Why isint my webcomic getting any traction even though I've been updating it for a year?

@TheLemmaLlama any pronouns
Tue, 03 Jan 2023 06:21:37 +0000

@TheLemmaLlama wrote:

Right, good point; when just a straightforward statement of your intended tone is the only thing in your pitch that tells the reader anything, that's kind of a problem ^^; Though I do still think that a pitch is too small of a space to Show (any tone you attempt to imply would feel one-note), and you're often better off Telling.

I think there's a reason why I often get into stories from reviews rather than promotional material from the creators and it's not because reviewers are supposed to be impartial; but because reviewers often describe the experience straight (this story gives X, Y, Z vibes) whereas creators tend to rely on stuff like 'she begins to suspect it's not all it seems ...' (so my brain goes 'okay, mysterious, but I don't feel the mystery anymore because I heard that turn of phrase a billion times'). I think that's inevitable because there are only so many ways to imply a mood through only a few sentences; cliches become cliches for a reason

I guess the template is good basis for combatting Vagueness, but doesn't help much for Interestingness since (imo, at least) many Goals, Problems and Solutions (in their pared down form necessary for summaries) are just as boring if not moreso than lost souls, post-apocalyptic worlds and cults. But you have a point that having the pitch be Well-Defined is important in and of itself; even if it contains interesting elements, if it doesn't seem to Fit Together in any particular way, it's just a bunch of words that our brains kind of gloss over. Even if a template-fitting summary doesn't grab our attention, we're at least not confused after reading it and needing to ponder what we just read and what it actually meant