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No, by definition. When information is presented well it is called exposition. If author goes too deep too long, then it becomes an infodump.

There is a main plotline that guides the story. It isn't always the protagonist arc and it can be multiple arcs that the book is revolving around. Cater to them, the rest could be summarised afterwards piecemeal in small blurbs. Timeskips are ubiquitous. Sleep time, Short walk from A to B...

I will give you two answers: 1. if these are the only two options available, I would expect troops to carry individual injections on themselves which they can administer personally if they consider their situation as hopeless. For example they have been already bitten and there is no rescue...

It takes me 3-4 days to develop, organise, and finalise the scenes in the chapter and all pertinent points that need to be addressed\discussed. then about 1-2 days to write down about 5k words.

If you are using quotation marks to denote speech or a dialogue, then yes they require punctuation at the end, like many previously mentioned examples above, because they are separate structures so to say. If you are using them to quote something or to highlight "a powerful phrase" that is a...

This actually a bad example in my opinion as you do have two separate sentences here and this quote should be done with a period.

Yes. I won't get better otherwise (and it gets easier with experience)

I have a few chapters with 3-4 separate POVs where each gets their own scene and usually titled by the name POV is narrated from. 100+ chapters and nearly 400k words and afaik no one complained about POV shifts. As long as your readers can quickly grasp who is who and immerse themselves into...

The first thing that pops out to me is the inconsistency of releases. Since you have the book fully written, my recommendation would be to post it every other day to maximise the reach on SH itself. A lot of story discovery on SH happens in the story finder (and trending obviously but if you...

Spite is a good motivator, honestly. I wrote my first book out of spite and people liked it.

PayPal isn't a bank and they are trying their damn best to prove everyone that they aren't a bank. Because actually being recognised as a bank would impose a ton of regulations on them, like forbid them from closing\suspending accounts at will.

I've experienced problems with chapters not showing up when I posted them during daily reset time (right after 12 AM GMT when servers are busy calculating the new trending stories) But that was probably a year ago and I've shifted my schedule a bit just in case anyway.

I have a weekly routine. I usually take a 1-2 day break after posting a chapter (that gets my juices going and usually give me time to settle on general ideas) Then I spend 2 days on setting up a more detailed plotline and the rest - writing the damn thing and do at least one edit pass. Then...

What is usually happening here is that you came up with a neat idea that you were able to describe within a chapter or two. Once the bulk of that is done your brain labels it as a "task done" and gives you "feel good" reward hormones and turns off. And then you feel dopamine crash as the...

I meant consistently. You aren't trying to hit a specific "threshold" you are competing with other stories' daily rankings. Somedays the popular stories all line up and you need some exceptional numbers to challenge the top 9. Sometimes you are lucky and the cut-off is less. However, by less I...

Any creature will look weird if your setting doesn't reflect on its presence in the world. You can write in herbivore Cthulhu herds into your setting as long as you have tentacle farmers and a robust weird meat industry to show for it. Likewise, a wolf-infested forest nearby would feel weird if...

Don't worry about trending until you can pull off 1000-1500 pageviews in a single day from a chapter(s) release. That should give you a general idea of the starting point.

The length of the chapters depends on the type of story. And the author. It is very subjective. Also, IMO, it is not recent updates that are relevant, but search results by tags that are sorted by "more recent" A popular tag and daily chapters will help quite a lot.

Maximum asshattery for corrupted savefile? Come on, everyone plays goody-two-shoes as the first run (to play the "correct" plotline) and then goes for the asshat run after. No, your protagonist isn't being chased by a corrupted villain. but a noble paladin with a two-metre stick up his ass. all...

You likely need more views for trending and you also need them to happen in a single day. So having a consistent schedule where readers expect your chapter to come out at a specific time would definitely help. Or have a very catchy picture\title\tags\synopsis that you get enough clicks from...