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Xenix56 t1_je1ci3t wrote

Hey, Farmer. Big fan.

Just curious how you got started. Heard Royal Road has a good set of tools to work with, so curious to see what you'd recommend for someone who recently earned unlimited free time.

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CasualfarmerBOC OP t1_je1d86j wrote

I actually got started on a forum called Questionable Questing. It was posted one chapter at a time in the thread, before being cross posted to Spacebattles.

Then somebody recommended that I post on Royal Road, so I did.

If you go on royal road, I would suggest actually going the forum route first, to get some feedback on your story and build up a backlog, and then post every day on RR until that backlog exhausts itself. That gives a bump in the numbers,. as well as asking politely your viewers to help out with a review on RR when you start posting on RR as well.

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throwthisidaway t1_je2kjgy wrote

Piggy backing off of that question, any tips on writing the actual start of a novel? Your prologue was wonderful, and it seems to be one of the most difficult areas for a novice writer to pin down.

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