RE: When Regular Guys Land in Prison: Chronicle One
I certainly can't fault the writing, it's exceptional. Was it intentional to stop mid word? I can't say I've seen that before. If it was intentional, I would definitely do an introduction to the series at the beginning..actually even if you didn't mean for it to cut off I would still do a bit of an introduction to allow people to know that you plan on doing a series of shorts about real life scenarios as you told me.
And pictures are key here, it's very difficult to attract attention without them. You can actually take any downloaded photo you have and drag it straight onto the submit a story, or you can go through an image hosting site. I prefer the first method, I don't trust that a hosting site won't break down and I'll lose the pictures I've brought from there.
It's funny because when I first joined I put up a short story as my first post as well, then later found out that the etiquette was to do an introduction. People really love a very personal introduction, the more about yourself, a picture with you and a steemit logo, the more interest it attracts. I, however, did my introduction second and failed on all accounts haha!
I just put up the second episode to the only short story series I've ever written. I'm a novelist in general, have become a blogging photographer since joining steemit as well.
Welcome Ace!
Oh and, I'll wait to hear back from you before I vote, in case you did plan on adding more :)
Wow thanks for letting me know this! I just realized I deleted half the story. The whole thing is here now.
Great tip on adding a picture I will do that now.
I am going to stay tuned to your stuff I like it! Let me know what you think about the actual full article now haha.
Thanks again!
Half the story? LOL, I would say most of it wasn't there before ;) A couple things first- I should have mentioned that if you use a picture that isn't yours, you have to cite it. You're new, so hopefully no one would be a dick and flag you, but it could happen. What you do is go to the site you took it from, copy the address and paste it under the picture. In front of this put brackets and the word source like so: [source] then parentheses around the address. If you do it correctly all you should see is the word Source in blue.--example;) My story
Also I should warn you, I'm not typical of a 'veteran' of this place. By which I mean someone who has been here for a long while and has a rather high reputation. Not many would have agreed to come check out your story if you hadn't at least gone to their page and written a thoughtful comment on something of theirs first. steemit has a number of unwritten rules of etiquette, and dropping a link to someone when you don't know them is generally frowned upon. Actually, check out this article for a more in depth look at the don'ts and do's. And if you're really ambitious this article features a number of links to posts by 'veterans' dealing with this
As for your story- I enjoyed it. I would do another read through if I were you though, I caught some typos throughout. The writing is good so you don't want a few mistakes to take away from that.
Welcome aboard!
Thanks so much. As you can tell I am brand new and will take all of your advice. I appreciate it!