Holy crap, you good? I hope that harassment stopped, all the best wishes for you.
The thought of creepy, obsessive readers legitimately didn't strike me as a possibility. (Probably because I never had that interaction.) Those kinds of situations are what my nightmares are made up of. Thanks--really--for the insight; I'm all the more wiser for it.
Winter fest, right in the middle of summer for me. I didn't get involved because it was irrelevant to me.
Kind of like they wanted me to get involved in thanksgiving themed events. I don't even know what thanksgiving is about.
I just wanted to say that this has been a fascinating thread to read. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts~
I don't really have much to say about visibility. As a reader, tapas has always been kinda confusing and even more so with the whole premium and non-premium thing. Other comic sites tend to really separate the two, but as a creator I can see why that might feel like you're being shoved aside if you're not premium.
It's a delicate issue. It's in their interest to foster growth of smaller creators, but they also need to make money (people reading premium comics on aggregating sites isn't helping). Personally, I want what's good for the site overall because I think that would result in more readers and opportunities for everyone. I also really don't want Webtoon to become the only available comic platform that offers an audience.
People get to premium and popular by making content that audiences want to see and I don't hold it against them. I do understand the frustration of smaller creators, of course, considering I am one, but there's really no point in being jealous; frankly, I am way too busy in real life these days to be a premium writer, and even if I could solely rely on premium writer income, it would be a bad idea considering how unstable that career would be, anyway (never rely on internet income, folks). However, I absolutely think that Tapas could do a better job advertising smaller novels/comics without sacrificing their popular stuff with a simple design change.
I'mma go ahead and give Tapas a lot of praise here, too, because I owe the site what little popularity I have on here. They've featured my weird little stories like 4 times and they randomly featured my story in a collection recently which was really nice and unexpected. My work would probably go unnoticed on any other site, so I owe Tapas a lot, especially since I don't know how to market/don't want to try to market anymore. It's nice that Tapas throws me a bone every now and again because holy moly, trying to advertise on the forums and on other sites is extremely exhausting and not worth it, in my opinion, which is kinda why I stopped trying. Honestly, there's nothing more frustrating than having someone say they'll read your story and then never doing it. XD
That would be an awful business decision by Tapas though. To give essentially prime real estate to a work that had such niche appeal. I think you need to look into some other’s points about what work needs to work when featured as well. I’m featured regularly, and I can tell you that not all featured spots are made equal, and not all works benefit the same from it.
This can also happen if a series explodes suddenly then nothing happens after too. Struggling with this now in one of my series.
I do this all the time but... only with users I know have quality work and who I know aren’t going on the forums and running their mouths. I guess as I grew larger, I started protecting my platform more as every recommendation is part of my own reputation now.
Oh....so you're saying being featured is too valuable for "niche"/small creators like myself and we'd just waste the opportunity.
Well, when you put it that way....how could anyone have a problem with it?
Here we go...
I didn’t say that. In context, I was explaining that featured doesn’t always work the way you’d set it up to seen and that there are other things that work better for niche works than featuring. Like Jesus Christ, I’m a novelist on a webcomics site. Do you really believe I don’t know what it’s like to be the underdog or how hard it is to get attention?
Stop putting words in my mouth, stop twisting them to mean something you want me to have said and didn’t, in fact say.
Yup, there are only two swim lines for novels. I get it, I'm not going to ask for 50/50 because this site is far from 50/50. 
I can attest to this working really well as one of the authors KR here gave a shout-out to. I started posting on Tapas again after years of having just been a reader (and after having posted a horrific webcomic in 2014, lol)
What built the foundation of the platform I have here now, was that shout-out. We write the same genre and they knew their fans would be excited to read my work. That in terms got my works up on those trending charts. And that got the attention of the staff who've now featured both of the novels I have on my profile.
And while the feature did help one of the novels with a good push, I don't think that's what really did it. It's tapping into a niche audience who're crazy dedicated to that niche. It's networking with other authors/creators in that niche and share readers. We've done it on other platforms as well, and that shit works.
And this is not to say there isn't a visibility issue on Tapas. I don't know the struggle of comic creators since I haven't been one for the last 6 years. But as a novel author, networking really works wonders if you do it right.
Again, I will repeat that the point is ANY advantage is better than NO advantage.
The underselling of that advantage, by anyone who has received it, is completely tone deaf to the rest of us.
Until a bunch of people start lining up and testifying they LOST subscribers by being featured then my point, and the logic, stands.
We're not talking about something that exists in a vacuum though.
