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For most authors, raising the popularity of their work appears to be a perpetual difficulty. After Webnovel introduced the Original Power Ranking, we sawa significant interest in Original stories. The Webnovel team has summarized the experience we have obtained and believe it would be helpful for you.
(1) Improve the quality of your novel
1. Read as much as possible
We suggest authors to read as many popular stories as possible. It should not be only for enjoyment but to analyze the reason for its popularity. How was the plot set up, how were characters introduced, and how the world's framework was explained.
2. Study writing techniques
We strongly recommend everyone to read the Book Of Authors links, especially newbies. It talks about many practical aspects of online literature. I gurantee you that your creative juices at writing online literature will flow once you read it.
3. A good title and synopsis
A book's title and synopsis is the first choice for a reader to understand your work. Therefore, do your best at writing a good synopsis. An overly empty or simplified synopsis or book name might not be the best choice. Unless you have created a branding of your own, a new content creator should create an excellent synopsis in the limited space to demonstrate the most attractive elements of the story to the reader. For example, the core cheat of the protagonist (if it exists). In addition, do your best to chart a future path for your work. Clearly depict your protagonist's personal charms, as well as give readers an estimated release time and rate.
4. A good Cover
Humans are visual creatures; thus, a picture speaks a thousand words. The dimensions of a book cover is a 600px * 800px JPG. If possible, make use of unsplash.com to obtain high-quality, royalty-free pictures from their database and edit them. In a future Inkstone release, book cover editing tools will be available, helping authors create a high-quality book cover quickly.
(2) Increase the exposure of your novel
1. Attract readers from other websites
There are many communities on the Internet where you can draw readers from. For instance, Reddit. You can visit a highly visited subreddit for target readers. For instance, if your work involves good food, a subreddit related with food is an excellent place for advertisement. Similarly, if your work is related to e-sports, an e-sports subreddit might give you a better chance at gaining readers that might be interested. Just do not violate the Reddit or subreddit's rules on self promotion. Be creative and do not be limited to simply the genres of fiction, novels or the corresponding genre.
2. Make use of Webnovel's Facebook page
Webnovel's Facebook page currently has nearly 300,000 followers. It is an excellent avenue in promoting your work. Authors can periodically apply with our community moderators for a promotion slot (Authors, please provide the relevant synopsis and promotional material). Our administrators will give priority to works with stable releases and relatively rich promotional materials. Through this, you can reach out to more readers.
3. Ask for recommendation from famous people
The translators of famous novels, your author friends, and even some celebrities with many followers can be a good resource. If they can recommend your work, we believe you can gain a huge boost from this promotion opportunity.
4. Make use of the "Share" functionality
Authors can use the Share functionality in the Novel Details page of a work. Through sharing, an author can attract more people to read their novel directly.
(3) Maintain and manage your reader relationship
1. Communicate with your readers
Authors should use the 'Author's thoughts' and comment section to interact with readers. Understand their views of your work and improve or correct your work.
2. Manage your reviews
Under the assumption that there is nonproblem with your content, you can encourage existing readers to generate high quality reviews for your work. This will give future potential readers a positive impression. For a work that has just been listed, guiding your friends and family to write a detailed and real review will also be very useful.
3. Having stockpiles
Have a habit of having stockpiles. Periodically give readers a mass release. Simultaneously, use the Author's Thoughts to interact with them on a deeper level. For instance, set different goals (view counts, number of users that add the book to their bookshelves, Power Stone count, Power Stone ranking, etc). When readers reach the corresponding target, you can mass release the corresponding number of chapters as a reward. In addition, you can also encourage users to share your work on Facebook or Twitter to attract new readers.
4. Daily updates
Stable and high release rates are important steps to increasing user retention. For online literature, having daily releases is an important milestone. To your loyal readers, daily releases gradually instill in them with the habit of reading daily. According to a pseudo-scientific claim of sociologists, 21 days can cause a person to adopt certain practices as a habit. Therefore, regardless if it is actual scentific fact or not, do your best at ensuring daily releases and do not miss a release. It will be very helpful towards maintaining your reader relationship.
5. Make use of Gift Cards
Authors can use Gift Cards to read Premium chapters and also use a portion of them to hand out to the most active readers in the comments. Simultaneously, Gift Cards can be used for deeper interactions between author and readers. For example, promise that you would hand out X Gift Cards in the Yth chapter's comments as a bonus for readers if the weekly views reach 1 million.
(4) Let your Editor know you
If you can maintain a stable release rate (at least one chapter a day) and you are confident in your work, you can attempt to request the Editor to promote your work. It's best to provide a synopsis and a plot outline.
Dana
Project Manager for Original Stories
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