Thank you. I should mention that you already have 76 followers. It took me, I think, over three years to break 100. Although followers may be an overrated metric, since few of them seem to vote or certainly comment.
It feels like the metrics around here can all be a little fuzzy at times, lol. I'm sure your followers enjoy your work.
I guess they must have liked it, but it's hard to figure out what they are up to. I hardly remember any of their names, and I don't get many comments. I admit, I follow a few people, but I may not get to read what they write (sorry guys, I apologize).
In my experience, people are varied in taste and perception. Even when I am aware that I have produced an absolute banger of a story from other honest reviews, I have seen little such appraisal here. Yes, people would rather fave the first rather than all of them, depending on the length you might see less views on a shorter story because they leave and come back later, thus it being possible for later parts which were bigger to have staggeringly more views.
My comments to views ratio ranges from 1100 views per comment up to 60,000+ per comment. The average is 16,000 views per comment in the genres I write. So, 4000+ is okay. My latest story, while it's getting a fair amount of fave's, is at almost 13,000 views and 0 comments, Que Sera, Sera.
Thank you so much for your help! I apologize for the delay in responding. I'm wondering if that's the case; the sections are lengthy, and reading them requires a significant amount of dedication. That could be a turnoff, especially for an unfinished series. Some people may be hesitant to begin such an endeavor without knowing whether or not the piece will be completed. I try to communicate in the comments, but I understand why people are hesitant.
I suppose it becomes difficult to determine how people are reacting to it. I appreciate everyone's feedback on my work. Even the negative ones help me improve my writing. I hope people keep commenting throughout the series because it lets me know how they feel. But you're right: it can sometimes be easier to put a heart or a rating than it is to leave a comment. Feedback is feedback, no matter what.
I haven't spent much time in the Loving Wives category. I guess I never thought about how the categories affect the readership. I know that a few categories have a lot more stories published in them, which I'm sure helps garner an audience.
There is little point in being concerned about what the readership wants or what will be popular, because it's so arbitrary and unpredictable. Don't worry about how kinky or not it is; that is entirely up to you. In fact, everything is up to you. Write whatever you please and, if they like it, the readers will come to you (or maybe they won't!). If you try to figure "them" out first, that's sort of doing it backwards. Imagine that you are Stanley Kubrick and you have complete creative control. True, few filmmakers have ever had that. But there is no money at stake here, no production costs or schedule to worry about, so you do have that control.
Most of the time, The best advice I can give is the one I am trying to follow. HAVE a story. But also have passion. I have tried several times to put out some ideas I had as stories (Like 6 times), but I did not have passion... and that was usually because I had no idea WHERE the story is going. As an example, I have this almost metaphysical story about the struggle between good and evil happening as one man tries to indulge in all the temptations of a garden of eden and... I have no passion for it. But as I think now to a story that is a sequel to the one I have here, but from a POV on the other side... I don't yet know consciously where it's going, but my subconscious wants me to make it. Maybe because I want to shape the idea of community for these people, their way of thinking, how they look to other problems and how much easier life is for their thought process.
In the same vein, a view click is not necessarily a "read."
You implied the view number (or some stat here) would give you "actual reader numbers." No stat here will give you actual reader numbers. There is nothing capturing actual reads here.
