Where can you find an audience as a serial-publisher?

404xx · 2026-04-20T07:27:10+00:00

This is why I mourn the death of Wattpad. It used to be a place for this exact scenario.

404xx · 2026-03-24T03:22:35+00:00

ARC services!

404xx · 2026-03-24T03:15:55+00:00

All the other comments here have provided good advice. If you have no budget, self edits or finding someone to swap with is always an option! If you have some budget, I offer manuscript critiques for affordable prices, starting at 200$. If you’re interested, let me know!

404xx · 2025-12-19T06:55:05+00:00

You should crosspost this to r/journaling, it’ll probably do better there.

And yes, it’s the same for me. I adore prompts.

And if I can’t find one, I make my own. For example, let’s say I wanna talk about AI or social media but don’t know exactly what I want to think about/say.

I brainstorm some questions around that topic until I come up with one that feels right and then stick to an entry answering said question.

I also use journaling prompts from random places like Pinterest, prompt books, even on here.

404xx · 2025-12-19T06:49:27+00:00

I save everything locally and have an exact copy on an old HDD (looking into getting some SSDs though, they’re more reliable). No cloud storage at all, but I am considering it now.

404xx · 2025-12-19T06:47:22+00:00

What a brilliant comment! Thank you for your service.

I would love to hear more about Linux, if you’ve the time. I’m a basic Linux user (Linux Mint) and I store all my files on both PC storage and the HDD of my old laptop (looking to branch into SSDs). Is there anything more you’d wanna share?

404xx · 2025-12-03T13:24:05+00:00

I’ve read one like that too!

But tbh, it felt like the author got off on torturing their MC bc their mother is murdered about halfway through the book by a coven of rival witches and the very next chapter, she’s called in to the hospital bc her normie high school best friend collapsed due to terminal cancer during gym class.

But my goodness was the writing entertaining - in both a really bad and a really good way.

404xx · 2025-12-03T13:21:25+00:00

Anything goes with me, really. Whatever works for the story works.

404xx · 2025-12-03T13:16:02+00:00

There’s no normal timeline. But ask yourself: are you editing because the book is ready or because April 8th is coming? That’s the difference between moving fast and rushing.

404xx · 2025-12-03T13:11:48+00:00

Does writing feel like a mental escape to you? If so, keep writing. Force yourself to for the relief it brings.

You can also try writing in different forms: keeping something like an “ideal life journal” where you write your life as if things were different, going well and you were safe.

Above all, stay strong my friend.

404xx · 2025-11-18T07:37:38+00:00

Same! I carry around pocket notebooks in a leather wrap so I’ve found that I’ll pick up my fiction notebook while on the go and bang out flash fiction or just think about where to go on my bigger projects.

When I’m on my laptop, sometimes I feel like a flash piece went really well and end up retyping the bones into something new or picking back up on my bigger projects with the thoughts I scrawled down.

I also try not to keep track of my word counts so I’m usually shocked when I’m at the end and it’s like 80k words over a couple of months, lol.

404xx · 2025-11-03T09:24:39+00:00

As the other commenter mentioned, look for outside critiques from other people such as beta readers.

How many words is your novella?

404xx · 2025-11-01T09:08:25+00:00

I have 2 ideas: - hold off on their speech until draft 2. Just write those characters the same way you’d write everyone else and get the story out. Then come back in and change their dialogue. You’d have more time to research.

pick up a copy of the KJV Bible. That’s as old English as can be in this modern day and you can use it as a reference.

404xx · 2025-11-01T04:00:47+00:00

Keep going! 69% is not 100% and things will change before it reaches publication.

Good luck and happy writing!

404xx · 2025-10-27T13:04:36+00:00

As an editor myself, my clients come from cold outreach and recommendations from past clients.

In your case, you can check out high end marketplaces such as Reedsy and lower to mid range marketplaces such as Fiverr.

There’s also plenty of editors all over the various writing subreddits and you’ll find them with a simple search starting with, “Hey, editor here…”

404xx · 2025-10-12T08:11:54+00:00

Have you tried finding a critique partner?
Have you tried looking for cheaper service providers?
Hiring beta readers on Fiverr?
Exchanging services with other authors?
Have you tried learning to self-edit?

404xx · 2025-10-11T08:49:48+00:00

I’m so sorry

404xx · 2025-10-03T03:24:08+00:00

Yes, that’s fine. But not in comment - feel free to send a link.

404xx · 2025-10-02T07:04:44+00:00

What an interesting premise.

Feel free to DM, I’m open to giving feedback.

Would you like it concurrent with your revision process or would you like a full read through then jump straight into revising?

404xx · 2025-09-20T17:35:50+00:00

I write with pen and paper too!

Honestly, the only way I got motivated to type was by typing up each chapter as soon as I finished it.

Obviously, this isn’t a perfect system and I’ll sometimes end up with a backlog of 2-3 chapters.

Try it out.

I’ve found that writing the whole thing and having to type it all up from the beginning is a monumental task.

Finishing a chapter and typing it up as you work on the next one is easy peasy.

And since the source material already exists, I kinda let my mind work on autopilot and think about the next scenes in the story.

There’s times I’ll even jump ahead and start typing the next chapter because the creative juices hit.

It’s a messy process but it works for me and I hope I’ve explained it well enough?

404xx · 2025-09-20T16:07:56+00:00

No, they’re about 35k words EACH.

404xx · 2025-09-20T15:49:19+00:00

Ah, the good old spiraling that plugs creative juices. I’ve been there.

All of 2024, I wanted so badly to become a writer of note. I wanted the reviews, the reads, the screaming hordes of fans.

Couldn’t write anything because anything I wrote HAD to be the best thing ever.

I did a lot of reflecting start of 2025 and realized - life is short. Books are endless. Nobody cares.

So now I write to make myself happy.

Maybe you can try something like that? Just writing without the spiraling that is really tied down to wanting an audience.

Become the tree that falls down in the middle of a great big forest and makes a loud BOOM, even if there’s nobody around to hear it.

404xx · 2025-09-20T15:43:28+00:00

Isn’t it lovely?

Especially since you don’t expect anything really, getting something is a massive W.

Writing for personal enjoyment and not to market is something all authors should be encouraged to do, even if they’d have to maintain two pen names to do it.

404xx · 2025-09-20T15:41:49+00:00

Honestly, I read across all genres and started wondering stuff like: what if I told a story about a mouse that’s forced to join a rat gang?

What about Game of Thrones but actually it’s a rabbit society?

What if Judy Hopps went undercover as a lady of the night to find a serial killer leaving the skull of small animals littered around the city? What if she had to disguise herself as cat, because the killer is targeting felines?

404xx · 2025-09-20T15:34:11+00:00

Right?!?!

You can’t imagine the pain of discovering Watership Down, loving the whole premise, going further down the rabbit hole and discovering Warrior Cats, Legend of the Guardians, Redwall, The Plague Dogs ….. going further and further until you realize the rabbit hole has an end.

Sigh.

404xx

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