it, presuming that there are people who are going to write/create them.

No such thing. Visa and Mastercard, which are private, international companies, are threatening to stop payment processing for companies like Steam and Itchi.io if they don't take down 'porn'/'adult content'. Country is irrelevant. Oh, and because they are doing this in response to pressure...

It's been a keeping me pretty busy, but what's really crazy is that I know people who put out more than me. I put out chapters with a 2k minimum twice a week. Now, thanks to my flow improving and such, some of those chapters are 3-4k, and some of my earlier chapters have been edited to fill in...

Last I looked, I had passed 760K words written in the past 3 years. Given the number of not yet published chapters, I should have somewhere between 780k to 790k words written, and this does not include the early chapters for a few spin off titles I have prepared. So more than 800K total, if we...

You want to talk about five-man-bands? Do you have some time to watch some entertaining videos dissecting the topic? Because Red of OSP has a short list on the topic, starting with the general trope and then working on different roles.

I approve of all relevant OSP videos. :D They do great stuff.