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    Would you keep reading?

    This is basically a variation of the "Training Sequence" that is usually montaged in films and on television - you see the highlights and flashes of the character learning more but it doesn't drag you through the whole process. From my wife's occasional addiction to k-dramas (X Spaces have...
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    Over 200 Views But No Reviews?

    My series run from 223 views currently up to 12.8k. Total number of reviews? Zero across six stories.
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    Draft Plan For A Story #1

    At that point, it sounds like The Sacred Timeline from the Loki series on Disney+
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    Advices Needed

    Oh one thing - don't be afraid to take chances. I just signed a contract with PocketFM, and only posted there on a whim.
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    Advices Needed

    No advice is 100% guaranteed for everyone. Luck, timing and connections all play a role.
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    The Reason You Don't Have Readers: No, It Isn't How Well You Write

    Be upfront about it - people will be more forgiving if they know in advance than if they "find out the hard way"
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    One-liners

    Not at all - feel free.
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    What determines trending?

    Third base.
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    Okay, which cover is better?

    If it's a romance novel, go with the second, as that FEELS like a romance novel cover. If it's a slightly dirty fantasy story, then the first is "better."
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    One-liners

    One of the few I've got that works out of context: If I had a nickel for every time someone said that, I could pay you to just go away Edit: As an aside, the chapter that's from went up last night
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    Draft Plan For A Story #1

    A few years ago, TNT had a series called, I think The Lazarus Project. It posited that there were some people who were sensitive to changes in the timeline, and recruited them to MAKE changes in the timeline, using technological devices that, essentially, jumped them back to a "save point." It...
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    Non-underdog stories?

    Underdog was my introduction to superheroes. His movie wasn't awful but didn't live up to the cheesy glory of those short cartoons... "The secret compartment of my ring I fill With an Underdog super energy pill Without which I'll grow weaker and weaker still..."
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    What's your favourite type of MC?

    But a girl has no name.
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    Which should I do? Keep it in or make a separate?

    There is a function to link stories on the summary page. If your side story is just a chapter or two, and runs parallel with the story, insert it at the end but with chapter numbers/title showing where it belongs. If it's a longer story, then make it separate and link it via the summary page.
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    Draft Prologue Chapter Feedback Request

    The only advice I have quickly (can give more later probably) is split it where the tone shifts - at the line about That is what Honor is or something like that - that section and above feels like prologue, while the next section jumps right into what feels like story.
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    What are some general tips on how to write good original fiction?

    My successful story here is power fantasy, my (potentially) successful story on PocketFM is kind of Isekai with a system (and mostly a western but there's an arc in space so far...)
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    Draft Prologue Chapter Feedback Request

    Looks like you have a teaser and a first chapter slammed together, but the writing is very choppy at places, like sentences thrown against a wall and occasionally getting additional information to link them; feels very "stream of consciousness" - it has some potential, to be sure, but is a tough...
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    What are some general tips on how to write good original fiction?

    You're gonna hate me then... :D
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    The Reason You Don't Have Readers: No, It Isn't How Well You Write

    Run Ads = Promote your stuff. It is not exactly SELF promotion but it is promoting it. Well, not the opposite, always. It was pure luck that one of my stories hit the sweet spot on tags (and I was able to post frequently at first, enough to draw an audience at least), because I had not been...
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    What determines trending?

    Luck, talent and payola. Mostly luck,
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