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Chryiss 334K views /1390 collections / 15 PS
240:1 - Active updates since Jan 21 after 4-month hiatus

Waah! 1390 collections :eyes: That's brilliant!

I'm barely crawling to 200. It's like when you watch the clock hand tick slooowly and annoyingly to the next number and it takes foreeeeever. That's my collection add traction.

Trust me to write gay niche :pensive: I can't help it. I want to give my men a fighting chance for love. :smile_cat: Woah. I'm going down an off topic path here. :flushed:

Ironically, my views are clocking up the numbers faster than the adds. I suspect there's a lot of curious cats taking a peek. Or maybe more spambots catching on to my metadata.

StenDuring 107k reads, 6 (six) collections including myself.

Should I make it lucky 7? :smile_cat:

Veronica8

Hahaha :D

It's a sequel so I'm not entirely surprised retention is bad. The first book even comes with a warning I only wrote two out of the planned three books and have no plans to write the third.

Comparing book one and two is kind of interesting as well.

Book one: 208k views : 25 collections.
Book two: 107k views and 6 collections.

That's a fifty percent drop in views and 75 percent drop in collections.

StenDuring wowzers. :flushed: The difference of the two is really different.

StenDuring and the number of words and chapters in each book?
That is, the second book has fewer views? for what period of time is there statistics?

Gourmet_DAO

Eh, if the sequel had more views I'd be seriously worried.

Anyway, book one is some 130k words with the second one at around 110k. Give or take a few thousand each.

I dumped them here one chunk daily for a few months. There isn't all that much time between them in other words. After all we're talking two book I wrote 2003 - 2005. It's basically just an upload of an old work, so I never bothered even pretending to market them here.

120 and 90 "chapters" respectively. That's webnovel chunks and not real chapters. By any proper definition of chapter I think it's 40 and 30 respectively. Well, or something like that anyway.

The "chapter" problem is even more visible for my main. It's really 15 chapters per volume, but here I'm publishing it at almost 70 per volume.

I guess if you have very short chapters you'll get lots of views but a rotten number of collection. Publish 5k long chapters on webnovel and you'll probably end up with piss poor views numbers but a really nice views per collection ratio. Noone's gonna bother clicking into chapter two unless they're already really interested in the story.

StenDuring Thank you for sharing such interesting information. The optimal number of words in the chapter I count from 750 to 1200 words. Bonus chapters 1550-2200 words. It’s easier to read.

If I am very interested in the translation work and there will be 5500 words in the chapter, I will probably read on, but if this is the original work I will probably stop looking at the first thousand words, regardless of good English.

XeRey Welcome! And those are pretty good for a new novel and writer to this site. Webnovel honestly doesn’t have the best system for exposing new novels, so any new collection you receive early on is significant. Just keep writing consistently, that’s the best way to grow. Promoting your story helps as long as it’s not spammy, but the onus definitely falls on you unless your story caters to popular fan service or story types. Don’t suggest that though. Just you do you.

1 collection and 1.300 views this is just sad I can't make anyone stay, just like in real life kkk

Mamelunka Don’t get discouraged! How long ago did you start the story? How many chapters do you have out so far? And what’s the story about?

Mamelunka Yeah if the story type is or isn’t popular, that really affects the mass appeal. I ask if new and how many chapters, because stories that update a lot tend to get more readership, and obviously the longer it’s out, the greater the stats. Sounds like you’re passionate, so keep at it! You never know, some stories jump suddenly.

Veronica8 To My Sunflower
Interest: 553:1 ↓158
Organic Votes: 4

To My Sunflower
Interest: 558:1 ↓5
Organic Votes: 1

WTF?! I'm not moving much at all. I wonder if I should go back to daily releases. :thinking: Nah. I can't do daily. Friday 3 x weekly is the best I can keep up with and ensure quality. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I'll just keep on, keeping on. Either way, I'm finishing this TMS beast.

If I stay vigilant, I should have this story done and dusted by the end of March or early April. Kind of heavy, since the Battle of Iwo Jima kicked off around March during the time.

Veronica8 Wish I had your diligence in writing. My book would’ve been finished months ago (╯°□°) ╯︵ ┻━┻
You’re doing great! And I just realized, I forgot to mention that I really like this last book cover. It’s soft, cute, and nostalgic almost.

Anyone experienced a serious drop in new collections when you got out of the news ranking?(stories less than 30 days).

Because i'm living this, it's depressing. From 30-40 collections a day to barely 3-5. Is there a rise when the story goes above a given number of chapter or you can't expect anything before being featured?

Arkinslize If there are no updates every day, then 1-2 people leave the collections.

Arkinslize I can’t exactly help you there because my novels were before the time of New power stone rankings. So I’ve never experienced such a drop. But with that said, I have plenty of experience with not having any place of exposure with my novels.

Collections will grow slowly as you’ve seen. And updating daily will always help you keep these numbers either constant or growing. The best shot at getting back that exposure you had with the New ranking is to rank on another chart. This might take time. And some genres and lists are harder to rank on. Best rated is a pretty good place to start because you don’t need huge popularity or stats like with the overall or Popular lists, and there’s also trending too. Basically, you just have to work on a balance of releasing consistent content while encouraging readers to be active, ie reviews, comments, voting, etc so that you show up on these charts. The activity list is another possibility, but you’ll have to have very active readers for that. In short, you’ve now hit the grind period. Good luck!

Just write shorts if you want gorgeous numbers.

How do you like 35:1?

Helps that it's one chapter. Pop it and read it. Only two views.

Oh, obviously puny numbers of collections hide in that ratio. 58 to be more precise.