The Unfortunate Bio of TheWalkingDaryl

Venturing Out! (30/09/19)

Hey everyone, wanna have a chat.

Hopefully this title hasn't made you panic and think 'oh no, TheWalkingDaryl is leeeeeeaving us!!!' because I assure you, this is not what is happening.

First off, before we get into this, I apologise that I have been far and few between with being around; I'm always lurking, but I've been rather sick the past two weeks, thought I was getting better and now my stomach has been upset all day and I haven't been able to eat a lot.

But fear not! I am still alive.

So with this said, I want to sit down and have a chat about what's on my mind and has been for the past few weeks.

Everyone take a seat; we gonna have a circle chat.

Now that you're all comfortable, let's begin.

So, it came to my attention a while ago, that my stories haven't been voted/commented on in a while.

Don't get me wrong, I understand why. Too me a week to figure out, but the main reason I believe, is the content, the bands I write about.

My goal this year was to get Outcast to 40K reads, and it's already October and it's still nowhere near that.

I hate doing shameless self-promotions; I try to avoid it as best I can.

I understand why Outcast isn't getting the attention anymore. Let me explain it from my POV.

Outcast was written in 2014; it's been up here for five years now, six come next April.

When I was writing it, BVB were very popular; lots of people wrote about them, there was a lot of choice. BVB were in their peak, and now, they are not.

Sadly, I feel a lot of their fans have in a way, outgrown them; they haven't evolved as a band with their fans; they've disappeared and are doing their own projects.

Which is fine.

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of new kids finding them because they aren't in their peak, they aren't around, which in turn, means BVB aren't flavour of the month, means people aren't looking for fanfics of them, means that my stories don't get found.

This is ok; my stuff is old af at this point. Still my proudest work. I have had so many comments about how much people related to it and the events and how it actually managed to help them through a lot of stuff; I've made an absolutely incredible friend because of that series.

But the problem is that BVB aren't popular anymore.

So in turn, Outcast sits there and waits.

I know what the problem is: I don't write what people want to read.
I write, what I want to read.

A lot of people seem to freak out when you have a different concept in fanfic. I have spoken about the many fanfic branches and will not delve in to it today.

Because you have a different idea, it for some odd reason, takes a while to take off.

Man, I've been on here for nearly six years (come November 23rd it shall be six), and look where I am now.

Absolutely fucking nowhere.

Does it bother me? A bit. Also not really.
Would it be nice to have my works recognised by band marks? Absolutely.
Will that happen any time soon? Probably not.

Those of you who've been with me on here for a while, will know just how much I have and still do struggle on here.

I get very up and down because of the hard work I put in, just to have people not find it or recognise the time and effort.