Today that Deviation counts 1,002 views, 12 favorites and 64 comments. One example is a foundation of my storyline that I kept on my blog for years, but that I decided to republish on DA to get more feedback, the ALLIFE Project. When I decided to promote the existence of my fiction blog in addition to what I already shared on DeviantART, I made use of journal entries and descriptions in submissions (Deviations) to add links and requests for feedback. Let me add that I did nothing special – marketing-wise – to create this community, aside from making time to hang around DeviantArt to meet other artists and writers, comment on their work, reply to comments on my submissions and engage in discussions on journal entries (DeviantArt's main and personal blogs I have mine, too). It took years to develop relationships and turn strangers into fans. Since joining the community in 2004, I built a community of fans around my gallery, all people who were genuinely attracted by my work and whom I built friendships with.īeing friendly and open-minded is what works on DeviantART the best, because artists and writers don't use the platform merely for the numbers and critiques, but to build relationships above all. I already had a reputation on DeviantArt as an artist and a writer. The front page is where I blog about news, ideas, excerpts, interviews, initiatives and communicate with my small fandom. The blog itself is a website to host my stories and artwork. My fiction blog is about a series of short stories and illustrations that have robots, humans and aliens as the protagonists. This post is about how I used DeviantART in 2013 to bring 20+ fans/readers to my fiction blog and to follow my updates online and via a private mailing list. It might work with other areas as well, if you are creative enough to bring the best of both worlds (your niche and visual content) together. Having your content and a community on DA helps if your blogging niche falls into one of the following areas: When Is DeviantART the Right Promotion Channel for You? Links supported in descriptions and text submissions (called Deviations).DA is a social network from head to toe, and while it is mainly geared for artists and fiction writers, it offers plenty of social opportunities to bloggers as well, including: That's a pity, because DeviantART (I'll call it DA for short sometimes in this post) is much more than a gallery page for artists. I added DeviantART to my list of unusual yet effective platforms for bloggers here at WHSR and quite a lot of readers told me they had never even considered DeviantART to promote their blog posts. Have you ever given DeviantART a chance as your content promotion channel?

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