Yorth
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First of all, I'm going to preface this guide by saying that it's for new writers. It is mainly about how work your way through Scribblehub's interface with some advice on how to become popular springled here and there. If you are an experienced writer that is familiar with Scribblehub's interface, this might not be the guide for you.
Hello everyone, Shesmu here. This will be the start of a tutorial series for Scribblehub. For this tutorial, we will see how we can write our stories and submit them, which tags to use and which you shouldn’t. In the next guide, I’ll be talking about how to effectively use the in-built Scribblehub text editor, so stay tuned.
First of all, if you’re a new writer, you want to click on the create tab.
Add Series.
You’re now faced with this page.
Here you can choose the cover of your story.
It will show a window that would let you look for your image. Just go to wherever you saved your image and click on the file.
The recommended size for your picture is 250*350. If your image doesn’t match that size, you might want to crop it. For that, just google image resizer, and you’ll find a bunch of websites that you could use to do your bidding. Play around with those, and get yourself a cool ass cover.
Next would be the title. You want your title to grab attention. In most cases, that means it should be short, curt, and packs a punch. One of the best titles I ever thought of was: When I Was Old. Even though the whole story was trash, I still got props from many authors for the unique title. Think long and hard about your title, as it might be the deciding factor for your popularity.
Now comes the description. This is the synopsis of your novel. It tells the reader a couple of things. It tells him whether your story matches what he wants at that moment or not, it tells him whether your writing style is something they would enjoy, and most importantly, it tells him whether your grammar is up to par or not. I know that a lot of readers don’t care about grammar as they’re not native, but there is still a non-trivial portion of the reader-base which would mind if you had a typo every two lines. Make sure that your synopsis is clean and represent exactly what your story stands for. Whether it be the themes of your story (nobility, arrogance, god complex) or its tone (dark, light, funny, righteous…), it has to come clear in the synopsis.
For the genres, there are many different strategies you could go with. You have up to 9 genres you could choose, so choose them wisely. Many readers just scan through the stories until they find the genre they’re looking for. Whether it be LitRPG, horror or comedy, for many readers, they might check your genres before even looking at your title. Now, there are a couple of things you might want to do. Go to the main page, click on view more for the trending tab, and look around to see what the genres of the most popular books are at the time. You might want to take some inspiration from those *wink* *wink*. Why you might want to do this? It’s because of the similar stories feature. At least, as of me writing this guide, the similar stories feature still exist and work based on two factors: Genres and Tags.
Let’s take Karami92’s World Keeper for example. These are the stories featured in its similar stories tab. Believe it or not, this is a promotion. If we compare these stories to ones with similar chapter counts, the difference you’ll see would be noticeable. At least, for my story, Re: Sword Emperor, I noticed a large surge of views once I was put in The Queen’s Hound’s similar stories’ list. So, try playing around with those and choose the tags that are both popular, and descriptive of your novel. Click baiting will most likely result in a report, so please do not use tags that do not reflect your story.
For your main genre, I believe that it’s self-explanatory. Just choose the genre which best fit your story and that’s it. As of right now, I do not know whether the main genre has any effect on you being in the similar series’ list. If there is any update, I’ll edit this guide.
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Due to my inability to attach more than 10 files (aka 10 screenshots), I will post the rest of the guide in a comment. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Hello everyone, Shesmu here. This will be the start of a tutorial series for Scribblehub. For this tutorial, we will see how we can write our stories and submit them, which tags to use and which you shouldn’t. In the next guide, I’ll be talking about how to effectively use the in-built Scribblehub text editor, so stay tuned.
First of all, if you’re a new writer, you want to click on the create tab.
Add Series.
You’re now faced with this page.
Here you can choose the cover of your story.
It will show a window that would let you look for your image. Just go to wherever you saved your image and click on the file.
The recommended size for your picture is 250*350. If your image doesn’t match that size, you might want to crop it. For that, just google image resizer, and you’ll find a bunch of websites that you could use to do your bidding. Play around with those, and get yourself a cool ass cover.
Next would be the title. You want your title to grab attention. In most cases, that means it should be short, curt, and packs a punch. One of the best titles I ever thought of was: When I Was Old. Even though the whole story was trash, I still got props from many authors for the unique title. Think long and hard about your title, as it might be the deciding factor for your popularity.
Now comes the description. This is the synopsis of your novel. It tells the reader a couple of things. It tells him whether your story matches what he wants at that moment or not, it tells him whether your writing style is something they would enjoy, and most importantly, it tells him whether your grammar is up to par or not. I know that a lot of readers don’t care about grammar as they’re not native, but there is still a non-trivial portion of the reader-base which would mind if you had a typo every two lines. Make sure that your synopsis is clean and represent exactly what your story stands for. Whether it be the themes of your story (nobility, arrogance, god complex) or its tone (dark, light, funny, righteous…), it has to come clear in the synopsis.
For the genres, there are many different strategies you could go with. You have up to 9 genres you could choose, so choose them wisely. Many readers just scan through the stories until they find the genre they’re looking for. Whether it be LitRPG, horror or comedy, for many readers, they might check your genres before even looking at your title. Now, there are a couple of things you might want to do. Go to the main page, click on view more for the trending tab, and look around to see what the genres of the most popular books are at the time. You might want to take some inspiration from those *wink* *wink*. Why you might want to do this? It’s because of the similar stories feature. At least, as of me writing this guide, the similar stories feature still exist and work based on two factors: Genres and Tags.
Let’s take Karami92’s World Keeper for example. These are the stories featured in its similar stories tab. Believe it or not, this is a promotion. If we compare these stories to ones with similar chapter counts, the difference you’ll see would be noticeable. At least, for my story, Re: Sword Emperor, I noticed a large surge of views once I was put in The Queen’s Hound’s similar stories’ list. So, try playing around with those and choose the tags that are both popular, and descriptive of your novel. Click baiting will most likely result in a report, so please do not use tags that do not reflect your story.
For your main genre, I believe that it’s self-explanatory. Just choose the genre which best fit your story and that’s it. As of right now, I do not know whether the main genre has any effect on you being in the similar series’ list. If there is any update, I’ll edit this guide.
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Due to my inability to attach more than 10 files (aka 10 screenshots), I will post the rest of the guide in a comment. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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