Chapter Four: Updates and Schedules
"How often are you planning to update your fanfictions?" Ally asked Cece. "Every day," she answered. "It isn't good to update your fanfiction every day since then less people will see it in the long run," Ally told her sister. "Why not?" Cece asked.
"If you update a fanfiction, you get your story on the front page of Updated Stories. This is good, because people see it. Only if you update a story every day, you get less people seeing it. If you update the same series once a week, there's a lot of time between new Chapters, but it lets new readers find the story, and catch up on the story, while letting old readers enjoy a new chapter." "Then how do I schedule it all?" Cece wondered.
"You should choose if you want to update on Monday Wednesday and Friday or Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. Choose a series to go on the first day, one for the second day, and if you have one, one for the third day. Sunday can be used if you need it. You should also choose if you want to update every other week on the longer stories that take time to write. This way, you will know if you need to update, and more importantly, what to update."
"What should I put my schedule on?" "Well, since you're writing stories on a computer, you should put it in a Word Document called Schedule. Go onto Google Images and search up a month and a year. Choose a calendar you like, and copy and paste it into the Word Document. Make sure it's at least a Page of the document.
Now go to Insert, and click Text Box. Type an abbreviation for your story in the Text Box. You can make an abbreviation by typing the first letter of each word of the title in capital letters. Say Publish (Abbreviation) and size it to the smallest you can, while also seeing then entire Text Box. Do this for Updates by saying Update (Abbreviation) (Ch. 2) for each chapter. You'll know what to update, and what Chapter to Update. Do this for each story. Make sure to say where the Story will end."
A/N: Now that you have a Summary of your story, a proper Rating, and a planned Schedule for at least a month, you need to go over any Original Characters (OCs). That's what we'll be doing next week!