To state first off. I'm very sorry if this is not the place to be posting this but this is the only place I can think of that I will get an answer quickly and from people who actually do look at tumblr's and stuff.

Currently no one follows my tumblr and I can understand why. I'm not the best artist in the world not even close. My tumblr is lacking MAJORLY in quality because I simply can't draw the things I want to draw to create these situations.

However I've been writing for more then 3 years and I know I can write this stuff a million times better then I can draw it. But I don't know if anyone would actually follow a tumblr based entirely off text entry's. Sure they would be very descriptive and detailed. They would tell a much better story and just generally have a better feel to them. But I'm afraid people are too lazy to take the time to read the posts despite the higher level of detail provided by a written entry rather then a drawn one.

If you need an idea of what kinda tumblr it is http://colgates-entertainment.tumblr.com/

But that ^ being said the detail in there is not nearly what I want it to be. The speech is choppy and not what I want to put forth that is why I ask if it would be better to write my entry's with maybe and illustration to fill in things such as Colgates mark because the shape can't be easily explained.

Once more sorry if this is in the wrong place but the people here are much more likely to have a good answer then somewhere like DA that's filled with 12 year olds. So what do you think?

Should I keep drawing these incredibly quality lacking entry's.

Or should I take my time and write them out where I can be much more descriptive and fluent with my entry's.

Lastly to clarify I am NOT advertising my tumblr I'm just asking for opinions. Feel free to keep your cursor on the other side of the browser window from the follow button.

Well, if you already know that writing is your stronger craft, I can't think of any reason that you shouldn't exploit that.

Suineder said:
Well, if you already know that writing is your stronger craft, I can't think of any reason that you shouldn't exploit that.

It's not that I don't want to do it. It's that I'm afraid no one will like my tumblr if I don't draw everything. With a history of failed picture based tumblrs. (including http://mylittlepettingzoo.tumblr.com/ ) Which right now is a simple collection of posts from this website (e621) for people who don't want to sort through images themselves.

I'm trying to find a way to actually have a tumblr that has a follower that's not just one of my skype friends being nice. So I'm asking if posting text would still interest people or not.

Cronolgical said:
I'm trying to find a way to actually have a tumblr that has a follower that's not just one of my skype friends being nice. So I'm asking if posting text would still interest people or not.

I see. I've never really consumed stories in the format you're talking about in the first place, so I don't think I can give you a good answer. Hopefully some of the other weirdos around here can help.

Okay, so let's get serious about this.
First and foremost, you are one person on the internet. You've chosen to do a comic based on a popular subject matter. You know it's not the highest quality. First up, consider how many thousands of other people have also started their own dark MLP comics. You've probably seen a few, but I'd be willing to bet there's hundreds more you haven't. Straight up statistical data and common sense point to one thing: You need to stand out more than you do right now.

I'll be honest, I didn't read your comic through. But even if it was the best writing in the world, it wouldn't matter. Why? Because your blog looks like exactly what it is; your casual medium-at-best effort comic idea. Obviously there's no guaranteed way to become popular on the internet or a lot more people would do it. But here's some things that will help:

PRESENTATION. A lot can be overlooked in the content if you deliver it right. If your blog looks amazing and is fun to navigate, the actual contents of it matter less. If nothing else, people won't feel embarrassed sharing the link.
ORIGINALITY. Like I said, there's got to be a hundred other comics like this. As far as readers are concerned, they want content they haven't seen before. Maybe you feel you really do have an original idea? PROVE IT. you have to demonstrate clearly and quickly what makes you different from everyone else.
DIGESTIBILITY. This means how easy your comic is to read. You know what people hate? Huge blocks of text. If you actually want to write a book, then do that. As long as you're using a visual medium, you have to play with that medium. Keep dialogue or monologues snappy, to the point and with lots of flavour.
CONSISTENCY. Your comic started as a pencil sketch on lined paper? Go back and re-do those early pages. Unless you already have a massive following, few people are going to start there and decide it's worth seeing through to the end. It's important that your whole blog has a consistent look to it.
SELF-PROMOTION. If your bottom line is getting popular, there's no getting around this. Many of the internets biggest stars were shameless about this in early days. People WILL hate you for this, but you'll have to swallow that pride if you really want those precious precious follows.
PATIENCE. Even with all of these, changes don't happen overnight. Set your bar low and whatever you do, don't MOAN that no one is following you. If you enjoy this project, just KEEP doing it. If you don't, what the hell are you even doing?
LUCK. And finally, even following every one of these to the letter is still no guarantee that you'll be popular or successful. Sometimes it's just dumb luck.

Hope it helps.

I think just plain text will make a mediocre tumblr at best.
It is possible, but difficult to be sucessful in a pure text format in today's world(fenoxo).
That being said, if the story, or the humor is good, people will excuse bad art.
Particularly if you are intentionally bad, like if you did a funny stick figure pony blog, I'd bet people would watch that, if it was funny enough.

Halite said:
I think just plain text will make a mediocre tumblr at best.
It is possible, but difficult to be sucessful in a pure text format in today's world(fenoxo).
That being said, if the story, or the humor is good, people will excuse bad art.
Particularly if you are intentionally bad, like if you did a funny stick figure pony blog, I'd bet people would watch that, if it was funny enough.

First let me say thanks for the detailed reply Elad made. I think this is actually the second time he commented on something for me.

Second I can understand a joke now and again but I couldn't handle running a tumblr that looks like one big joke.

My friend suggested 2 things to deal with today's ADD riddled world.

1) Illustration's for each text entry.
2) Write this as a series of fanfics rather then a series of posts on a tumblr. Which makes sense but sometimes sites are very picky and even if you screw up one "your" vs "you're" Which I've done before. Everyone screws up sometimes. They decline your post and that's just frustrating for me to deal with.

Any suggestions regarding that?