Ringdom Writing Tips | How to Better Attract Your Target Readers? (II)

Hey guys, welcome back to Ringdom Writing Tips!

Previously we’ve introduced our tag library in How to Better Attract Your Target Readers? (I), which mainly explained World Setting and a part of Plot Setting tags. Hopefully, it could make it easier for you to add tags to your stories.

Now let’s look at the rest~

Plot Setting

Special Ability: To some extent, System can also be included in Special Ability, and the two are often used in combination.

Special Ability is not limited to superpowers for fights like what X-men possess; it could also mean super medical skills, the natural ability to attract the opposite sex, or the ability that can help earn money quickly.

The special ability can appear in various forms, such as a mysterious system or a magic ring, like a game’s cheat code, which directly gives the protagonist an advantage over others.

Counterattack and Face-slapping: These two are similar. You can use Counterattack

when the protagonist reverses the situation, or your storyline is based on revenge. Therefore, a novel tagged with Counterattack might also be related to Revenge.

Face-slapping is often tagged for an immediate counterattack, like when the protagonist directly demonstrates his strength when people despise them, which greatly excites the readers.

Weak to Strong or Poor to Rich: The protagonist gradually grew from the lost or deprived person to the world’s strongest, god or billionaire. This tag is often associated with the Counterattack or Face-slapping as mentioned above.

Kingdom building: In novels with this tag, the protagonist focuses on building their power step by step. It is not limited to building a kingdom, but the protagonist can also develop his armed forces, companies, or even ethnic groups.

Harem: This tag implies that there will be a mature plot within the story. The protagonist has multiple lovers or female characters who have unrequited love for him throughout the novel.

Identity of Protagonist

After choosing from the two major tag libraries, we can turn our attention to the Identity of the Protagonist. Compared to the Character of the Protagonist, readers are more willing to choose books based on the protagonist’s identity and profession.

If there is no suitable career tag to show the protagonist’s identity, we suggest that you choose Female lead or Male lead to tell readers the gender of the protagonist.

After selecting from the above three tag categories, you can choose appropriate tags from the remaining if you still have spots left.

In the Tone library, Kicking is usually used for adventure web fiction, indicating that the whole work is filled with exciting plots, which pleasures the readers a lot. Drama is normally used in romantic works, revealing a love story full of twists.

Note that the ten tags are mainly used to show the protagonist. What are they like? What will they do in this novel? In case any confusion generates, it’s better not to choose tags for supporting characters.

In addition to the six categories, specific activity tags are used when the work is an entry for a particular activity. For example, your work should be tagged with ESCAPING-Suspense/Thriller Writing Contest I if you want to participate in the recent Escaping Writing Contest. Tagging your entry will help editors notice your participation sooner.

That’s all for today! We hope it could help you know better about tags on our site!

What tags do you want to add to your novel? Do you have other understandings about the tags?

Leave your answers in Ringdom Writing Guide! Your opinions are the best fuel for our improvement!

(by Rebecca & Chris)