Amazed at the numbers

[TheeGoatPig]

Give your stories some time. I have one that's been on Lit for over six years now, and has more than 600,000 views. But there are writers here who have views of over a million.

One of my stories has over a million. Add all of them up and it is between two and three million.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Ultimately, I think I am a propagandist - which means that the reader is not getting something 'for free.' Well, not totally for free from me anyway...

Almost everything I learned at an early reading age came through my own intended and deliberate efforts at free public libraries, without which I don't believe I could have ever put into practice things that eventually led to a certain amount of real life success. So I am a big fan of free access to other people's writing, almost no matter what it is.

And as for 4,000 being a low number, it's all relative - if some people read a work and really enjoy it, hey, that's certainly what I aspire to achieving; 4,000 is still a lot of people to fit into a phone booth, for instance. (Okay yes, unless it's Dr. Who's phone booth!)

 

[slyc_willie]

slyc, was that supposed to make me feel better???

In a way . . . .

I was trying to be encouraging. I could also point out that I have stories that have been on Lit for just as long and haven't broken even 10,000 views.

Better, now?

I'm speaking of readers; and cant name one thing any of them earn here.

I was speaking of the writers. All we earn is a little exposure.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

In a way . . . .

I was trying to be encouraging. I could also point out that I have stories that have been on Lit for just as long and haven't broken even 10,000 views.

Better, now?



I was speaking of the writers. All we earn is a little exposure.

OK For me LIT is a lab to try out writing ideas.

 

[slyc_willie]

OK For me LIT is a lab to try out writing ideas.

Really, I think that's the way it should be. This is ultimately a haven for amateurs.

 

[sr71plt]

For me, Lit. is a place to post stories after a long life in the marketplace to broaden their readership. Originally it was a place to store my stories I didn't want to be found in my holdings at home.

 

[lovecraft68]

30,000 views? I thought I was doing well at close to 4,000! Sheesh!

Depends on your category. My first story here was fetish and I was thrilled to see the 3-4k views it received in the first couple of days.

Then I did BDSM and it was a little less, but still exciting.

But my third story was in incest and when it hit 40k in one day I was wondering if the damn thing was wrong. At that time I had no idea how big that fetish really was.

Another variable is how long you have written here and what type of following you have. If you tend to stay with the same category after awhile your stories will get a lot of views in its first few days as people recognize you.

As for the being "amazed" part. I've been here long enough that the numbers don't mean a whole lot anymore, but....

I happened to look at the story I entered in last years Summer Loving contest and was impressed to see it is about 40 votes shy of hitting 3000.

In comparison that debut fetish story? 3 years later still hasn't hit 100 votes yet.

 

[lovecraft68]

For me, Lit. is a place to post stories after a long life in the marketplace to broaden their readership. Originally it was a place to store my stories I didn't want to be found in my holdings at home.

translation:

None of my stories have a number of votes/views or comments worth mentioning.

In fact considering my time here, number of stories I have written and the fact 80% of my work is in one category all my totals are substandard.

Therefore I am going to pretend my numbers do not matter and make up a highbrow excuse to post here.

I also, although my numbers are far from amazing feel the need to keep posting here as I do on every thread, so I can feel mighty and relevant.

For proof of my comments about your half assed numbers one need only look here

http://www.literotica.com/s/amish-honeymoon-cruise

This is the piece of shit story you have plugged in your posts over and over again and even started a thread about (oh, and has everyone heard he's doing it with another author? course you have he said it 30 times)

3 comments and one is yours whining because some halfwit anymouse who doesn't believe you know your Amish.

One would think an "accomplished" writer wouldn't care about that, but when you're as lame here as you are I guess it matters

106 votes for a writer here 7 years in a fairly popular category.

yeah, your numbers are amazing alright.

Most amazing number you have here is the people who have you on ignore.

Now stop "talking" about me when I am not even posting, you obsessed half wit.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Really, I think that's the way it should be. This is ultimately a haven for amateurs.

I struggle to decipher a process I do by habit, interpret behavior.

 

[sr71plt]

Oh, look. The NEMouse game didn't work, so LC is back. (And still oh so jealous)

To steal something you said a couple of weeks ago, LC, is was quiet and pleasant here while you were gone.

 

[sr71plt]

So, SecondCircle. I did hear what you were saying in your last few messages. You have another opportunity here to understand. Just keep an eye on the return of Lovecraft68 and what both of us post. You have another opportunity to get it. His return on this thread is so him in regard to me.

 

[slyc_willie]

I struggle to decipher a process I do by habit, interpret behavior.

I think it's practically impossible to divide into steps our individual writing processes. Even if we could, all we would do is codify something that, for us as writers, do as a sort of innate, almost "magical" process. It would be like finding out exactly how the pyramids at Giza were built. Suddenly, they just wouldn't be quite so impressive.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

It's on account of the regularly quite brilliant insights you post, slyc_willie, that I will go close to breaking a slight rule I have for myself...

This is definitely NOT a haven for amateurs in the sense of it being say, EXCLUSIVELY composed of amateurs - if that was what you intended to mean.

Oh I quite agree this place is fantastic for amateurs and new writers and young writers and as a place to experiment - but one of the great things about it it is also an arena for heavyweights to shoot it out without normal constraints if they want to.

Umm... Considering whether to say this in detail or not... Er... I left the US in around 1989 - no, actually I'm not going to say much more other than that I'm certain there are professionals here. And there are at least half a dozen globally-famous magazine editors who plough through stories here regularly. And that's just the ones I know personally.

 

[sheablue]

I guess I only posted my stories a couple of months ago, so 4,000 isn't too bad. They both are currently existing under a different lit name, so I'm planning to resubmit them under my name and continue with them, as they are both meant to be "chapter" stories. Maybe as I continue to write the chapters, I will get more readers. I still don't really know how to see details on who is reading your stories, and the scores they are getting, etc. Hmmm ... I'll have to figure that out eventually. It's not too big a deal.

I did get a nice comment where someone shared that she had a couple of orgasms after reading my "Master and Maeve" story. That's pretty high praise considering the venue, yes?

 

[sr71plt]

I did get a nice comment where someone shared that she had a couple of orgasms after reading my "Master and Maeve" story. That's pretty high praise considering the venue, yes?

Yes, indeed, it is.