To anyone with low/crawling readership

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Thats so sweet and encouraging* hugs*

[marygold]

@demthorshie Lol I wonder when the completion of my comic would be... Combined with school and work, completion is probably twenty years away...
@United_cuttles hugs back we can do it!

[R.n.P]

Tnx dude I think I might be able to up my game a little more cuz of this post.
THE LAST SAMURAI

[MissMagicGirl]

Oh you are 69Erocento!

[marygold]

@MissMagicGirl I'd love to be @69Erocento but unfortunately I'm C Cheng 😅. The other comic is Re:birth, I've got an extra word in the title. Wish my comics were that good lol. 🍾🍷 cheers to having similar names (not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing 😂)

[MissMagicGirl]

Wow! I am so confused I don't even have words.... But now I am with you! I do really like your comic and can't wait for more. ^_^

[69Michi]

I got pinged and I'm like what's up-

LMFAO @marygold IT'S OKAY GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE HAHAHA Similar titles are everywhere I would love to get a more original name but I'm so bad at naming > _ <

@MissMagicGirl Slides over to pat u it's totally good! My comic is :Rebirth while @marygold's is RE:Birth Gate, IT CAN BE CONFUSING LMFAO njdk

[MissMagicGirl]

Hahaha yes. Similar names makes my brain hurt XD But know I have it all figured out You both make amazing stuff! Wish i was as good ^^

[marygold]

@MissMagicGirl If you don't think so now, you will be!!

[NickRowler]

This is sort of a random question.

If you do have a hiatus, will your viewers still increase? I have posted on another webcomic site and I notice that even though I didn't have anything new for years, people will still adding it to their follow.

I know the formatting on this site is different...but I am curious if the increase is based on how recently you updated.

[69Michi]

Sometimes new reader comes across look at your webcomic and think that it's great so they add it to their sub list without checking when was the last time you updated. Sometimes people still add thing to their sub list with hope it will be updated soon enough after the hiatus. But as far as I know Tapastic is quite an active site for both creators and readers. Sure if you take a long hiatus and didn't say when you will be back, you will (probably) lose more sub than gain sub, but if you do promise to make a come back sometimes, people will less likely to unsub and maybe in the process you will gain a few more subs than expected.

[Gaspode12]

Congratulations on your number 50! It's great to hear that your perseverance has payed off. It can certainly be very hard sometimes when you're putting work out into the void and getting nothing back. Here's to your 100th!

[marygold]

@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! 🍾🍾🍷🍷

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

[dracomarl]

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.

[marygold]

@dracomarl hm, never really tried that. Did you create a new account or just use an old one?

[Memokkeen]

Thanks for the advice! <3

(and congratulations on hitting the fifty mark!)

[adamblackhat]

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]

@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]

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!