And now I feel depressed... · 11:56am Nov 27th, 2012
That moment when you realize that your new fics are getting progressively less views and ratings.
I posted my new story and it did get a good rating. (I'm sure many of which came from my followers and fans of my work. And I love you guys for the support) But not many read it. Maybe there aren't many CadenceXShiningArmor fans out there and that was why no one read it, or perhaps it was because it got posted at a bad time? Though it did stay up in the first page for a while.
And then I see stuff like this that was right next to my fic in posting time, in the featured box. I guess that's just the difference between 1000 followers and 200 followers. Apparently even if you get a 'not so great' rating or even if your fic is not the most highly recommended fic by people (Which is why we have the whole rating system in the first place, to determine how good the fic is to a variety of people), you can still get featured as long as you have enough people come and view your fic.
Maybe I'm just stretching myself too thin and running out of good ideas. I don't know... I really thought that I did a good job on it but I guess not. I feel like I'm second guessing all my work now. Even right now I'm staring at the first chapter of the new TwiDash fic I have getting ready to put up to my editors and I feel like I could do better.
May I present to you some quotes?
"Don't give up, or die a quitter."
"When you fail, you must move on and work to win."
"Do not falter, for when you do, darkness consumes you."
"Have hope, have faith."
Maybe I am not good in motivating people to keep going but I just want to let you know,
If you give up now, you die a quitter.
*hugs* Its ok ..... you still have great story's with good ratings on them , even that i have to wait for a new chapter but still your storys are awesome and that is what it makes so special.
Honestly not into the cadence shining stuff still was well written just wasn't into the subject matter.
Not much else i can really say about it.
You should have just stopped thinking at the more followers part, thinking makes your brain hurt.
But yeah, followers mean a lot and have a big influence on the views, an average follower will at least open the story (so +1 read) and wont downvote it (unless its something like it driving him into a giant ragequit). But the story has loads of downvotes anyway.
Aw dude, I'm sorry that this is happening to you bud
A sad Rainbow?!! NOoooOo!!!
Just remember the question from Batman, "why do we fall?"
Honestly? Should you make the feature box because you have a lot of followers? Is that really why you would want to make the feature box? I have been followed you for awhile now, and you got talent in this area of writing. Don't second guess yourself because one of your work didn't get the fame you wanted it to. All I got to say. It should be that your story was a great read for it to make the feature box, don't blame bad timing or anything else. It may sound harsh, but it's the truth. Sorry. I will gladly follow you, just don't beat yourself up over something like this.
The problem with Her Stallion is that this is the internet. It didn't involve incest, foalcon, gore, vore, or baby dragons molesting their caretakers with semi-BDSM foodplay. In other words, it was too normal. A quite good writer messaged me on tumblr saying he'd had enough of this site when over half the Featured box was clopfic earlier this week.
If it matters, Grasping Happiness and Dark Side are both on my thumbs-up gold-starred list, and your others are on the Read Later pile.
The pairing was too... How do I say this? Normal. It was a canon shipping, so there's no watching the relationship as it grows, nor is there much space for author creativity.
Clop tends to happen quickly, and it usually doesn't have much backstory to it or is simply a small part of a big story. "Her Stallion" was a slightly long oneshot with clop later into it. I don't know about you, but that doesn't equate so well in my head for being interesting.
One metric that would be useful would be time spent reading the story. I read Her Stallion straight through. I also clicked on Don't Move
read a few lines, thought "oh god why" and hit the back button. So both got a "view" from me, but that doesn't mean much.
Two things:
1: Never stop striving to better yourself. ever.
2: Quality doesn't equal popularity. This is something you need to get used to quickly (I talk to several authors suffering from the same disillusionment)
In short, be happy with the views you get, move on, and for what it's worth: Write stories YOU want to write.
I for one like your stories (Read all of them except for 'My stallion' which is on my to read list) and would hate to see you quit because of something like this.
That said, if you want to talk about your work I'd be more than happy to.
Have a nice day.
I gave it a like, cuz I know I will, I just never got around to reading it yet... sorry!
Well to be frank, Neon, BronyStories is himself a popular author with lots of people who follow his blog, read what he writes, and have been entertained by the material he offers, just as they are with you (I'm one of these, by the way). So just as people rush to look at your stuff when it appears, people rushed to see his stuff and maybe he's been at it longer and accumulated more watchers, or maybe people thought that overdriving the "Twilight can't move so people torment her" meme is really funny, or maybe it was just poor luck. Point is. don't get discouraged! You could spend over 10 years working on a story and then have people totally shrug it off in favor of the newest insanely perverted bubbling mass of filth (not that I'm bitter or anything, nope, and I'm not talking about anything I've posted on FimFiction).
Just keep trucking along. You'll be fine; people like your stuff, so keep writing it.
I did throw it in my queue, but there's quite a lot in there already...
544648 >Quality doesn't equal popularity
THIS