How to get more 👀 on your fic
If you're anything like me, you have over 40 one-chapter WIPs that have been languishing for years without the fire only loyal readers (and their comments) can fuel.
It's a vicious cycle--readers aren't interested in incomplete stories that haven't been updated for years, but I'm not interested in writing more if nobody's reading my work.
Luckily, I've figured out a quick and easy method to get readers for these incomplete fics.
To demonstrate how effective my method can be, let's take a look at Subscribe and Save Me, one of my fics that never got the attention it deserves:
Now, for some reason, this fic hasn't found an audience yet. But we can easily fix that!
Here are some of the secrets that Big Fanfiction sites don't want you to know:
A lot of readers are looking for long and completed fics.
A03, Wattpad, and FFN don't employ people to check that fics marked "complete" are actually complete.
They also don't employ anyone to check that chapters aren't just "Cera loves Ducky" copied and pasted thousands of times.
You can still add more chapters to a "completed" fic after it gets some readers and comments to help wake up your muse.
So, you can see that the best way to get new readers invested in our WIPs is simply adding fake chapters and marking our WIPs complete.
Look how much more enticing Subscribe and Save Me looks with these updates:
Don't be fooled! I didn't actually write 11 new chapters. In fact, most of my chapters just consist of this:
But despite how easy it is, this method has always gotten me hits and comments:
Wow! Two new comments already--and I'll get that comment count up to four when I reply "Nothing," and "Very happy indeed!"
Good luck out there, friends! Hopefully this strategy brings you as much success as it's brought me!