To any new authors dont beg for reviews. It makes you look desperate if you want your story to gain traction just release constantly and be patient.
Also you may have to accept what your writing isnt as cool or as interesting as you thought it was
Honestly gaming is the best way to make friends. My currwnt friend group came from me being invited to a World of warships clan discord. There i met a drunk finnish dude [aka a regular finnish man] who invited me to a smite discord where i met a scottish guy me being english led to some funny...
Here's advice I'll give you. Dont care about metrics yet. You're just starting, and this is a marathon, not a sprint. Instead, keep writing and posting. People don't like reading stories until there are many chapters. Because nobody wants to read a story only to have the author drop it after 20...
1.) Not really sure about Google docs as I use the Microsoft office suite but if it works anything like office he should be able to store his chapters on the cloud and edit them through the Google equivalent of MS word
2.) If he wants to store images privately then he should be able to use...