Question about first day of your story

[Anton25]

First day of my story… I am like a proud Dad of my baby. What was your personal record for reads on your first day of your stories..?
(Number of reads)

 

[StillStunned]

Until last week, it was about 2000 views in the first day. Then I wrote a short stroker in I/T, which did something like 40k in the first 24 hours, if I remember correctly. It still gets more views per day than most of my other stories have in total.

 

[Anton25]

Amazing, well done!

 

[Anton25]

Until last week, it was about 2000 views in the first day. Then I wrote a short stroker in I/T, which did something like 40k in the first 24 hours, if I remember correctly. It still gets more views per day than most of my other stories have in total.

What’s your secret? And send me the link of your story!

 

[ElectricBlue]

What’s your secret? And send me the link of your story!

No secret. It's the category.

 

[StillStunned]

What’s your secret? And send me the link of your story!

Too Cold Not to Fuck
No clue what the secret is, except perhaps the category and the word "fuck" in the title.

 

[EmilyMiller]

First day of my story… I am like a proud Dad of my baby. What was your personal record for reads on your first day of your stories..?
(Number of reads)

Can’t remember precisely, but something like 20k on Jacob’s Progress.

Em

 

[Anton25]

Wow

 

[StillStunned]

I used to get quite depressed seeing stories with numbers like that. But then I realised it was all about the category. Some just have less traffic. I'm still not sure what it says about society that Incest/Taboo is so popular.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I used to get quite depressed seeing stories with numbers like that. But then I realised it was all about the category. Some just have less traffic. I'm still not sure what it says about society that Incest/Taboo is so popular.

There's threads and mentions in other threads about that.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

No secret. It's the category.

Too Cold Not to Fuck
No clue what the secret is, except perhaps the category and the word "fuck" in the title.

They're lying! Trying to keep all the Red H's to themselves!

 

[EmilyMiller]

I used to get quite depressed seeing stories with numbers like that. But then I realised it was all about the category. Some just have less traffic. I'm still not sure what it says about society that Incest/Taboo is so popular.

I know, right?

That and cheating wives getting punished.

I’ve done quite a few things in Sci-Fi / Fantasy and that’s a tiny audience in comparison.

Em

 

[StillStunned]

I’ve done quite a few things in Sci-Fi / Fantasy and that’s a tiny audience in comparison.

It's quite demotivating. My four instalments of The Rivals together have fewer than 5.5k views. My newest story in NC/R has almost half that just today, and more ratings already than any but the first instalment.

 

[EmilyMiller]

It's quite demotivating. My four instalments of The Rivals together have fewer than 5.5k views. My newest story in NC/R has almost half that just today, and more ratings already than any but the first instalment.

Humans suck! And not in a good way!

Em

 

[AchtungNight]

I don’t keep track of stats, I just hope I don’t get trolled by haters. My first erotic fanfic- Fear, Lust & Vanity- got me serious praise for its detail, original plot, and hot femslash portrayal of ScarJo, Keira Knightley, and Rachel McAdams. A few minor works followed. My second major work- The Rendezvous- nearly got me banned from a website just because I featured a Freezoner as a positive character (the sequel did get me banned, never mind all the other parody of various other religions going on at the site!). I’ve been dancing with fans vs trolls ever since and mostly enjoying it.

Emily’s right though, why do some people not appreciate happy cheaters being rewarded with hot swinging sex?

 

[Anton25]

Until last week, it was about 2000 views in the first day. Then I wrote a short stroker in I/T, which did something like 40k in the first 24 hours, if I remember correctly. It still gets more views per day than most of my other stories have in total.

Now it’s around 54k..? Interesting

 

[Anton25]

I don’t keep track of stats, I just hope I don’t get trolled by haters. My first erotic fanfic- Fear, Lust & Vanity- got me serious praise for its detail, original plot, and hot femslash portrayal of ScarJo, Keira Knightley, and Rachel McAdams. A few minor works followed. My second major work- The Rendezvous- nearly got me banned from a website just because I featured a Freezoner as a positive character (the sequel did get me banned, never mind all the other parody of various other religions going on at the site!). I’ve been dancing with fans vs trolls ever since and mostly enjoying it.

Emily’s right though, why do some people not appreciate happy cheaters being rewarded with hot swinging sex?

I am quite interested in statistics… it reveals something about readership and people. How few people write a commentary for instance…and in what categories..

 

[Anton25]

I am quite interested in statistics… it reveals something about readership and people. How few people write a commentary for instance…and in what categories..

Story has clocked up to 20k on first day and no comments!!

 

[Rob_Royale]

Story has clocked up to 20k on first day and no comments!!

One of the AH regulars (I forget whom) posted in an older thread that readers comment on the very bad and the very good. If your work falls in the bell curve between those, your story will have high views but low comments. I find that to be very true.

 

[Anton25]

One of the AH regulars (I forget whom) posted in an older thread that readers comment on the very bad and the very good. If your work falls in the bell curve between those, your story will have high views but low comments. I find that to be very true.

 

[Anton25]

What do you prefer more comments or views or votes?

 

[Rob_Royale]

What do you prefer more comments or views or votes?

They are all nice. Comments, especially so being so rare, but what really makes my day is when someone favorites a story and then favorites two or three more of my stories. That means to me that they liked the story enough to check out the rest of my work. It's a good feeling. Favoriting me also, because they want to get notified when I put new work out.

 

[Anton25]

True