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mbobulated by circumstance it s not always your ankle getting twisted and screwing up your exercise regime or your finger getting slammed in a car door making typing a nightmare it s sometimes as simple as needing to keep doing what you re doing when holidays happen and everyone else is relaxing from their usual plans priorities holidays in my personal experience are as much a hassle for the regular writer as they are for the determined dieter i haven t had nearly as much trouble with anything as i have had with holidays in particular the key to answering these issues is really just knowing what you re getting into start that diet or start that serial for the right reasons and keep those reasons in mind the old tired adage of enjoying the journey rather than the destination is key i was lucky in that my expectations were nil as i wrote worm every new reader was a pleasant surprise every uptick in views it didn t matter that it took almost a year before comments were regular and i stress that this was fairly fast as such things went i was thrilled by contrast people reading this post are liable to know who i am they ve likely seen worm and consequently they re going to be aware of the fanbase and reader support it maintains i worry that even knowing this is happening elsewhere might adjust expectations when writing for the sake of writing and having no expectations at all might be better either way yeah i do just want to communicate that it s a tough and long road to travel and it s often a lonely one to travel too there s good to it it feels great to be underway it is supremely validating when someone gives you that thumbs up and it really clarifies who has your back while potentially introducing you to more people in the same vein that counts for a lot i think that mostly covers preparation and expectations which leaves me floundering a bit when it comes to figuring out how to communicate some other stuff because it s not so tidy or easy to outline i m just going to break up the sections here in no particular order _ building a readership key points to hit and luck those who ve followed my other posts on the subject are going to have heard these points before consistency frequency quality consistency is king in my book it s why i stress the measures with the pre written backlog to help manage stumbles and pitfalls consistency means having a schedule and maintaining it it means providing your readers with an expectation and then holding yourself to that expectation it s my experience that readers are very understanding and kind it might be that i have awesome readers but even as they clamor to tell me it s fine if i take a break i notice very real trends in readership numbers when i even make a shift from 2 5 chapters a week to just 2 for any length of time the reality is that when you re writing an online serial you re writing on the internet the internet has millions of webpages and countless games countless other stories or webcomics or videos for readers to get involved with with consistency you enable readers to make reading into a habit which keeps them coming back with inconsistency where you have hiatuses delays changing scheduling you lead to readers losing track of you and they ll find other things to get invested in _ there s a double edged benefit too when you write consistently it really forms a kind of personal momentum going back to the diet analogy having a game plan and sticking to it is going to be wildly more successful than days of starvation and days of lavish eating there will be rough patches days where it s really a grind to get through and being able to say i don t eat junk food anymore or i always get a chapter out on saturday really forms the absolute force necessary to move forward i wrote a chapter on schedule the last 100 days i m going to get the next one out or i ll diminish all that effort leads to i wrote a chapter on schedule the last 101 days i m going to get the next one out and so on _ frequency plays into this while having a goal of one post a month is consistent it s 29 2 days between each update that s a lot of time for readers to forget you exist email notifications and rss feeds twitter campaigns and the like can help but there s no guarantee that when the rss notification comes up that the reader is going to click it it s very easy for a reader to put it off until tomorrow and forget for distractions to win out and so on there s a middle ground to strike here chapter number and chapter size factor in a chapter every weekday might be too much or it might demand softer cliffhangers or too many cliffhangers making the story too fragmented is it doable sure but pay attention to what you re doing and the following you re cultivating as you do it once a week might be too little but again i think it verges on the doable something between is going to achieve an effect where readers are either reading your chapter or anticipating the next one without being unkind or pointing to specific examples i think there are shows and webcomics out there that maintain a steady readership simply through frequency and consistency alone with a very low bar for quality ideally however we do want quality quality we put good stuff out there that rewards and involves the audience we test our abilities and we grow and we address our flaws and failings it s possible as i insinuated above to do just fine by hitting two key points can you slowly build up a readership by having something amazing that comes out on the 5th of every month sure can you pepper readers with something fun and intense updates some weeks with no updates or one update and some weeks with six sure you might lose some by the wayside but you ll probably pick up a fair number the reality is that readership doesn t grow steadily not really it might look that way when taken in at a distance but in reality it s that one fan who links to you on a message board or that one guy who gives a recommendation that opens the door to thousands of people giving your work a look this is the luck factor you might notice the curious emphasis i place on luck with the single quotation marks i ve unfortunately had a lot of people say that my success was due to luck my personal feeling however is that it s through consistency frequency and quality that luck happens these are the things that open the door for luck to happen should opportunity stroll on by you have to be singing for someone to notice you re a good singer and sign you for a deal you have to have work out there for people to notice you and mention you to their two or ten or two thousand friends can you get lucky without frequency quality or consistency yes but that really is chance and coincidence rather than the luck one creates with time and determination _ tending to audience i like to describe things using a diagram i ran into during my studies in university we draw a triangle and we put audience author and text at different points there s a degree of interaction between each the author to the audience the author to the text and the audience to the text and vice versa for each be mindful of this author and text it s easy to let this slip when schedule demands and real life gets in the way we can let the story drop in priority given that the story takes place over the long haul and real life goes on in the meantime it oftentimes has to the key thing is to remind yourself why you re writing the story what you