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Voboy said:
My last two stories have had almost no eyes on them...
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Your Halloween story is quite long, which tends to require more investment from the side of the reader. This may turn off those with a short attention span.

To give an example, I posted 2 stories for this Halloween event:

- A short one (< 2 pages) that currently stands at 18106 views and 1632 votes
- A long one (> 7 pages) that currently stands at 3865 views and 111 votes

In other words, the short one has 4.6 times as many views and almost 15 times(!) the number of votes (which I assume translates to the number of people who actually read it).

So you shouldn't take it as a critique. It maybe simply be because some readers are intimidated by the grandiose scale of your imagination... ;)
 
I think there is a strong correlation between the number of words in a story and the number of viewers.

I have experienced that in my (low sample) stories.
 
StrangeLife said:
Your Halloween story is quite long, which tends to require more investment from the side of the reader. This may turn off those with a short attention span.

To give an example, I posted 2 stories for this Halloween event:

- A short one (< 2 pages) that currently stands at 18106 views and 1632 votes
- A long one (> 7 pages) that currently stands at 3865 views and 111 votes

In other words, the short one has 4.6 times as many views and almost 15 times(!) the number of votes (which I assume translates to the number of people who actually read it).

So you shouldn't take it as a critique. It maybe simply be because some readers are intimidated by the grandiose scale of your imagination... ;)
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Your stories are in Non-Human and Loving Wives, which explains the view discrepancy in entirety. Long stories can get high views, especially when written by competition-wining authors (and more importantly excellent authors) like @Voboy.
 
StrangeLife said:
Your Halloween story is quite long, which tends to require more investment from the side of the reader. This may turn off those with a short attention span.
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Well, no, not particularly: it's 27k words, which is probably about my average. It's significantly shorter than the story I wrote for last year's contest, which nearly won and had about 10k views at this point (a year later, it's over 70k). Tellingly, that story was in a different category: I seldom post to EH, and I doubt its readers were expecting the subject matter I put into this story. My last story in EH was more conventionally horrifying, and did far better (it, too, was significantly longer than this one).

All this is merely an observation; I'm not complaining. There's every possibility I simply missed the mark with this story, but even accounting for the idea that it's not as good as I was hoping it was... it's still got a teensy-tiny number of views. Whatever it is that accounts for "view" data, my story ain't doing it. I still maintain the category is the main variable, but that doesn't explain everything.

I'll be very curious how my next one does. I'm aware that my best stories are probably behind me, which is fine with me... but by any standard, my views are markedly lower than they've recently been.

EmilyMiller said:
It’s maybe Global Weirding, what used to feel like hard and fast rules about this place seem to no longer apply 🤷‍♀️.
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This is something I've noticed in a few different ways. It's making me wonder about several things.
 
So I originally had absolutely nothing in mind for a Halloween story but I'm kinda sorta maybe getting my writing mojo back and have a half finished story that would fit the theme if I can get my shit together and finish it. 🤞
 
Djmac1031 said:
So I originally had absolutely nothing in mind for a Halloween story but I'm kinda sorta maybe getting my writing mojo back and have a half finished story that would fit the theme if I can get my shit together and finish it. 🤞
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You can do it 😊
 
EmilyMiller said:
Your stories are in Non-Human and Loving Wives, which explains the view discrepancy in entirety. Long stories can get high views, especially when written by competition-wining authors (and more importantly excellent authors) like @Voboy.
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Good point - though I still believe that size matters too (even if my girlfriend keep saying the opposite).

Maybe I'll try posting a 7-page plus story in Loving Wives and a 2-pager in Non-Human next year, just so we can get it confirmed... :unsure:
 
StrangeLife said:
Good point - though I still believe that size matters too (even if my girlfriend keep saying the opposite).

Maybe I'll try posting a 7-page plus story in Loving Wives and a 2-pager in Non-Human next year, just so we can get it confirmed... :unsure:
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When you have been more successful here than @Voboy has is probably the best time to think about explaining how things work to him.
 
The Kitsune’s Mask went live this morning.
A Domme’s journey to taking off her mask for Halloween.
It’s a BDSM-themed story that contains 8 sex scenes in 27k words, ranging from 1 paragraph to about 2000 words.
 

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