I need an opinion · 12:48am Dec 20th, 2020
So, it's obvious that the story's viewership has been falling for a while now and I honestly have no idea how to improve it. I've been trying to advertise it on social media, in servers, in groups, etc, and it never really seems to get any kind of improvement. The story's close to hitting 100,000 words, and still has a long way to go. For reference, based on my rough outline it's maybe a third of the way through, nearing the beginnings of the half way marker. I feel like at this point I'm just going to have people that see the word count and story status and are just going to click away, because who wants to read a long unfinished story? This is probably the only creative project I have that I'm actually super proud of and feel like I'm good at, and I feel like I just can't build up anything more than a super small audience with it. It sucks and makes me feel bad because I just feel like people don't really enjoy the story at all, and it's demotivating.
So here's the idea: Do you think it's worth finding a good spot in the current story and just ending it there, and then making a "Book 2" that picks up from there? The story would still be over 100,000 words at that point, but at least it'd have the "complete" tag.