Tips on how to write better and have more people read your Star Wars stories.
I will not claim to be an expert, but I hope that someone will read this and it will help them further achieve their goal of becoming a writer. Because I mainly write Sta...
This is actually pretty easy to do as well as avoid. I would highly recommend checking out @ladydragyn and their tip book 'How to Irk a Reader as a Writer', which is where the title for this chapter subsequently came from.
I will just summarise a few points that I viewed as key and important to writers, so you will have to go and read their book to see the rest.
So, without further ado, here is the alternatively titled 'Pissing off a readership'.
Writers who bail on you.
So, these are people who get you hooked on a particular story, whether it's the characters, the plot or the themes. You follow the book along until you reach the end of the published chapters and are waiting in anticipation for it to end. Only for it to never happen...
Looking at you Beautiful Tragedy (republished here by @DreadwingPrime)... Christ I was hooked badly to this book and then it was a cliffhanger. You wait for months, even years, for an update that is never coming.
All without even knowing the author had given up in the first place...
Blocks and blocks of text.
This isn't a street map, and you desperately need paragraphing if your story is just one long block of words before you.
That's a fast way to turn your readership away from even reading your novel.
Breaks make it seem like there's a check point between now and the point of the chapter.
Cliffhangers and Sequels.
For you see, these are ways to ensure your readership will return, in order to find out what happens in the end.
The downside is if readers can't remember what happened in the first place.
Long extended breaks between updates is a sure fire way to lose readers as no one wants to have to reread a story to remember what's going on, unless it is absolutely amazing.
Teasing Author's Notes.
Just when you think an all time favourite story of yours has finally been updated, only to discover that it's actually a stupid note about writer's block or sheer laziness or a myriad of other reasons that they couldn't update.
I'll be tempted to just yell 'fuck it!' and make up my own ending to stop the suspense from killing me instead.
Hostage taking, teaser trailing.
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Hostage taking is when the author makes demands that until they get this amount of reads, that amount of votes and/or this amount of comments, they won't update the story.
