Statistics swirl around us these days. Some are world-shattering. As they force us to look inward I’ve a question about some which aren’t.
In fairness my obsession started before the most recent horrors. About a year ago I started taking more interest in my story stats (I have 13 stories published on lit, my most recent submission declined - I’m working on that) so I started recording them daily - does anyone else share this fetish!
I started by hand, but soon discovered that downloading from Lit (how handy!) and importing into sheets was a lot easier, delivering the daily hit much faster.
But to the question. Most of my stories get one to five hits daily, a few get more, up to 10-12, One seems to have taken off in the last few weeks though, 300, 400, today 553. Total for all the rest today was 36.
These days one hesitates to use the term ‘viral’ for anything but the real thing, but this is weird! I’d love to think that the story is so much better than my others (it has my second best rating, 4.73) but I find that hard to believe, especially since it’s the first of a series, and none of the others have taken off this way (the story getting the hits is part 1, 'Ginny Awakens', the rejection is all the way up to part 8)
Perhaps it’s the cheeky series title, ‘Incipiunt Vitae Novae’. But if that's it I’d have expected at least a comment or two, or maybe a flame. Nothing!
Or is it just some search engine arcanity going on?
Thoughts...
In fairness my obsession started before the most recent horrors. About a year ago I started taking more interest in my story stats (I have 13 stories published on lit, my most recent submission declined - I’m working on that) so I started recording them daily - does anyone else share this fetish!
I started by hand, but soon discovered that downloading from Lit (how handy!) and importing into sheets was a lot easier, delivering the daily hit much faster.
But to the question. Most of my stories get one to five hits daily, a few get more, up to 10-12, One seems to have taken off in the last few weeks though, 300, 400, today 553. Total for all the rest today was 36.
These days one hesitates to use the term ‘viral’ for anything but the real thing, but this is weird! I’d love to think that the story is so much better than my others (it has my second best rating, 4.73) but I find that hard to believe, especially since it’s the first of a series, and none of the others have taken off this way (the story getting the hits is part 1, 'Ginny Awakens', the rejection is all the way up to part 8)
Perhaps it’s the cheeky series title, ‘Incipiunt Vitae Novae’. But if that's it I’d have expected at least a comment or two, or maybe a flame. Nothing!
Or is it just some search engine arcanity going on?
Thoughts...