#getting noticed

[richiepawzz]

NONONONO OH MY GOD NOOOŒ

I'VE BEEN NOTICED OH SHIT im literally about to start crying

AND THE POST??

THIS.

This is it. I can finally lay down and die. /ref /j

[tips]

GN-002 Getting Noticed Tag It Up

Tags are your key to getting noticed on Tumblr. They help your content show up on tag pages, search results, explore page, and eventually someone’s dashboard. Users often use tags in posts to add more commentary, which is fun.

But remember that you won't ever generate in search or explore.

To get the most out of your tags, be sure to tag from general to specific. If you’re posting an anime screengrab, it’s not enough to tag it #anime. You’d be competing with thousands of other posts. You should also tag the show title, art style, time period, etc.

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[creativecuquilu]

“Going somewhere?“

[littorella]

The trouble with numbers

Everyone’s always so upset about the number of notes (and pageviews, kudos, etc) they get...

People who get 10 are upset. People who get 100 are upset. And yes, people who get 1000 are still upset.

We’re all valid for feeling this way. It’s natural and deep in our programming to be like this, but that doesn’t mean we have to let number get us down so badly. For me, once I understand why something happens, I can over come it. Maybe you can too. After all, can’t we be better if we know better?

Here’s why we all feel so terrible about stats on our creations: Monkey Fairness.

Monkey fairness is the programming in the old parts of our brains that cause us to lose our minds when we think there is inequity. It happens to gorillas, it happens to chimps, and of course, monkeys. You can see it with Capuchins in this video.

If you don't want to watch (though it is very entertaining), the gist is that 2 monkeys display fairness expectations. When they perform the same task and get cucumbers, both are happy monkeys. They do the task again and one gets a cucumber and the other gets a grape. The monkey with the cucumber loses his shit and throws his perfectly good cucumber away in anger.

This is what is really happening to us when we feel bad about our numbers.

We’re not really upset no one has seen our work. People post things for tiny fandoms and are perfectly happy only 10 people has seen them. We’re upset because we think our work in on par with someone else’s (I mean we certainly spent enough time) but our numbers aren’t as high as theirs.

That’s not pleasant to think about or admit to, but it’s true. 

And it leads us down a dark path of thinking--why does everyone have more than me? why am I so unpopular? Everyone has a ton of followers and I don’t! Do I suck? When we get 100 notes, we wonder why we didn’t get 500. When we get 500, we wonder why we didn’t get 1000.

This sketch got 2000 notes in 3 days--how many followers did I have at the time? 34. There was some zeitgeist I accidentally caught. The drawing I posted right afterwards still only has 50 notes. The reality is none of it makes any sense.

It’s like the fairness experiment, the value of our work has nothing to do with the numbers. The cucumber or grape is arbitrary, these feed algorithms are just randomly pushing our buttons. But we’re not monkeys in an experiment, and we don’t need to do this to ourselves.

Stats don’t mean anything, turn it off, stop looking. You were inspired and had fun. That’s what matters.

[howtomeettaylor]

How to Meet Taylor Tip #3

[2nd-rate-film-school]

The Importance of Screenwriting Competitions and Fellowships - ScreenCraft

Pictured above: Steven DeBose – Austin Film Festival Competition Director, Anna Vecellio – Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition

[michael-langdon-appreciation]

i'm a new writer for the fandom and I was just wonder how do you get noticed? I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I never get notes and it's kinda just...disheartening. maybe my stuff just sucks. I always tag as best as I can but idk :\

I’m sorry to hear that babe! When I got started I made sure I followed everyone I looked up to and when they wrote something I loved or was inspired by I made sure to drop them an ask and engage with them and their stuff, eventually they became mutuals and the like.

I am sure your writing doesn’t suck though and I know it’s hard when we crave the notes and the reblogs and they don’t come, but trust me it isn’t your work! It does seem to take time and people will start to notice you I promise! As long as you are putting out content people will be grateful because we love it all and eat everything up! Tagging is the best way, make them as generic as possible and there’s no shame in a lot of tags, plug plug plug! 

You are always welcome to tag me in stuff, I read everything I’m tagged in and I always try my best to reblog and share it out, but if you don’t want to I totally respect that. Equally drop me an ask whenever and I’ll do what I can to help! ❤️❤️❤️