The wide majority of the creators involved in these discussions are doing all those other things as well. Everyone is trying to work the other angles too.
It's the underselling of being featured or front page visibility as a positive in potential gains that rubs me the wrong way...always has.
@skicoak I don't see anyone underselling the feature in this thread though?
Oh...it's in here too but it's prevalent in any discussion on the theme.
It's sometimes in the sentences where people add a "but " after talking about their gains from being featured so they can re-qualify what really matters .
Or telling us about how it "backfired" when something like 50% of the new subscribers eventually unsubscribed.. a gain of 50% is STILL a gain.
Does everyone who does it recognize how it sounds to the rest if us? Probably not.
Is it nefarious ? Nope.
It's just tone deaf.
@skicoak I don't know, man. I think a lot of people think a feature will be the golden ticket and after that there's no longer any work needed. The grind is done and you now have thousands of people tuning in for every update.
Telling people about their own experiences with how the feature worked for them doesn't seem tone deaf to me. It seems more like you don't like what they have to say - that maybe the feature isn't the be-all end-all to everything that is Tapas. And that chasing something you have zero control over isn't productive.
You're "guessing", and incorrectly, as to what I mean.
I keep repeating it....if something gains our group's comic even one additional subscriber then it's an advantage. I don't need advantages to be "golden tickets" or "be-all end-all" to continue to seek them in any form they take. Most of us understand that... It's insulting to think "a lot of people" don't understand that.
And while I have zero control of the process (and most likely HURT our chances by being vocal about it) I do have a voice that reflects my own and other's opinions about it.
@skicoak And as you have a voice - so does everyone else. People are allowed to talk about their experiences. It's kind of what this whole thread turned into.
I've observed how some people talk about getting featured - on several platforms too - and it's often put on a pedestal. And when it finally happens to some of these creators, they're majorly underwhelmed because... Well, a feature won't make everyone. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force it to drink. People being open about their experiences with the feature - and how it might've not been as great as they expected - could potentially help some people curb their enthusiasm and take control over things they actually do have control over: their works and their promotional plans.
Maybe these comments seem tone-deaf to you, but maybe they're also helping other people take control over what's controllable and actually encouraging them. After all, this whole thread isn't just for you.
The initial comment you quoted of mine was about how networking has helped me more than the feature did. Also across platforms. If that's tone-deaf to you then... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Ok. Why does Tapas owe you an advantage over another creator though? There’s another way of looking at it. And I mean “general you” here not you specifically. Like, hell, I wanna be in the spotlight front and centre week after week please. Every week, KR show, all the time. 24/7. But that offers nothing to Tapas’ business plan and y’all would be sick of queer novels pretty fast. I’m not keeping the lights on with my content, there are other creators who are certainly paying salaries and server costs and overheads far more than I am.
But because I’ve has a variety of works featured in a variety of ways from main page spotlight to trope list feature to push promos, I can tell you that you can’t build a business plan around it without taking Tapas’ bottom line into account. That’s not to say ANYONE is unworthy of a feature, and I’m incredibly grateful to the team at Tapas for standing behind my work so strongly, but the initial subscribers I get are all people who trust me and my brand and my work.
You should be more concerned about visibility, filtering, networking and discoverability than what Tapas features on its front page. Otherwise you’re just shouting into the Void and hoping it calls back.
There's a saying that goes: "God helps those who help themselves", which I don't always agree with because it tends to get thrown around by libertarians and people who disagree with free healthcare, but I think in this case, it's relevant.
Tapas has no responsibility to promote your comic. Even if you're a really nice person, even if you regularly post on the forum, even if you pay for premium content. Platforms are not your friends. From their perspective, promoting a comic that isn't premium is really only worth it if it has at least already managed to hit that 100 sub target and enabled ads. More views = more ad revenue = mutual benefit.
They're giving me free hosting with a reasonably short URL. They're giving me the chance to be seen in a list of comics. To me, that's an okay deal, even without the chance to be featured. And they let me keep all the IP to my comic. Is it weighted in their favour? OF COURSE IT IS, they're the ones paying for everything! If I don't like it, I'll have to peddle my comics elsewhere, like pay for hosting and build a wordpress site like I had back in the day and take visibility into my own hands. In my case, I've looked at my options and decided "this one works for me", but Tapas is no more my friend than my bank is. It's a business, they're offering me a deal and I'm okay with the terms compared to the other options.
