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
Chryiss 3 chapters. I plan around 60 for part one and then part two. I translate my own work, which I finished long ago so I can update frequently.
It is a fantasy novel about a liberated slave girl and a prince.
But because It's a slowburn (Prince gets friendzoned 2 times lol) I'm afraid I'll never hit it big.
But I keep translating anyway, it's fun
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.
Chryiss Yay! The cat wins. :smile_cat: That's good because it's the final cover. I'm not changing it
No love for the cover of the men in their saucy moment?
XD joking. Tbh. I thought the soft pink BL cover would be good click bait. Then again, the story was getting a lot of suspicious lifts in views. :thinking: Was kind of time to change covers before I attracted a gang of creepy pervs.
I'm very happy to leave the book with the cat cover.
Thank you again. I aim to complete many quality tales as possible. I want to leave something of a nobody legacy behind when I bite the dust.
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.
Yeah i noticed this. I also receive notifs for 1 or 2 collections sometimes, but when i check the collection number is the same. Don't know if it's a bug or people dropping the story.
There's also a bug i'm quite upset about. When i'm searching my story manually, either by rating, popular or collections it doesn't appear where it should. Only the 'updated' function seems to work.
More than a month that my stories never moved up or down with these parameters. Always the same stories above and below me when some of them have been inactive for months.
Yeah, i will try to accumulate some chapters maybe to top the release ranking for a week/month. But it means this month will be boring as hell.
But if it's the same for everyone, i guess i shouldn't worry.
26,400 views and 161 collections so 1:164 for me. Though, OP Paladin (abbreviation) dropped 8 days ago. I don't know what a good ratio is so can someone give me the ideal ratio?
CautiousTitan It’s tricky to say what’s ideal because it’s based on a lot of dependents. In your case, I’d say that’s a very good ratio for a week old story. Perhaps are you on the power stone rankings for new stories? Because that amount of collections is above average and suggests increased exposure to people to become readers.
Anything less than 1:400 I’d consider fine for a new novel and under 1:200 as very good.
Chryiss Ok. Thanks for the information. Webnovel doesn't seem to have info on it.
As it pertains to the New Power Rankings, I'm ranked #47 on the list as of right now so I don't know if the ratio will hold or rise as more people see it. I also don't know if my rank will fall or rise so I'll just monitor it for now.
I'll have to keep those two ratios in mind in the future. I guess I'll aim for <1:300 for the lifetime of the novel. It would be nice if Webnovel automatically placed the ratio in the dashboard for us. It seems like a solid data point to gauge the story. Other than Valid Reads of course.
As Chryiss said it depends mostly on exposure. When i was in the new ranking, i was earning 20 to 40 collections a day, since i'm not anymore 2-3, sometimes 0.
I also heard that people earned a lot of collections at once when their novels have been featured for a week. In the end average stories hundred of chapters long will earn tens/hundreds/thousands of collection in a day. So keep writing, that's all you can do.
For easy views and collections though, just add a R-18 tag. You'll be surprised..
Arkinslize Yeah. Just have to keep writing. Make the most of the ranking while I have it.
Working Hard, Smart, and Consistently will probably get me where I want to go.
I have three novels.
Complete one. (With 3M views and 10k coll... 1:300?)
The other one is about 30k views or less with close to 453 colls.= 1:44 (good I guess?)
Don't know if it's good or not.
But you could check out my stories
"Hello, Mr Li" (completed)
"Beware: She's a devil" (WPC99 entry)
"My Crazy Housemate"
