My first story **Library of Void** [**https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/113946/library-of-void-litrpg-kingdom-building-space**](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/113946/library-of-void-litrpg-kingdom-building-space) is currently on *Rising Star.* I am really happy as it is my first story. I am reading webnovel since 2019 but recently inspired by brother write a story... Why? Well, I think after seeing my addiction for webnovel. And that's the reason I started writing.

Now on first the question... ***what I did to raise to RS*****?**

Nothing...lie... I did something but not according to the guides. Initially, I just wrote the story and uploaded it. At the time I uploaded my first 20 chapter *I didn't even know about shout outs*... But after knowing shout out... my story did became Visible. So, yes I didn't follow the launching rules. 

*But did I regret launching like this?* **Yes,** absolutely... If I had known then I would have asked for shout outs before launching if possible. So that my story could be visible to more readers.

Is **Shout Out** helps in gaining followers?

You will not believe me but after knowing the shout out system... I had literally sent messages to top 50 of Rising Stars who are same genre as me. I thought there will be no response... But no, I got the response from two persons. One from Dominic R author of **MAGE STEEL** [https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/110709/mage-steel-a-western-sci-fi-cultivation-series](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/110709/mage-steel-a-western-sci-fi-cultivation-series) and also from Serastrem also author on RR (runs mentor program here's the launching guidline from him [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xi5ATLyGnvSeYOGkRdbmcg7MS1A2THTzHGfmXg6pThA/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xi5ATLyGnvSeYOGkRdbmcg7MS1A2THTzHGfmXg6pThA/edit?usp=sharing) and you can also join the mentor program if you want. From joining his discord server I was able to access the major servers of the writers.

Now, on the importance of shout out... Yes for new wrtiters absolutely it is one of the path available for you to reach wider audience. I tried shout out from large following base authors (1k+) but very few had recent dates available then I had reached to authors who have new launch or have more than 100 followers... So in anyway you should try for shout out.

Did I run Ad? **No...** I didn't. Will try after ending RS. 

Did I **promote** it anywhere else? I posted it on r/royalroad subreddit and also made a map for my story which I posted it on r/Fantasy. And also on r/HFY. 

There are many things more but I am a lazy person and I will not elaborate more... And there are now proper post made by u/gamelitcrit where you can find many relevant thing from launching to publishing.

You can gain more experience if you join discords and I will provide some discord servers link--

RR writer's Guild-- [https://discord.gg/GWPYMTEpvm](https://discord.gg/GWPYMTEpvm)

Immersive Ink-- [https://discord.gg/3hUAXJqjf7](https://discord.gg/3hUAXJqjf7)

I'm on Rising Star Main