Whether or not Tapas features you, the biggest factor in your comic's popularity is YOU. It's painful to hear, but it's true. If you aren't making your best effort to make your comic popular, why should Tapas try to force people to be interested in it? You have to be honest with yourself about whether your comic is a personal piece of art for your own enjoyment or a product you're selling, because saying and acting like it's the former, but expecting a queue of customers anyway isn't realistic. It's a nice daydream to indulge in where I just draw and write whatever I like in whatever format I like without a single artistic compromise to my vision and it gets 10k subs and a feature and then Netflix comes up and is like "Hey Kate, Rebecca Sugar was so impressed by your comic, she wants to head making it into an animated series with animation by Studio Trigger"... That is not going to happen. (Even though I deserve it for being such a flawless human being, obviously.)
Any choices you have made to make your comic less accessible and less relevant to the audience here are your responsibility. You have to own them and be at peace with the fact that yes, if you have made a choice for artistic integrity or indulging your own personal favourite styles or themes rather than catering to what the audience here are into, it's very likely that the audience will not want to look at what you're making.
You made a product that they're not interested in? You didn't market it strongly with an eyecatching thumbnail or a clear description? And you want Tapas to invest space in their shop window as what... a favour? Because you're nice? I've pitched to publishers before and been rejected. I don't then tell those publishers that they ought to publish me because I've always supported their products and been an active part of their fandom. Tapas doesn't owe me a feature any more than Marvel owes me a gig as penciller on Runaways (Marvel did send me a script and have me do pencil samplers for Runaways once. It didn't work out. It sucks... but like... yeah Kris Anka is awesome, I'd be lying if I said I thought I'd have done a better job).
I chose to make a comic in one of the smallest genres on Tapas, to work for print first, to not pace it in the style of a Tapas comic (which is setting up the premise within the first 3 updates) to not make the main character a hot bishounen, and to draw with a style and colour palette that don't fit in... right, I made a bunch of decisions that will negatively impact the popularity of my comic, and I know that, and I take responsibility for that. My plan to get my comic noticed has never factored any expectation of any sort of feature from Tapas, because I know I made these choices, so the responsibility to prove I can engage people despite that and to bring in an audience is on my shoulders.
But even with these barriers, I sailed past 100 subs within 30 pages without doing any "sub for sub" stuff, without needing a feature. I did that by doing my best to market the crap out of what I have with the resources at my disposal. I made sure I had an eyecatching thumbnail, a strong description, very readable pages, a story that keeps supplying action, tension and drama. I give back to the community by giving in-depth critiques that I put a lot of effort into. I have actively made changes to how I describe my comic and the pacing and length of updates based on feedback to make it more appealing to Tapas readers.
I've been a woman in comics long enough to know that life is unfair and I can't rely on companies or publishers to do anything for me. I've always had to build my own audience and make my own doors. A long-shot advantage like asking a company to feature my work for nothing more than charity is low on my list of "viable advantages" and I'm much more likely to use advantages I have actual control over like making changes to my comic, marketing on other sites etc.
This is basically what Stephen King just out his foot in with the whole Woody Allen autobiography. Publishers have a right to say no. That’s what freedom of speech and free markets are meant to be about. (And as a socialist myself, I never thought I’d be saying that).
This was such a hard lesson for teen-me to learn. No one owes me shit. Especially not internet platforms.
And this I had to learn as a grown-ass woman. Platforms will always think of their own it interests first and what fits into their audience. If you're super duper niche, they'll most likely not feature you because who will they feature you to? If they don't have the audiennce for it then... What's the point? Both for the creator, the userbase and the site, there wouldn't be a point in it.
I think there's some misunderstanding going on in this thread. I don't think anyone is expecting Tapas to put their series on the front page consistently, but I think some people do wish they would help us out and promote us a LITTLE bit.
Like I have seen people say "I suddenly gained so many subs!" and it's because they showed up in trending or whatever for a day. I don't think one day of "Hey, here's a little push" would hurt anyone.
I do get that there will be a spike and then a decrease and possibly some negativity involved with it, but the point still stands that if I gain 50 subs from a promotion and then lose 45 of those subs, I am still at 5 people more than where I was. For the smaller creators, 5 subs is pretty huge. It's the difference between 95 and 100 which means being able to turn on ad revenue. At the smaller levels, the difference of value in each subscriber is much bigger. Losing 1 subs when you're at 30 vs losing 1 sub at 30k (though for the record, of course neither is good. It will always hurt to lose sub, but the value of the sub is different).
