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Jax, as always, brings up good points, especially one that for some odd reason always seems to register on my radar: being a good, active member and reviewing other people's stories. I don't believe you are a new person, SceptileFan, and I could be wrong, but I don't think you're too active a member, in which there's nothing wrong with it, but now that you're a fan fiction writer who feels needs to survive on reviews, being active would be your best bet at this point in time. And also another problem is you
feel you need to thrive on reviews to keep a fan fic alive.
This is a poisonous mindset, and needs to be expelled as quickly as possible. Just because the ratio of views and reviews is always going to be heavy on the views doesn't mean that you should just raise your hands and say "I'm done". We have people who call themselves closet readers, and most of the time it's because they don't know what to say. So if anything, think about these viewers. As far as I know, on these forums, you can't check how many people view each chapter/page like you can on FFN. All you have going for you is the number of views. I'm not going to doubt that most of them click the back button after reading a few sentences, but that'll be because majority of the time, what your story is about is just not their cup of tea, though poor grammar/spelling is just as bad a contender. I took a quick look at your story, and I didn't see any jarring spelling or grammar errors, so that's out of the question.
Could it be the content of your story? Absolutely, but it's nothing bad, trust me. People have different interests and tastes, like Jax brought up--especially the pickiness of people. The forums doesn't have a drop-down on genres like FFN has, so if someone wants to look for a specific genre in a story, they'll be clicking on the thread with a title that catches their eye and hope it's what they're looking for. I'll be honest that I'm a bit picky about stories myself. I'm more likely to read a story with certain Pokémon as the main characters, certain storyline, or even a certain author. Genre also plays a big part in this. I love romance stories, though here we have a specific section just for romantic-plot stories, and I hang around there a lot. I even have a few stories there that have been positively received.
But I also have a story at the moment where I haven't gotten reviews yet, and I think that's because it's not a Pokémon story. I was aware of what I was getting into, and I did it anyway. I'm not regretting my decision. I understand that this is a fandom that is fairly young, and that this particular fandom is not world-wide just yet. Most of the members here are either from North America (mostly consisting of America and Canada), Europe (especially around Great Britain), and Australia. This fandom was just recently released in theaters in Australia, while it's been in theaters here for about two months now. Great Britain is getting it next month. Thus, my audience is fairly small, and I'm okay with that. The story is still rather new anyway, so I have plenty of time to get at least one review by the time I finish it. Even then, I'm not worried about it, so I don't particularly mind if I get a single review or not.
I used to care about reviews when I first started, but over time I came to learn this for myself that I can't please anyone, and thus my audience is a small niche. Fan fiction is a niche in itself, but with sub-niches with their
own sub-niches. Obviously, you're not going to have a cult following unless you get really-really-
really lucky--and there is an
extremely small list of well-known fics out there, especially in the Pokémon fandom. But that shouldn't have to get you down in the dumps. If anything, it should just get you pumped up and excited, and give it your very best. And perhaps one day, with enough experience and maybe some familiarity under your belt, you may have that one special story that gains fandom-wide attention--or even better: creating your own original story and publicly publishing it for a world-wide audience. But for now, just write for the pleasure of writing and telling a story. Someone out there will appreciate you for it, even if they don't get the chance to tell you.