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.

 

[EdgySubMic]

Since many, many, years I almost never read a series, because back when I did try a few, I quickly learned that most series authors are just stuck in a single idea that they keep on repeating and repeating and repeating but never as well as the one section that I happened to stumble on first.

Sometime last year I did try it once more, because a blog post (so this was not on Lit) that I spotted by accident was really well written and pushed all my essential buttons, ending in a very nice cliffhanger. The next installment was not as good and/but did not really resolve the cliffhanger, so I did start to read one more, only to be majorly disappointed. It turned out that the cliffhanger subplot was just an "accident" as far as the author was concerned. Instead of properly developing what he had (inadvertently?) created, he fell back into boring repetition of what turns him (*) on.

(*) Based on the story content, the author is not a "her".

 

[Duil2]

When I first joined Literotica to publish earlier this year I chose to use a two novella series I'd written and I published it in chapter chunks. Below are the stats if they are of any interest. Views are low but seem to have stayed consistent across the series but still with a drop from the first published piece to the final one.

 

[Voboy]

When I first joined Literotica to publish earlier this year I chose to use a two novella series I'd written and I published it in chapter chunks. Below are the stats if they are of any interest. Views are low but seem to have stayed consistent across the series but still with a drop from the first published piece to the final one.

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Thank dog I'm not OCD. If I was, the alignment settings on that third column would be driving me into a tailspin.

 

[Duil2]

Thank dog I'm not OCD. If I was, the alignment settings on that third column would be driving me into a tailspin.

Sorry - I should have put a trigger warning on it.