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It's possible to get a decent number of views without click-bait cover or title, but it's harder.

From personal experience chapters 30 - 100 is a harsh experience (as a writer). Don't take those numbers as an exact estimate btw. You get a chunk of reads "early on" and then it just dies. Somewhere at three digits number of chapters it seems people give it a read (I'm not saying they stay as readers) just because there are 100+ chapters available.

Also, scrapers will increase the number of "views" the more chapters you have published since each chapter "read" counts as one view. A robot digging up everything you've published once a week will obviously inflate that number the more chapters you realease.

That's why it's of interest to look at the ratio collections versus views.

For example my main novel runs at an abyssmal 1000:1, but it's still the story that by far attracts the most one-off views. Compare that with a short story, one chapter long, that I published here as well. The 43:1 ratio is absolutely fantastic, but that's still easy to get since I have under 2000 views in total there.

In short, don't panic about the number of views unless you're up to some 200 chapters published and still fail to reach 100k views.

StenDuring I've just hit 10k views and got a editor to work on my grammar mistakes I can for sure notice the leap at the beginning since it only took me 3.5 days to hit that 10k

The think I look at as far as readers and collections is the retention rate because at least that way I know what % of that viewer base is staying to read my novel (about 45% right now sadly) but I'm still getting about 9 collections a day so it's not all terrible.

Another start is the daily read (CHS) which I have a 80% on, and the daily read time average. I try to factor all that in to see if I fant predict where my reader base will be at during the 30 day goal I have set for myself (100k views, 250 collections, 80 PS)

My chapters are also only 1.1 - 1.5k words so I'm able to put out multiple chapters a day.

I just started to write my novel here last December. My goal is to be a contractor here. But too bad, I did not advertise my novel well in my first month, cause of Christmas season and new year. I'm not aware as well that you got a chance to be ranked under NEW in your first month. I lost my chance to get more exposure. So I really advice those less than a month novel to advertise it well and have a goal of top 15 under NEW. You'll got a great chance to have more readers.

I wanted to ask though, what is considered 'good' (like views, collection, powerstones) for an author who just write his novel for two months? It will be a great help if I knew so that I can have a goal every week.

I'm currently on week 2 of publishing (started updating on the 4th) and have done daily updates. I feel like that's what got me the number of reads I currently have (sitting at about 7.7k). I personally prefer having a high number of collections over reads, but eh, that's not really happening lmao (1:193).

I think my book has a bit of an identity crisis. It's so many things that I can't really determine what to advertise it as. It's a CEO novel, a historical one, a fantasy all rolled up into an adventure romance.

I think the biggest thing here is like was previously said, the audience. I have my book listed under fantasy romance, because to an extent, it is. I've been looking at my analytics and I'm surprised to see a number of my readers are male.

marldita hahaha really?? It's just funny. Can't imagine male reading fantasy romance. It's cool though.

ValKree I'll be the worse writer. As I have 7 wip online that hasn't been worked on for weeks.

I'll finish them. But I realized I have to one at a time. Before I was rotating through chapter updates. But my life changed dramatically last year. I currently can't do that routine for the time being.

That's another point. Writing should be flexible to life changes too.
So it's ok to write at a pace of comfort and convenience. I see it. As long as there's a regular update rate to completion.

Sounds like you're on a routine. Keep writing.

ValKree I'll be the worse writer. As I have 7 wip online that hasn't been worked on for weeks.

I'll finish them. But I realized I have to one at a time. Before I was rotating through chapter updates. But my life changed dramatically last year. I currently can't do that routine for the time being.

That's another point. Writing should be flexible to life changes too.
So it's ok to write at a pace of comfort and convenience. I see it. As long as there's a regular update rate to completion.

Sounds like you're on a routine. Keep writing.

Veronica8 I hope I can keep the routine, but who knows what will happen. My goal right now is promoting my novels after a year of having barely any views. As long as someone is willing to read my works, I'm happy.
I love to draw also, but that hobby takes up too much time in an already timeless life. I turned to writing although progress is slow and I know exposure is going to help me write better. That's going to be fun.

Avalondra If they're truly male, I would squeal in delight. Fantasy romance usually include epic creatures and fights, perhaps they could be looking for those elements? Still, really cool to see males reading what is typically for females.

ValKree funnily enough, I'm currently in the "CEO Romance" arc of the novel. One of my reviewers said I did voodoo to make them like a romance, so I'll take it XD

ValKree I love to draw also, but that hobby takes up too much time in an already timeless life.

That's cool you can draw. Writing can be a happy medium for art I guess.

I cheat with digital stuff.

ValKree

And here this male writes teen romance. For rather obvious reasons I also consume copious amounts of similar romance anime and manga, or else I wouldn't be able to play around with the tropes.

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I admit to having a bookshelf dedicated only to shoujo manga, lol.

ValKree I'm not sure I know what cheating with digital stuff means. Care to explain?

Mix and match pictures together in photoshop. I use CGI software for people. I can't draw humans. It's a skill I can't grasp. I do my covers because I'm too poor to pay for pros. Even though pros can do better. If I do one that isn't an eyesore. That's a win.

Veronica8 I would not consider that as cheating with digital stuff, but that is just an opinion coming from an unprofessional cover maker. As long as a creator has some ability to make appealing covers using pictures and CGI, I say go for it! (Much better than plain covers with title and author's name, no shade towards those ones though).
I thought I would draw my own covers, however, that would be too much cringe for readers to handle before they even start my novels. So, I'm on the same boat with you and many other writers, but I'm definitely not skilled with editing photos. I don't even use photoshop, but simple editing apps I randomly test during free time at school. Between us, I'd say you're the more 'professional' cover creator as I started editing stuff a month ago?
If I checked out the right novel, the cover on your book is what I would do if I had better tools. Does not sore the eyes at all, so that's a win?

ValKree no shade Thanks. I try my best, but never know the results until it's put out there.

It's all good fun. I enjoy making covers. I'm not as good as Yueyi and others. For me it's like coloring in books, it calms me down at times. I kind of feel double proud that my cover is on my writing. :laughing: Even if it might look like a bleh cover We're all different shades of artists.

Lol, I had my first novel completely flop, with like 60 chapters but only 20k views, and I ended up giving up on it.
Then, I tried a new genre, apocalypse, and it blew up surprisingly. got up to the top 9 in martial arts tag for ongoing original works, which was pretty big for me. Now it has like a million views and like 120 chapters.
Unfortunately, I am not John Wick and lack commitment. I began reading other novels, and I forgot the name of the novel, but I started reading a certain novel, which made me immediately spot the stupid plot holes in my novel, and I kinda gave up on that.
Since then, I have written about 5 other novels, with varying success. Some of them I wrote 20 chapters and after about a year, it only had 40k views, while others were a lot more successful, with around 90 chapters and almost 900k views. Well, my latest novel has started doff incredibly slow. I was at 1.5k views at my second chapter, and after 2 whole days of my 3rd chap being released, I'm still at 1.6k views. No clue if it is a glitch or my story is actually shit, but from what I have experienced, everything takes time. If you can get to 20 chapters, yours views will start increasing. Once you get to 80 chapters, the views will become like a constant stream. With every chapter you release, more people will begin reading your older chapters. so I shall wait, and hope all writers here can also have patience and persevere