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I only read the first chapter, but I like it. Nice character, nice emotion, nice descriptions. Grammar was good, too. Only one line I was slightly iffy about, 'It was just another dark and rough patch'. It works, but it just feels to me like there should be a better way of saying this, although...

Basically, I started writing because for a few years, I was always thinking, 'I wish someone would write a story about X. That'd be really fun.' But nobody ever did, and after a while I kinda realised that nobody probably ever would. So I decided to write them myself.

English is my first language. It's not particularly hard for me, per se, to write in english, my main problems lie in things that I think would apply to someone in any language - accidentally writing in the wrong tense, spelling errors and the word you want to write suddenly having evacuated...

two a day? one a day? I wish. My fans wish. I get out maybe one or two chaps each month, at the moment at least. Chapter consistency and frequent chapters are definitely important, but at the same time, if you're churning out chapters at the expense of quality, it won't go well. I really don't...

Depends on characters. You could have an action scene between two very tactical characters, so the scene is as much about what they're thinking and the why they're doing what they are as what they're actually doing is. Then, of course, you could just have two dudes (or other genders) fighting...

Stupid are the many people not following this game's rules.

For me it's more that I don't like doing that sort of thing than that I do it because it works. I'm sure there are ways to get more viewers, but the basic strategy of "write and they will come" seems to work okay for me. It also helps that i'm doing this as a hobby rather than as a way of making...

...Wait, there are people on this site that are socially active? Nani!? Legit though, I don't have any social media profiles under this alias.

Uh... Generally speaking, I don't. I don't like advertising my own things, even if someone is asking for recommendations and their requirements fit my stories to to a T, because it just feels like I'm using their request for a good read to acquire more readers. I just put up the chapters, put a...

Only one other? Amateur. I'm writing 2 series, vaguely planning a third and have general ideas for my next three after that. It can be legitimately difficult to maintain enthusiasm for one story while writing another, particularly if the other is more popular. Taking a break from one will help...

I would more recommend looking at the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson, although Heroes of Olympus is also fairly good. It does it by chapter, although it doesn't always switch each chapter, from memory. I would probably say don't feel a need to switch character every chapter if that's...

Reading a lot and practice. Some things are subconscious, you might be surprised as to how much you can improve just by writing a dozen chapters. Every time I go back and edit my older chapters, they look like they were written by an idiot to me... Every time...

...Hencefork I am forcing my way into this conforksation, if I may be so forkward.

To be more specific, I think it's messages on the forum. Like, each one on a thread. Don't think spamming messages would be a good idea, though. I haven't looked but there's probably rules against spamming and the like.

look at your previous post, under your name, 'new member' title, and your joined date, and you'll see a messages count. It's that. Although, I think it might not count messages on user profiles? I think something like that was mentioned somewhere, but it might not be right. I think it's 50...

Click on your profile near the top right of this screen, under your profile pic change the custom title. It may be like NU in that you need to have reached a certain number of posts to do so.

I much rather constructive reviews, even if negative. So long as they actually have a valid point, they're great. Partially due to the more... Unusual nature of my more popular novel, I think, most of my reviews seem to be 5 star reviews that don't say much at all. They're nice, but they don't...

As people above said, not too much information. Ideally, you want to introduce some key parts of your world/story - whether that be characters, setting, etc. Just... Don't do it by going "person named xxxx always was yyyy and then III happened and now zzzz". Leave details until later. Your first...

Alright, first of all you'll need to work on your grammar and general English skills. Bad grammar can turn quite a lot of people off the novel. Just from things I've noticed, you'll want to pay attention to capitalisation at the start of sentences, spacing after a full stop, using proper tenses...

others have mentioned similar and different good points, but here's what I've found, although I've mainly done 1st person in my own stories. 1st person is good for exploring a character's emotions, thoughts, interests and other such things, while I've found that 3rd person is excellent at...