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How did you feel when you posted the first chapter of your first work? For me, it was a mix of happiness and anxiety, as time passed and my story continued to have zero views, I felt discouraged, but then I realized that I should share my story here, lol.

By the way, this is my first work, "Crossfire: Greed"; is a story with dubious humor, ranging from comedy to action fantasy and horror. If you're interested in a non-sense but deep story, I think you'll be interested.

Enjoy and share your story along with your testimony about what it was like to post a chapter for the first time!

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Nervous lol. The first chapter I posted on here was for one of Tapas competitions, and I started a month before the deadline so I was panicked about how on earth I'd meet the chapter quota on time

Nice. I was apprehensive about how often I would post because I had already written a 15-page chapter while thinking about how I would post another 15-page chapter the following week. However, I ended up having to break the chapter into three parts due to the size limitations that Tapas accepts, so now I have three weeks free to plan and write the next chapters.

That's a really good system! Three weeks is a perfect amount of time. I do weekly short strips and sometimes it's doable, sometimes I need an extra week or two :laughing:

i was honestly paranoid and scared out of my mind that nobody would read it, or if people did read it they wouldn't like it. i still get a little paranoid about the quality of my work, but seeing people actually appreciate my work really has helped. and now I'm writing 2 different stories at once.



I was nervous at first but after posting I felt really happy and proud of myself. It was like that sense of relief you get when you're finally done with something. Now I'm just excited to see where it goes.

Here's my book if you care to check it out.

I didn't care I just wanted to post :laughing: even if the art was terrible. This was back in geocities days...

Pretty excited as I never did a comics before. I released the first 3 episodes as one, as that was a good first read for someone to jump on. Truthfully I got excited every week I published an episode. Need to start on my next story soon to have that feeling again. (I took a month off)

I felt excited, I am optimistic that this is good space for my story to be seen and I look forward to any and all feedback. I was posted it on a similar site and weeks later it doesn't have 100 views yet. But here on tapas I got 130 views in the past couple of days.

I read your story! I love action and its very interesting and exciting read. Keep at it!

I'm new to forum posting but I want to put myself out there and promote more so here's my story, its a fantasy romance BL

Well......for me, I was very excited because I've been making comics for as long as I remember but I had no one to share them with. I stopped making comics all together. So when I discovered tapas,I couldn't wait to get posting the comics that I've drawn 5 years ago, that's why the art is not Industry standard but I try to make it look better than what it actually looks like.

Alpha Squad over here is my first comic I've published on tapas and I felt great

Good question!!! :smile:

The first time I published something was two years ago and I didn't have many expectations, :sweat_smile: I was very nervous, my English wasn't very good, although I improved a lot thanks to the constant work I've had.

Now I'm focused on another project and I can't wait to see it finished as well. :blush:

:stars: Greetings!

Before coming to Tapas, I posted my first chapter on Wattpad. I wasn't really expecting to gain much after the first post, (maybe a little). I felt ecstatic to post weekly and get following. Almost a year into the story, I ended up being disheartened by the results in reads, comments and votes.

After removing my story from Wattpad, I looked into the benefits of posting on Tapas. I reviewed and edited my story for the better and posted the first chapter again during the summer. My level of happiness skyrocketed in just 3 months.

This is my first piece of work that is novel length, more than 80 chapter. Suited for anyone who's interested in the Science-Fantasy genre, an ensemble of heroic and villainous extraterrestrials, and an unforeseen prophecy. Feel free to check it out.

Well, posting on Tapas wasn't necessarily my first rodeo with posting online. I started posting fanfic on Livejournal in... what, 2005? 2006? Anyway, a millennium ago in internet terms. The fanfiction world has gone from Livejournal to Fanfiction.net to Wattpad to AO3 since then. When I first started posting, I was terrified every time. I definitely posted some stories and then immediately deleted the because it was too scary. If I saw a comment, I might avoid clicking on it for several days because I was too scared it would be someone systematically tearing down everything I had worked so hard to make.

I have always written original fiction, but back then I didn't know where to post that online. There just didn't seem to be an audience for it (whether there is an audience for my particular original fiction is still kind of up in the air, to be honest). Sharing original fiction is even scarier than sharing fanfiction. I took creative writing classes and eventually went to an MFA program, but still, every time, I nearly had a panic attack when I had to hand in a story. My friend used to give me Klonopin to take before we critiqued my story in class.