I also get that having a good story helps immensely. We all want to write a good story, but there is a glass ceiling of sorts between good story and number of subs. I also think it's important that someone can write a GOOD story but that doesn't mean it's what people WANT to read. We all know BL comics generally do better or have an "easier" time and we know it's because a large amount of people want to read and actively search for BL. Meanwhile, people are not actively searching out scifi comics in the same way.
That's something I discovered with my current story. I put a lot of thought, writing and rewriting in my story to make it good and I was feeling pretty confident about it. I also wrote a story that I myself wanted to read. Naturally I thought others would want to read it too. Now I realize, that isn't really the case. 
So that is something I will keep in mind for when I write my next comic. Before I write my comic, I will take a look at trends and see how I can fit in while being different and that's definitely something a lot of us could benefit from to help make a successful comic.
I'd like to add that one of the issue small creators can have (and I mean any type - even people like me who have zero ambition to make money and not a extremely huge ambition as an artist in general), is that we may be small, but we are numerous AND we make, as a community, Tapas' model work.
How many times did I read things like 'Tapas, oh no, it's not free, I can't pay' or 'there is also Tapas if you have money to read' etc. I, as well as a lot of other creators (small or big, but small are more numerous and may have more time), am there in other comic-related places, non-comic related places, other languages places etc, telling people that not all Tapas is paying, that there are ways to read the paying comics without a credit card if we're patient etc.
But still, the general idea in people's mind is that they can't read free on Tapas, so they don't even come.
I may only have a very small, non professional comic, but I can (and do) bring people to Tapas by educating people about Tapas. My role is very small because I'm very introverted, but someone with a good online presence could do lots more, for part irrespective of the size or quality of their comic/novel.
Obviously, having small creators feeling not compensated for their advertising role (among other things) is not conducive to enthusiasm for advertising more... Which is bad for every single creator, big or small.
The question should be 'how and on what criteria can we help small comics be visible when there are so many of them', not 'does it really worth doing it when there are more popular comics out there that we could profit from'. Small comics are a part of a healthy Tapas system. Each only does a small part of the job, but as a whole we are very important.
I'm sure everyone know that, but I think it's easy to forget when looking at a few bigger titles, comparing, etc. We should not forget there are different roles to play to make the system work, and that every role filled should bring a minimum of incentive.
This is a bit off the off-topic topic, but I still despise that way of thinking and I will never not say so.
However, I've already done a ton of rants about how harmful it is to imply that people who haven't made it simply haven't tried (enough), so I won't go into it now.
INSTEAD,
I think @skicoak's point wasn't that Tapas owes us something for being here and trying our hardest to make our comics/novels...just that a little extra visibility (a) would go a long way for us little guys and (b) really wouldn't cost Tapas as much as people are implying it would. '_' I find it really odd to think that a week or two of spotlight for a non-premium work might somehow be a legitimate threat to their bottom line.
Case in point: me. ^^; I did absolutely nothing to deserve getting Staff Picked outside of writing one random little story as well as I could. NOTHING. I didn't advertise, I didn't aim for any "mass audience", even my thumbnail was just a colorful nondescript blob. It was basically the opposite of everything people say is "deserving" of spotlight.
And yet, someone on the Tapas team took the time out to read my story and grant it that little bit of exposure. And it had a noticeable effect...maybe not for me as an author, but to this day, that novel is the only one that still gets more than 1 or 2 views a week. Two YEARS after it was finished.
...So yeah, I can kinda see why people downplaying that would be offensive. This stuff is real, folks; if advertising didn't work, companies all over the world wouldn't sink billions of dollars into it every year.
And most importantly, Tapas didn't get ANYTHING from me in return for that. I mean, sure, my novel got a huge view and sub boost at the time, but nothing even remotely comparable to that enjoyed by their premium works. I didn't do anything for their bottom line that a 2$ donation couldn't have accomplished.
But they still let me have that. And there's no reason why they couldn't do it for more people, more effectively. Sure, there are plenty of reasons why they might not want to, or that they don't even have to, but it's...not really unreasonable to ask.
Never said it did. Considering I didn't post anything in it until 100+ posts had already occurred ... It's pretty faulty math to imply differently.
What Tapas SHOULD owe us, as the smaller creators on the site, is to stop removing potential avenues of visibility in favor of more retail space. That's the argument occurring in multiple threads in these forums. It's been brought up in THIS thread and folks minimizing the advantage of being featured isn't an answer for those concerns.
