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  1. John_Owl

    Using twitter?

    i do. it's not much additional advertising or views or... well, really anything. but it has gotten me like, 5 more reads than i was getting before i started advertising there, so that's something. i figure it takes very little time and effort. Basically, i split it up like this: SH and Wattpad...
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    If you were reborn as your novel's mc what would you do?

    well, if i assume you mean my current running story, then... well, i feel bad. dude just spent year locked in a prison simply because he just so happened to be half dragon. he finally managed to escape and find his friends who were chillin' with some other folks (they're all teens, they didn't...
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    When do you post?

    tuesday/thursday, always in mid evening local time. this seems to get me the best views. i'm a smut writer, and people seem to be more into smut when they're bedding down for the night.
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    To anyone who says smut chapters doesn't rake in more views

    it's up to you on how they're placed. my current run has 3 smut scenes. the first is the intro, using characters introduced in another series that my readers already know, conceiving the MC. the second is one of those same characters remembering a happier time shortly after escaping captivity...
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    How to push growth? Or how to hit trending?

    lol it's not a problem. like i said, it doesn't ACTUALLY show a lack of confidence. but i was a reader for years before i decided to try breaking back into the writing side of things again. and one thing i noticed was that series with paysite links tended to get more views. and a couple of...
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    To anyone who says smut chapters doesn't rake in more views

    as a smut author, i'll say yes, smut chapters gain more views. but what gets even more, specifically, is well placed smut. that is, smut that is well suited to the story, but just "i'm at a road block, so let me include a smut scene here."
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    How to push growth? Or how to hit trending?

    Trending is purposefully vague, to avoid people abusing the system. No one that i've read so far has found a way to really nail it down. Best I can recommend is spread out. I use twitter, reddit, SH and wattpad. socials help boost visibility and directs people to where you want them to read...
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    When...

    When you have two readers that routinely comment, but you routinely get 50+ reads, so you remind people to comment or vote or share, etc and they still refuse to :unsure:
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    What Keeps You Going as a Writer?

    i actually just went through a low where i wondered if there was any real reason to continue. but then i remembered that i have two fantastic readers (one here and one on my wattpad), that comment on pretty much everything i post. and that kept me going. even if i never hit it big, i'm glad to...
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    You are locked in a room with the MC of the last series you've worked on for 24 hours...

    first, He'd probably want to kill me, but if he knows how things are going to end, then he'd probably be pretty chill. He's going through a lot of crap and his parents got captured and tortured (note gore torture, but like... starved and beaten, etc), but it leads into a happy ending, and he...
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    Good chill music to write to?

    realistically, i just have a playlist of music i like on spotify. that said, if you want chill, I'd recommend Patty Gurdy or classical. If you want something a bit more in depth, i'd recommend something like Saltatio Mortis or My Darkest Days. Edit: Wanted to add, if you don't mind...
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    When is a story considered ecchi?

    smut author here, so i may not be the best source for this, but... I view it as anything with the intent to tantalize the reader without explicitly exciting them. for instance, in my current run Aise, I've got scenes intended to tease the reader, and that aren't inherently sexual in and of...
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    What was your first story you written prior to posting here.

    my first actual story was in high school. My composition teacher gave me an assignment independently from other students. It was to continue a story that i had been toying around with. It was a story of a wolf who was injured during a hunt and left for dead by his pack during an especially lean...
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    Questions from an aspiring writer

    very much agreed. My first webnovel on here is sooooo cringe, i can't even reread it, and it makes me all the more eternally grateful for the readers who stuck with me through it. that said, I will be doing a rewrite in the future. and cameos i've used of the characters are written from the...
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    Questions from an aspiring writer

    1, it really depends. I listen to music through sound cancelling headphones. when I get into a groove i can write 2-3 chapters per day (i don't measure in words per minute, as the story takes priority over how long each chapter is), but i'd guess it's somewhere around 50-60 wpm last time i...
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    Strange dreams

    i've been watching too much anime... I had a dream recently that i was the protag of a harem anime, but all the girls were Yandere. They each wanted to kill me so i wouldn't fall in love with the others, because "murdering someone is the most intimate way you can be with them". Yeah, I'm taking...
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    What is it like to post on AO3 and/or RR?

    I can't speak to RR, as none of my content was accepted there. my prior pen name was rejected for the writing not being good enough (it was rough, i admit. i took time off to better myself). this go around, it was rejected as the platform had changed, and no longer welcomes smut (they claim it's...
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    When...

    i've had the opposite experience. i post on here and Wattpad (RR rejected me. smut writers aren't welcomed there so much), and i get maybe 2-3 views and 1 comment on WP. but here on SH, i get easily 30-40 regular readers and usually 2-3 comments per chapter. i'm still small, but i'm slowly...
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    What's up with the MC always having some tragic background story? Views on this.

    If i may, a tragic backstory isn't needed. i mean, sure if your MC is already 50, then maybe they should've already suffered some. but, if we take a look at my current running story, Aise, the MC is 15. he has lived a fairly decent life so far, raised in a two parent home, good friends, and...
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    Recommendations masculine girls

    not sure if it really counts, but if you're cool with futa-on-girl, i've got a recurring side character that fits it fairly well. She's a tall, masculine futa named Kelleece. she was introduced in my One Shot story, The Dragon's Brothel - Part 2 (supposed to be a one shot originally, but it was...
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