New Milestones Thread

[old_prof]

Hopefully this is the right place to put this.

I'm pretty new around here. Just got my first couple of stories published and I was quite happy to receive my second comment!
But having looked around here, I've noticed there's people with loads of followers and loads of comments.
Is there a strategy I should employ?
Should I just follow as many people as possible?
Is there something you do to promote your story once it's published?
Or does this all come organically and I need to be more patient?
Could do with a little help please. Thanks in advance

We should probably pull this out to another thread because I think this thread is important to people.

But I think it somewhat takes time. I don't have a huge number of followers, although I just crossed 250, which I am proud of and I guess qualifies as a milestone for this thread.

Entering a contest didn't seem to do much in way of followers for me, but getting a prize in it did. That is probably close to half of my followers. Unfortunately, getting a prize is not something you can plan on; I certainly never expect to win another blue W.

Comments seem to vary massively by category. Out of the twelve categories I have posted in, LW and Romance give far more comments per view. E&V and group sex seem to give very few. Of course, you need to live with the nasty comments along with the nice ones for an LW story. And Romance just doesn't get a huge number of views. Everything has a tradeoff.

But if you really want to get more discussion on this, start a new thread.

We all get beat up enough to need a thread where we can brag sometimes too.

 

[hugh_jarce69]

Great thanks. I've just been reading this thread
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/attracting-followers.1634286/#post-101052219
And it seems to have answered a lot of the questions I had. It's a reasonably recent thread so I don't want to clog the place up by starting a new one just yet

Useful tips such as using more tags in a story and adding a link to my stories in my signature are both obvious when I think about it - but just hadn't done it.

 

[old_prof]

Great thanks. I've just been reading this thread
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/attracting-followers.1634286/#post-101052219
And it seems to have answered a lot of the questions I had. It's a reasonably recent thread so I don't want to clog the place up by starting a new one just yet

Useful tips such as using more tags in a story and adding a link to my stories in my signature are both obvious when I think about it - but just hadn't done it.

If you want to encourage more discussion, resurrect that thread by repeating your comment there. Good luck.

We now return to our regularly scheduled milestones.

 

[Bazzle]

As of this afternoon, my story viewer count ticked over 950,000 clicks.

Yes I know only about 2 people have actually finished any one of my stories, but still, thank you to everyone who has clicked on and actually finished one of my stories!

Thanks to Literotica for providing this website to share our deepest carnal desires.

B

 

[StillStunned]

As of this afternoon, my story viewer count ticked over 950,000 clicks.

Yes I know only about 2 people have actually finished any one of my stories, but still, thank you to everyone who has clicked on and actually finished one of my stories!

Thanks to Literotica for providing this website to share our deepest carnal desires.

B

Congratulations, that's an amazing achievement!

 

[alohadave]

As of this afternoon, my story viewer count ticked over 950,000 clicks.

Yes I know only about 2 people have actually finished any one of my stories, but still, thank you to everyone who has clicked on and actually finished one of my stories!

Thanks to Literotica for providing this website to share our deepest carnal desires.

B

Awesome, congrats! I just hit the same a couple days ago, on track to hit a million by Christmas.

 

[StillStunned]

I published my first story in Fetish today. It's the first time since last October that I've ventured into a new category.

 

[Soixenta]

My combined views are now more than 25,000!

 

[Erozetta]

I've hit a few milestones this week:

1. Finished moving
2. Discord server hit 150 members (erotica writers from across many venues including here )
3. Didn't get into a car accident despite the attempts of three different vehicles trying to merge over into me. (Fuckin' Massholes.)
4. Finished a story AND submitted it.
5. Cancelled my rental policy for previous apartment.
6. Updated my address.
7. Did not murder anyone.
8. Remembered to eat AND drink water.
9. Set up physical therapy because I managed to royally fuck up my shoulder while moving.
10. Still alive.


I've not been having great weeks lately, lol. Those basic ass humaning ones are absolute wins for me.

I've also slept approximately 15 hours this past week. Yes, that says week, not day or couple of days. So the next milestone I'm aiming for is to have 4-hours of sleep in a row. So far I haven't slept at all today.

