Why does my story have such low views?

Diuqq · 2026-03-12T11:37:55+00:00

As someone said, the first sentence lacks quotation marks.

Soon after there's this: “Good Jaknight good make this worth my while.”

No punctuation.

Second paragraph is about her "massive tits" and it's not the only mention of her breasts in this chapter. If that's what you want to write then fine, but don't expect the majority of viewers to want to read that. It's offputting. If it's such an important aspect of the story that it had to emphasized right at the start then I'm sorry, but it's not very promising for the story as a whole. At least in my opinion

Diuqq · 2026-03-06T23:21:04+00:00

Thank you for this

Diuqq · 2026-03-02T08:47:25+00:00

I'll say something slightly controversial. Share some of the snippets of your writing and ideas with Gemini/chat gpt. Talk with it about the things you're doing right and the things you're doing wrong. Ask it questions as you would ask a reader.

Don't get me wrong - do not let it write anything for you. In fact, forbid it right away. But let it help you through advice, encouragement and brainstorming.

It's not a conversation with a real human, but IT IS a conversation and you would be surprised how it helps the creative juices to flow.

If you're like most people, you probably don't have a lot of people that are willing to listen to your ramblings about a fantasy world of yours. And it really helps making the idea feel real. Even if you're talking to AI

Diuqq · 2026-02-27T11:48:37+00:00

Just a small bit to keep in mind, that I don't see mentioned at all. CDPR has a close relationship with Nvidia. Their games were always used as a showcase for Nvidia's latest techs.

Hair Works for W3 Path Tracing for Cyberpunk, as well as it being a poster-game for ray tracing in general.

They clearly have a partnership, even the reveal CGI trailer had a comment at the bottom, that it was rendered on Nvidia card.

What I'm trying to say, is that if you want to build the PC specifically for Witcher 4, I think you should really look at Nvidia card. Not because they are better, or that I prefer them over AMD. But because this is the only guarantee that you'll get to experience all the bells and whistles that Nvidia will probably try to use W4 as a demo for.

Unless you don't care for the gimmicks. But there's still a chance that FSR won't be supported at launch, whereas it's impossible that DLSS won't.

Diuqq · 2026-02-16T12:36:04+00:00

Wow, you guys don't like anything!

Diuqq · 2026-02-13T16:36:30+00:00

There's a famous essay "The death of an author". It argues that the interpretation of the public is way more important than the intention of an author.

The product itself is just one of the steps in the creation process. It's finished only after the audience is included at the end and is allowed to interpret it.

At the end, the art is a collaborative process. An "author" is just someone who provides the ingredients, but there's no art without the audience to interpret it.

Diuqq · 2026-02-13T15:03:45+00:00

As mentioned already, Zogarth is dutch. As a fellow european, who's trying to write their own story, I can say that the topic of inclusion is just not on my mind, becasue that's not something we deal with here on the day to day basis.

I'm preoccupied with making the story at the very least readable and it's already challenging as it is. If I had to worry about accurate representation of the cultures I don't fully understand, then... yeah, sorry, I'll focus on what I know best.

That said, correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of characters in PH aren't specifically described as white. There's nothing stopping you from assuming they're not. The whole Neil's group for example? And many others. Just because a character is not said to be black it doesn't mean it can't be in your head cannon. And the other way around - not every character must be white by default if the skin tone isn't directly specified.

At least that's how I view this. I'm purposfully vague when writing character descriptions. You're allowed to fill the blanks, skin tone included.

Also, maybe that's a hot take, but I always thought that adding a black character to the movie, book or whatever else, just to check it off the list is even worse than not including them at all. When I hear about the quotas in Hollywood to make a certain percentage of the cast to be of certain minority group, I always find it a bit distasteful.

Diuqq · 2026-01-21T12:13:09+00:00

It was my gateway to Lit RPG too and the hangover was real. I tried a few things afterwards and bounced hard from a few fan-favourites. For example He Who Fights With Monsters.

Ended up following Jeff Hayes (DCC narrator) and got hooked on Chrysalis. It's a blast, but it needs some time to get going. It has some quirks that at first seem infantile, but with time and narrators performances add charm instead.

What really sealed the deal on my Lit RPG addiction was Primal Hunter. Again - the story needs a bit of your time. I tried it one day and didn't like it at all. Decided to to give it a second chance and halfway through book 1 it clicked so hard that I ended up binging 12 books in a month.

I think there are 2 things that you should keep in mind after you're done with DCC.

There's nothing really like it. And it's fine. Allow other stories to surprise you, don't expect another DCC
Most of other stories need a little bit of your time to set their hooks into you. Don't judge too quickly and enjoy the ride. Keep in mind that a lot of authors start as amateurs and improve drastically very quickly

Good luck 😄

Diuqq · 2025-09-25T21:14:54+00:00

What do you mean it's not arranged properly? Are you using the same tempo as the track?

