If you have a natural growth, that’s the best thing and it always has the most potential. Features bumps are artificial and rarely lead to sustained growth. When feature ends, the resulting drop kills your gains. That’s my Trapped by the Mafia. It doesn’t have organic readership, so once feature ended, it collapsed.
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when u want to test a motion ur character is doing but ur in public 
can’t roll around on the floor in the library, the security guards will kick me out 
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No problem.
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Yeah. I guess you’re right.
But still, how am I going to reach my audience if I’m in a pile of millions of other stories? Getting featured or ranking higher in a popular tag helps with that. At least that’s what I think.
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OMG 
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It might or it might not. But being reader-oriented and having organic readership outside promos always works. That’s my dream, anyway.
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The first book of the series I’m working on got onto quite a few reading lists (YA, Teenfic, Fanfic, UndiscoveredStories) along with getting Editor’s Pick, Wattpad’s Fresh Reads list, and Wattys 2021 shortlist.
It depends on the profile. I submitted my book to the ambassador run profiles around late July and got into the YA and Teenfic reading lists a couple of weeks after (mid-August). A couple of days after I got onto those reading lists, I got a message from HQ that I got onto Wattpad’s Fresh Reads list for September, which basically highlighted underrated books that HQ seemed to like. I got onto Editor’s Pick in October, and Undiscovered Stories in around December. Recently, after submitting my book over a year ago, I managed to get onto the FanFic reading list, which just shows how crazy some of the wait times are.
I didn’t get a ton of reads from being added to the genre-specific reading lists, and the Wattys 2021 shortlist reading list wasn’t helpful since my book was placed right in the middle. My biggest spike in readers came from the Fresh Reads list. Because my book was the most recent one to be added, I was at the top of the reading list, and it coincided with this reading list featured on the front page of Wattpad. In a span of a couple weeks, I went from 1k to around 12k reads, which was absolutely insane. Editor’s pick was also fairly helpful even though I was unlucky and was on the bottom, and I gained around 3k more reads. While my reads dropped severely after being pulled from those big reading lists, the exposure was extremely helpful in allowing me to cultivate a small base of consistent readers (around 15-25) for my series, which is a vast increase from the 1-2 people that checked out my work prior to being featured.
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half a week before the school year starts and I only have a month’s worth of uploads ;_;
gonna unus annus my way to another month of chapters u-u
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Hello everyone.
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Am at 40K and it’s hard to stop, but I must got to bed. I am actually starting to become concerned I will overshoot my 60K target, because this scene is unfolding slower than I expected.
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mle mle mle mle mlehhhh Marsy is a difficult pov to write and i’m tiiiirreedddddddd
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I keep getting ideas again. Stupid pastry!!
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Pastry, have you considered an ideas notebook to horde things for later so they don’t distract you while you work on current projects.
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I have a notepad. 
yes
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hmmm 
if notepad does not help then, how to solve problem
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… why doesn’t wacky let me type more than one comma in a row. —====‘’‘’////…,!!!@@@
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Don’t sleep or think?
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I had a chat about ways to move past slumps or motivation sinks in writing the other day, and figured I’d share my bag of tricks.
Something that works the best for me is to write an ending when I feel particularly low. That’s why my stories always have stirring endings, lol. My chars are messy and crazy, and I also love them. Once the ending sits there, those few paras of sheer happiness, I need to get them to their triumph. Because if they win it, I win it too. Hope and love are huge drivers and they really helps with beating down negative sentiments.
Writing offline for a while. That’s tried and true, because it takes out every consideration about fortune, lottery and glory out of equation. Those thinggies tend to send even the strong of spirit for a spin. And most of creatives are very sensitive to them.
Read. Read. Read some more. It helps open the heart to others, characters and peeps, so you also escape the cage of ego. Writing about self and for self is journaling. Good stuff, but not a storytelling to others. The more outward the mindset, the easier the words come for me.
Other media exposure instead of reading also does the trick. For me its visual stimulation, like paintings and antiques (I am subscribed to a few artsy and archeological feeds) and figure skating watching (movement and music cross-section).
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So on Twitter today there is #SFFPit going on, for science fiction/fantasy/paranormal pitches. I randomly decided to join with my urban fantasy, made the pitch up on the spot…
And a publisher asked me to submit 3 chapters! I can’t believe it! Might not turn out to do anything, but literally best feeling ever!
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Oh, the pits are still going on? I thought it was done. Or is it just PitMad? Anyway, good luck!
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