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marygold
Jun '16

@NickRowler in my experience, if the beginning chapters are awesome, people will subscribe and will not care if the story is at the bottom of their reading list. Examples are Fisheye Placebo and Through Crestan Eyes. I that's not always the case though. A schedule is good to follow but always take breaks when needed. It's better to come back fresh and prepared to recover some losses rather than to trudge on while your state gets worse
And like @69Erocento said, do let your readers know. Then they at least know you're working hard and they'll continue to support you
@Gaspode12 thank you so much! Here's to it! 🍾🍾🍷🍷

gone
Jun '16

Could i stay here and keep having uplifting advice? ;u; i feel really good reading these

dracomarl
Jun '16

Good points. Also, if you have social media, make sure to put links to the recent update onto it. I've only been around for a couple of weeks, but I feel like this method has helped to raise the number of people following Life of Bro.

Memokkeen
Jun '16

Thanks for the advice! <3

(and congratulations on hitting the fifty mark!)

adamblackhat
Jun '16

It isn't so much the slowly rising readership #s that I find agonizing...

As it is the nearly impenetrable silence of people reading on the Tapastic, main site, Facebook, and Tumblr. So many venues, so many statistical readouts, and SO little response. Is it good? Is it bad? Do you hate me? Do you love- no, obviously not. It's frustrating. Since when does the Internet not have an opinion?

marygold
Jun '16

@adamblackhat silent readers are one of the most frustrating things. Some of them just aren't on tapastic but some of them just read through your updates without even looking at the author's notes or bothering to like. "Too much trouble," you know?

I used to think when I was just a reader of online novels that this author already has so many other fans, he/she won't notice.

But now as a creator of drawings I work my butt off for, I do notice. It's pretty easy to notice, surprisingly.

69Michi
Jun '16
adamblackhat

I used to go through that phase when I first started posting my novel probably 5 years ago. I updated up to probably around chapter 5 or so to cricket chirping. I knew people were reading because there is like and rating on my chapter, but no comment. Until sometimes later when I was going to drop the novel and stopped writing it, 1 single person decided to leave a comment on every chapter, saying encouraging words to me and how much they like the story. And with that 1 single person that commented was enough to lift my spirit and had me motivated to continue the series. I know it's frustrating to do something without anyone there encouraging you or acknowledge your work, but keep doing it! As long as there is people reading, soon enough there will be someone comments. I don't usually have all that many comments on Tapastic either and my main readers came from Webtoon but I still continue posting on here because every single readers I have everywhere means a lot to me : D Don't give up! Silent readers are still readers, you still have a fanbase following your work!

sebastien181
Jun '16

Like my pal Drake says, you can start from the bottom and make it here!

adamblackhat
Jun '16
69Michi

First, thanks for namedropping Webtoon. I had not heard of that one. ^.-

Second, yeah, that's a huge help, the occasional little bits of encouragement...a few people subscribe and I'm happy. Someone comments and I want to do backflips. I can only hope.

adamblackhat
Jun '16
marygold

Yeah, it's really opened my eyes! Especially with avenues such as Twitter - creators are SO present and SO available. In my mind, I build everyone up to be untouchable, but a lot of people are just as anxious and desperate to please as I am. XD

marygold
Jul '16

@adamblackhat it's kind of sad when you see people with over 400 subscribers but they only get 4-10 comments per chapter. Shout out to the comic Stormfall! It's really good!

demthorshie
Jul '16

Yeah, that's what I think as well. Subscriber numbers aren't always the end all, be all of everything here. Reader interactions and general reader enjoyment is just a lot more meaningful to me imo. :3

acealmansoori
Jul '16

Best advice is to market yourself and your comic. As you said, you need to be out there. By either going on forums, talking to people, and so on. Thank you and good luck to you smiley let's hit that 50 sub count >w<

dracomarl
Jul '16
marygold

@marygold I just post to my art tumblr, which I've had for a while. It's a pretty solid way to connect interested people to everything you want them to know about or involve them in, and remind them "oh hey, my comic is around and now there's new stuff!" is always a good way to get people who aren't following or keeping track on their calenders or whatever to view your content.