 

[ClintonBrooks]

I've hit a few milestones this week:

1. Finished moving
2. Discord server hit 150 members (erotica writers from across many venues including here )
3. Didn't get into a car accident despite the attempts of three different vehicles trying to merge over into me. (Fuckin' Massholes.)
4. Finished a story AND submitted it.
5. Cancelled my rental policy for previous apartment.
6. Updated my address.
7. Did not murder anyone.
8. Remembered to eat AND drink water.
9. Set up physical therapy because I managed to royally fuck up my shoulder while moving.
10. Still alive.


I've not been having great weeks lately, lol. Those basic ass humaning ones are absolute wins for me.

I've also slept approximately 15 hours this past week. Yes, that says week, not day or couple of days. So the next milestone I'm aiming for is to have 4-hours of sleep in a row. So far I haven't slept at all today.

WooHoo for #8! That's very important.



yes I am ignoring the obvious

 

[NuclearFairy]

I've hit a few milestones this week:

1. Finished moving
2. Discord server hit 150 members (erotica writers from across many venues including here )
3. Didn't get into a car accident despite the attempts of three different vehicles trying to merge over into me. (Fuckin' Massholes.)
4. Finished a story AND submitted it.
5. Cancelled my rental policy for previous apartment.
6. Updated my address.
7. Did not murder anyone.
8. Remembered to eat AND drink water.
9. Set up physical therapy because I managed to royally fuck up my shoulder while moving.
10. Still alive.


I've not been having great weeks lately, lol. Those basic ass humaning ones are absolute wins for me.

I've also slept approximately 15 hours this past week. Yes, that says week, not day or couple of days. So the next milestone I'm aiming for is to have 4-hours of sleep in a row. So far I haven't slept at all today.

The hardest one sounds like number 7 to me.

 

[Erozetta]

The hardest one sounds like number 7 to me.

7 & 8 are pretty even on the difficulty scale.

 

[old_prof]

The hardest one sounds like number 7 to me.

Anyone on your personal shortlist right now?

 

[NuclearFairy]

Anyone on your personal shortlist right now?

No, not really. But then, I spend most of my time at home.

 

[TheLobster]

yes I am ignoring the obvious

But why? I'd say @Erozetta should be commended for finishing and submitting her story.

 

[big_cane_sugar]

I've also slept approximately 15 hours this past week. Yes, that says week, not day or couple of days. So the next milestone I'm aiming for is to have 4-hours of sleep in a row. So far I haven't slept at all today.

Take care of yourself! I hope things get better for you!

 

[Erozetta]

Take care of yourself! I hope things get better for you!

They should. 99% of the issues were "last week to move out of old apartment" deadline issues causing anxiety, lol.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Me Too, it's been weeks and weeks!

I've hit a few milestones this week:

7. Did not murder anyone.

I've not been having great weeks lately, lol. Those basic ass humaning ones are absolute wins for me.

I've also slept approximately 15 hours this past week. Yes, that says week, not day or couple of days. So the next milestone I'm aiming for is to have 4-hours of sleep in a row. So far I haven't slept at all today.

 

[FifthEstate]

The 25th (of my 46) published stories/chapters recently crested 100k views. Those 25 account for more than 4M total. It still staggers my mind after only 7+ years on Lit. Wish I had a $1 for each of those views…

 

[Rob_Royale]

I hit 1200 followers today after nearly three years and fifty-one stories.

 

[Duleigh]

I hit 1000 followers after 19 years and 125 stories.
the secret of my "success?"
I avoid LW, Fetish, and Non-human (That would be an auto-biography)

 

[NuclearFairy]

I just got my first human on human story all but ready to publish. Now if only I could decide on a name for it.

 

[old_prof]

I just got my first human on human story all but ready to publish. Now if only I could decide on a name for it.

I can't wait to read it. Do you want suggestions for the title or du you expect inspiration to hit?

 

[EmilyMiller]

As always, not very impressive by the standards of people writing in popular categories, but my combined views just crossed 1,750,000, which is something I guess .

 

[lovecraft68]