Story Length Question

[KeithD]

Would more readers stay for a 60,000 rather than 3x20,000? I did just submit a single 70,000 word entry rather than break it up, so that will be useful to see once it goes live.

New accounts are named as they pop up here and are given account numbers. A phenomenon is that as they pop up, they skip three numbers (or at least have done so today). The newest member when I checked has the number 5,441,897. Now, if every third number is being assigned, I think it might be reasonable to think that something over 1.8 million accounts have been opened here.

Now, the thought of what all or most or even some of all those separate and distinct folks, if that represents readers who have ever been here in any way, are going to think and act in consort about anything here to the extent that conclusions on what to do to get great ratings and lots of reads and prizes and "yous the best" cheers can be trapped and served up in box really boggles my mind--enough so, that I just go off and write the next story the way I want it to be and submit it for "whoever" to find it and read it--or not, assuming that in any given moment or day there's a whole different mix of readers going through here.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I can see clearly that my chaptered stories drop number of views for each as they go along. Now, I'm horrible about not providing The Next Chapter weekly or monthly but even accounting for that, the numbers drop.

Yes, we all see that drop-off with chaptered stories, and I think it's reasonable to assume you'll get similar drop off in a stand-alone story. But until Lit gives us a "last page read" indicator, we'll never know.