Is it normal for readers to not favourite your chapter?

[BenJepheneT]

Favouriting your own chapters are like buying your own books. I don't do that.

Whoever does this must have broken fractures in their arms from patting themselves in the back to many times.

 

[ForestDweller]

Yes. Not every reader would bother favoriting your chapters.

 

[Saileri]

From my own reader experience, I rarely favorite chapters. I mostly do when something really interesting to me happens, my favorite character gets some more attention or I just felt like it was nice. I started commenting a bit more, but I'm still far from being active even in my fav novels.

From my HUGE publishing experience of 3 chapters, knowing how rarely people interact, I was really surprised by how many comments I got and with the fact that anyone actually did favorite my chappies, especially since the first ones are quite lore heavy. I'd say that the hearts will come with time. Don't get discouraged by the lack of activity. Try finding fun in what you write and it will be much easier. Unless u already have lots of fun. Just remember it's impossible to satisfy everyone, and those who like your stuff will slowly gather.

 

[gaylolis]

tbh i see nothing wrong with giving favorites to stuff i write.

like when there's a chapter that really stand out from the rest. it makes it easier to go back and re-read, instead of having to skim hundreds of chapters just to find them.

i kinda write since it's hard to find stuff i would enjoy reading, so yeah.

 

[PandaSempai]

Hi, I'm quite new around here. But I've been wondering, I have a novel, and it's reached around 600 chapter views overall. But so far, only one person has favourited a chapter of mine. Other than that one person, I favourite my own chapters(Yes, it's kinda pathetic). So I'm wondering if it's the same for other new authors as well.

Don't worry dude, you're not alone in this. I have released my fanfiction here for around 2 weeks now but I only got a pathetic 1.8k views and 59 favorites. Not to mention that 10 of those favorites came from me! *sigh* It was just so sad that it kinda discouraged me a bit.

I think it have something to do with the visibility and such of the novels. There are just no rankings for new novels here so it's really hard to see new novels. The readers just click on what took their fancy at the home page so it's really hard to get new readers.

 

[Saileri]

I kinda never rated/interacted with my own stuff. I don't feel right about it. Whatever it was or wherever it was. Being both the IT guy and Marketing specialist I get the idea behind the principle, but as long as it is personal work, I ain't gonna cross that line. Just personal preference.

 

[PandaSempai]

Favouriting your own chapters are like buying your own books. I don't do that.

Hey, it's to at least add some favorites to my already pitiful amount of favorites. Lmao

 

[D.C.Haenlien]

Favouriting your own chapters are like buying your own books. I don't do that.

If I published my own book I would totally buy it, so I can put it on my bookshelf and boost my ego. I probably wouldn’t want my friends IRL to ask if I wrote that. I’m pretty shy about these stuff IRL.

 

[Lord_Drakonus]

If I published my own book I would totally buy it, so I can put it on my bookshelf and boost my ego. I probably wouldn’t want my friends IRL to ask if I wrote that. I’m pretty shy about these stuff IRL.

Same, me too. Even though I talk about novels with my IRL friends, I never talked about my own creations. It feels too risky to talk about it with your IRL friends in many ways.

 

[D.C.Haenlien]

Same, me too. Even though I talk about novels with my IRL friends, I never talked about my own creations. It feels too risky to talk about it with your IRL friends in many ways.

Just don’t have IRL friends, problem solved.

 

[Lord_Drakonus]

Don't worry dude, you're not alone in this. I have released my fanfiction here for around 2 weeks now but I only got a pathetic 1.8k views and 59 favorites. Not to mention that 10 of those favorites came from me! *sigh* It was just so sad that it kinda discouraged me a bit.

Well, at least you have 49 favourites from other people. Mine is only a mere 1.6k overall views, and 16 favourites of which 15 of them are mine, and I've been writing this novel for around 3 months(I took a 1 and a half month of break, so maybe that's the reason). In a sense, it's pretty pathetic compared to newly released novels that instantly gets a lot of views and favourites even though they're a bit formulaic and are only short prologues.

 

[Lord_Drakonus]

Just don’t have IRL friends, problem solved.

*Insert "This is fine" meme* :)

 

[Lord_Drakonus]

Whoever does this must have broken fractures in their arms from patting themselves in the back to many times.

Ouch, that's a jab right into the feels. Cause I do that.

 

[PandaSempai]

Well, at least you have 49 favourites from other people. Mine is only a mere 1.6k overall views, and 16 favourites of which 15 of them are mine, and I've been writing this novel for around 3 months(I took a 1 and half month of break, so maybe that's the reason). In a sense, it's pretty pathetic compared to newly released novels that instantly gets a lot of views and favourites even though they're a bit formulaic and are only short prologues.

Mine is a bit long, around 2.3k words/chapter and it's a fanfiction. So I guess that's why?

