Your experiences writing / reading a series

[EmilyMiller]

Yep, plateau from chapter three onwards is behaviour I've often seen in my chaptered stories (maybe a further 10% drop-out to the final chapter, depending how long it is).

That's the premise of my metric that maybe one in five people who open Chapter One will go on and finish the whole thing.

Closer to one in three for me and that particular novel, but the general shape is the same.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Closer to one in three for me and that particular novel, but the general shape is the same.

The test will be in five year's time.

My Arthurian novel now has 15k views on its first chapter, 5k on its final chapter. That's a far better overall result than I ever expected. I was chuffed when the final chapter reached a thousand views (which it did after two years), which i could reasonably equate to the number of people who had read the whole thing.

Looking at those stats for the first time in a long time, that's actually an astonishing long term result. It would be nice if the comment count had similarly grown, but, feedback lite.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

The test will be in five year's time.

I converted all of my chapter stories to single submissions three years ago so I won't be able to contribute to the study.

 

[Voboy]

The test will be in five year's time.

My Arthurian novel now has 15k views on its first chapter, 5k on its final chapter. That's a far better overall result than I ever expected. I was chuffed when the final chapter reached a thousand views (which it did after two years), which i could reasonably equate to the number of people who had read the whole thing.

Looking at those stats for the first time in a long time, that's actually an astonishing long term result. It would be nice if the comment count had similarly grown, but, feedback lite.

I hadn't looked at my series data in quite awhile.

Mine's got 12 submissions covering 9 chapters. The first part has 64.1k views since May 2018; the last part, 14.5k since October 2022. Almost every "normal" part has around 11-12k views, with outliers: a couple of the entries won monthly contests, so their views are much higher. Nowhere near as high as that first part, however.

It's worth noting, perhaps, that that first part was conceived and written as a one-off, and didn't get its "Ch 1" added to the title until six months had passed. I assume a good many views came from that period.