Choose your own adventure books. The son of the babysitter who took care of me sometimes had a lot of books like that. He read it to me and let me have an adventure. It was super fun from what I remember and after I learned to read I was totally into those books. Probably why I like writing...
A bigger user base = more idiots. You need a thick skin to get somewhere and wade through the usual snobbish comments that you will get there after starting to post. There are a lot of self-appointed “critics” and “literature connoisseurs” there.