To connect with your readers

[Squirrel]

So as the title goes, from the feedback I got for my first story- I am lacking in relating. I can't relate my readers with my story. So I went back and do some cleaning and adding. But even so, I need some tips or tricks to make my readers feel related with my story. So here I am-

Please help me out if u have the time.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

What do you mean by relating?

 

[Deleted member 58005]

Are your characters too out of the norm, or something?

 

[Squirrel]

What do you mean by relating?

I mean they said they couldn't feel connected with that world. In short 'couldn't feel it'.

Are your characters too out of the norm, or something?

It's GB. So they shouldn't act how they would before, right?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I mean they said they couldn't feel connected with that world. In short 'couldn't feel it'.

It's my first time hearing about such a thing.

 

[BenJepheneT]

suppose you can transcribe your story into braille and ship the pages out to your readers. at that point, they literally have to FEEL the story to read it.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

suppose you can transcribe your story into braille and ship the pages out to your readers. at that point, they literally have to FEEL the story to read it.

I wish I had a fraction of the shitposting talent you seem to radiate so naturally.

 

[RaizarP]

So as the title goes, from the feedback I got for my first story- I am lacking in relating. I can't relate my readers with my story. So I went back and do some cleaning and adding. But even so, I need some tips or tricks to make my readers feel related with my story. So here I am-

Please help me out if u have the time.

go crazy with them, always work

 

[Zirrboy]

I wish I had a fraction of the shitposting talent you seem to radiate so naturally.

Aside from verbal skills there is also a a great deal of disillusioned, semi-permanent despair involved.
The ability to clown on everything comes at a price I don't think anyone who has it would pay again. Being a Furry

Like a dancer spinning until they drop, this too is fueled by its creators sanity

 

[Deleted member 54065]

So as the title goes, from the feedback I got for my first story- I am lacking in relating. I can't relate my readers with my story. So I went back and do some cleaning and adding. But even so, I need some tips or tricks to make my readers feel related with my story. So here I am-

Please help me out if u have the time.

Well, most of the time, you relate to your readers first by researching about your target audience. Who's your target audience? Are they teenagers? Young adults? Demographics? Girls, or boys? These questions matter, see?

Then you have to know what makes a character like yours similar to your target audience. For example, for my work, I made my MC a Filipino working adult (25 years of age). It's not a surprise that a lot of my readers come from my own country because of this aspect.

If your target are girls, what common character traits of girls can you put in your character? Love handsome guys? Do it. Love to make themselves beautiful with make up and such? Write your character in that way.

And give your characters the usual struggles of your target audience. Develop them along those struggles logically.

That's one of the ways to relate to your audience.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Marry your readers or at least part of their family. Can't not relate if you're already related

Unless you're writing BL furry scat vore pr0n, there will always be someone that can relate to your works. There might not be that many depending on what you write (and I'm always in awe at how many cellar-dwelling incels can totally relate to those harem protagonists) but unless you're writing specifically for a certain target audience, there will always be more readers that can't/won't relate.

Now if they'd say they can't get involved in the story, that would be bad as it would mean your story didn't catch them.

But being unrelateable just means the reader can't see themselves in your works, imo.

 

[Topgun1908]

I mean they said they couldn't feel connected with that world. In short 'couldn't feel it'.

It's GB. So they shouldn't act how they would before, right?

If they couldn't feel connected with the world maybe they mean your world building sucks? That or you're trying to have your story be realistic but the events in the story are unrealistic and unlikely to actually happen in real life.

 

[Squirrel]

If they couldn't feel connected with the world maybe they mean your world building sucks? That or you're trying to have your story be realistic but the events in the story are unrealistic and unlikely to actually happen in real life.

I don't know if my world building sucks or something but I am totally sure my characters aren't doing anything unrealistic. But thanks for suggesting.

 

[BlackKnightX]

So as the title goes, from the feedback I got for my first story- I am lacking in relating. I can't relate my readers with my story. So I went back and do some cleaning and adding. But even so, I need some tips or tricks to make my readers feel related with my story. So here I am-

Please help me out if u have the time.

Relating to the character, right? If that’s so, then I think it’s pretty simple—just don’t make the main character do something readers don’t like, or do something too out of the norm and common sense.

Though, with that said, each reader has different taste; some might be able to relate to this kind of character while others might not. It’s very subjective.

The best bet would be to know your target audience beforehand and cater to them, or the easiest one—and the most popular one for most web novels—is to self-insert.

Look at yourself and see how you’ll act in certain situations, then let the character do the same.

Put it simply, to make a character relatable, they have to be similar to your readers in some way or another—the beliefs, the common sense, the sense of humor, etc, etc.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Relating to the character, right?

I mean they said they couldn't feel connected with that world. In short 'couldn't feel it'.

 

[Marunikyu]

So as the title goes, from the feedback I got for my first story- I am lacking in relating. I can't relate my readers with my story. So I went back and do some cleaning and adding. But even so, I need some tips or tricks to make my readers feel related with my story. So here I am-

Please help me out if u have the time.

I didn't bother reading your story but bro you have 3 chapters, 3.5 k words published... Seriously? That's next to nothing, nobody can relate to the void except high level cultivators. Write more, expose the world in various ways, through events, possibly through other POVs.

 

[BenJepheneT]

Aside from verbal skills there is also a a great deal of disillusioned, semi-permanent despair involved.
The ability to clown on everything comes at a price I don't think anyone who has it would pay again. Being a Furry

Like a dancer spinning until they drop, this too is fueled by its creators sanity

calm down there socrates i just like shitposting and pissing into shrimp buckets, is all

 

[Squirrel]

I didn't bother reading your story but bro you have 3 chapters, 3.5 k words published... Seriously? That's next to nothing, nobody can relate to the void except high level cultivators. Write more, expose the world in various ways, through events, possibly through other POVs.

Oh, but that is also I am saying, they gave me review based on it and before going further I am here. I got ur meaning though. Thanks

 

[Jemini]

I started trying to write a guide on writing once. Never got very far, but there's a chapter that would help with this exact issue.

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