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Do you have goals for your story? If so, what metrics do you use to determine whether or not your story was successful?
In general, my number one benchmark for the success of my story is my own satisfaction with it. If a month or two after I've published it, I can look back over my story and enjoy it and feel that I accomplished what I wanted to in terms of storytelling and prose style, then it's a success for me. That's as true for a story that didn't get a red H as for one that did.
But it's good to get praise, too, in the form of comments and scores. I really appreciate when somebody says something nice about the story. All other things being equal, I'd prefer to get a high score, but I care more about whether a lot of people are reading the story than about what its score is.
In the case of my incest stories, because I think the category is, from an artistic point of view, generally somewhat silly, I measure the success of the stories to a greater degree by how many people have read them. With those stories my story-writing, prose style, and title, tag, and description choices are made more consciously with the aim of maximizing views.
For me, a story is a success if one person whose opinion I respect gives it maximum stars. Pretty simple really.
Hi!
Do you have goals for your story? If so, what metrics do you use to determine whether or not your story was successful?
Hi!
Do you have goals for your story? If so, what metrics do you use to determine whether or not your story was successful?
Did I finish? Then I consider it a success, no matter how well it performs.