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I wonder what they think?
8 years ago
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I check every few days to see if I get any new hits or comments. No real reason to check otherwise. On the upside, my most recent fic is still gaining hits in ones-and-twoes. Its now almost matching a fic that was out for a full year. Even some of the other fics near it in my list have gotten a hit or two, which is nice!
I just wonder about those who looked. There's no comments, so I can't tell if they liked it, hated it, accidentally clicked it while searching for something else, etc. I'd like to believe they liked it enough they don't feel the need to comment, but I am a pragmatist and a cynic, so I end up thinking it was all accidental, save for perhaps the first dozen. That the only reason I got a hit was because someone was doing a tag hunt and accidentally stumbled on my fic, thinking it'd be something more their taste.
I just wonder about those who looked. There's no comments, so I can't tell if they liked it, hated it, accidentally clicked it while searching for something else, etc. I'd like to believe they liked it enough they don't feel the need to comment, but I am a pragmatist and a cynic, so I end up thinking it was all accidental, save for perhaps the first dozen. That the only reason I got a hit was because someone was doing a tag hunt and accidentally stumbled on my fic, thinking it'd be something more their taste.
I forget, is there a limit on how many keywords you can add?
I suppose I could add their job classes, since that's an important feature. I'll have to brainstorm some tags to add... to that fic and to the others as well.
Dammit, marketing is not something that writers should have to do. It's a completely different line of work and it distracts from what we're supposed to be doing!
Lately, I've been using story hooks to get people's interest. First three paragraphs to get you interested, and then by the time you're past them, you're invested in what you're reading. I've read way too many authors who start out with 10 pages of just...blather...setting up the world for the reader, or the conditions, and they just LOSE people there. Even if the story is fantastic.
I dunno. So far the best compliment I've gotten was when someone said they would like to write one of the shorts I did, but as a screenwriter. Which would be awesome, to me. Seeing one of my shorts end up as like, an animated movie or just even animatics or something would be sweet as hell, if someone wrote the screen play for it based on my stuff. XD
I think I'm just gonna keep writing scene-chapters as I picture them, until I have enough that I can ducttape them together.
Yeah, that can work. I know at times in my recent work I'll have the plot worked out but when I actually write it, it seems the sections are in the wrong order so I have to move them around but it generally seems to work.