Regarding My Next Step

Hello everyone,

Last year, I started working on a text based interactive adventure novel game. I used TWINE to build the game and wrote out the story through multiple characters ,choices and branches accordingly and overall made some progress but soon enough I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of choices and  branching I had to work and write on as the story  expanded, So I decided to put a break on making the game, switch gears and try writing a full novel instead since as much as I wanted to make this impossible game it was going nowhere  but I still liked the story and the characters I wrote so wanted to see it through to the end.

As of November last year I finished writing my first military fantasy book. Which ended up to be a draft with around 211,000 words throughout 72 chapters (including the prologue and epilogue written through the first person POV of seven characters). Then I read it through again and edited it out and after cutting and adding as of now I have the second draft with around 213,000 words and the same amount of chapters plus a bunch of short stories  about the lore and worldbuilding. So right now I am just wondering  about what I should do next. I asked around and from the advices I got it burned down to either go ahead and put it out in amazon without thinking much or try putting it in Royal Road chapter by chapter and build a fanbase and eventually try out self publishing.

My goal is to publish the story and continue the series while expanding the world and eventually make at least one game one day when I feel I am ready to handle it but for now, what's my best option.

Thanks in advance.