how to acquire more readers?

scribesaga

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when i first started writing, i noticed i would get fifty to a hundred people checking my books every day. now i'm lucky if fifteen people are checking my most recent book every day. I'm guessing there's been changes to the algorithm for the sight, but i'm just wondering if there might be ways to get noticed more.
 

LesserCodex

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First, do some scouting, find your target audience and then follow them... preferably from a distance in camo so they don't see you, and when they go to sleep, log into their accounts and make them add your book.
Put some subliminal messages around the place and boom! You've got readers. And if those don't work then...
 

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Write the most generic isekai / LitRPG / cultivation shovelware. Harem and smut always helps, as does generic anime girl/edgy male MC on the cover.

Some people might suggest different release times or advertising yourself more, but I tell you, it's rubbish. It's all about burrying potential readers in generic shovelware.
 

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Purge every grammar error from your first five chapters.

Axe the prologue, unless it's an engaging action scene. Most prologues are unnecessary and are so boring as to be alienating.

Axe the currency conversion and cultivation level details unless they're actually iiiiinteresting and plot relevant. Also everything about the magical system that isn't literally plot relevant that chapter or next chapter.

Consider cheesecake/beefcake/...furrycake... cover art. *cough*. Or just cake.

Remove all the meta stuff from your intro synopsis and chapter headers. Update schedules, your personal stuff goes best in chapter footers.

Describe details of weather, geology, interior furnishings, equipment, and so on. Not exhaustingly, but most adventurers guilds and adventurers have barely any words - imagine trying to draw one while interviewing a witness. Just enough words to hint is fine.

Spend two decades working out fully-fledged dwarvish and elvish languages, write the stories in dwarvish and elvish, translate to English. Orcish is grudgingly acceptable for the tumblr/tiktok generation.
 

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Being eyecatching / different than others.



Its like Onepunch-man.
People read the ultra low quality art (doodling lvl) of the original version, because
1) Its original, no one did it
2) Its mainstream
3) Its good quality (plot)
 
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How about catfishing a reader. Its highly recommended with a clickbait cover thumbnail.

It seems serious, but I'm here just for the fun of it. Sorry if this disturbed you.
 

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Spend two decades working out fully-fledged dwarvish and elvish languages, write the stories in dwarvish and elvish, translate to English. Orcish is grudgingly acceptable for the tumblr/tiktok generation.
Tolkien? I didn't know you had a SH account!

(on a serious note, asides from the last bit, this was probably all good advice)
 
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