like about it and to be sure that you re writing things you enjoy and things that challenge you audience and text fans will have their own interpretations of the work as the fandom grows and the triangle takes shape memes happen conversations will happen surrounding the work and the work may be tested there s not a lot i can really say on this off the top of my head except that it s very easy and very common for fans to be faced with this one side of the triangle and to make judgments about the other point about you i ve been called a robot a girl asian black elderly a teenager a nazi an only child the youngest child in a large family and three feminists in league to a demon all by people who thought they had divined something about me from the text which leads me to author audience in a normal book it s very hard for an author to communicate to fans outside of a foreword and afterword as a serial author your involvement may well be a regular thing this plays out on a few levels i for example get financial support from readers i ve had many many readers tell me i don t need to actually write the bonus chapters i do as a thank you for the support but i do it in part to shore up the left side of that triangle up there it s very easy for the author to become faceless for readers to feel like they re throwing money into a well with no feedback to indicate it went anywhere it s where i really liked doing the thank yous i was doing prior before numbers made that rather difficult on another level it might be worth just communicating to fans about where you re at a comment on your own chapters with thoughts and preliminary sentiment it lets you put your face out there and it does give you a hand in the discourse the fact that serials can enable the author audience interaction like they do is good for you too because it lets you adjust the story to correct or respond to misconceptions or gauge the pulse of the greater readership again be careful you don t let too small a sample size have too large a voice as suggested in one of the bullet points up above _ on the other side of audience or being tended to by audience it s a tricky thing audience approaching the writing of serials it s very easy to think that you ll write something and people will see it and then you ll have usable feedback and things are good in reality it can be tricky when you start out you get nothing when you reach the point you think you ve put enough in to start getting feedback still mostly nothing then you start to get a few isolated voices with strong feelings about what you re creating and some are positive and some are critical it s very easy to let that small sample size and the loudness of negative voices push you to adjust and adapt as those voices pipe up try to keep in mind your rationale for the story why you re writing it what your tastes are the empty space on bookshelves where this particular book hasn t been written to fill them yet write the things you enjoy and trust your instincts i ve heard far more from authors who made changes early on to respond to their fledgling audience and who were unhappy with the result than i ve heard from the remainder there s a sweet middle ground where you re starting to learn to pare out the good advice from the bad some people think that negativity and criticism are the same thing when negativity is often something so omnipresent in a given person s voice that you can t pare out their good advice from the midst of it beware the people who only ever have bad things to say who want your work to be something it isn t or who take pride in tearing things down find the positive voices and the middle ground becomes something you can learn from in my experience it was this time when i really grew it was also i ll stress a time that was fairly short lived in my experience the audience grew further in my case in others cases where audience didn t swell to the same degree i ve heard that the moderates lost out to the volume of the fanboys and especially to the critics negative voices will always be louder and more determined and over time they ll drown out the others this is something i wish i d known to brace myself for and it s a hard thing to articulate and really spell out with extreme success comes extremely high and loud populations success i ve not yet obtained but have seen in others i ve seen online creators have breakdowns lash out get physically ill and cut ties with audience completely collapsing one end of the triangle just because it s such a constant thing i get several instances of criticism a day about one bad part of one story i put out three and a half years ago thousands of emails at this stage hundreds of orange envelopes on reddit i expect to get thousands more before 2020 rolls around just be aware that with time and success come a disproportionately high loud population of negative voices it s not a reflection on you but just the way things go _ _ frequently asked question 1 should i have a donation button put off the button for a bit is my personal feeling focus on the writing focus on the consistency and frequency and quality and on shoring up the author text and author audience relationships focus on taking care of yourself first it s very easy to include the button as a matter of course as you get your site set up it s very tempting but i very frequently hear from people who do so and then feel discouraged when not only is their audience low in number but the button goes unused it sets up a weird expectation if i were counseling my younger self i d say to keep doing what i was doing and if people asked about it i d include a button as an aside i try not to call it a donation button anymore because paypal is persnickety about the use of the language donation it implies charity which implies special taxation rights and rules and when paypal gets persnickety they often lock the paypal account and freeze the funds within sometimes they freeze the bank account linked to the paypal account and then you get into life gets harder territory i prefer to refer to it as reader support _ frequently asked question 2 social media advertising my stance is and will likely continue to be that i d much rather spend time writing more and writing well than spending time fiddling with twitter facebook and banner ads i never really advertised or promoted myself except to link to my work when asked about it and i did okay i think it s better to work toward producing something that sells itself than to try to sell something and hope it s worthwhile your feelings may vary you may be an avid twitterer twit i m not sure of the lingo who tweets like she breathes but my sentiment is that promoting your work like this is focusing overmuch on the destination rather than the journey dwelling on audience overmuch and often in a shallow way without lasting effect rather than tending to the text _ frequently asked question 3 i wrote a book and i ve decided to release it online any thoughts so this is a complicated thing because in all honesty it flies in the face of a lot of the advice i gave above i ve reviewed a few web serials and it s very easy to sort of classify them in two types there s the organic web serial chapters are written within a few weeks of them going live they re adjusted in reaction to the audience and it s all very fluid quality can vary real life gets in the way there are factors to consider and measures to be taken to keep it all moving smoothly there s the rigid w...