 

[Saileri]

Well, at least you have 49 favourites from other people. Mine is only a mere 1.6k overall views, and 16 favourites of which 15 of them are mine, and I've been writing this novel for around 3 months(I took a 1 and a half month of break, so maybe that's the reason). In a sense, it's pretty pathetic compared to newly released novels that instantly gets a lot of views and favourites even though they're a bit formulaic and are only short prologues.

TFW your prologue is like 8 chapters, each 3-4k words I'm really worried it will deter a lot of people expecting hot stuff from the very start, but I just decided to set up everything at the beginning and then follow the premise without having to patch a lot of holes. Whatever happens, happens. Those who will survive, will be rewarded with lots of nice events ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[Moonpearl]

I'm favouriting monster. I tend to see it as just another way to show the author how much I loved their update so, as long as I'm happy or enthralled at the end, I click the heart without much thought.

But I've noticed that it's a slim few readers who will actually use favourites, for some reason. So if you're getting very few favourited chapters, I wouldn't take it to heart.

 

[BenJepheneT]

I'm favouriting monster. I tend to see it as just another way to show the author how much I loved their update so, as long as I'm happy or enthralled at the end, I click the heart without much thought.

But I've noticed that it's a slim few readers who will actually use favourites, for some reason. So if you're getting very few favourited chapters, I wouldn't take it to heart.

Take it this way: if a reader went out of their way to drop you a favourite without you telling them, chances are you've done something great.

Not me though, I remind them to drop one every fucking chapter.

Every.

Fucking.

Chapter.

 

[Ace_Arriande]

Take it this way: if a reader went out of their way to drop you a favourite without you telling them, chances are you've done something great.

Not me though, I remind them to drop one every fucking chapter.

Every.

Fucking.

Chapter.

This is the best thing to do for favorites, reviews, ratings, reading lists, Patreon, etc. It's like the whole "HEY GUYS DON'T FORGET TO SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON, HIT THE BELL ICON, AND SUBSCRIBE" thing on YouTube. Is it annoying? Sure, to many people. But is it extremely effective and infinitely better than saying nothing at all? Abso-fucking-lutely.

Humans are simple creatures. This kind of thing just isn't on most people's minds most of the time. That's also why YouTubers tell people to do it right now because, if you tell them to wait until the end of the video to do it, they're probably going to forget. So, authors should be shameless and annoyingly remind their readers to do all of that seeing as how the vast majority of them simply just won't even think of it in the first place no matter how much they might love your story or chapter.

 

[BenJepheneT]

This is the best thing to do for favorites, reviews, ratings, reading lists, Patreon, etc. It's like the whole "HEY GUYS DON'T FORGET TO SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON, HIT THE BELL ICON, AND SUBSCRIBE" thing on YouTube. Is it annoying? Sure, to many people. But is it extremely effective and infinitely better than saying nothing at all? Abso-fucking-lutely.

Humans are simple creatures. This kind of thing just isn't on most people's minds most of the time. That's also why YouTubers tell people to do it right now because, if you tell them to wait until the end of the video to do it, they're probably going to forget. So, authors should be shameless and annoyingly remind their readers to do all of that seeing as how the vast majority of them simply just won't even think of it in the first place no matter how much they might love your story or chapter.

Just don't go obnoxious on it. Make an ironic joke about it, or mention it offhandedly. The moment you do those "LIKE OR YO MAMA DED" kinds of pushing, I'm just gonna drop the whole thing entirely. You'll call be an irrational man but at least I'm happier without that bullshit.

 

[Saileri]

This is the best thing to do for favorites, reviews, ratings, reading lists, Patreon, etc. It's like the whole "HEY GUYS DON'T FORGET TO SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON, HIT THE BELL ICON, AND SUBSCRIBE" thing on YouTube. Is it annoying? Sure, to many people. But is it extremely effective and infinitely better than saying nothing at all? Abso-fucking-lutely.

Humans are simple creatures. This kind of thing just isn't on most people's minds most of the time. That's also why YouTubers tell people to do it right now because, if you tell them to wait until the end of the video to do it, they're probably going to forget. So, authors should be shameless and annoyingly remind their readers to do all of that seeing as how the vast majority of them simply just won't even think of it in the first place no matter how much they might love your story or chapter.

It's all true and I fucking hate myself for hating doing that. I don't mind others doing that, because I understand it and want to support them, but when it comes to me thinking if I should remind people at the end of the chappy to like or follow if they liked, dunno, I just feel like a shit tier author to do that. It might be weird coming from a marketing specialist, but when it's not about money and just my personal stuff, I just don't feel like using those principles. Dunno, maybe I've studied so many areas of e-advertising and the psychological aspects of it that I don't feel right using them for my own gain.

Don't get me wrong tho, if it were my life sustenance or job-related or whatever, I ain't gonna have any second thoughts. I've studied that shit for a reason.