kitten · 11mo
this may sound harsh. expect people to always be there when you update but you dont have a set time for updates so people wont know when you’re updating. the unnecessary hostility and passive aggressive tweets towards your readers will just turn them off. if you want interacts then you gotta start first, go interact with them. in my years as a reader and author for various fans, the authors who get the most qrts are the ones who are approachable. youre a good as fuck author and thats the reason why people love your work.
last, in case there are criticisms or hate towards you, i wont say ignore them cause thats bs. i will say though that u gotta keep in mind that people are allowed to feel whatever the fuck that they are feeling but that doesnt make them right. as long as youre doin your own thing and not aggravating or stepping on other people, youre good. im saying this cause you have a really big potential to be someone big, whether it be as an au writer here on twitter or wherever else. youre a good writer, with a great way with words. hope u wont (consciously or unconsciously) ruin yourself.
dw this doesn't sound harsh at all! i don't mind people that can't be there when i update, its the one that are there but silently bookmarking. i don't think my updating time is an issue, especially when i'm a struggling student. i didn't realise how it may comes off passive aggressive when in my pov i'm communicating what i want. i've befriended few authors in my time as a reader, and one thing they've always expressed is how low of an engagements they're getting but they can't demand bc like you said, people are turned off by it. and its sad because imagine putting yourself out there as a creator and yet feeling like you're not enough for to ask for something silly. i've been writing for fun for years in my silly private, and if i want that to continue i wouldn't have come out. i know what i'm getting into. instead of putting writers on pedestal about what they feel for the people that are reading their works, why don't they just spare likes when they're reading?
and what's approachable in your definition? i am also a reader myself and the fun ones don't actually get good engagement just from their personality alone, and quite frankly i don't know how to be that as i'm quite closed off most of the time.
i know you're looking out for me, and i appreciate that. i don't mind losing readers, if that means i'm comfortable being vocal in my own space, thank you anon 💙
