What do you think about... (for writers)?

[naosu]

So... when I've been looking at other peoples books on Amazing and ALSO here, I see that other writers are asking for certain things more than I have been doing. I thought it would be good to do a probe on this and see what some of you think on it? I don't want to be pushy. But we're actually facing a tough market. You can't actually make it without marketing. And there aren't that many ways for us to find readers other than here.

So how often do you think is OK to ask stuff like; "please like, subscribe, give good reviews", etc? People on youtube do it every video. And many of them do it like 2 or 3 times a video, it even gets annoying. (Granted its not the same thing, but stating this for comparisons helps.) People outside this site do put it in every book often at both beginning and end.

Here... I'm not sure I should have something like that every chapter? Or like once every so often? What is the ideal interval? Once every X Chapters?

I don't want to annoy people. But its actually a lot of work to find and build a reader pool.

And curious what you all think?

I also really like to talk to smart people. :)

 

[StoneInky]

As long as it's in the Author's Note, you can write it into every single chapter and readers won't mind.
Personally, I like to be reminded. I often forget to press the like button.

 

[naosu]

As long as it's in the Author's Note, you can write it into every single chapter and readers won't mind.
Personally, I like to be reminded. I often forget to press the like button.

Thank you!

 

[Deleted member 120990]

Readers often dont even see the little donate bar at the bottom. Making a banner and putting it in the note every time is what many successful authors do.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Readers often done even see the little donate bar at the bottom. Making a banner and putting it in the note every time is what many successful authors do.

I never even got mine to show up... may need to put together a banner this weekend.

 

[miyoga]

I think another thing about the marketing question is what you're purpose in writing is.

Now, this may just be me, but I tend to not read the author's notes too much until/unless it's an author that I've become familiar with. What I mean is that I may not read a note until about 25 chapters into a story for a new author I've picked up. Once I know their style and schedule, or if they interact with readers in the comments, then I'll take a closer look at those notes.

That's all as a reader. As an author, we'd all love to get our stuff noticed by more people...or at least, that's what I'd like to say. I'm in the camp of "I wanted to write a story, so I wrote one and posted it." Having more readers would be great, but my stories are short while my ideas are many. It wouldn't do for me to market anything unless I had a body of work to back it up. A total combined word count of less than 10k from 2 short stories is not worth the trouble of marketing, so it will wait until there's more to market to people.