If Transformers: Prime Discovered Facebook

You All Deserve an Explanation

I don't even think you'll read all of this. You're just here to know what I'm writing about, right? Well, if you don't want the full reasoning, skip to the asterisks. 

You know what I've noticed recently?

People don't seem to appreciate each other's work very much anymore.

"lol wait what do you not see how much people appreciate yo-"

I'm not here to whine or complain, because I appreciate your support as a reader and I understand that I do currently have almost 2000 followers and over 100K reads on my first fanfiction. I'm just telling you all what I've noticed.

Judge me all you want, but I'm writing down my thoughts here and publishing them. Deal with it, because I'm not in the mood to deal with people thinking I'm just whining for attention. If you are, please see the above text.

I've learned how to please the crowd in writing. I learned what they liked and what they didn't. When I started Wattpad the number of followers I had for a while was less than twenty. I started following people, some followed back, some did a follow-for-follow. I wanted to feel recognized (and don't get me wrong, it feels nice most of the time when I can comment and you guys say hi or whatever lol :>) but when I wrote my first book on my old account (that I've since deleted), I had two people really be patient with me and help me along the way. I really appreciated their support. But that was mostly it. Granted, it was pretty bad to begin with, and I've definitely improved since then, but it was nice to be recognized for something I really worked hard on when I was thirteen, or whatever age it was.

When I created this account, I knew, I actually knew, that simply because I wrote about Transformers that I would be recognized a little more than I was. And I was right. Then and Now, my first book, received 3.6K reads with nine parts in total before I took it down. The book on my other account had 1K with around 26 parts when I took it down. While I had TaN up, I realized the "Facebook" thing was popular as well. I wanted to try it for fun, and when people started noticing it, I was really surprised when it exceeded my own fanfiction. I figured that this was what people wanted more, and focused on it more. It was even the reason I was nominated somewhere as "most comedic author" somewhere to receive some type of prize or recognition by one of my readers. That was great, but was that really all I was known for?

Granted, one of my readers (who I remember but will not name) also nominated TaN as "best undiscovered fanfiction", and I was really touched. She was really one of the few who supported TaN completely while it was out. It really meant a lot to me.

So when I had received a few followers, which then turned into tens of followers, and then hundreds, quickly after FB came out, I thought, "Hey! They'll see me publish a new story, maybe they'll check it out because they like my writing!"

I found it interesting that not everyone did.

Of course, I'm not that naive anymore, but then it did hurt a little.

Of course, that book was also Without a Word, which has 135K reads, and I'm not complaining about that. People seemed to really enjoy my story, my plotline, my characters. When people left comments telling me what they liked, or even simple "crying with laughter" emojis that indicated they thought something I wrote was funny, It made me feel great, it made me want to keep going. I've always enjoyed comments more than votes. I liked to see what people thought of my work. When I finished, there were so many people who loved my story and told me so, that I carried that into my next work. I had deleted TaN because I didn't have ideas, and it didn't have any recognition. It discouraged me from continuing because I knew what was wanted.