Motivation and Excitement for Story Slowing Down
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/148176/adventurers-between-the-apocalypses
I remember believing that even if my story doesn't get many views I will still keep writing for myself and the handful of people that may actually be reading it.
Since then the only comments and messages I have gotten are people wanting me to pay for some service I don't want right now. No authentic comments and a stagnating follow and favorite rate.
Things I know I can improve on: Shoutout swaps and general exposure (like the promotion thread on here). Cover Design could be better as it's just AI right now and until I get some disposable income, I will just have to improve the AI prompt before I can afford an artist.
Just wanted to list those because they're known issue for me.
I mainly wanted to discuss feelings as a middling RR writer. The initial burst of 100k words on a consistent schedule was easy with motivation and hype and a general uptick in followers.
However, now that I am chewing through my backlog, and personal matters scuffed the rate at which I grow my backlog, I am starting to wither because I thought I'd at least have more interactions.
Hell, I don't even think any real human is reading my latest chapters so for whom am I rushing to get chapters out? I feel like most of my story is being read by just bots. It's one thing to write for fun and enjoying the process which I still do. It's another to post out into the void.
It's like playing an MMO solo or on a dead server. The fact that the game was intended to host people and there's just YOU is very isolating.
I will still write and still post, if a bit slower than before. But I wanted to share my experience with this to see if there's any that share the same feeling.