Felicia's Rants | Two

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Rants Two | Advertising

Please don’t let me catch you advertising your other stories on one story. Seriously. I’m a BOYFRIEND fan so I try to read a BOYFRIEND stories to read naturally. One time I found this one story, the foreword seemed pretty promising and then, I saw it.

Freaking ten advertisements and links to other stories! Like what?! These stories didn’t even have BOYFRIEND in it. How are the two related then? I wanted to read about BOYFRIEND. Period. Not about EXO. If I wanted EXO, I’ll find an EXO story to read.

It’s awful. You will find in novels, the additional works by the same author but I’m always really disappointed when I see this on AFF. In my opinion, it’s fine to advertise AFTER you complete the story. At the end of the last chapter, a link to your newest fic? Totally fine. But in the foreword? No. Gods no.

Advertising seems like you’re begging or whining for readers, which ticks me off frankly. I believe that if you’re a good writer, you’ll get the audience and readers you deserve. But if you sorely want readers and subscribers by all means go ahead.

 

 

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SkyeButterfly
#1
Found this in my subscriptions 🥺 thank you for all the tips. I’ll have to save these somewhere as they’ve been very helpful.
meowzwrites
12 streak #2
Chapter 7: Not sure if you’re still on, but I do applyfics, and I describe secondary characters briefly just in case they would like to add said characters in their apps but don’t know what to write. I do agree, however, that everytime else, let the story speak for the character.
Yasha13
#3
thanks for this
Xophias
#4
Chapter 13: This is gold! Really I hope to see more of your writing tips in the future! :)
SkyeButterfly
#5
Chapter 13: This guide has been so helpful so far! I'm definitely going to go back, pore through my stories, and edit the hell out of them. I hope you can update with more tips when you can.
jeannie_jung20
#6
Chapter 6: Ahahaha! I feel you. I have same thoughts. I've been around AFF for quite sometime and only like a handful fanfics. Some are interesting at first, but as the story progresses, it's the cliche. The only pain here is how to find a good author, in the same fandom. :)
1111086
#7
Nice! I really love this. I'm still learning how to write (since I'm not an English speaker) but I guess learning makes perfect? Thanks for your tips, anyway. It helps (and entertaining :D)!
1111086
#8
Chapter 4: Hahaha I agree with this. Changing POV is not my thing but there are some published novels (mostly teens or young adult) with changing POV too, like Eleanor and Park (or maybe it's an exception since basically it's the Author POV). I have love-hate relationship with Author Note here. I dislike adding A/N even at the end of story but I guess, at least because AFF is writing community, it helps communicating with the readers and sometimes it's fun knowing what Author thinks about their story (although adding in the middle of the story is just annoying as hell LOL).
Darthearts
#9
Chapter 4: You sure have a unique, threatening sense of humour haha :) but one thing I disagree with its the perspective thing. I think writers should be allowed to switch perspectives and tell the reader that they're switching povs. Nobody said they can't. And Jodi picoult's books do have various pov changes too. Just my 2 cents :)
treedumpling
#10
Chapter 6: This is so positive and lovely. :) i just wanted to tell you that this thread is amazing and you are doing such a wonderful job. <3