Eye-opening figures!

[Alex De Kok]

And I don't mean the girls.

In an idle moment, I was looking at my scores. I do try not to, honest. However, there I was...

The views figures caught my eye, so I decided to tot them up. I have nineteen stories or part stories on Literotica and between them they have amassed over half a million views.

Now, that's scary!

If I have that many, how many do the good writers have? I'm not asking you all to rush off and tally your own, but it does tend to make one stop and ponder.

Alex

PS: Over two hundred thousand of the views were for two versions of the same tale, about brother/sister incest. Hmm...

 

[wildsweetone]

...they were counting? darn. caught again.

 

[Chicklet]

yeah the # of views for each story is spectacular. And then when you look at the most popular stories by views in that part of the toplist...whew. sort of blows you away. It's hard to imagine that many twisted people out there = )

Chicklet

 

[MathGirl]

Figgers

Hmmmm....... I have a total of about 380,000, but the most often viewed story is only about 40,000.

I'm not sure what that shows, except that there are lots of perv... devoted readers out there.

 

[Whispersecret]

I hate to burst the bubble, but views doesn't equal reads. I can click on a really bad story and immediately back click, and it still registers as a view.

(Sorry, you know I like ya, Alex!)

 

[Alex De Kok]

Whisper,

yeah, I know! I should have made that point clear. But if only one in four read on, it's still frightening.

Now if even one in ten of that one in four would send feedback!

Alex

 

[MathGirl]

Feedback

Now if even one in ten of that one in four would send feedback!

Do you ask your readers for feedback? I always put a thing at the bottom that says,

"I love your comments. Votes, too.
I try to respond to all"

Then I always write a one sentence note thanking anyone who sends feedback. I get quite a lot of comments, and people seem to appreciate that I thank them it. I get lots of people who write to me after each story appears.

Of course some of the comments are rather weird. I mentioned on another thread a few of the bizarre things I've received. I'll just repeat one here: A gay gentleman wrote to tell me that he sleeps in the crawl space under his mobile home because his roommate's feet smell so bad.

Anyway, it never hurts to ask for comments. Seems to work for me.

Diane the Ever Helpful

 

[jfinn]

...they have amassed over half a million views.

PS: Over two hundred thousand of the views were for two versions of the same tale, about brother/sister incest. Hmm...

I'm in awe. I could probably write a hundred stories and not get that many hits. LOL I totaled up all 18 of my postings and only came up with about 85,000, which I thought was pretty good until I saw yours.

I do get a lot of feedback though. I'm over the 300 email mark for Amy's Smile from Lit alone (I post other places too) so I'm probably way over the curve when I've read what other people have received. I also have about the same amount for my gay series. Don't know why exactly, except I think readers in romance and gay sections have a tendancy to respond more. I've also heard that incest is one of the categories where feedback is very rare.

I think Diane is right though, asking for feedback is probably a good idea. I know that a request like that will make me respond more often than not.

Jayne

 

[Alex De Kok]

We're not comparing like with like, Jayne,

my earliest posting here is July 2000, yours is August 2002. I would expect to have more views, assuming a decent level of competence in my writing, simply on elapsed time. I would also expect other writers to have even more views. It was that half-million that shocked me.

Diane, I do ask for comment/feedback and sometimes I even get it. I don't keep records of it, save for the warm glow a lot of it gives me. I do respond if an e-mail address is provided, as I consider I owe it to anyone prepared to make the effort of providing feedback.

Now does anyone have a surefire method of kickstarting a muse?

Alex

 

[Un-registered]

Re: We're not comparing like with like, Jayne,

Now does anyone have a surefire method of kickstarting a muse?

Well, one that works for me is to read a really bad story.

You know the sort of thing. The title is something like "I shagged you a thowsand times in one moght" and the teaser reads "How I dhaged you a thuosand times in on nite"

I get so incensed by the poor quality of the writing and the bad grammar and spelling that I just have to write something!

 

[TheEarl]

MG: I always put a little note asking people to vote and give feedback. Even try and introduce a joke at the end if poss to put people in a good mood. Do they e-mail me? Do they buggery.

The Earl the very misanthropic.

 

[MathGirl]

The Earl the very misanthropic.

Awww, poor baby. There, feel better?

Diane the Always Caring and Nuturing

 

[Guest]

Admittedly it IS fascinating

I have one single story "My three sisters and mom" that is approaching 250,000 "views" alone. Staggers the imagination. With 95 total stories....I can't even begin to wonder how many views/reads they would all have combined together.

<grinning>

God I'm glad people enjoy reading erotica! <smiling from ear to ear>

I remain, (one happy camper)!