A Handy-dandy Guide to Writing Real Person Fiction

A few final bits of advice:

1- Write your story (and then edit it before posting -a) in another program (e.g., Microsoft Word). This is a good idea for several reasons:

(a)- You will have an easily accessible copy to read through if desired. You may need to reference past points when writing a current chapter.

(b)- Problems can happen on any platform. This platform in particular is prone to developing glitches, losing chapters, and account inaccessibility. You don't want to lose your chapter or even access to your entire story because the website on which it is posted goes haywire or goes under completely.
*Note- This website has a log-in based on accounts held elsewhere (e.g., facebook, tumblr, etc.). If you change your username on those websites, you will no longer be able to log in here. To try and regain access, just change your username on the external account you use to log in back to what it was originally.

(c)- This makes it easier if you decide to post your story on additional platforms.

2- While updating extremely frequently (multiple times a day) may put off some readers from subscribing, updating too infrequently is a much greater problem. If you update less often than about once a month (at the longest), your story will have to be absolutely riveting in order for your readers to be able to remember what is going on. Otherwise, they may have to re-read previous chapters to help them recall. Many readers are not willing to do that and will abandon your story.

3- Write for yourself. Ratings/comments/subscribers are nice, but they are very hard to come by in the current readership culture of ghost readers. Even if you are inundated with positive feedback, there is nothing quite as satisfying as knowing that you have created what you wanted to, that you were true to your artistic vision.

4- Keep writing more and more, but also keep reading more and more, especially published works that have benefited from professional editing. You will improve over time.

5- Keep your old writing to compare to. This will allow you to analyze your progress.

(a)- i have foolishly failed to do this, and now i wish i had kept my first drafts of my stories. it would be good to be able to read them and see how far i've come. -a

Notes

One last point: Keep writing. You will improve with practice. Never give up.

Thank you for reading, I hope we were helpful in some way.
-SP & a