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    The more I write, the less I find myself using speaker tags. '"Tell me," she demands.' feels so much weaker than '"Tell me!"'.
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    raziel83
    raziel83
    I think sometimes the speaker tags are a nice way to get across some things, but these should be used in moderation so that every quote isn't surrounded by twice the number of words that could have been replaced by just writing the quote in a more descriptive manner.
    TheLowKing
    It's interesting that as soon as you stop publishing chapters, the likes stop coming in too.
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    TheLowKing
    TheLowKing
    Views also dropped a lot, but not as much as likes did. In the 10 days before I posted the last chapter, the story got about 1000 views/day. Afterwards: 340 views/day. Whereas it went from 148 likes/day in the same 10 days, to zero, zip, nada.
    GyroscopicGraphite
    GyroscopicGraphite
    I think it's a matter of repeat senders; someone can view a chapter multiple times (I think, anyways) but only like it once. Also, aside from front page priviledge, the audience for any recent chapters are gonna be the people who actually enjoy you as an author and have notifications on for you, who are WAY more likely to leave a like.
    TheLowKing
    TheLowKing
    I think another aspect is that you need an account to leave likes, people who come to the site often are more likely to have an account, and people who come to the site often are more likely to see your story early than people who don't.

    Then when you stop posting updates, your readers-with-accounts stop reading (because they've already read everything), and your likes stop coming in too.
    TheLowKing
    Writing second-person POV protagonists bothers me more and more. It just feels so damn awkward to be _telling_ readers how they feel.
    TheLowKing
    Found a new video game and my writing time is in the dumpster. Very glad now that I promised updates so infrequently. :P
    TheLowKing
    Did some research (I swear!) into camming for an upcoming chapter, and it's *amazing* how many camgirls just... sit there...
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    TheLowKing
    ...for minutes at a time, doing absolutely fuck-all. Isn't the point of watching a camgirl that there's interaction between performer and audience, that it's not just a video being replayed? Every time, after like 30 seconds without any dialogue or activity at all, I was like, well, this is fucking boring, let's try another.
    raziel83
    raziel83
    The point for Camgirl, is to get the audience into paying them. If you are watching a free stream, they'll occasionally chat with you and try to get you into tipping them or paying for the private room or whatever the site has. ...Then they do more sexy stuff to keep you in there.
    TheLowKing
    TheLowKing
    TheLowKing
    It's weird how many stories on the site are power fantasies, and not subtle ones, either.
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    TheLowKing
    TheLowKing
    I mean, I'm not trying to kink shame anyone. If the notion of waking up one random morning as a literal god with unlimited power does it for you, all good! I just don't understand it. Building UP to unlimited power over time, that I get. But starting out with it? Where's the challenge? Where's the progression?
    GyroscopicGraphite
    GyroscopicGraphite
    I think for an author that just wants to write a scene of "This guy doing this thing to that girl," it's easier to let the issue of 'how tho' rot away and turn to dust than it is to write a whole new Fire Emblem just to get to the good bits. Though I do agree that the build-up is often better than the climax.
    MichaelChaseLit
    MichaelChaseLit
    I think that’s just most writers tbh. Most people put themselves into the shoes of who they write, and it can be difficult to understand that you need a level of separation to make an interesting story. Don’t get me wrong, some of my favorite stories here are blokes getting incredibly lucky to some capacity, but I like it much more when there are obstacles as well!
    TheLowKing
    Stuck, stuck, horribly stuck.
    TheLowKing
    On my latest story, I got 100 likes in the first 6000 views, but only 10 likes in the next 5000 views. I wonder why it drops off so sharply.
    TheLowKing
    All story synopsis...es? ae? should end with "Hijinks ensue!"
    TheLowKing
    TIRealized: only 944 of the 26080 stories on the site have more than 50 chapters.
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    GyroscopicGraphite
    GyroscopicGraphite
    As for the Wicker situation... there's a lot I wanna say there, but as far as objective facts go, Wicker runs the Image Inspiration story, which has a very simple formula of "[image > short chapter > image] repeat_forever"
    He also seems to be very involved in the celebrity deepfake section of the site, which takes up a good chunk of stories.
    MichaelChaseLit
    MichaelChaseLit
    Holy, that’s pretty wild! I always find it sad to start stories and find they’re unfinished (which happens a looot lol). It makes a lot more sense now that I see it laid out in your post. Kinda wish the adopt-a-story program was more popular, because that could cure this problem a lot, yes?
    TheLowKing
    TheLowKing
    For me personally, starting a new story is where most of the fun is. I've tried to write sequels or endings to other people's stories, and I've never succeeded. What I have a shortage of is not ideas; it's time to turn those ideas into fully fledged stories.

    And I assume that's true for most writers! Otherwise, we wouldn't have so many unfinished stories.
    TheLowKing
    I'll add my 2 cents to the "writing again" pile. Feels good to be back at it!
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    TheLowKing
    TheLowKing
    ...But unfortunately the story I've been working on is not suitable for CHYOA. So it goes.

    I have other ideas, though, so still hoping I'll manage to put at least 1 proper CHYOA story together this year. But no promises.
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    TheLowKing
    Well. I took inspiration from a story, started writing my own take... and 8000 words later it's a beat-for-beat recreation of it. Bleh.
    TheLowKing
    Just started publishing a new story. It's my third one; still nerve-wracking. I wonder how the recent changes will affect readership.
    TheLowKing
    I continue to be surprised by how often people want their accounts deleted.
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    Gambio
    Gambio
    Right? It's utterly puzzling to me. Is it an addiction thing? Are they worried their coworkers might find out they read porn? Just disgusted by their name?

    It makes no sense!
    SeriousBrainDamage
    SeriousBrainDamage
    They probably used the account to "socialize" and eventually exposed themselves.
    Warden-Yarn15
    Warden-Yarn15
    Potentially, or they thought people would read their stories only to get no readers. I found an author once who deleted his account because no female on this site would contact him - true story.
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