I loved the idea of starting something where the story has already been going on, but the audience comes into it halfway through.
Which is called in medias res by the way.
Also maybe look into RoyalRoad, great place for getting novels get going.
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Thank you, I wasnt aware of that term, but yes, that was what I did for my first novel.
Also, I have never heard of Royal Road, but have spent the last hour looking into it. I have wanted to branch out a bit with my writing, and I think it would be a good choice.
There are some things to consider, like consistant publishing, and keeping each part within a certain word constraint while also leaving each part with a bit of a cliff hanger to make people want to revisit.
Also, because my work has been published on Hive first, I might need to clear that with them first.
Have you written on Royal Road, or are you a reader on there? What is it like?
I have dabbled in writing there, but I mostly read nowadays. But I am pretty sure you might find a much larger audience there than you would on Hive.
And you can stub the chapters, if you ever decide to commercially publish your work.
My intention is to self publish through Amazon. I have a lot of short stories/ novelettes that I am going to release as an anthology collection, to be honest, at this rate I have enough work for a few anthology books. I could set each collection on a particular world, as a way of having an ancor point between stories
I need to work on editing/ rewriting some of my stuff. What my plan is now is to get one of my novellas edited, and reworked for releasing over there and see how that goes.
Essentially, I'm going to treat everything written here as a first draft and do some major reworks, just so I'm not copy pasting over there
I would say publishing on Hive is a bit counter-productive for you then. Especially, if you want to enroll in Kindle Unlimited plans. Amazon does not like having a copy of your work that can be read for free (even if in its unedited form) and given that all things you publish live permanently on Hive, that might create a barrier.
Yeah for Kindle unlimited its not allowed, but it is allowed for standard, for Royal Road it is okay to edit and release a new edition essentially, but if I want to submit any stories to magazines I wouldnt be allowed to give them even heavily edited pieces of previous work.
I didn't know about any of this up until recently, so yeah, in a way it is counter-productive for authors to pen and publish work here on Hive, or anywhere publicly if they have the intention of trying to use that work at a later stage for unlimited kdp or magazines, or even standard (because I think I read that the work will be scanned and potential customers will be told that they can read it for free online)
I'm kind of at a crossroads now, where I need to start thinking about how I should proceed.
I can continue to write here, and publish work where I have restrictions down the line, or I can write and save my new stories for publication elsewhere, down the line.
One thing I am thinking of doing is, editing and potentially retconning elements of previous stories for release on Royal Road, and later, the standard kdp for full releases.
Then hold off on publishing any new stories, so I can submit to magazines, or save them specifically to publishing on kindle unlimited.
To be honest, even if I wanted to go for kindle unlimited, it wouldn't make much of a difference because I don't have much of a following. Royal Road, could get more eyeballs on my work, which would help a lot when I decide to publish my work in the future. Magazines would help with accolades (if I had a story accepted)
I have bought a bunch of equipment recently to start recording/ livestreaming my model-making, where I scultp aliens and creatures from the stories and talk about the lore and culture of the particular thing I'm working on. That could be a good way of building up a following too, and since I'll only be sharing lore, it wouldn't negetively affect any of the other avenues I want to go down.
As I mentioned in the post, writing regularly here on Hive has been a huge benefit, based on the sheer amount I have written. Experience is the biggest thing I have received, and I have really filled out the world-building and lore aspect of Off-World since being here. So, I'm not too sad that I have posted my work, as it has been very beneficial but I do need to start thinking stratigically moving forward