Zagaroth

Oh hell no. I never liked facebook much to begin with, and started despising it several years ago. I want nothing to do with anything involving Meta.

Prose, absolutely. I can appreciate flowerful verse and such, but that does not fit my style of story telling.

Hmm, trying to decide if she's having an unusually strong adverse reaction to the drink, a coincidental event in time with a resurgence of magic (you did say it was magipunk, so I assume this means Shadowrun style and the writing fits right into that), or the start of an Isekai from a cyberpunk world into a magical one. :)

I will say I tend to prefer third-person narration while following a particular point of view closely over first-person, but it's not a make-or-break value.

Hmm, I never have general writer's block beyond being too tired/unfocused at the moment. If I have trouble with my main story, I have two side stories I am slowly developing, plus short stories set in the same world as my other stories, plus lore excerpts I can write for the world ... yeah, I always have something to write about.

I guess I have enough confidence from feedback that my writing itself is decent enough quality, so I don't suffer there. As for whether or not people like my work, well, I've got feedback there too. It's not as popular as I would like, but I know at least a decent number of people enjoy it, and I really want to tell this story anyway, so I am going to continue.

I can't say I have a story idea for it, but I can say that personally, I find the idea deeply terrifying. I am painfully aware that there is a lot in this world that I do not want to experience, and I do not find any counterbalancing thrill for any other bit of someone's life I might experience.

But for many types of gambling, I feel a negative feedback loop instead of a positive one. I can see the risks really fast.

Maybe a weekly thread for self-promos? That way those of us who have some form of self/web publish elsewhere going can promote our stories, but also avoid filling the forum with them.

Hmm, I'll take a deeper look a bit later, but I am not sure how discoverable it makes your writing. That is one advantage of RR, it centralizes most of what I want. Once my revisions of Volume 1 are complete, I am going to throw the $50 at ads on RR (gets you a month of ads) and see if I get enough new followers who join my Patreon to justify doing it again. So far I have not spent any money on discoverability.

Pen and Paper would never have worked for me, I am so glad electronic typewriters and then computers became a popular thing. Hand writing in any form cramps my hand somewhat badly, probably related to my bad hand writing and poor small motor skills (larger hand-eye coordination is fine however)

Yeah, my wife and I have a private section on my Discord server, we use it to send each other stuff and for our own reference.

I started using RR last year because a serial story posted on Reddit posted a link to his story there, and I loved it. About three months later, I started writing and posting my own story there. It's not a LitRPG so it's not as popular as some stories, but approaching 900 followers so I am doing something right. :)

Some of them have a sliver of an excuse, as from my childhood until I was at least in my late 20s, gaming was the realm of kids and geeks with no social life (according to populate opinion). And some people have trouble changing their understanding of the world after a certain point in their lives.

They probably also have a lot of other issues as that kind of mindset can affect a lot of other things, but that is the way some people are.

based on demonstrated speed, I'd recommend posting links as updates happen. You aren't writing fast enough to hold people's attention based on what you have posted.

If you were writing faster, I'd recommend using Royal Road instead, but you would be lost amongst the flood as most stories are posting 2k-ish chapters multiple times a week.

I use Libre Office, and when I paste to Royal Road, I let Grammarly offer edit suggestions in the browser. I often don't take them, but it also catches some things that are really helpful.

I like having local copies that are easy to rename the file of or backup. I do one chapter per file. If I need to write remotely, I can, and I use Discord to send files back and forth like notes for the story, plus my world has a campaign website that I use as well. this format works well in part because I'm writing a serial and posting it one chapter at a time (~2k words, sitting at over 100 chapters right now)