Hi everyone! I'm a brand new author and after going through the forum, I have been unable to find a good way for first-time authors to interact, support each other and plug into a community where we can review each other's work and provide constructive feedback.

Since it looks like the editors for the Phenomenal Author Evolution Contest are rather busy this Christmas season, I want to test out creating this Forum Discussion thread for us to feel safe to ask each other basic questions that experienced authors may already know, and to read and support each other's writing.

If no one responds, I'll delete this discussion after awhile but I just thought it would be an interesting way to get plugged into a helpful community since we're all as new to this as each other. 😆😆😆

Hope to hear what y'all think!

    hi,

    Its great. I wonder whether we can use the same novel from first installment for second installment?

      One thing I've been looking for but have been unable to find is good targets for your webnovel statistics. If anyone can find a good forum post and send me the link, I'd appreciate it greatly.

      If you haven't been featured or recommended on the relevant pages, what's a good 'views', 'collections', 'power vote' target to have, or whether setting goals like that will just cause you to be demotivated.

      At what point do you say, screw it, there's not enough engagement in this webnovel for me to keep putting my blood, sweat and tears into it? 😅😅😅

      Just as a sample of what I'm thinking about...

      20 chapters written over 20 days (at least 1,500 words each):
      - 50,000 views
      - 200 collections (growing at average +5 every 24 hours)

      30 chapters written over 30 days...
      - Etc, etc

      Would this kind of info be useful for the rest of you?

      (By the way, here is my first chapter if anyone is interested to give feedback: https://www.webnovel.com/book/12523274806741605/33757957699194769/Goddess-of-War/Prologue-(1)---The-Father)

        Norah_Koch Yes, I believe we are supposed to use the same novel for each installment. 🙂

        So installment #1: Synopsis, Settings, Character List, etc
        Installment #2: First 3 chapters of the same novel
        Etc, etc.

            Shima_Himawari
            Hahaha, I didn’t mean 1,500 as a rule of thumb. It was just a sample of what kind of statistics it would be nice to be able to refer to.

            Although so far all my chapters have been 1,700 to 1,800 words without me planning out this length...

            I heard that some authors write between 1,500 and 3.000 words per chapter... 😱😱😱

                Join the inkstone Discord author server and you can chat with all the authors there. It's really lively there. As long as you've published through Inkstone, you can access it.

                  ArriaCross I posted the link to my novel a day ago in #novellinks as they asked but was still not added to the server so I wasn’t sure what I’d find in Discord yet...

                  Will check it out again and hope that I’m on by now... 😊👍

                      ArriaCross
                      I can't access it yet..the discord author server
                      Even though I have already put novel links there..it really upset me.

                          sometimes i find myself writing 2k words for a chapter then later i cant even come up with 500 lmao

                          Also i've written like 15-20 different starts for my novels but i still haven't released one. I'm too much of a perfectionist i guess...

                            Littleordinary It's actually an art form to be able to write stories shorter and it can be quite enjoyable. There are some people who specialise in Twitter stories where they try to capture the essence of stories and still make it interesting in very few words. 😊😊😊

                                Siterus Seems like most authors target an average of 1.8k to 2k words per chapter based on what I've been reading.

                                I'd love to read some of what you've been writing. Part of my philosophy for WN is that I can release imperfect chapters out, then refine it in future based on feedback, grammatical errors, etc.

                                Then maybe in future...I can dream about getting something published in print. 😍😍😍 50 years down the road maybe... 🤪🤪🤪

                                    AerynSun thing is i'm actually pretty confident about my grammar, but i don't think my "story" is interesting enough, or that it is so complicated that nobody will understand what the hell is going on, so i keep trashing them.

                                    been doing this for a few months now lol. Though, I plan on releasing something sooner than later this month, maybe join the competition.

                                        Siterus same here lol... even i can't understand wha i'm trying to convey T_T

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