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I said I knew you were being snarky. But jokes should apply to the post, shouldn't they? You joked I was calling popular stories bad and thus my own bad when the whole point of the post is that popularity doesn't mean either. Ah, whatever, I suppose I'm being pedantic Yeah, my post was on how...

No, this isn't true. This is a cope that people tell themselves. "This is why no one reads my stuff—I don't spend all day self-promoting!" It's BS Well, on RoyalRoad, the culture is a bit different: you need to get onto Rising Stars, so there's some shady cabal-like discords that review swap...

I get you're being snarky, but you missed the whole point of the post: quality and popularity are weakly correlated. Popularity means neither good NOR bad.

For the skeptics: Yes, I am qualified to speak on this subject. My stories have well over 10,000,000 views, 10,000's of comments and readers, and so on. Across several sites (I write both fanfiction and original novels). For those of you who recoil at my "appeal to authority fallacy", evaluate...

I wonder if these AI degens genuinely think their slop passes for real writing. It's so painfully obvious. Have they never opened a book? I'm embarrassed for them

Sure, but there aren't many good writers that don't know how to use punctuation correctly. Hence, errors usually mean bad writer. And if the mistakes are frequent, it very much does affect the quality of the writing. It's distracting and breaks flow.

I'm being an asshole, but why are you posting to the advice subforum if you bow out this spinelessly? Either give advice and stand by it or don't post at all. Saying "it was just a comment" means you shouldn't have said anything. This is the advice subforum

You posted to "Discussions and Writing Advice". Specifically, in a thread asking about how dialogue tagging works. Your response is implied to be advice. As in, "I believe what I do has merit, so this is what I do." Or were you blog posting for no reason? Why would you respond to a thread in...

Suitable advice for people who don't give a shit

I would be interested if you could find examples. I'm sure a scattered few books across the 100 mil+ published works break this convention. But this isn't some artsy stylistic thing, it's a fundamental publishing standard. Like how you end sentences with periods. And capitalize the first word of...

I don't think you'll ever see this sort of construction in a published novel. Rules for how you use dialogue tags & how quotation marks interact with nearby sentences are pretty well defined. The comma is objectively wrong here, by publishing standards. I personally think there is definitely...

There's gotta be some sort of conflict driving a story, even in slice of life. Zero conflict means nothing is happening. Personally I like external conflicts like bad home life, bullying, insecurity, medical conditions, etc causing problems, and the two romantic partners finding solace in each...

Reflect on why this is

Honestly this is hopeless

So the only popular Ranma fics are the ones that 'cross-advertise'?

And why didn't it blow up on any of the fanfiction-specific sites for Ranma, where other fics do? Despite constant advertisement and interaction within the fandoms? You just got unlucky, did you?

Fanfiction plays on an almost identical playing field, exactly because 'marketing' isn't a thing If one doesn't become popular, it's for a reason. Not being 'bad', necessarily, but something fundamental to the content. In your case it's probably how niche it is, the fact it has too many OCs...

Yes, popular fanfics definitely become popular because of their... marketing tactics

Okay, here you go: You can do it! I believe in you! Just try harder!

Personally I would never want my community to lie to my face. People who care about you will tell you when something is impossible, not encourage you to waste your time