Potato is yum

It’s been 2 weeks. Shifting to a weekly post schedule now. No more daily. Link if you want to check it out but this post is just gonna go through the logistics and the results.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/117862/fool-in-space

So most of the logistics for this was to find people to do shouts with. Fortunately, this wasn’t that difficult as I had made a bunch of friends in a writing discord server over the past year. I asked around in DMs and found quite a few people who were very willing to swap shouts with me. Unfortunately, almost none of them are my genre making the shouts not as effective as they could be. But I’m an unproven author with nothing to back me up so there isn’t much to be done about this. I’m kinda just screwed.

Royal road was pretty easy to schedule chapters for. I just put them in and wrote up short notes on days that I remembered. I tracked all the shouts in a little spreadsheet that I made and had people fill out the spreadsheet for the chapter they wanted their shout on. After that it was fairly smooth sailing and the only hard work was to frantically edit chapters before releasing them. But the way I write stuff requires minimal editing as I do most of the work as I write so there really wasn’t much work to be done there.

Onto the results, the numbers aren’t that great at week 2. But that doesn’t really mean anything. Out of the shouts I got, only two of them have been out. So most of my marketing hasn’t kicked in yet. And my advertisements haven’t started up yet so I’m not really hitting any kind of growth yet.

To be honest, the story is doing much better than I expected especially with how offmeta it is. I suspect it will take at least a month or two to get any kind of sizable attention. Until then, I’ll be satisfied with 8 followers. At least I can go on any device and read my own book now. That’s enough of a win for me.