Gaining views and active readers

[RaeSovereign]

What is the solution? I just realized that authors are tagged as rising authors when getting a high number of readers. I’m at 30 should I do to increase the number I have?

 

[BrilliantBitterBug]

What is the solution? I just realized that authors are tagged as rising authors when getting a high number of readers. I’m at 30 should I do to increase the number I have?

RNG Lowkey. I could tell you to write a good story or whatever, but that hardly matters. There are tonnes of good stories that just never get readers. The best thing you could do is have a cool cover, snappy title and decent synopsis. Then sacrifice your left lung (only lungs work) to the ScribbleHub overlords. Works 10/10 times from my experience .

 

[Kurayami]

It is not rng. People that say it are coping. See what gets popular and check if your work has any of those things. If not, then you will struggle. 500 readers is rising author. 1k readers is well-known author. 2k readers is famous author.

 

[GreenStudio]

You could try adding your story to your signature. Never know when someone might see your story in passing and be interested.

 

[RaeSovereign]

You could try adding your story to your signature. Never know when someone might see your story in passing and be interested.

My signature?

It is not rng. People that say it are coping. See what gets popular and check if your work has any of those things. If not, then you will struggle. 500 readers is rising author. 1k readers is well-known author. 2k readers is famous author.

Most of what I see getting popular is litRPG, smut, and what seems to be isekai-based stories.

 

[CanOfTuna]

My signature?

Most of what I see getting popular is litRPG, smut, and what seems to be isekai-based stories.

Signature is the thingy under your comments.

And yes, smut and whatnot is super pops on SH

 

[Eldoria]

What is the solution? I just realized that authors are tagged as rising authors when getting a high number of readers. I’m at 30 should I do to increase the number I have?

My advice... build your own branding. Write an authentic story that represents who you are. Riding a trend is tempting and a quick way to become popular, but it's also a quick way to be forgotten.

You know... LOTR didn't become popular overnight, it took years to become known and almost a century to become the ruler of the fantasy world.

But it's just my opinion, the choice is yours.

 

[MC-Stories]

Signature is the thingy under your comments.

And yes, smut and whatnot is super pops on SH

An example: (look down)

 

[GreenStudio]

Most of what I see getting popular is litRPG, smut, and what seems to be isekai-based stories.

Yeah unfortunately, if your story isn't one of those 3, then it's gonna be a steep hill to glory. If it helps you cope, then just keep telling yourself, "The higher the climb, the better the view."

 

[RaeSovereign]

Yeah unfortunately, if your story isn't one of those 3, then it's gonna be a steep hill to glory. If it helps you cope, then just keep telling yourself, "The higher the climb, the better the view."

I want to ask “what is the point”. I know if I keep going then it’ll work out, but it bothers me that it’s not good enough to be seen after fast as others have. I’m not expecting 30k views in a week, but I probably find myself hoping for more, expecting more.

Trying not to give up right now.

 

[GreenStudio]

I want to ask “what is the point”. I know if I keep going then it’ll work out, but it bothers me that it’s not good enough to be seen after fast as others have. I’m not expecting 30k views in a week, but I probably find myself hoping for more, expecting more.

Trying not to give up right now.

Believe me, man, I get where you're coming from. As an author that's currently in the same boat of writing a non-meta story, I ask myself that all the time. But at the end of the day, I remember that I didn't start writing in hopes of becoming the best thing since Jesus Christ. I started writing because there was a story I wanted to tell.

Seriously, it can be that simple.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

How to attract readers on SH | Scribble Hub Forum

We already went over this here... Otherwise, as GreenStudio said above, write for you, not for your readers.

 

[RaeSovereign]

How to attract readers on SH | Scribble Hub Forum

We already went over this here... Otherwise, as GreenStudio said above, write for you, not for your readers.

I read some of the post, and I had dropped several chapters into the book during a day after a merging. Should I delete those and start posting them one day/week at a time or just keep them up?

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

keep what you have up already. No need to change that.

 

[FRWriter]

These titles are irrelevant and nobody, especially not readers, gives a fuck if the story they are reading is written by an "author, or rising author."

Just do your thing. Good cover, decent synopsis, add to that CONSISTENT releases for at least a few months, and you will see success.

 

[Kurayami]

To the people that answered this thread, most are not admitting that you will need to compromise in some way for readers. To the OP, you asked how to get readers, correct? Consistent uploading will only take you to a certain limit of readers, and you will need to compromise in some way for more.

It is my belief that if someone is asking how to do something, we should tell the truth. If you don't want to get a lot of readers, that is also okay. Your own goals matter, too. Keep in mind that there are other writing sites with different target audiences. Trends do change, but it is very unlikely for your story to be a hidden gem that will change the landscape.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

On SH at least, it's essentially opposite day perpetually.
Most of the time, it comes down to luck, but from my observations:

Write cringe, get popular, get review/comment/rating bombed the second you do something wrong.
Write 1/2 cringe, get 1/2 popular with hefty cringe comments and review/rating bombs.
White non cringe, get fucked.
Write non cringe that is also kind of cringe, get fucked even more. suffer all the things.

Prose quality doesn't even matter.
I've seen incoherent writing, the kind where you need to re-read every couple sentences to understand what's going on, do stephen king levels of success on other sites like Web Novel or Wattpad.

 

[Makimaam]

Compromising

You can bait readers into reading what you really want to tell them by offering a very small but tempting bait (the meta), then trap them in your real vision.

 

[RaeSovereign]

To the people that answered this thread, most are not admitting that you will need to compromise in some way for readers. To the OP, you asked how to get readers, correct? Consistent uploading will only take you to a certain limit of readers, and you will need to compromise in some way for more.

It is my belief that if someone is asking how to do something, we should tell the truth. If you don't want to get a lot of readers, that is also okay. Your own goals matter, too. Keep in mind that there are other writing sites with different target audiences. Trends do change, but it is very unlikely for your story to be a hidden gem that will change the landscape.

I figured SH would be the place to post anything. It started out that way, and definitely caught some views during an intimate moment, but after that it simply stopped. I only got the substantial views, not the readers.
Is there somewhere else I could post? Another site that more open?

 

[Eldoria]

Another site that more open?

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