Releasing Older Stories

[Erlikkhan]

Is there anyway to get stories that have been out for a while re-released or publicized? After a month or two the number or readers seems to drop off dramatically. Also, what is a good vote ratio. I have stories with 30-40000 reads and less than 100 votes. Others only have 8000 reads and 60 votes. Seems low to me. All my stories, regardless of reads or number of votes have average ratings about 4.5. This seems strange as well in that the more popular ones should be rated higher.

Anyway, hope someone can shed light on these great mysteries of life for me. My 19 stories are located at the following address for anyone interested.

http://literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=18250

 

[NaughtyMike]

Sounds like you are doing better than most of us.

 

[MysteryWriter]

no advice here

back in the days when I posted erotica my readers went from 8,000 all the way to 53,000. My votes ran anywhere from 1/2 of 1 percent to even less.

The scores went from 3.8 to 4.63 with no the pattern being inverse. The higher the reads the smaller the vote percentage. Hell some of my lower vote scores had the highest readers.

That seemed to be tied more to the category than the voter response. Incest was high. Nonerotic was awful for number of readers but got the best vote percentages. Once I got ten votes the voter totals lost all sense of reason. Actually they always had no reason.

When I mentioned that once I was told the first story does bad no matter what it is. That seems to be true since I write once in a while under another name. It isnt the system it is the readers. I am going to stop right there.

 

[Hitchhiker]

The votes to read ratio is a mystery to me also, as is feedback that rarer than rocking horse shit.

Catagories are most important to, much to my surprise mature gets loads of reads. My story "Earl Grey and two sugars" got put there by Laurel. Its fast approaching 20k and voting at 4.60 but only 75 votes recieved.

My other new work "Ann and the looking glass" I put in non-human waste of time putting all the work in writing it 3900 reads.If laurel reads this I'd like it moved to Anal please!

To get more votes it might be an idea to remind the reader after they've calmed down to vote for the story, say next time they log on. "You read story ??? would you now like to vote?"

 

[Quiet_Cool]

It's more or less like this...

There isn't a "reads" category, but a "views" one. I know it sounds petty, but some people click ona story, read the first couple lines, then go back to the menu, deciding the sotry isn't what they want to read. It happens all the time (in fact, I do it all the time) when people are looking for one particular element in a story. That counts as a "view," even though they didn't actually read the story. That's why the "views" tends to be so high. People seldom vote unless they finish the story. And remember, some people "finish" before they reacht he end of a story. That's a compliment to the author, but one that's seldom recieved with a proper "5."

 

[mlyn]

to Quiet Cool

You are totally right. I've seen no pattern to views/voting. I think the views thing is right on- they read a line, a paragraph, and move on. If they are affected by a story, and FINISH it, they vote.

I love getting feedback, and I think the only sure way is to blatantly BEG for it at the end of the story.

Anyway, it is hard to know why a person reads a story.

 

[MaxSebastian]

Is there anyway to get stories that have been out for a while re-released or publicized? After a month or two the number or readers seems to drop off dramatically.

If you had your stories re-released to attract attention, chances are the other 10,000 writers on literotica would want their efforts re-released for more exposure. Where would that get anybody?

In my experience, the only way to publicise the stories you've already put on the site is to keep writing new stories for the site. Each time you have a story on the new list, that is what will get new readers interested in your work, and some of those readers will want to see your other pieces after reading your new one.

We all want more exposure for our efforts, but the bottom line is that if we want to get that exposure, we have to keep putting in the effort. We can't just write a single story and then leave it at that, hoping that lots of people will read it and get back to us with non-stop voting and gushing praise. Keep writing new stories, that is the only way.

 

[Quint]

We can't just write a single story and then leave it at that, hoping that lots of people will read it and get back to us with non-stop voting and gushing praise. Keep writing new stories, that is the only way.

Harsh but true. You seem to be taking your advice very well, incidentally.

 

[MaxSebastian]

You seem to be taking your advice very well, incidentally.

Well, apart from the need to get feedback and votes, I actually happen to enjoy writing, believe it or not!

 

[mlyn]

to: Max

I agree. If I see a story I like and enjoy, I always check to see what else they've written.

I'll admit that it is fun to see how many people are looking at/reading a story of mine. But I started writing for me, and I'd continue it, even without feedback or this site.

And I uploaded 4 new stories in the last 3 days... LOL...

 

[MaxSebastian]

Kick-ass, mlyn!

Of course if you wanted to maximise your exposure, you'd post them all over a slightly longer time frame.

I'm battling to keep up with my normal writing pace personally - suddenly things have got busy for me and frustratingly I haven't been able to do much writing recently.

 

[Uther_Pendragon]

Is there anyway to get stories that have been out for a while re-released or publicized? After a month or two the number or readers seems to drop off dramatically. Also, what is a good vote ratio. I have stories with 30-40000 reads and less than 100 votes. Others only have 8000 reads and 60 votes. Seems low to me. All my stories, regardless of reads or number of votes have average ratings about 4.5. This seems strange as well in that the more popular ones should be rated higher.

Anyway, hope someone can shed light on these great mysteries of life for me. My 19 stories are located at the following address for anyone interested.

http://literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=18250

:
Not, as far as I know on Literotica.
However, check with Laurel if she would mind your posting
them elsewhere.
If you have access to newsgroups, see alt.sex.stories.moderated.
you can post the stories there for a (fairly)
new set of readers.