@harrypotterchick869 If you want some views and advice or critiques you should go to the BerryPatchCommunity's book club. You'll have weekly duties, pretty much reading others stories and leaving comments, that sort of thing. But I think it'd be a great start to get yourself out there. Contests could help too but I can understand where you might not want to. Congrats on finishing your first story though I know how amazing that can feel ^-^ Keep it up and I hope you find it here as well as I have recently