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.

                                        While we're talking reader interest. Don't know how it will go for my upcoming books I aim to self publish now that I've decided the full version via paid channels only.

                                        Example: I'm going to stop posting the Fourth at the end of Volume 5 here, but finish the book offline for ebook/paperback release.

                                        I guess a non profit reason for this decision is piracy countering and taking advantage of them at the same time. 😁

                                        a year later

                                        Hi everyone I just took part in WPC12 and I think I am worse of all 5.9 k views and 12 collections...Can something come down this???
                                        I just want to cry out loud...aaaaaaaa...
                                        I think I am worse writer of all...

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