Chryiss :grin: Thank you! Yep this kitty cat can do it. Looking at my work, it is niche, but so was Space Opera and CEO Romances back in the day. Now we have cliches built around 50 Shades and Guardian of the Galaxy. :laughing:

I'm kind of being arrogant in trying for the next best thing. This kitty sticking to her guns :smiling_imp:

Yep, I think one day we'll get our moment. Just got to keep at it and fight the good fight. :grin: Maybe you should ask Edgary to feature MWTL if it hasn't already. I just think it needs more exposure.

I'd ask for the fourth, but he'll likely say "sorry, no thanks". I've received that too many times.

On a different note: The 4th Zaldi was featured again at Tapreads. I think they're doing their best to support niche stories and writers. The fact that they have a category called LGBT, means they really want to be inclusive with their range. Well, they don't have much of a catalogue yet to boost, so probably why I'm getting the feature slots :laughing:

      Stories about merchants or cunning merchant - 10 Collections 86.57K View
      Magic Farmer Dara - 2nd Edition - ursus010 - 28 Collections 26.91K Views

      Veronica8
      'One Piece: Beyond the Horizon' 115vpc, FanFic Genre
      https://m.webnovel.com/book/14317028706041005

      'Haunted System: Path to a Superstar' 533vpc, mostly cause my starts too slow, Horror Genre
      https://m.webnovel.com/book/14246411405750005

      'Creator of Legends: The Evolution Tree' 310ish, used to be 200ish but its hiatus, started writing again but forgot that plot paper at home, so decided to write two new novels instead of continuing this and ruin the story. Magical Realism Genre

      A dropped novel I had 320ish, it was trash though in my opinion, well at least for my writing level, I read a lot worse books on originals though

      My opinion on what status vpc signifies on whats good/bad once you are above 8+ chapters, prologues easy to get marks so doesnt count, they might drop

      150ー/1 Amazing
      151-225/1 Good
      226-300/1 Above Average
      301-350/1 Average
      351-400/1 Below Average
      401-500/1 Bad
      501+/1 Trash, should probably see what you did really wrong and fix it in your next book

      Yes Ik my horror novel is in the last category, but its mostly cause of my slowwww start. Like Id put that n average or below average, just cause your novel is in thay category doesnt mean the novel itself is bad or good, its just what readers more prefer to read and can be used as a criteria to judge your book.

      Just an opinion with my experience of writing 100-200k ish words

          Eslyna Not to sure what vpc is, sorry.

          I guess for me, this collection to views is about audience reach.

          Webnovel has a very specific reading market. If your story fits to their market majority and popular format, it's likely to gain reads and a solid ratio.

          I guess I'm not inclined to say that this ratio defines a quality story (grammar, design etc). How many complaints has been made on this forum about some promoted and popular works being poor or so so quality? Then again, most readers here are forgiving in that sense.

          I do agree on the need for reflection and continous improvements, but there's also the risk of doing too much to suit the masses that you'd loose yourself to the audience rather than the other way around.

          You noted some interesting perspectives. Thanks for sharing them. Good job on the stories. 😁

              My worst baby still seems unable to reach epic level. 130k reads but 16 collections still is ways from 10K:1 :D

              My main story has dropped to the area of 800:1. I still have hopes of seeing it hit one million reads in the far future; associated with a worse than 1K:1 ratio though ;)

                Veronica8 I meant what u said in third paragraph, this is just my general idea of a 'what rank is my book at', lije different genres have more readers etc. Like FanFic argueably the most traffic heavy of genres in WN, which correlates to my ratio, however that is my ost recent book, so its also my best book currently.

                While horror has lesser niche in WN so has less v/c. I also improved from my last two novels, but I tried slower story line to lay uto more info, but I feel like I lost a lot of readers that way which both correlate to the poor ratio, plus my first time writing horror stuff while I don't have much interacrion with thegenre other than video games and My House of Horrorsm which was what made me write the book as I cant marathon anymore. The horror still better than other originals I tried in the genre though which were about ten-twenty, just ones that looked horror focused.

                    Eslyna Aah I get it. I think your insight is spot on about the genres.

                        Veronica8 Thanks! I considered the idea once, but I just have a feeling this isn't the platform for MWTL to break out in any small way. But more than that, if it does get some traction, I'll have to change my weird way of updating to avoid the scrappers (because it's so messy and confusing lol), but I don't want it to get pirated, so that update method's not going to change. (As it is, I haven't gotten any comments or anything on that novel since deciding to keep it up to date, just a few silent collections.)

                          5 days later

                          I'm going to try out the Mass Release program this week and see if it does any wonders. I'm testing with 5 chapter release once the TGIF is confirmed. Otherwise, they get daily release schedule.

                            Chryiss is new thing decided yesterday. I think it's to widen the range.

                                Veronica8 TMS = 430:1
                                Reborn = 727:1
                                Zaldizko = 358:1
                                4th Zaldizko = 1.31K:1
                                Dragonieth = 243:1

                                Zaldizko = 361:1
                                4th Zaldizko = 1.58K

                                Don't think I'll do the TGIF program again. Was time consuming. It's great for contracted because they already have the audience, so can reap a reward of being read. For a no name, you're really doing the mass release for yourself, so no different to Nanowrimo.

                                The dashboard is so detailed in telling me I'm the only one reading my books cause of proof reading :sob: My reading statistics wireframe has flatlined!

                                I think scrappers are still trying to steal, since a lot of my readers that have made a book visit are unknown. So, far no new updates have shown on fake Wuxiaworld and others for The Fourth.

                                    21 days later

                                    Veronica8 TMS = 430:1
                                    Reborn = 727:1
                                    Zaldizko = 358:1
                                    4th Zaldizko = 1.31K:1
                                    Dragonieth = 243:1

                                    Been a while, and still see this as relevant.

                                    TMS = 435:1
                                    Reborn = 754:1
                                    Zaldizko = 371:1
                                    4th Zaldizko = 1.78K:1
                                    Dragonieth = 260:1

                                    Stable, give or take a few gains and drops. This is the amount of interest to my stories since the last update almost a month ago. The fact that non contracted stories are no longer featured (except via the daily update algorithm that's weird to begin with), makes these stats reassuring. Combining this stat with the dashboard wireframes, I can see if those intentions to read become actual. To date, only Zaldizko has active readership. I guess this could be due to my commitment, since my updates are erratic but I do intend to finish these books. Especially the Fourth and Reborn since they're part of a 10 book series.

                                        Veronica8 Interesting dynamics. I have growth, only after sharing the review ... and then silence again. But at the same time, the number of collections increased from 32 to 90. At the same time, they do not comment, but 5-10 people read it.

                                        I plan to finish 3 of 5 stories this year by writing 30–40 final chapters.

                                        Thank you for sharing interesting information!

                                            Gourmet_DAO That's pretty good growth. Nice.

                                            I noticed, writing male lead stories, they tend to attract the silent readers. That's not a bad thing. It's good we can now see something of active reading in the dashboards.

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