I clarify:

I recently created a community where you can post stories, but I have a question: why didn’t I find such a community in this instance? Is it just that the brain has an easier time absorbing content such as comics or manga, and reading causes excessive fatigue, or are there other problems, for example, writing is harder than drawing?

  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I think a lot of amateur writers feel more comfortable with a prompt or an established theme for the community to get started with. It’s part of why WritingPrompts, HFY, and HumansAreSpaceOrcs were pretty popular on reddit. After that, I imagine it’s just like any online community, a matter of promoting it to people and getting splintered tiny communities to band together in one place.

    It looks like your community is pretty general theme-wise, have you considered maybe a “theme of the week” post, or a sticky where people can dump prompts for someone to pick up and run with?

    • deadymouse@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      6 hours ago

      It looks like your community is pretty general theme-wise, have you considered maybe a “theme of the week” post, or a sticky where people can dump prompts for someone to pick up and run with?

      Yes, I think it would be possible to organize themes for the week, for example, fantasy with an unusual main character, if that’s what you had in mind.