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SmilingLez said:
My two test stories verifying the pending purgatory bug (my account) were rejected at exactly the same time with the exact same antiquated, probably the original template, rejection message - not giving any reason or a checklist, but instead telling me I should post my stories directly in this forum (better suited)
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That last bit's odd though, that looks like human intervention to say that. Very odd indeed. Doesn't help much, but most unusual.
 
It's taken nearly 9 years, but I've just reached 500 followers!

I thought I'd get there a couple years ago, after a surge of 70+ new followers from trying an incest story, but most of them vanished after my next few stories. Scattering stories across every category (nearly), especially BDSM, Fetish, Anal, Gay Male, Lesbian, seems unpopular for some reason...

I'm possibly more proud of my recent story that is not in Loving Wives, has only positive comments, yet has a score of 3.91 after 34 votes, less than any of my 750-worders. I didn't even put any queer stuff in it! Say what you like about the LW audience, at least they have the balls to say what they don't like.
 
DEFCOM5 said:
200K views!

My highest reached 45K and I was happy with it. Until I realized I am a gnome walking among giants .....
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I don't even know what that makes me then. What's smaller than a gnome? An ant? I could do worse than ant, I guess. They make up 20% of the fauna biomass on Earth, so, eh.

Also, the giants are still people. Judge yourself not on the number of views and followers, but the quality of your work.

"Are you just saying that because you've pigeonholed yourself into a niche corner of Lit where few people read your works?"

...shut up.
 
DEFCOM5 said:
200K views!

My highest reached 45K and I was happy with it. Until I realized I am a gnome walking among giants .....
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It was a perfect storm for views: a contest story, in T/I, with "fuck" in the title, and if I remember it was listed as no. 2 on the "All Stories" for the day, and no. 1 for T/I. It had 40k views within the first 24 hours.

I wrote further chapters in the same series, without numbering the instalments. So someone might see "Too Late Not to Fuck" and read it, and then check out the other stories in the series. Besides "Too Cold", there are three other instalments with more than 100k views, and one that's very nearly there. If I cared about marketing, this would be a useful lesson.

Don't get me wrong: it's an amazing idea that so many people have read my words. So many people have shared this little moment between Sal and Big Brother. Two figments of my imagination, but they've lived in thousands and thousands of other people's imaginations too. How cool is that? Two hundred thousand people have shared this brief experience that began as a scene in my head.

But once you've got been there, and seen the view counter get to such astonishing numbers, it becomes easier to let go of the stats. Nowadays I'm happier to publish something in SF&F that maybe a few thousand people read. I don't feel the need to see tens of thousands of views for every story - it's nice if it happens, but if it was my priority I wouldn't write obscure fantasy.

It's a very liberating experience.

(Also: I've been boozing for the past seven hours, so I might be rambling a little.)
 
DreamInNoir said:
Wow, grats! i loved your "That's What Friends Are For" story. Still have more marked to read, but that was one of the first ones I read on Lit.
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Thank you. The success of that story still amazes me. I had no expectations for it when it was published.
 
anthrodisiac said:
I don't even know what that makes me then. What's smaller than a gnome? An ant? I could do worse than ant, I guess. They make up 20% of the fauna biomass on Earth, so, eh.

Also, the giants are still people. Judge yourself not on the number of views and followers, but the quality of your work.
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NuclearFairy said:
I'm lucky if any of my stuff breaks 10k words. Don't sell yourself short. =)
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You two are great writers. It is sad that I am getting more views that you.
 
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