How many times do I have to repeat this....everyone is concerned about those as well. Nobody is looking at being featured as the ONLY thing to focus on. This is one thing... Having issues with it doesn't preclude the existence of others.
^This.
Instead there's an influx of people who think they're imbuing life lessons by underselling their advantages and saying Tapas doesn't "owe" us anything.
Two mathematical points...
One....Our group's title's subscriber list has a sizeable ratio of people we brought here to Tapas. This is likely true of EVERY creator here. Tapas then gets to pimp to them. That's a symbiotic relationship... Not a one sided affair.
Two...the ratio of people who check out our title to the subscriber amount is high. It doesn't tell me diddly to insist that opportunities to get more people to check it out the title are tied to factors other than visibility. I can understand it's not for everyone... but the less opportunities we have to reach those that it is for... is a NEGATIVE.
I think one thing everyone is forgetting is that all these bigger creators who are coming here to tell you one thing, were once smaller creators themselves. You can say we don’t understand, or that we don’t get it, but we do because we were exactly where you all are once.
We can do nothing but share our advice and experiences and our points of view from a different angle. You don’t have to listen at the end of the day.
But then also, this is backing up the other points made further up the thread about why Premium or “successful” creators are rarely here. Any advice or difference of perspective is seen as an attack.
Thank you for making this point. It's something I have struggled to get out as clearly and concisely.
That's really what it boils down to... The value of the most viewed ad space on the entire site.
I didn’t say that though. I said a feature that only brought in one subscriber would be bad business for Tapas, and that marketability plays a role in that. You’re the one projecting a value judgement into that statement.
Also, I’m a niche creator who writes queer spec lit. You think I don’t know mainstream marketability struggles? I know some of my works will never be featured or likely picked up by any platform. I make that choice every time I pour hours into a new work. It is a choice that I make as a creator, that we all make.
Personally, I don't see it as an attack, simply a very drastic difference of opinion.
But I think it's very interesting that that difference is so drastic. Why does it seem like ALL the underdogs are on one side, and ALL the alphas are on the other?? There's probably more overlap than there appears to be...but the fact that this is the image we're getting is probably feeding into the animosity. It's hard to feel like you really "understand" or you "used to be just like us" when we never...see that.
I can't imagine "the change" happening to me if I ever made it big, limited though my perspective may be. I know it's usually considered an insult to imply that someone who's found success "just got lucky", and deservedly so, but...I'd totally be willing to admit to that. ^^; After all these years of working and pining, somehow I'm supposed to think that I only scored a publishing deal because I SUDDENLY started to deserve it 10 years down the line?? Hell no...my number finally came up, is all. That's how I think I would see it.
And I might not be a minority in that way of thinking...which is another reason why we need more voices from both sides to give a more "resolved" image, so to speak. But I already talked about that here, so...
Discussion =/= attack.
There has to be a bit of incomfort or tension for a debate to go anywhere. Learning from each other never goes without some clashing of ideas. Who wants a talk where everything we get is 'yes, you're right'? What's the point of discussing then?
This is an excellent point (though a complex one. "I create for myself" has at least two big, very different meanings. Do you create what you enjoy creating, or what you enjoy consuming? Very different considerations even in cases where the answers overlap.).
People say write what you love, and there will be people who love it for the same reasons as you do. That your audience is out there, no matter how weird your work is. This is true. But the number of people who share your interests may be too small for your work to be financially viable.
I'm in that boat; my story resembles a more popular genre on a superficial level, but it's really not, so I get a bunch of people who come for that genre and end up being disappointed or underwhelmed. And you know what? It's MY choice to stick to my vision. If the lack of a big, engaged readership is the price for it, which in this case it seems to be, then so be it.
It would not benefit the platform to promote my work to an audience that doesn't want it. Hell, it wouldn't benefit ME, either. I don't want new readers if they're only gonna be disappointed with what I have to offer.
I don't really have a new point to make here, just giving my two cents on points already made. Though there is one minor disagreement I would like to voice:
I think I agree with you on what should be done. I just want to acknowledge that it is very possible for a solid, marketable work to just get buried in the pile, due to factors outside of the creator's control. But your own decisions are the only factors you can control. So might as well focus on doing what you can!
You keep focusing on the statement that ONE is better than NONE. It was statement of mathematical logic against the downplaying of being featured but...
If you wanna stick to that, what is your guess as to the probable number of subscribers increase that Tapas is looking for before it's GOOD business to feature a creator? Is it hundreds? Thousands? Should they only feature titles they think are Premium worthy?
Legit question .
