I have started writing this novel around 2 months ago and then I just dropped It. 2-3 weeks ago, I came back to my novel and I started thinking that I should not let this story go to waste and I started writing It again. I don't Intend to drop It now and I update whenever I have the time. Right now It has 16 chapters, every chapter Is around 1k words long or more. In the first 11-12 chapters, almost no one had read the book. I would get around 100-200 views per day. Only 20-30 people put the book In their library at that time so I was feeling kinda down and I wanted to drop the novel since I saw It was not doing very well. To my surprise, a couple of days ago, the novel boomed and right now I have 72 collections and 21 k views. it was as if the book had been reborn from the ashes just like the phoenix bird. Even at this moment, the book Is doing very well. What I'm trying to say Is that If you don't give up and you continue to pursue your dreams then one day you will achieve something great just like my book has been reborn from the ashes. Here Is the link to the book If you want to check it out:
https://www.webnovel.com/book/13625329706573405/DIO's-Bizarre-New-World

The current views to collection ratio Is 291.

    ElectroBrain1 Wow actually i am also wondering on how my book is doing, it has 11 chapters with 1500 words per chapter but now it only has 4 collection, i dont know if this is good or not so good.

        yondi Sounds like my first book's stats when I just started publishing on WN. XD I'd say it's too early to tell because I hung around the almost 1k ratio before slowly dropping to now steadily around 600 (and that's with not updating it in the past several weeks). With each consecutive novel (3 total now), my ratio with each also improved from the previous. So increased tenure on the site and more exposure definitely bumps up that ratio.

          Ah these numbers make my head spin.

          But it interesting since I get little to no powerstones (bless those loyal readers). Thank you for the guide.

          My best work is at 1:635
          I'm just happy it's growing and that new ppl are reading it.

          While my newest doesn't count, it literally has 1 collection add for it's 2k something views.

            niharikabhol It can be a challenge here even if you exhaust Swap Reviews and Shameless Posting. I share out my books to Twitter in hopes of gaining reads. That's why my views can spike and collection adds/votes remain low. You don't need to be a member to read books here. Unlike Wattpad.

                niharikabhol I second this. I can’t think of any way except contests, and without contests it’s much more difficult. Connections don’t seem to help here that much either, meaning—If you’re friends with popular authors, it doesn’t mean that your book will get a huge boost (at least that I’ve seen; I don’t know firsthand, so I’m presuming).

                We should have better recommendations or discovery features for authors onsite rather than the forums.

                    500,400 views with 1188 collections.
                    My ration is 421:1

                    I just hope to get featured at this point.. hehehe... I'm hoping for more promotions to increase my collections :(

                    Chryiss I've pretty much pitched my case for a better Search Function somewhere else in this forum.

                    If WN can spend some money on Content AI in their search function (using metadata mapping), they will be leaps ahead of the game. User Content and AI intuitive features is the big push for Social Marketing right now. Now is the time for Webnovel to gain a leg up in this area.

                    They need to fix their Search function for greater and better ease of story discovery, otherwise, they'll be left behind. I can already see, based on feel of their site, Wattpad is pushing for this opportunity. Inkitt isn't far behind. Neither of them have a model to go off yet, so it's experimental.

                    Ugh! that's my old job talk rambles. I think I just aged myself 10 years with this crappy spiel. :penguin:

                      niharikabhol Same, I "disconnected" basically after high school, so I've lost keeping up connections with hundreds of people. In college, most of the people I meet are "business" connections on LinkedIn. XD

                          505,800 views with 1198 collections.
                          My ration is 422:1

                          I just hope to get featured at this point.. hehehe... I'm hoping for more promotions to increase my collections :(

                          I have 2,740 something views and 8 collections, which gives a ratio of approx 350:1 for a new novel, with like just 9 chapters.
                          I do not know how these statistics work...It that good for a rookie?

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