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

@HGohwell HgOhwell
Tue, 03 Jan 2023 07:21:56 +0000

@HGohwell wrote:

TheLemmaLlama:

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 cult

I can definitely agree with this, but I do think this is more an issue of people not really getting or maybe not taking the time, to work on their summaries to manage both. In my experience around writers groups, a lot of people seem to treat writing a summary as a chore or the last thing to be done before they can finally share their work and often they're using their first draft or writing it as they're posting their work. And I think this often contributes to summaries being either confused, vague or paint by numbers, not helped of course by now many people wing it in serial fiction meaning they might not even know their plot and are relying on vagueness to cover for the lack of planning. I think sometimes if more people spend more time seriously thinking about their summaries they might be a better mix of both.

For instance, while not perfect by any means, I think one of my better summaries for one of my currently shelved peaces of work still follows rought the same template, because I generally have those things in mind.

At fourteen, A was saved from death by B, kicking off an unbreakable friendship.

At twenty-two, B reveals himself to be the rebel mole A has been hunting for and gets away with his attempted murder. As factional tensions within the rebels boil over into a civil war that threatens to engulf the kingdom, A is stuck working with B in search of a solution. And pehaps A can discover why the friend he thought he knew changed so much.

As I say, definitely not perfect, I feel like, hopefully, it does a good enough job saying here's A, here's why it matters that B did that, here's the over all problem and here's why it sucks. And I pondered over it for a while trying to get the right balance of explaining clearly vs not sounding cliche..