As you may or may not know, I started a Wattpad account in the beginning of September for fanfics of stuff I personally like. But I don't really know if I'm even good at writing, because noone actually reads my fics. At first I thought that it's because I'm pretty new to the platform and it'll take people time to notice me, so I waited. Then I thought that maybe my fics weren't gaining traction because people get discouraged when they see a low read count, so I scrolled through my stories a couple of times and even gave them some votes to hopefully improve this. That didn't work, though, and the only interaction I got so far was with a bot commenting under one of my stories.
The issue might be that I write about stuff that isn't as popular as other topics, or maybe I'm just bad at writing, but again, I can't get feedback if noone reads the stories. I try my very best to write something worthwhile, but I often doubt myself when I see the low read count.
So I wanted to ask if there are any beginner-friendly platforms with understandable interface and so on. I looked at AO3 and I kinda got intimidated by how it looked, maybe I'm just stupid but it looked very professional to me. I also looked at Fanfiction.net, same story basically. Why do I get intimidated so easily?
Also, sorry for ranting. It probably comes off as attention-seeking, but in reality I'm just really self conscious and try to compensate with doing a lot of different stuff and getting validation, but I always get disappointed when I don't do as well as I (or others) expect of me, even though I know that not succeeding every time is completely normal. I'm a pathetic creature, what can I say.
So if anyone has any tips on what platform to use or maybe writing tips, feel free to share!