User blog comment:Umbrello/Self Promotion Makes Me Feel Weird/@comment-26326346-20150722201126

Yeah, I am with you. I'm always afraid that I'd come across as rude/self-absorbed if I were to message someone on their talk page and ask them to read my pasta. The other day was the first time that I can remember ever self-promoting and I only did it in the comments of one of my stories when a reader said that they ought to start reading more of my stories. I had responded along the lines of "Well, you might like this one, this one, this one, and this one, because they have dark humor and/or good plot twists."

I operate on the hope that my stories are good enough that they'll get spread around by those who stumble across and like them, I also try to come up with catchy -but relevant- titles in the hopes of drawing interest.

I've found that both stories I have made for contests have generated far more attention than any of my other pasta. Based on that, I'm starting to believe that writing pasta for contests are a great way to go for getting attention. Of course, contests are criteria based and I like to write whenever an idea strikes, so I can't bring myself to write exclusively for contests and that would defeat the point anyway, because I write for fun. Recognition is amazing though, don't get me wrong on that XD