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There's also a reality that stories won't move in reads here if it's not suited for WN mass reading audience.
I follow a story that has been sitting on 85k views for a year. It's good quality grammar and story telling, but in depth and with complex arcs.
From what an editor here has advised. As I understand it. WN casual readers aren't after deep, slow build plot lines that is found in traditional books. Simple, fast and compelling is what works.
Stories that requires a lot of expanded thinking and having to take time to understand concepts etc, doesn't cut it. At least from my understanding of editors' advice. So these stories are less likely to reach 1M views within a year.