GreatSage_Master1 Sensei! I bow to your greatness. Seriously, fan fiction is the toughest kind of story to write hands down. Anyone who can pull of quality fan fiction is friggen genius. I've tried my hand at it, crashed and burned.

I agree Enlightened_Being pretty cool strategy and result.

      Haven't done this for a while. Interest and reads has gone from bad to disaster. Not encouraging, but oh well. The risks of being different and niche. Right now, the trends are not in my favour.

      Fourth Zaldizko = 1043:1 Hoping people like cheesy cover.
      Zaldizko = 1520:1 :sob: I give up on this one. Flop at the box office.
      Sunflower = 412:1
      Reborn = 795:1 FIrst time it has ever reached below 1K. Taken almost half a year.
      Dragonieth = 226:1 The only worthy contender.

      I go drown my sorrows in making boys love covers now.

      My collections came back, minus a few that I take for genuine drops.

      Zaldizko is now 347:1.

      Phew! I have no idea how that happened. It definitely was a glitch, maybe when I cleared my cache, this fixed it. idk.

      At another story sharing site, I lost all my followers bar 2. :pensive: I'm being pranked by the universe. Definitely.

      Is this some cultivation test that great authors go through? :pray: I hope it is.

      8 days later

      Hmm. :thinking: I wonder if this thread is still relevant now that we have the new wireframe dashboards.
      I'm old school. Whilst bugs are still being eradicated, I'll still use.

      TMS = 425:1
      Reborn = 761:1
      Zaldizko = 353:1
      4th Zaldizko = 1.150K despite being a poor player here, I'll still bank my focus on self-pub this one next month.
      Dragonieth = 227:1

        May1st hell yeah. In ratio terms, 292:1 so, on every 292 view/read the story was added to a library for later or offline reading. Throwing out the ratio. Having 283K views with near 1K collections is brilliant. It means your story is interesting readers and actively being read.

        Nice work. :grin:

            Hm, it's been some time. Guess I'll post mine too in the wake of this new, glitchy Inkstone.

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            166K views, 1008 collections = 164:1

            RE: Life as a Tree
            61K views, 124 collections = 492:1

            Canaan: My World To Live
            75K views, 105 collections = 714:1

            The last two novels have been left in the dust with worsening ratios. Oh wells~

              Veronica8 TMS = 425:1
              Reborn = 761:1
              Zaldizko = 353:1
              4th Zaldizko = 1.150K despite being a poor player here, I'll still bank my focus on self-pub this one next month.
              Dragonieth = 227:1

              Wowsers. I don't know if it's because of all the background work going in Inkstone. My collection adds keep going up and down like rabbits.

              Maybe peeps didn't like my new chapters. :eyes: Always strange when you update work and collection drops.
              Oh, well, such is life. I'm expecting a few more collection drops since I'm terrible for updates. It's impossible for me to keep a regular schedule.

              TMS = 428:1
              Reborn = 758:1
              Zaldizko = 354:1
              4th Zaldizko = 1.14K:1
              Dragonieth = 232:1

              I think updates is the least of my problems. I've worked out that my stories are too out there for the average reader. Might need to stick with my contemporary romances.

              On that note. The book that baffles me.

              To Like A Man = 352:1

              Been a couple of months since I dropped. I was expecting the collections to return to 0, but they keep going up, making the ratio consistent. :sob: I feel guilty. I can't cave and be fickle. Must stick to vision to keep me on the narrow writer's path. Otherwise, I'll go wonky and off the rails (more so than I already am).

                  With the new dashboard, I wonder if the better stats to follow would actually be valid reads and minutes. If we could see how many people read in a week, that would be good too. Or a percentage of the collections who actually read. But week by week can also provide a lot of zeros for small fics, so it’s not the best in that regard.

                    Chryiss yeah. Doesn't do that much for me since I don't update regularly.

                        GreatSage_Master1 then what about the time constraint. Even if we start a novel and didn't get to update regularly. The released chapters were still there for new readers. does it make a difference in some way?

                            Here is mine now.

                            The Hunter Academy: 265k views and 1.966 collections = 134:1

                            Rebor in DxD with Fate System: 7.730 collections and 1.8 millions = 232:1

                              Hmm. Now that copy/paste protection is in place, I wonder if that will start to make our view counts more realistic?

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