Hey, having a place to check in can keep you motivated! The publisher that handles Master Blacksmith has a Monday check in spread sheet for our weekly word counts. You’re great at keeping consistent.

Glad I could help! Not sure if mine is the common opinion, but in a gamified story I like still having the combat. I'm also currently knee deep in the Oblivion Remaster, so I'm loving skeletons and liches lol

That’s awesome! Should be a fun novel.

Btw I loved what you did with the skeletons in Book 2.

I’ll definitely be checking them out on my lunch break. I know the genre skews in favor of novels, but I love shorts because I can fit them into my schedule and not feel like I’m leaving something unfinished.

I will confess that the smut matters to me, so I’ll probably be sticking with the X rated stuff lol. Enjoying Trailer Park Elves at the moment.

No problem! It was definitely a fun concept (first litTPG I’ve read, definitely want to read more), and the smut was really good.

Looks interesting! I'm going to have to check this out today

That sounds like a good plan!

Once I finish the Master blacksmith trilogy (Books 2 and 3 need to be around 65k and 60k respectively, per publisher orders) I'm going to be writing stand alones around 50k each. I want to experiment with more wild stories, and shorter novel stand alones feel like a good way to experiment.

I get that. I have a preference for novellas, but I know the subreddit requires the book to be at least 175 pages for promo. I'd place that around 45k minimum. For reference, my book is a little over 83k and it's 352 pages.

Depends on the genre. If it’s harem, I’d say novel is probably safer. There’s more places dedicated to sharing novels in the genre than shorter works. There’s a great community on r/HaremFantasyNovels if you’re on Reddit

Thank you! I hope you enjoy it

If I’m feeling good or I have a deadline looming, I’ll add an extra sprint or two to my day. Can easily rack up over 7k words in a day on a good day via that method, but I don’t push myself like that every day.

If you’re not already doing it, the pomodoro method for focusing is a huge help for me. I shoot for at minimum one 2 hour sprint (I use immersive music videos to track my pomodoro method) which gets me around 2500 words/session, sometimes more.

That sounds awesome! Please let me know once you’ve published that. I’d love to read it.

I’m curious about yours too! Vampires are awesome but I don’t see a lot of vampire stuff these days.

The temptation to at least outline it is STRONG. It’s got overpowered demon babes and a paladin fallen from grace after betrayal. I want this book to be like a 1980s heavy metal album in book form lol