W a t. God don’t use this term. There’s no such thing as an “alpha” creator.
Actually, most of the people I know didn’t change when they got success. All that happened was they stopped engaging because people started dogpiling them or being weird with them like @LordVincent described. I’m the same as I was before third writers camp. I just have more experience now.
It becomes one when someone leaps into a discussion, without checking nuance, and then misinterprets something to have the most negative meaning possible and replies like that though. And if you think this doesn’t happen, you just have to look through this thread. Things were quite civil, sharing differences of perspective, until someone told someone else what they were apparently saying. That, against a backdrop of sustained negativity, is going to make people feel attacked. Especially when it’s something where people have literally expressed they don’t feel comfortable coming out of the woodwork, but they’re going to ty this once, and then this.
Coming out from the lurking.
I suppose this happens when you get the experience of the so-called "Alpha" or know enough about the "winning side" that you figure out it's not what all that it' cracked up to be or understand just how much people have worked to get to that stage.
Luck is a factor sometimes. But I see enough people throw "luck" around in these forums like it's a requirement instead of thinking "hmmmmm, how did these creators MAKE things go into their favor???"
Because lemme tell you -- I don't do luck.
Yeah, I've been promoted by Webtoons -- but never by Tapas. I don't count Trending or Popular as promoted because those are based on audience input most of the time. Tapas hasn't given me any type of shoutout. But Webtoons has -- and I can tell you straight up that it was never luck. I'll tell you that I deserved those promotions.
Because I a) collab and promoted a Superhero comic with other creators (some popular, some not) on Webtoons. I interacted with the Webtoons Twitter pages, just posting my work, answering questions, etc. Any promotion they gave me? Came from my interactions outside of any discord or any forums. They were out in the open.
But even then? I'm not a featured creator. I'm not a popular canvas creator. I don't have a contract nor make an income. I've got maybe 8k subs, so I'm mid-tier, but I am not on the level of KR. And quite frankly? Having heard enough of the horror stories for some featured creators (needing to do 60 panel updates, having wrist pains, having burn out, etc)? I don't envy them.
The expectations and pains are just different for featured vs non-featured creators, and I know that well enough to be able to not care if I get a promotion or not. If I can get one? Fine -- that's lovely. If not, that's fine too. Because I know well enough the expectations of being featured means, and I know well enough that I personally can't do that. Not not at my level.
And that's my question -- are people who see themselves as "underdogs" ready to take on the work load of a featured creator? Are they ready to take on that audience? Meet those expectations? Me -- no, I'm not. So I stick with what I do, which is niche (cosmic horror romance ain't mainstream), and I take what I can get through what I can control.
I had read the thread. I'd say what you are pointing out is at most annoying.
And.. I've been on the recieving end in the past 
No big deal, no grudges held. I think it's important to take some distance. These things are small and of no consequences.
Datawise I’m not sure across the board so here’s my stats. Mortician has nearly 500 subs before it was featured. Down The Rabbit Hole was in the 400s. The Accidental Prince has broken 1000. My anthology I created with 11 other Tapas authors had 100. 2 of those are now Premium works.
What does Tapas consider? Well, for novels they look to be actively curating content and reading it and featuring what they feel is high quality. You can see it in their Staff Picks and recent feature lists - which have included many novels with less than 100 subs. Like if you want to see a microcosm of their business model - check the novels section. I’m not a Tapas employee though. I don’t get to say what should or shouldn’t be featured. I must say - they’re doing an amazing job discovering talented smaller creators and showcasing them for novels. But these creators are all also professional, networking and doing all the other stuff too. Their content is exceptionally high quality (I have so much respect for many of the most recent featured writers - they’re all amazing).
If that's offensive, you're gonna have to explain it to me...it's just that I wrote 'underdogs' immediately before and my mind was in the theme. I didn't mean any harm.
That just goes right back to my question though: where are all the successful people who still think like those who aren't as successful??
I guess the implication is that they've all been chased off by the negativity...but if they indeed still think like "the rest of us", why do so many of them feel uncomfortable enough to leave??
...I mean, due to statistics alone, a good portion of them probably are. We're not all whining baby highschoolers, y'know...lots of underdogs are grown adults and even entrepreneurs/working professionals who are more than prepared for what it takes.
Like you, I happen to be mature enough to know that I'm also not ready for that at this point in my life (I may never be able to be a "conventional" success, tbh). But there are plenty of people at my level who have the time and the willpower, and I don't think it's fair to discount them just because the majority might not know what they're getting into.
