I'm new here and this is my first novel which I have started uploading here. I'm glad that people are reading my novel but I would really love if they will atleast comment below. Because as a writer for being first time, it's kinda difficult to know what audience would like. I mean feedbacks would really help. But there is not a single human yet who have commented and Its disappointing. I just would like to know what they think about the novel and what would they like to see more or what they don't like or whatever so I can modify my novel and according to everyone's likes. I just want readers to help us by commenting and sharing their views which can be helpful for us. It would help us to improve.
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This is really underrated. For authors, no matter how mundane they may be. Comments are our source of strength.
I've noted it helps being a bit shameless at first and include an Authors comment on your chapter begging for comments/reviews. As I say is a bit shameless but it helped a little for my own book.
This is at the beginning, when the author, a beginner, he timidly asks his readers to comment. But as soon as it enters into force, more people will read it. more collections. The author will forget his first readers. He will stop responding to comments. This is somewhat unpleasant.
Sometimes you write comments on the case, on the plot of the novel, and the author stops responding. For unknown reasons. Therefore, there is no longer any motivation to comment on his works, as well as read. The author does not care about the opinions of readers.
Sometimes I just read and don’t comment, sometimes I comment if the story was very interesting!
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Gourmet_DAO Yeah, I hope that authors try and respond as best they can. Regardless of how many total there are. I understand that there are some comments that really aren't the type to reply to, usually the ones that leave no room for a response.
However, I understand that it is disheartening to readers if they feel ignored, so I try to respond when I have something to say.
bigbear51 It is clear that the author cannot answer everyone ... but it turns out when he has none of the readers, his novel only begins to gain momentum, the opinion of the first readers is important to the author. He answers in detail to everything. right here. And then becoming famous, the author becomes a star and forgets to answer his readers.
You have to understand that most people are lurkers. It's nothing against you or your talents, it's just the culture of the net.
There's an article here ( that does a pretty good job of describing the phenomena.
Not having active feedback doesn't mean that people aren't enjoying your work. When it comes down to it you have to keep plugging on for your own sake, because if you depend on the reactions of others for motivation you will fail.
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Weironara1006 There are various reasons why peeps don't comment. Reading is a solitary activity, so if the story is engaging it might not get comments.
Comments may break the reading flow for a person. Or peeps are shy. They just want to read. So they won't comment.
A way to gather feedback for development is secondarily.
Some methods I've used/use.
Compared similar stories and how they're written to see if there's areas my own story could benefit from writing it differently.
Read up on some how-to writing articles from a lot of experts. Many free articles are available on the net.
Read books by English authors as if I was doing a constructive review. Analyze it to pieces for my own learning.
Revise story, learn, revise again. Repeat the process until my story starts to attract some chatter from organic readership.
Also, I've been involved in some writing groups around the net.
I cope with the silent readership by learning more about the craft, experimenting with techniques and story ideas. I keep writing.
Keep at it. And congrats on writing your first novel.