What is the best advice for beginner authors?

[Xanderx]

Recently started uploading a story, and im wondering what’s the best advice you could give a beginner author, or someone who is using scribble hub for the first time ?

 

[Fairemont]

Dont look at the numbers.

 

[Iloveshovels]

Write and don’t get bothered by no growth. Usually by twenty chapters you see something, but that’s iffy.

Just try to improve and make something tasty.

- Keep digging.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Having a scheduled time to write with a word count goal for each writing session can be a huge help in keeping you wanting to write. No other technology in sight to distract, maybe some lofi music, snacks, and drinks to keep you at the desk, couch, or wherever you write.

 

[RavenWulfgar]

Here are the pieces of my advice. This is what worked for me.

1. Find the genre you absolutely love. If you love a certain genre, you'll stick with it.
2. Find a tabletop RPG that you can play solo that fits that game. You'll create your characters, roll dice, determine outcomes and make notes
3. Transcribe those notes that you wrote down into a story.

This approach has led to another writer wanting to join and setting his stories in a shared universe. If you'd like to join in The Nocturneverse, that's cool too. Hop in! Let's Go!

Final point: Don't be afraid of your character dying. That has to be a point of comfort you have at some point. Remember, the adversity your character faces will probably alter or kill them. That gives your character stakes and it give us as an audience someone for whom to support.

 

[CanOfTuna]

People want a fixed schedule rather than random ones

 

[Eldoria]

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[SouthernMaiden]

Be consistent.

 

[Macha]

Don't expect your first story to have many readers at the start unless you are an established authors migrating from another site bringing their audience.

Most readers here prefer to wait before a story has at least 50 chapters so they can binge read it. Number your chapters so they will know.

 

[Xanderx]

Dont look at the numbers.

Okay thanks pooks ?

Dont look at the numbers.

Write and don’t get bothered by no growth. Usually by twenty chapters you see something, but that’s iffy.

Just try to improve and make something tasty.

- Keep digging.

Okay I’ll try it

People want a fixed schedule rather than random ones

Nice book pookie

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Wow your book has so many reads

Don't expect your first story to have many readers at the start unless you are an established authors migrating from another site bringing their audience.

Most readers here prefer to wait before a story has at least 50 chapters so they can binge read it. Number your chapters so they will know.

Okay I will do that thank u

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Try to be genuinely surprised when you do get readers, rather than arrogantly frustrated that they have not yet recognized your magnificence or depressed because you just aren't connecting. Maybe you won't or maybe it will - LATER. Instant success happens so rarely it seems miraculous (and rarely lasts - my Strange Awakening went from somewhere in the 300s (i.e. just BARELY appearing) to first page ... and back off the top trending stories completely in the span of a single day, Readers tripled over the course of that day and about 1/3 of them stayed for the full (first) ride. Second ride has five chapters written and three posted IIRC but is on hiatus for a bit.

 

[MFontana]

Recently started uploading a story, and im wondering what’s the best advice you could give a beginner author, or someone who is using scribble hub for the first time ?

Beyond what's already been said (most of which I would also recommend), the best advice I can offer is this:
Write what you enjoy writing, and your readers will find you.

 

[L1aei]

I might have said this before, but I'll say it again: ask yourself why you're writing. When you understand what's driving you, you can return to that source whenever you need momentum.

 

[Envylope]

Just write. If you are curious like me, all of those other random advices will be tested with the pen, and you will come to your own conclusions with critical thinking.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

1. Have patience.
2. Write for yourself first, for your audience later.
3. If posting here, don't get bogged down with views/readers/etc., and all the numbers.
4. Focus your energy on writing better all the time. Study books and manuals if needed.
5. Write what you love, and love writing what you love.
6. Write now, edit later.
7. You don't have to write every day; write when you want to, not when you need to.
8. Writing is an art-form unlike any other, so respect it by writing your own words, not words made up from AI. Even in translations. They'll notice when you're "cheating".

 

[tiaf]

Write more. Improvement comes with practice.

 

[Wanderrae]

If you want to get good, there is only one singular thing you can do to get the ball rolling: map out one book, and then try and finish it. There is no other way to get better but to write and get something out. Finish your first book, not your first series, but a closed group of chapters that ends with the most significant arc. From there, reevaluate. Then do the next one.


You'd want to preferably write every day, zero compromises, even if it's 100 words. Writing is a muscle first and foremost. Secondly, read a lot (something I'm struggling with). The only way you'll become subjectively more aware, literate, and, well, a better writer... It's actually quite straightforward.


Read a lot.


Write a lot!

 

[BearlyAlive]

Don't think too much about stuff. Everyone starts small, and trying to be perfect from day one is a perfect recipe for disaster.