Having trouble dealing with lack of response
Let me preface this by saying that I don't care about numbers, this is not what this is about.
So I've been writing fanfic since 2021, and since then I had only ever written for one fandom. It's not a big fandom, at least not currently, and I write for quite a niche ship, but even so, my fics always got a little bit of attention—10 kudos, 4 comments on average, sometimes more, sometimes less.
The problem is that recently I got into a new fandom. I knew it was pretty small, but I didn't anticipate just how small it was. The last two fics I posted for this fandom got... nothing. Zero kudos, zero comments. Crickets.
I don't know how to deal with that, honestly asdfghkl. It's not that I want my fics to be popular, but I want to talk with people about these characters, I want to know what they think of my interpretation of them, that sort of stuff. Without that it's like... What did I post this fic for? If it's just for me, I could have left it in my docs.
I don't know why I'm posting this here, either. I think I just want to talk about it, but if I post about it on tumblr, I feel like I'd be "guilting" my friends into reading fics about these characters they don't care about. I don't know what I should do—I've been trying to get back into writing for my previous fandom, but the new one consumed all my inspiration. I'm stuck.
Thanks for listening to my rambling.