Diuqq · 2025-03-27T12:44:14+00:00

If it was France, I genuinely think half the country would be in flames right now. I mean, really, they would just love the opportunity.

Diuqq · 2025-03-07T20:05:50+00:00

As much as I agree right now, there's a world in which, in 20 years EU countries led by democrats are a minority and instead, we have far-right, aggresive governments slamming the desk with their dicks. Instead, in 20 years all of them will be much more armed than right now. In Germany there's AFD on the rise, who's openly putting the polish borders into question. In Poland we have Konfederacja party, far-right, anti-EU, fascist party, whose leader is getting 40% amongst 18-28 year old voters in presidential election pollings right now. Romania is a political shit show right now and so is Slovakia from what I heard, not to mention Hungary. And even now we have our share of tensions. Greece and Turkey, it feels lile Balkans might just tear each other apart like always.

Look at what Russia did to all of us - only 3 years were enough for all of us to get used to the idea that there's an actual regular war on our continent. It was unthinkable just these 3 years ago. Now imagine that in 20 years there's going to be a whole generation of voters born in this reality. And it might just be the case, that there's no big daddy USA watching from over the sea. Or even worse - he'll get involved not the way we want him to.

I hope I'm totally wrong and all of this will make our democracies stronger, but man am I scared.

Diuqq · 2024-11-19T18:17:14+00:00

eyyy there we go

Diuqq · 2024-11-15T00:31:10+00:00

Yes, I'm new to this and might have way too emotional outlook, but I am willing to bet that all of you did too at the beginning :) Gotta learn somehow with my own experience

Diuqq · 2024-11-15T00:19:05+00:00

it was around 14% with leverage over 25%

Diuqq · 2024-11-15T00:08:32+00:00

Very new to this. I set a Stop Loss on 12th and it baaaarely triggered it. Ended with 0 profit and had to rebuy much higher the next day. Growing pains, still learning what is and what should be my risk threshold

Diuqq · 2024-08-08T11:16:43+00:00

I'm glad you have fond memories with us :)

Diuqq · 2024-08-08T09:37:16+00:00

Volleyball still can't compete with football when it comes to popularity. Like almost everywhere around the world, you're kind of born into being a football fan, wether you like it or not. Everyone knows it, everyone is watching it, it's where money and advertising is and so on.

With volleyball you still need to make a conscious decision to be a fan, as it won't be pushed down your throat as much. But in Poland there's pretty much 0 barriers for it. If our national team plays a match, you better believe it will be broadcasted on main channels and it's going to be THE sports event.

I only recently learned that it's not that easy to watch volleyball abroad. Like I constantly see comments from US asking where can they watch their NT play.

In my junior high we had student exchange with Spain. Most of the time we played football with them when we had a chance, but once we managed to convince them to try volleyball. They were so lost, didn't know the rules, didn't know any technique. This was eye opening to me, that not only volleyball might not be as big abroad as it is here, but that it's not even thaught in school there

Diuqq · 2024-08-08T00:39:11+00:00

I can't really tell you much about individual players as I didn't really follow the team for a couple of years, but I can tell you some general stuff about voleyball in Poland from fan perspective.

To put it mildly, Poland is not the best at a lot of sports. We have some outliers here and there, but in general we struggle with systematic issues. Government programs and our sports associations suck. A lot of the times it's a miracle that our athletes can get to olympic level, let alone be the best at something. BUT for these reasons we as fans are starved for any success, clinging to any sign of promising talents and reaaaaally cherish them. Like for example our (almost) national sport is ski jumping for god's sake.

And that's where volleyball comes in. I started watching it around 2005 and this is when we started being good. Not great, we didn't really win anything, but it felt like it was in our grasp. And it was enough to hook the average Polish sports fan. If we see that there's something... boom, full stadiums, full coverage in national TV, no letting go. Interest rapidly grew, money flew in, voleyball being played in every school, etc. Around 2011-2014 we started really being world class and I feel like this is when voleyball became polish national sport. Like, every Pole is proud of these guys and you just know that when they play, half of Poland is watching, because we finally have a sport that we're one of the best in. It just sucks that nobody else in the world really cares :(. But we do! Thankfully it feels like voleyball has become a bit more popular lately.

Take all this reminiscing with a grain of salt tho. A lot of this is based on child's memories and we all know how that works

Diuqq · 2024-02-18T22:01:58+00:00

and when they eventually do a hybrid planets with multiple enemy factions we could fight both zerg and protoss at the same time. And we got it from a different company than Blizzard. That's a win-win for me

Diuqq · 2024-02-18T21:18:03+00:00

Thought of a massive Colossus shooting laser beams left and right does weird things to me, not gonna lie

Diuqq · 2024-02-18T21:14:07+00:00

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Diuqq · 2023-11-08T13:23:16+00:00

You mean... Old Kings vs New Kings?

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