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 😢

              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.

                      Hello! I´m quite new here (Over a month and only writting some fan fiction for fun) Could you explain this thing about ratio? I don´t really understand it.

                      Today I have uploading an my original novel and I have 41 collections and 1812 views. Is it that good for the first day?

                      I´m my fan fiction I have 5839 collections and 1.284.000 views. I guess it is about 1:220. Is it okay or not?

                        GreatSage_Master1 welcome. The ratio isn't an exact science, but it's the only stat we have to trend reading interest.

                        You divide your views by your collection total. 1284000/5839 = 219:1 So, this means, roughly, per 219 views someone added your book to their library with an intention to read.

                        Since you have a healthy number, I'd say readers are actually adding your book and reading actively.

                        Ratio aside. Nearing 6K in collections! Wow, that's amazing. I'll be dancing once I go into 500 on one book or collectively across my portfolio, and that's more than breaking through a ceiling. Your fan fiction must be amazing to attract that much reader attention. I attempted fan fiction once, but I'm not good at it. I found it was very hard to do.

                            Veronica8 So is like that! I always thought the more views my novel got, the better and I didn´t paid much atention to the collections.

                            Well, I have another novel with 958 collections and 130k views (Ratio: 136), I drope it because I didn´t have time to write that novel. Should I continue that novel? I mean for aiming to get a contrat with webnovel (My father is threatening me. if I don´t get a contrat I would have to find a job)

                                GreatSage_Master1 It's best to finish a novel, especially if you have a fanbase following for it. If you have reasons not to finish, as long as you forewarn readers about pending drops, they do grumble, but they're also appreciative of being forewarned.

                                  lenapresents It can be like that for original non contracted works. Since we don't have much chance for exposure on this site and need to leverage off Discord and Forums, as well as other social media accounts.

                                  It should start to grow, once you get a few readers following the story, especially if they post genuine reviews and rating. The story would cycle through the "similar story" AI robotic selection list a lot more frequently.

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