Never mind

[gunhilltrain]

Guaranteed fact! However many of my stories are linked to each other in some form. Usually a series, or shared characters. Once you get a reader hooked, they'll start reading everything you have.

People seems to come out of nowhere to favorite an older story. That usually happens a few times a month. Maybe they read my most recent story and look back at my list. I've never done the work of cross-checking my followers against their names. Followers tend to be a bit flighty, and it's a dubious metric at best. If I've got over 200 followers and then six votes and no comments, I'd guess they are doing other things most of the time.

I've got several linked series with the same characters, but it doesn't seem that anybody is hooked to them. I write them anyway.

 

[lovecraft68]

Worth noting: it's difficult to get people to read beyond the first ten days that a story is out. There are about 500 K stories here. I don't know how one can define a legacy in that huge mass. But I accept that it's unlikely that many people will be reading my stuff in the future. Chekhov has a legacy not just because he was better than I am but also because he had a tiny fraction of the competition that we face.

Any new story will help to get eyes on your other work

This is especially true in a contest entry.

If you can land a story on a top list at any point that keeps it-and your name-in play longer.

Land something on an all time top list, or get your name fairly high up on the faved/followed list that adds even more.

I have a story that's closing in on 11 years old that still gets regular favs and comments because its #6 all time on Lit's most faved list

 

[gunhilltrain]

Any new story will help to get eyes on your other work

This is especially true in a contest entry.

If you can land a story on a top list at any point that keeps it-and your name-in play longer.

Land something on an all time top list, or get your name fairly high up on the faved/followed list that adds even more.

I have a story that's closing in on 11 years old that still gets regular favs and comments because its #6 all time on Lit's most faved list

I'm writing new ones are fast as I can, which isn't very fast! But yeah, some of them pique interest in the older ones.

Would you tell us what that #6 on the all-time fav list is? Sorry, I should just look at your story list.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm writing new ones are fast as I can, which isn't very fast! But yeah, some of them pique interest in the older ones.

Would you tell us what that #6 on the all-time fav list is? Sorry, I should just look at your story list.

That's What Friends Are For.

The story's success still puzzles me. Its a predictable sappy (especially for me) first time romance, but for whatever reason it really hit home, placed first in the last Earth Day Contest before it went to April Fools

What I get a kick out of is my detractors claim I can only write I/T but I have the most favorited non I/T story on Literotica.


https://www.literotica.com/favorites/

 

[Duleigh]

People seems to come out of nowhere to favorite an older story. That usually happens a few times a month

I had a flock of new readers appear out of nowhere last night - Christmas Eve. Many left comments that said, "I just stumbled across your work and am now hooked"

 

[StillStunned]

I had a flock of new readers appear out of nowhere last night - Christmas Eve. Many left comments that said, "I just stumbled across your work and am now hooked"

I got three new followers yesterday. Is Christmas the loneliest time for Lit readers?

 

[Duleigh]

I got three new followers yesterday. Is Christmas the loneliest time for Lit readers?

I suppose we'll see when we review our numbers tonight

 

[gunhilltrain]

That's What Friends Are For.

The story's success still puzzles me. Its a predictable sappy (especially for me) first time romance, but for whatever reason it really hit home, placed first in the last Earth Day Contest before it went to April Fools

What I get a kick out of is my detractors claim I can only write I/T but I have the most favorited non I/T story on Literotica.


https://www.literotica.com/favorites/

Oh yeah, somehow I've looked at that list a few times and I didn't notice that you were on it. I'll give it a look.

 

[lovecraft68]

Oh yeah, somehow I've looked at that list a few times and I didn't notice that you were on it. I'll give it a look.

In hindsight I should have called it "A friend rides on another friend's lap" and it would have done even better.