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

@TheLemmaLlama any pronouns
Tue, 03 Jan 2023 07:58:03 +0000

@TheLemmaLlama wrote:

So use the template as a starting point, and edit the heck out of it. That makes sense XD Looking at your summary, I find it hard to pattern-match it to the template, but I guess that's what editing gets you; I can see it contains (most of) the elements specified in the template

Now that I think about it, I had issues with templates because:

I tend to think of the elements (Goal, Problem, Solution etc) as one word answers, like I'm filling in a mad-libs worksheet. (That's just how my brain (has been trained to) react to templates :'D) But we're allowed to write down the full nuance of what the Goal/Problem/Solution is and pare it down later.

My instinct is to keep all the elements and give the all equal space/attention, but an engaging description usually has some 'asymmetry'. Like, I can't identify a specific 'solution' in your description, but that gives room for the other elements to breathe and more words for you to describe them in a non-cliched way; whereas if I crammed all the elements into that small space and made sure the reader is Aware of each of them, I'll be limiting myself to cliches.

But the template is a solid starting block and it's easier to get something well-defined by chipping away at it than if you kind of just did whatever without a foundation, which is a good way to end up with something vague. I guess is what you're saying