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.

            4 days later

            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?

                  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.

                              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.

                                  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 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.

                                          Gourmet_DAO

                                          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.

                                          Chryiss

                                          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.

                                              5 days later

                                              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.

                                                        CautiousTitan

                                                        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..

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