I notice that in the "What spoils a stoy for you?" thread we talked about fanbases a lot even though it was off topic. So I thought I'd try to keep things organised and creat this topic.

As for my advice, don't write anything you don't like writing. If you don't enjoy it, your reader won't. I also, as a basic rule of thumb, say that you should never post anything of FP that you don't think is worthy of reviews, it will make people crave your work. Lastly, know that you can finish stories in a timely manner before you start posting them (if you aren't positive or want the story to be perfect, finish it before you even start posting it). Nothing can kill a fan base like a really long break in between chapters.

Write on!

Pen.Dragon

PS: I would really like more advice here, this thread, like the other new one, is all about advice! And I would love to hear other people advice or their problems.

I was going to give some advice, but I don't have a fan base, so I couldn't tell you how to manage one. Also, seeing as I don't have one, I obviously am not doing it right. So I guess my advice is: don't do what I'm doing.

Sorry I'm not much help, but nobody else was saying anything, so why not?

Well, uhh ... I think it's kinda hard to tell if you have any fans when you only have one story. You have to post another one and see if any of the same people review. Of course if you are on any favorites or alerts lists, that would prove it. But I don't think that you've done anything that posting another good story wouldn't fix. I mean, I respect you as an author not only because the one story you have posted is hilarious, but because Of Wizard and Giant Butterflies which you co-authored was amazing too! So don't beat yourself up about it, I just hope we can get some good advice going here and we can all learn how to get better at this stuff.

Write on!

Pen.Dragon

PS: THANK YOU SO MUCH for talking on this! I was almost ready to ask Beluga1 to do something on it cause that's what I did with the Landmark thread, but she already figured out how to get lost on that assignment ...

One trick I was told a long time ago is to read and review tons of other stories. On PF it's nearly impossible to get a huge fan base so the next best thing is to get a huge friend base. People are more likely to read your story after recieving a review from you rather than just stumbleing onto your story randomly while searching the gigantic litst of stories that exists.

It's pretty obvious advice, but still usefull.

Yeah, that's definatly a good one. That's why I always reply to reviews, because it makes people feel like they helped you, and maybe they'll review again if you thank them over and over again. I mean, other people return reviews, but quite frankly I don't really want to send my little free time reading stories that I don't necessarily like just so that I can say "thank you" to someone idk.

But I guess my other advice would just be to proofread EVERYTHING! From the title, summary, and the actual body, of a work, you'd be surprised what people miss. Some people 9including me) are really put off by bad grammar and spelling in the title and summary and may not even give your story a chance based on that.

Thanks for talking on this, especially since it took me a while to respond, SORRY!

Write on!

Pen.Dragon

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