@crystalheart781 Honestly, I doubt I'm to qualified to help lol, but some stuff that helped me was: Writing something I was passionate about and would stay motivated to write about, I also had a writing schedule on the days I would write and take a break and that helped me finish quicker, don't get discouraged if you don't get a lot of reads in the first bit, just keep going and take constructive criticism if there is any, if someone is mean don't get to hurt just try to ignore it or delete the comment, and don't be to stressed about finishing it if you lose motivation try to find the motivation and if you just can't and it's hurting your mental health then take time off, it's okay to take breaks and if anyone gets mad then they will get over it and if you have to then you can block them. It's a learning curve with certain writing styles and just do what you feel is the best for your writing, and I think lastly the most important thing at least for me was to have fun and enjoy your writing or else you won't want to do it. That's just some of the stuff I thought of, take it with a grain of salt because I am not a professional lol, I hope this was somewhat helpful