But, well, over the years you get slowly more comfortable with yourself and your work, I think. I still get excited to post, but a lot of the terror has (thankfully) seeped out of it. Now I don't attach so much of my worth as a person to my talent as a writer, and I also don't attach so much significance to other people's opinions. I'm a lot more open to opinions. I find the worst thing now is people being indifferent to what I've written. I relish strong opinions of any stripe, and I genuinely crave the opportunity to make my writing better. It's the sinking into oblivion now that's the true terror.

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My first story on Tapas was "Apparent Secrets." I started posting about a month before the "True Love on Tapas" contest submission deadline, and was equal parts anxious and excited.

A bevy of questions came up after first hitting that "submit" button:

What if no one finds/reads my novel? Is this story interesting enough to read? Are the MCs enjoyable and the villains deplorable enough? Is writing about inter-dimensional aliens weird? Does slow-burn romance have a chance in this contest? What if it's bad?

Ultimately, the story kept poking at me, demanding to be written. I had dreams about it, and spent every free moment drafting and revising chapters. For me, the first chapters were the toughest to put out there into the world, and I'm grateful to everyone whose given my story a chance.

If anyone would like to read "Apparent Secrets" from the start, here's an updated link: :coffee_love:

It was a combination of accomplishment and anxiety because I immediately felt behind schedule lol.

Have a daily comic strip called The Experiment check it out, subscribe let me know if you like it or if you don't either way is cool with me. The Experiment

Waves of anxiety, panic attacks and crying :laughing: It actually helped that I wasn't getting a lot of views at first (less pressure), but I calmed down after a few weeks, and after about, eh, six months I started to get depressed and thought of quitting.

Then I found the forums and eventually things started paying off and I now have more fun with it.

Bro, before I noticed there was a forum, I posted the link to my story all over the place! XD I'm glad I discovered the existence of the forum early, just a few hours after posting the first chapter.

Feliz e ao mesmo tempo com medo de me frustrar, o que é inevitável se formos falar a curto prazo, mas sigo forte e empenhado em continuar produzindo minha série que inventei por total paixão e por sentimento de vocação mais forte do que eu. O resto é apenas consequência.

E aĂ­, mano? Outra pessoa que fala portuguĂŞs, igual a mim! :smiley:

Honestly, I was scared. The story I posted has been in my brain and on my desk for twelve years. It was a pet project. So to put my darling out there on an impulse was nerve-wracking. It still is weird having it out there.

On the other hand, I feel immense relief as now my brain can release the story. It was exhaling after holding my breath for a long time.

Please do check it out when you have a second: tapas.io/true_north1

i wanted to die

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Honestly, I was scared to death LOL!!:joy:

There were several things that I needed to improve, and I've always been too demanding of myself. The first thing I needed to improve on was my English writing. English isn't my mother language, and it was a Homeric struggle to learn how to write in English properly (tinha dia que sĂł sentava na frente do computador e pensava: vai com terra e tudo).
The second thing to improve was my drawing skills. I was damn rusty back then and the novel was also a way for me to keep drawing despite the odds because it was something I dearly liked.
So many things! But here I am <3 It's been a year that I've been publishing and I'm loving it!:heart:

Novel (ENG): https://tapas.io/series/Complex-Love/info
Novel (PT-BR): https://tapas.io/series/Complex-Love-PT-BR/info
Genres: BL; romance; comedy; fantasy; drama
Status: Ongoing

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Nervous, but excited at the same time.
But I was also really scared of people being mean and then I realized this is not Webtoon. So I was still scared but glad.

Anywho, check out my comic and the novel if you want ig.


I just posted today, and honestly, it's a lot more stressful than I expected. After the first eight hours, I had zero views. But now I've started using the forum, so I've been watching that number slowly tick up. I wonder what it'll look like tomorrow? :thinking:

I know, I spent a day promoting my work outside the forum and only after entering the forum did things improve.

I was nervous. As. Eff. Here I had a book I'd spent so much time on, pouring in so much love, blood, sweat, and tears, wanting to make it as fun and interesting as possible, and I was so worried no one was going to read it, much less like or subscribe to it, especially because it's so explicit. Now it has 146 subs, is still getting views like crazy even though it's completed, and I don't promote it very often, and I grew the confidence to post my supernatural BL series that might not have a lot of subs but are still really popular in their own right.

And now I have an entry in the Tapas_AF_Tourney, something I NEVER thought I'd actually do. Not to say I don't still get nervous because I do...but it's not nearly as bad as it used to be.