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The thing is - I'd be okay if my community is mostly Ranma fans and trans people. My worry is that the latter category is bigger than the Ranma bubble and I feel like I have to essentially fill up this giant balloon so I can float high enough to be seen from outside the wall. In the absence of...

That's a sober approach and I appreciate it. I know what I am doing is not healthy. I exist on interactions like a vampire. It's the primary source of dopamine in my life. And I will freely admit that I am *terrified* of writing *the end* and having the spigot turned off. And that's a lot of...

That thing about the story being broken up is one of the main reasons I'm doing the rewrite - I basically felt like I owed them a rewrite so it didn't look like just a naked grab for more readership to catch the wave of the new anime. And I've wanted to clean up some stuff anyway - stuff my...

I came in already frustrated from being denied the chance to advertise on Royal Road because it's a fanfic. I haven't meaningfully slept in a week. I was hoping for a "we're all in the same boat, here's one or two things that we tried that might marginally help" and it felt like right off the...

Really wasn't my intent to get 10 pages of misgendering and taunting, but...

My readers tell me that all the time. But now of all times, I can't - not and risk missing any wave of new readers that might come from the anime reboot.

That is definitely where I am. I had accepted that there was no hope for it to grow - that I'd hit "the bottom of the well" of a 40-year-old fandom. And then they had to go announce a reboot of the anime, and do the most dangerous thing imaginable: they gave me hope. And so now I am frantic to...

Is the misgendering *really* necessary or is that just a fun extra kick in the ribs for you?

I'm long past burnout. And I've just committed to a 900,000 word rewrite that is probably gonna get me nowhere I'm not already at because I can't seem to ask for help or advice anywhere without getting laughed out of the thread.

Oh, this thread has well established they don't care about gender. Which is why I am trying to determine if a) I really am at bottom, and b) if there is a way to drill sideways into a bigger well.

My plan is to do just this - with 11 chaps up front (the "prologue" really - in chapter 11 is where she basically decides what she is gonna try to do) and then release 3x/week from there. I am already one of the most popular *current* generation Ranma fics. But I'm chasing the historical ones...

I do. And every time I seem to peel off 1 or 2 new readers, at the expense of time it would take to drop another 4000 word chapter.

Because on fic-specific sites, there's no real option for cross-advertising, and so there you 100% ARE pigeonholed by the tags. Hence my trying to promote it on sites that allow at least an attempt to step one foot out of that box.

You know many guys named Anne?

I wrote several drafts which I didn't publish along the way. I actually did post my original draft of the first chapter from 2002 on Archive of Our Own, so everyone could see what a shit writer I was twenty years ago and how far I've come. Sure. It's been dropped on Royal Road, where it got...

Where did you find GD? I think it does most of its traction on FFN but is posted in multiple places.

I mean, excellent fics can become unpopular because they are unknown, so... Whether I am trying to achieve 5000, 5 million, or (the number I have + 1), the question of, "now how do I do it?" remains the same.

Which is why I am doing a complete relaunch, with every chapter remastered, starting this Saturday to coincide with the reboot of the canon anime, which resets the "how old is the source material" for both the fic, and the canon, to 0 days. And I'm trying to figure out how to market the second...

The most common one is called "Genma's Daughter." There's another one that's something like "ice and fire", but I keep wanting to call it "A Song of Ice and Fire" because of GOT but it's not that. The top fic on Sufficient Velocity right now is a Ranma/Destiny cross. My goal is "more." And...

Alternatively, neither of us suck and we both need better marketing tactics.