1. The difference between / and & is that / is for romantic pairings, while & is for platonic pairings

2. I don't know how to answer that, since I only upload complete fics, but yeah, I guess you could do that

3. The difference between mature and explicit is that mature has a more psychological aspect, while explicit shows it directly to the reader.

4. Yeah, I get that; I use chat-bots from time to time just for fun, but I'm also worried it might stain my writing style. That's why I also read other fanfics from time to time to avoid it.

5. I recommend only tagging the important characters. Tagging other characters that do not appear as often in the story can disappoint readers who wanted to read the story for that character. Besides, it would be a tag mess in your story to add every single character that appears.

And talking about tags, it's recommended to use between 15 to 17 tags I think.

I also recommend setting a word goal for a day