Potato is yum

Hi. So, as you probably know, I started releasing my book a week ago. It’s been going pretty good so far. I’ve finally settled in to college so I’m going to return to writing and crap and these posts will go back to their normal ranting volumes at least until midterms or something.

So let’s just go over what went good and what went bad since we’re halfway through the two week launch window I set aside for myself.

First off, I think the critique and readers that went through these first seven chapters have helped immensely in improving the quality of the work. The first chapter had a very high click rate compared to my past two books where the first chapter was kind of just not clicked on much. I think actually trying for a few seconds on that blurb and getting that cover done really helped to sell that the book is seriously being made and not being slapped together.

I’m starting to do shout swaps on RR now and I’m fairly hopeful that this would help my story grow. I’m not really going for RS because at the end of the day this is just a hobby. I have no financial investment in the success of the story since I put all this money and time into it expecting essentially nothing. Obviously, hitting RS would be nice and all but I’m going to stay skeptical as I am a pretty horrible writer. If you look at the later chapters that went through less beta readers and such, you’ll quickly noticed repeated words, repeated phrases, and many more small oddities that reduce the experience. I’m simply a bad writer. But like… I don’t really care.

At the end of the day, people on royal road are reading this thing for free so I don’t feel the need to go back and make things perfect. In the end most people probably wouldn’t care anyway. There’s not much to say yet because the growth is supposed to be fairly slow for the first week. This next week with all the shouts and such will be when the growth really matters. We’ll see how it goes.