@CaitlinTureaud
I went to a Bob Dylan Concert last night. Awesome. Natty would have loved it :D Anyway, I will take this experience as a kick in the butt to make finally sit down and start working seriously on Book Six of the Temporal Exploring 101 saga.
@designsforthetimes Dylan performed some of his old songs but also new ones. Plenty of inspiration!
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Logging in and finding that the number of reads on my stories stays exactly the same over months is a frustrating and depressing experience. I submitted Branch Cut for the Wattys, hoping that it might get on the shortlist and perhaps gain more reads that way. Today the shortlist was published and once again, no dice. It is true that I am writing stories mainly for myself, and Wattpad is a great place where to keep them. Still it makes me sad to watch my stories not being read, to the point where it takes away my motivation to continue to write. Idk, perhaps I will go offline for some time and come back if/when I have written a new book.
@WillFlyForFood I kind of get how they may be afraid of people starting to fight the freaking Culture Wars in the Wattpad forum which would be a disaster indeed. In my experience people who engage in the Culture War (on either side of it) tend to get extremely rude and to adopt a my-side-right-or-wrong attitude that is exactly not conductive to logical thinking ;) But then, I have not noticed people starting to act like that in the forum before it was terminated. As to the paid stories, I am not a fan of that feature. It used to be a big part of the charm of Wattpad that you could read all the stories for free here. Anyhow, I need to try and figure out how I can get readers for TE 101. Also, I hope you will continue to post your stories here so I can read them. There are few really good hard science fiction stories to be found here other than yours.
@CaitlinTureaud There are still lots of stories getting lots of reads...but most are watty-porn
@CaitlinTureaud On top of that, the Ranking Algorithm was changed such that any new story by a new or established author is now almost "invisible" and not "presented" by the site to readers. It used to be that stories were slotted into the genre hotlist. There were spots for mega-hits, new stories, stories with lots of comments and most of all, stories with CURRENT interest. The Science Fiction Hotlist was essentially static from 2019-just a few months ago. One of mine was ranked about #84-#104 for that whole time event though it got barely any reads! The VAST majority of "presented" stories are Paid, Creator or Webtoon based. That is why readers are constantly spammed by adverts for things like that "Korean Boy-Band by day, Vampire by Night" series. a few seconds ago • Reply
Hey guys, I have just submitted Temporal Exploring 101 - Branch Cut to the Wattys 2023! Wish me luck! :-)
@designsforthetimes Thank you! Mostly, I am hoping that submitting Branch Cut to the Wattys may draw some additional attention of potential readers to the TE 101 series.
Hooray! I posted Chapter V.34, New Year's Eve, which completes Book Five of the Temporal Exploring 101 saga. Which means I have to start working on Book Six of the series now. Wish me luck!
Cathy and her friends are celebrating "Christmas at Kerrington Manor", in Chapter V.33 of Temporal Exploring 101 - Branch Cut.
'Into the holidays' is the title of Chapter V.32 of Temporal Exploring 101 - Branch Cut, and it is also where Cathy and her friends are headed. Enjoy!
Chapter V.31, L'Hopital's lobster, of Temporal Exploring 101 - Branch Cut, is online now.
I have posted Chapter V.30, Martha, of Temporal Exploring 101 - Branch Cut.
The girls ask Nancy's dad for help, in Chapter V.29, When in doubt ask an Earl, of Temporal Exploring 101 - Branch Cut.
