Lost two collections and then gained one for the Big Hit story. It's a bit concerning, but I'm not surprised as I hadn't updated for four days. However, I did just now with a longer update (1.9k instead of usual 1-1.5k) which will be followed by another soon today. Hopefully, I can reach the 1000 collections mark before the number stagnates or drops. >_< It would be such a great milestone to make.

The other two stories are fine. I suppose readers on my other novels are used to me not updating often or just once a week compared to the Big Hit one which was usually daily. XD

    Chryiss 1:1000 or above Iā€™d say is not so good/kinda bad.

    My non romance novel has been sitting on 1k - 2k for ages šŸ˜¢. I guess it's expected. I do nothing to promote it and updates are irregular. Still, my FL ain't cutting it.

      Veronica8 Save the poppers for when/if I ever achieve it. :joy:

      I'm honestly surprised that my MWTL novel hasn't dropped back down to 1000 like before. I suppose it's due to not updating, so the views are slow, but I'm gaining a few readers from story crossover.

        Hi everyone... I've been trying to figure out this thread but I still don't understand a thing. Am really bad in Math sigh so I need help to understand my stats. šŸ˜Š

        I have a novel has 14k+ views and 56 collections which is, I only updated twice or once a week.

        Then, I have this 186k views and 500 collections which I noticed, often dropping everytime I went to my chapter to reply the comments. My regular updates is twice a day so I've been checking for a new comments then. (and that's often drop my gain collections)

        Please help me to understand the ratio of my collections and views. Thank you so much in advance!

          Elise_Elleneth Seems strange for collections to drop on comments. Then again, who knows why people drop their books.

          14000/56 = 250 views per 1 collection add. 250:1. That's solid. It's better than the example below.

          14000/6 = 2.33K views per 1 collection add. This tells me most of the views are either from author, scrapper bots, browsing, silent or causal readers.

          Hope that helps a bit.

            Elise_Elleneth And for the 186000/500 story, that is a 372:1 collection add ratio. This is still quite good! The more views and chapters a novel has, the more likely that the ratio will decrease because chapter quantity can skew the ratio to the lower end. More chapters = more views after all.

            After you hit views in the 100k's, the ratio becomes less significant. Just focus on your collections number by then. Basically as long as it doesn't drop, that's good. Your readers are sticking with you, so that's most important.

                GrumpyNeighbor Also take in technical reasons. WN had some app problems, I think, a few weeks back when some readers had their libraries wiped and was fixed as a glitch. Technical can also play a part in collection loss/gains.

                  Chryiss

                  Yep. My main is hovering around 500 collections since the drop after a daily updates injection petered out. Views keep increasing by 1 - 2 k a day, but collections are static.

                  Seems I get a couple of dozen new collections (that stick with me) every time I end up on the daily updates.

                  328K views for something in the order of 660:1 ratio, but it'll keep worsening until next daily updates.

                  When my work situation get normal and I can spend more time on my writing I guess exchanging reviews and stuff like that will mitigate the numbers a bit.

                    MishaK Who knows, truly?

                    Today I've got 275:1 ratio on ZQSC. Still getting worse, but I think the ratio is fine overall?

                    I'd say I'd rank it as:
                    100:1 being super good
                    200:1 to 400:1 being good
                    500:1 being fine
                    600:1 to 800:1 being slightly bad
                    and everything over that just being bad.

                        I think I must've peeved some readers with my cover changes? I lost 50 collections across three books in one day. I saw them bleeding out like water šŸ˜¢

                        Poor Reborn is now a contender for StenDuring's worst.

                        The Fourth went from some to almost none.

                        Only Zaldizko held most reader interest.
                        I guess I'm writing stories readers don't want to read. I mean Historical Fantasy is kinda of a hit/miss and just able to survive as genre thanks to Steampunk and Eastern Fantasy.

                        eating keg of ice cream to overcome writing blues

                          Veronica8 you should try and spice things up, what I mean is making some supprise turns in the book, something they weren't expecting, that could piqued interest, if you don't understand what I meant, ask me how?

                              May1st Thanks!

                              I think if I continue to build content, eventually I'll reclaim the drops. Inconsistency is my problem at the moment. So, I'm setting myself up, so I can remain at a consistent pace to a vision.

                              This means somethings will give. I just have to push on and use other means to fight through my self doubts and moments of depression.

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