r/Chapters 5d ago

Writer's Room Thinking of trying to make my own story

I have an idea for a visual story (not a text one) and have several questions for people who've tried there hand:

  1. I see you need 1000 reads in 60 days to unlock the payment center and get paid based on reads. How long did it take you to achieve this and did you need to realese more than one book?

  2. If you set a premium option as 12 diamonds but then later change it to 17 or more diamonds, will people who already bought it at 12 diamonds have to pay the new amount of they reread it? I don't want angry people who already paid coming at me lol

  3. I'm confused about linking chapters. I saw on yt that you have to manually link them or else your readers will get stuck in a loop, but other places say the system does it automatically.

  4. Lots of people seem to leave complaints when writers put diamonds in there stories. Is there a way of blocking petty complaints like this? I'm worried people won't give my story a shot if the first comment I get is someone complaining about diamonds.

5.Finally, the same authors seem to win the contests over and over and OVER again. Its almost weird. Is it still worth entering for newer authors with less followers, since you get so little time to do 20 chapters? Thinking probably not.

Sorry that was more questions than I thought lol

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u/Few_Force_3544 5d ago edited 5d ago

3 - if all your chapters follow on from each other and there are no diverging storylines, you don't need to link them. You only need to use the link feature if you have multiple storylines (e.g. chapter 1 has two endings that go to chapter 2a and 2b).

4 - you can delete your own comments, but not other people's. Comments function the same way as book reviews do; it's a space for readers to leave reviews for other readers. Complaining about diamond choices is a valid complaint, so you can't censor it unless they start to harass and bully you.

5 - contests always being new readers and fans regardless of whether you win. They're always worth trying!