>>5724970It depends on what you consider gratifying, in the end. I will undeservedly rant here, but it is not aimed at you. There are many, many websites with millions readers more than /qst/, and their standards vary from /trash/ tier content to cumbersomely written autisdynamo power fantasy schlock.
None of them are easy ways to get views and feedback. But they are still almost all easier ways to get readers, provided your content aligns to their site's focus. They've been discussed to death so at the risk of bringing it up again I'll not name the questing varieties or webnovel garbage bins, to instead tackle this from a personal angle.
It's going to sound bullshit, but I believe it; writing on /qst/ is choosing Dante Must Die with a broken square button. If your goal is the gratification of having many readers or lasting writing sanity. Sanity in writing work ethic itself having a rather debatable existence for many writers aside. I've tried a variety of platforms, and bare minimally semi-competently written trash is not the norm.
By that I mean sufficient grammar, once or twice editorial passes, functioning sentence structure, that's uncommon. Maybe 20% of internet fiction in english is legible english. Obviously, I'm using legible more loosely than the history of regional + legal definitions for a roman slave.
People are just terrible writers. More so if all they've done is contained in an environment where they haven't usefully applied feedback for multiple years. What am I getting at? DMing and serials are different skills, but not so different in their demands, with shared sub-skills, audiences, and influences. What people want is largely garbage. You can provide that anywhere. What creators like our resident bloodbat want is for other people to add meaning to their own creations and see it develop, in whichever flavors have caught their monthly phantasy rhythm or resurfaced via dialogue with others.
Most free writing is editor free work, and no author is their own best editor. Some successful writers ignore their editors and include detailed sequences of river water and dysentery betwixt smut material that's written like it was idly ripped from Corruption of Champions. D/GMing at least has you collaborating with other people with the productive aim of having fun, with each other, and that adds important social filters which can make things easier, if not better.