How do I guaruntee reviews?
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TheCouchEffect
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I don't think there's any way to really guarantee reviews. I guess if you write for popular pairings, or about the hottest topics in the fandom at the moment, but there's no real way to guarantee anything. A lot of people read and don't review, but still enjoy the story. I guess your best bet is either build a fanbase for your fic, or do review exchanges.
matt0044
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Honestly, I keep getting views but I don't hear a peep in return. It's like people are too afraid to hurt my feelings. But I wanna be hurt.
Astinus
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It's not just that people don't want to hurt your feelings. (I kind of want to say "It's the Internet. No one cares about your feelings.") A decent part of what's going on is that people are interacting less with content posted online, and with each other.
There's so much content out there these days that people can just move on to the next piece of media without any thought to what they just saw. No thought given to the fact that another person on the other side of the screen made whatever content they just interacted with. Because there's always something else, and if [general] you stop posting for whatever reason, there's now something else to fill the void. I can think of many examples of this just in the content creators I follow.
You could maybe get some more reviews by saying that you're open to them, or asking your readers specific questions about each chapter. what you're looking for in particular from responses. You say you want to be "ripped to shreds", but....do you really? No one can be really sure how an author will react these days, which is why they don't comment. There's a chance that their perfectly innocent comment or honestly helpful concrit will get lambasted elsewhere.
I think--and this isn't meant to be a negative, just the truth--that your story is very niche. A reader needs to be familiar with both Fairy Tail and Digimon Fusion, which is one of the least popular seasons of Digimon. It's what TheCouchEffect said: writing something popular gets you more interaction. The farther away from popular that you get, the more difficult it will be to find readers.
There's so much content out there these days that people can just move on to the next piece of media without any thought to what they just saw. No thought given to the fact that another person on the other side of the screen made whatever content they just interacted with. Because there's always something else, and if [general] you stop posting for whatever reason, there's now something else to fill the void. I can think of many examples of this just in the content creators I follow.
You could maybe get some more reviews by saying that you're open to them, or asking your readers specific questions about each chapter. what you're looking for in particular from responses. You say you want to be "ripped to shreds", but....do you really? No one can be really sure how an author will react these days, which is why they don't comment. There's a chance that their perfectly innocent comment or honestly helpful concrit will get lambasted elsewhere.
I think--and this isn't meant to be a negative, just the truth--that your story is very niche. A reader needs to be familiar with both Fairy Tail and Digimon Fusion, which is one of the least popular seasons of Digimon. It's what TheCouchEffect said: writing something popular gets you more interaction. The farther away from popular that you get, the more difficult it will be to find readers.
matt0044
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That's not my only fic: https://forums.thousandroads.net/threads/pokemon-heroes-a-nuvema-beginning.1840/
Astinus
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Apologies. I didn't dig far enough. But I'll take a look at what you have written for this, since I know Black/White very well. Can't make a promise of when the review will be up, but I'll leave one when I'm able.
Venia Silente
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Obligatory:
But yeah basically this topic has been covered ad abundeam on the intertubes. There's a mixture of things going on there (and even before, one could argue "lack of commentary" emerges from at least the time national newspapers started pushing "letter to the editor" and op-ed sections deeper into the pages and closer to eg.: obituary / advertising section(s)). Most importantly, we at least as fandoms, we are a niche of a niche (of a niche...); we are not indebted commentary, awareness or reciprocation.
The usual advice I see is to take things back to the basics: if you want reviews, offer something else (like reviews) in return. Even if technically a wholly artificial measure, at least this creates a necessity for commitment among participants that at least offsets the lack of commentary and participation, and there's events of the like in a lot of places. And hey, it helps raise awareness of your fic, which is quite important if you are, to further compound things, writing niche of aniche of a niche of a niche.
But yeah basically this topic has been covered ad abundeam on the intertubes. There's a mixture of things going on there (and even before, one could argue "lack of commentary" emerges from at least the time national newspapers started pushing "letter to the editor" and op-ed sections deeper into the pages and closer to eg.: obituary / advertising section(s)). Most importantly, we at least as fandoms, we are a niche of a niche (of a niche...); we are not indebted commentary, awareness or reciprocation.
The usual advice I see is to take things back to the basics: if you want reviews, offer something else (like reviews) in return. Even if technically a wholly artificial measure, at least this creates a necessity for commitment among participants that at least offsets the lack of commentary and participation, and there's events of the like in a lot of places. And hey, it helps raise awareness of your fic, which is quite important if you are, to further compound things, writing niche of aniche of a niche of a niche.
matt0044
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Eh, whatever your pace is, I can't really force you.