How was your first experience with publishing here?

[FreeKey]

I would like to hear from you how was your first experience with sharing your writing. Did anyone react? How did it make you feel?
And also if you have readers, with whom you have at least some communication, how did you find your crowd?

I am new here. I've been writing for many years just for fun, because I enjoy the process.
But I have never tried to show my writing to anyone before. Creative fiction writing that is, as in short stories or novels.
I've participated in some written RPGs back in the day. And I write technical documentation professionally, stuff like user manual and helps for software. Those are read by unfortunate users who got stuck all the time and i get feedback, but usually it's about some instructions being missing or outdated, so rarely favourable and it it is what it is, which is technical, fulfilling a function, delivering information in the clearest way possible, which is a writing skill, but a rather specific one.

Recently I decided to try and show some of my creative writing here. I guess, I was hoping someone might find interesting something that I enjoyed writing.
I chose Scribble Hub because that what search revealed. I haven't been on any similar resources before. So have no idea how things work.
But idk, it feels like people have better things to do than read me scribbles Which is fair, even if a bit disappointing. I totally get it that there might be simply too much stuff to ever get noticed, and that it probably takes a lot of time to get discovered, and besides there's a wild assortment of different interests and preferences. People might honestly have zero interest. But I am just curious how it is for others here.

 

[KennyCelican]

Consistent updates is how things get noticed, really. There are ways to fine tune that, or to cheese algorithms, or manipulate readers, and some of those are less ethically questionable than others, but all of it starts with consistency.

If your writing is consistently enjoyable to read, and you put it out on a schedule, readers will find you.

As a forex, readers have found the Diary (my daily Isekai Ecchi Romance Insanity) and some have commented. Heck, over on RR one reader has started up a Diary Fanfic (an absolute crack-fic in all the best ways) that just broke a million words recently.

None of that was my first publishing experience, but it has been my most successful, and it has been awesome to hear people enjoying what I've written, engaging with it and with each other.

 

[FreeKey]

Consistent updates is how things get noticed, really. There are ways to fine tune that, or to cheese algorithms, or manipulate readers, and some of those are less ethically questionable than others, but all of it starts with consistency.

If your writing is consistently enjoyable to read, and you put it out on a schedule, readers will find you.

As a forex, readers have found the Diary (my daily Isekai Ecchi Romance Insanity) and some have commented. Heck, over on RR one reader has started up a Diary Fanfic (an absolute crack-fic in all the best ways) that just broke a million words recently.

None of that was my first publishing experience, but it has been my most successful, and it has been awesome to hear people enjoying what I've written, engaging with it and with each other.

Thank you for your answer. This sounds awesome! Like I said, never published anything just for fun before.
Professionally, I'm used to getting feedback as we do pier editing a lot. But that's very different. It's just something I do for money and that's it. My grammar might get criticised or occasionally someone gets a good laugh because of a typo. Like I actually wrote "lick the [...] button" instead of "click" once.

But here it feels SO weird waiting what people might say whenever I publish a new chapter.
I published 8 chapters and got two comments so far And I'm oscillating between "what do I even care" and "oh, wow, someone actually read this!" That's super funny. Thus I got curious how does it feel for others here.

 

[TinaMigarlo]

my case would be atypical.
I insist on writing as if creating a paperback I would have read growing up.
that's how I want it to read, that's what I aim for.
it *really* doesn't fly well overall in WebNovel land.

your writing might be more to market tastes.

but welcome.
the natives, emerge to greet you.