LexxRuthless
Captain Corruption
- Joined
- May 19, 2018
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There are a ton of numbers we can look at for our stories. Do any of them "mean more" when it comes to measuring your success as an author?
I just hit my two-year anniversary writing and submitting stories to this site. My first chapter of my first series went "live" on May 25, 2018. On May 19 of this year, my 55 submissions reached a combined total of 7 million views. That seems like a lot, but there are nine individual stories that have more views than that. None of my submissions has yet reached 400k views. I also understand that "views" does not equate to people actually reading my stories. No idea what that would work out to as a ratio. My stories have accumulated just over 94,000 votes at this point. Maybe that's a better benchmark? People have added my stories to their favorites 11,666 times. That's good, right?
I've had a few stories spend months on the first page of the "Anal" category's Hall of Fame. However, I am aware that category has a lot of vote manipulation--or perhaps it's just more obvious there because there are fewer stories. There are certainly better stories than mine in that category with lower scores. Overall, my scores are pretty good, but over time I have become aware what a crap-shoot that is. If you happen to post a story on the wrong morning, and the trolls are particularly hungry... Nom! Nom! Nom!
It will take a long time for the score on that story to recover. Plus, of course, I have steered clear of "Loving Wives" as a category.
Today, I have...3970 followers. I can still recall looking at the number of followers I had three months in. I thought, "What does that mean, really?" Then I looked at some of my favorite authors and laughed at myself. Whatever number of followers I had at that point seemed paltry compared to the authors I was following, but those included Silkstockingslover, HeyAll, TxTallTales, TryAnything and DesurtDawg.
It isn't like I hear from most of my followers. I try to post updates on my Author Profile to keep them up to date with what I'm doing. If I look at the "Favoritest Authors" list (https://www.literotica.com/stories/favauthorsv2.php), I see I'm among the top 60--already ahead of a lot of authors I admire the hell out of and have enjoyed reading here for years. That's flattering, and a little ridiculous really. (And it's not like anyone's ever going to catch Jasmine for followers at the top of that list!)
In short, I feel like I have been successful at this, but I wonder how YOU measure success. Do ANY of these numbers really matter?
I just hit my two-year anniversary writing and submitting stories to this site. My first chapter of my first series went "live" on May 25, 2018. On May 19 of this year, my 55 submissions reached a combined total of 7 million views. That seems like a lot, but there are nine individual stories that have more views than that. None of my submissions has yet reached 400k views. I also understand that "views" does not equate to people actually reading my stories. No idea what that would work out to as a ratio. My stories have accumulated just over 94,000 votes at this point. Maybe that's a better benchmark? People have added my stories to their favorites 11,666 times. That's good, right?
I've had a few stories spend months on the first page of the "Anal" category's Hall of Fame. However, I am aware that category has a lot of vote manipulation--or perhaps it's just more obvious there because there are fewer stories. There are certainly better stories than mine in that category with lower scores. Overall, my scores are pretty good, but over time I have become aware what a crap-shoot that is. If you happen to post a story on the wrong morning, and the trolls are particularly hungry... Nom! Nom! Nom!
It will take a long time for the score on that story to recover. Plus, of course, I have steered clear of "Loving Wives" as a category.
Today, I have...3970 followers. I can still recall looking at the number of followers I had three months in. I thought, "What does that mean, really?" Then I looked at some of my favorite authors and laughed at myself. Whatever number of followers I had at that point seemed paltry compared to the authors I was following, but those included Silkstockingslover, HeyAll, TxTallTales, TryAnything and DesurtDawg.
It isn't like I hear from most of my followers. I try to post updates on my Author Profile to keep them up to date with what I'm doing. If I look at the "Favoritest Authors" list (https://www.literotica.com/stories/favauthorsv2.php), I see I'm among the top 60--already ahead of a lot of authors I admire the hell out of and have enjoyed reading here for years. That's flattering, and a little ridiculous really. (And it's not like anyone's ever going to catch Jasmine for followers at the top of that list!)
In short, I feel like I have been successful at this, but I wonder how YOU measure success. Do ANY of these numbers really matter?