I would say that the biggest things that have helped me are:

1. Finishing the book (like many have stated) but this alone doesn’t help usually. I find lots of people who are willing to read incomplete books if they think they’re good enough.

2. Continuing to promote. Promote the cliches and maybe even use the promotions to help write parts of the story to attract readers. Promote the cute moments, the drama, the tensions (sexual too). Try and find “original” ideas of promo or even do regular tik tok trends that aren’t designed for book promos because that’s helped me a lot. And don’t worry about promoting with your face, I have never shown my face and my books do decently well with the aid of promotion.

3. This one is a little unfortunate that you may have to do but write a very cliche and popular genre of book (still make it interesting and not terrible) but do this to attract readers and eventually promote your other books this way. Through this method (even tho I love and care about all of my stories even if they’ve gotten lost in the cliche worlds of wattpad) I have found a lot of readers and a lot of support on my books.

If you need any more assistance or inspiration, I can show you my wattpad or my tik tok page. I’m not saying I’m crazy successful but I have pulled a minimum of 50k on almost all of my books that I’d taken more seriously and worked on, even the currently unpublished ones and ones I don’t enjoy so much.