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Why not create a discord where authors and artists can hang out, talk, and share ideas? You’re asking authors and artists to take their work and put it under your brand, as if the lore of something you created has anything to do with their story/drawing. If authors want to share characters, they...

Who/what fed upon misery and desperation? That semicolon should be a comma. Maybe a few comma issues. Who’s the target reader? It’s kind of vague and reads as if it belongs in a college textbook. Is the information in that paragraph necessary? Can it be simplified further? I probably wouldn’t...

The point of a first person POV is your ability to see the story through the character. That includes their narration, and their thought processes. You don’t need a thought bubble. Every thing told to the reader is through the thoughts and senses of the character. Looking at the thing with...

I’ve just accepted not many people will like what I write. It could be that I’m a terrible writer, or my target audience doesn’t exist on this platform; either way, I accept I won’t gain a large following. I created a character that I wanted to survive. If I stop writing her, then she dies.

Keep writing. And when you finish writing your novel, start another one, then another, and another. Before you finish your first novel begin the next, and convince yourself you need to finish that one as well. Continue that cycle until you’re too old to write, and then use voice to text and...

Oh, that 5th volume cover is interesting. I don’t know if Volume 5 is different than the other 4, but the cover catches my attention, much more than the previous 4. Very nice.

I’m still in the process of changing mine from a 3rd person POV to first person unreliable. The writing didn’t feel as intimate as I wanted it to be. 22 year old college girl whose twin sister was murdered, fighting every day to survive the apocalypse.

The 0.5 bombs come fast and heavy there. Some are trolls, some feel it’s their moral duty to fix the skewed rating system, and some come from authors. The 0.5 bombs that are the worst are when a story creeps up on the leaderboard and people make sure to put them in their place. Nobody will ever...

I don’t think it’s possible to post a chapter without some form of error. Grammatical errors, structural errors, word choices, or consistency errors—every chapter will have something the author can improve or correct. I’ve just accepted that to be true. If someone points to a grammar issue, I...

In a little over a month you have 377 followers and 86 ratings on RR. You’re doing a lot better than most, so people clearly enjoy your story. Bad reviews happen. You’ll get bombed with 0.5’s over there as well. Just have to accept it. The person who gave you that review has only done one more...

Wha-what?

A lot has to do with the genre. If you’re writing SciFi or Fantasy, I don’t know how you can write a compelling story without having different characters. Like Discount_Blade said, most major fantasy and SciFi have multiple character POV’s. Webnovels that can be hundreds of chapters or more are...

Because we want to imagine Truck-kun offers us a way to a glorious new world. A world where we can game the system with blessings from hot goddesses, and we teach the plebs about equality and crop rotation.

I’m not an artist, but it looks really good to me. She has that “I’ll take the house, the kids, the dog, your pension, child support, and alimony” look to her. A true villain.

Malazan is universe building. If your book is set in a fantasy world with different races, magic, etc., then not only are you creating a kingdom, you’re creating a world. You’re describing a world that’s foreign to us, so you need to build it for your readers.

I add conflict. For example, my book is a psychological horror, and in my last chapter, the MC was leaving one area to get to the next where I set up the next arc. In the chapter, she needs to cross a river to arrive. She’s terrified of rivers, and the only bridge across has a large gap...

Perhaps I am misunderstanding OP’s post. They say that they’re leaving one scene and want to get to another more exciting scene. To get there, you need to build a foundation and bridge the gap. Often these become info-dump chapters that bog the story down and are a pain to write. Nobody enjoys...

OP said boring, not strenuous. If you’re writing a hard science space opera, then a chapter can be strenuous, requiring a lot of research and becoming hard to piece together. It might take you a long time, and writing it will be frustrating. The author might want to scrap it, but that doesn’t...

Pantsing a real novel isn’t flying by and ending in a wreck. It’s a loop. First draft is a bunch of ideas that lead somewhere with problems you need to resolve. Second draft requires a fair amount of editing in the early stages to fit the conclusion, and subsequent drafts clean everything up...

Every chapter needs to have something that’s at least a little exciting. If the author, who knows the story, has to slog their way through, then imagine what the reader thinks. Even if it’s not filler, the reader will gloss it over and move on. Add something small. If you’re writing a chapter...