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StellaAstaire
Topic: The Troubles of Gaining Publicity
I just started my first story on Fictionpress called "The Incarceration of Guinea Pigs." Before this, I wrote a lot on Quizilla and it was easy to earn readers via the Highest Rated or Most Popular pages on the website. Gaining publicity on Fictionpress seems a lot harder to manage especially since I'm not a fan of forums. How does a writer find readers?
#1 Mar 15th, 3:35pm
Rimma
Probably people will suggest that this can be done by reviewing other people's work. I spend a good portion of my internet time simply reading things other people have written and sending them reviews in the hopes that they will be kind enough to read and review something of mine. Sometimes this works; usually, because it takes less effort on the author's part, I simply recieve a "review reply" in return or, just as usual, nothing. However, what generally annoys me is that I take time to read long chapters and give detailed reviews, and even though it is kind of those few authors who do to review a piece of mine in return, they always choose the piece with the least word counts.

I'm tempted to prevent this by adding on obscenely long portions of pure printer spam (you know, the symbols and smiley faces and numbers and such) to the end of every piece. However, on second thought, this would probably scare everyone away.

If you'd like, I could review your story for you. I don't see why you're not getting much publicity, as even just the name is intruiging.

#2 Mar 17th, 11:59pm

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