SarahWeaver6 Same, on Wattpad (original platform I posted on) I got one person who followed, but I’m pretty sure disappeared after the 5th something part. And last time I checked, views were under a hundred.

Webnovel is definitely better, but maybe because my statistical standards are risen now, I found Royal Road to be more effective in gaining followers/collections than Webnovel without promoting anywhere. I got 14 people in 6 days when I just barely went over 20 collections a day ago after over two months.

Also, I think the views make more sense. It baffles me how 1 person decides to stick a story in their library after a thousand or so views. Not even poorly written stories should have that ratio.

      Chryiss I'll have to see about the poetry. People were already speculating if I was more of a poet over there, and in fact I almost quit writing prose. It's nothing as extreme as other writers in the past, but I had gotten myself into a rut a bit. And that was the strangest thing, my poetry got my views there. Not sure why.

      But glad to be back to doing prose. Even if it's shorter chapters.

          SarahWeaver6 Actually, I find that poetry gets more views simply because it’s quicker to read and delivers more impact in a smaller space.

          As for me, I’ve gotten into trouble with my writing for being too “poetic” and thus hard to read (I’ve toned it down since). I can’t call myself a poet in any sense of the real form (I've only written a dozen or so poems too). I just like pretty language, imagery, and symbolism, but in terms of overall depth of meaning where one could have philosophical conversation about life on it? Nahhhh~~ I’ve never had that talent of a few simple words/lines that pack a lot of meaning. It’s amazing really.

          So way to go poet! I'd love to read your poems sometime.

              Chryiss Yes specifically a hybrid of French, Spanish, and Japanese forms. Flalaiku is a port portmanteau of Flamenco, Lai, and Haiku.

              Although it ended up rubbing off on how I edited my prose as well: hoping it wont be to overpowering. My work just sort of became its own culture, after fusing cross-cultural elements. So now even though there is a small element of historical fiction there (it's a historical and science fiction fusion), it's really its own thing: specifically Anna-Marie is neither French, Irish, or Japanese.

              It seems like that be harder to translate across cultures in the long term.

                  SarahWeaver6 Holy cow, Flalaiku sounds damn awesome!

                  And I think the mixing is really cool. It adds originality and style to ones writing. I can see how it’s more difficult to translate across cultures, but honestly I think it would do a lot of good to open up people’s eyes to other cultures and histories.

                    130k for 182 collections -> 714 ratio. It's an improvement. A surprise to be sure but a welcome one.

                    10,000 reads but slightly less collection to reads, compared to my older novella. Although that's to be expected. Prequels, I've heard, don't tend to get as many reads as the main novella.

                    mine is 97:1, 8 decrease from the previous one.

                    perks of slowly growing, i guess? and few chapters and slow updates. and romance novel.

                      Today's batch.

                      Zaldizko {BL} Ratio 365:1 ↑8

                      To My Sunflower {BL} 447:1↓24
                      Suspect having it on temporary hold doesn't help. I really need to fix up the timelines, so happy with the sacrifice.

                      To Like A Man {BL} 443:1↑93
                      Wow. I'm gobsmacked. Is it because I gave a shout-out to the Philippines in one of the posts? :thinking:

                        Reinesse Nice! Although I wouldn’t think firsthand that slow updates would help, but I guess I can see how when it’s new.

                        Romance novel eh? Maybe I should just switch over my genre to romance since it technically will have romance... lol just joking, but it is almost half tempting.

                        For a popular genre though, it’s interesting how the huge number of novels under it doesn’t detract from people finding them and picking them up to read!

                        Fantasy seems popular too, but maybe it’s so broad? Because I had 2 collections for the longest time after starting. XD

                            Chryiss it's easier to assume that there are more romance novels but in actuality, there are more fantasy. i'm actually surprised that i have a few readers even if i don't have any ceo on it.

                                Update as of 22/03/2019
                                Ratio: 201:1
                                I think it is worsening. Idk what to do for increasing collections. Can anybody give tips?

                                  Reinesse Yup! There seems to be more fantasy titles (although it’s the romance ones that get contracted most), but in terms of reader popularity, they don’t seem to seek them out as much as romance.

                                  PoppyQueen Which book is that?

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