You can download a CSV of all stats from your stories. See download icon on bottom right when you're on your My Stories page. (And welcome!)Ah, ok; I do see that info, so I must have misinterpreted the discussion; I thought there was more specificity somewhere. Thanks very much for taking the time to reply. Appreciate it!
Oh ok! I will check that out. Thanks very much to you both for the help and the welcome! Hope you’re having a wonderful Spring weekend
Welcome Izanami! And an interesting handle - 'she who invites', right? It's great to see that your story is doing well. One other suggestion that I have is to put a link to your Literotica works page in your signature in these forums? Inevitably, when you post here, people will want to check your stories out, and it saves them the extra steps of searching for you on the main site.Oh ok! I will check that out. Thanks very much to you both for the help and the welcome! Hope you’re having a wonderful Spring weekend
Thanks very much! I’m enjoying the time I spend here, and your warm welcome plus good advice puts me even more at ease.
I will try to negotiate how to create a signature and link. 
It's doing fine. The score will wobble around a bit as votes come in (and sometimes get removed if they look suspicious to the site's 'clean up' or 'sweep' algorithms), but this is a good start. The number of readers will build as people get to know you. Best of luck.Thanks very much! I’m enjoying the time I spend here, and your warm welcome plus good advice puts me even more at ease.
Also, I wasn’t at all sure if my story WAS doing well, since I don’t really know how stuff works here yet - so thank you for the reassurance!
Little oversights around the themed contests are actually pretty normal. Contest page doesn't go up until midday on the first or second day. Threads not getting posted. Entries not getting top billing. Contest stories going up early.
I did a thread about this early in the year - the short version is that according to my calculations, a 4.5 in Loving Wives is about 96th percentile for stories submitted in LW in the last 12 months - ie it is ranking better than about 96% of recent stories in LW. If you maintain it close to 4.4-4.5, it should come up a little more when the sweeps are done.
Welcome Izanami. The Author’s Hangout is a truly wonderful place filled with supportive writers. I throw out cautions with scores. After writing a wonderful story, do not be disappointed if your score is lower than you think. Accept, dismiss, then write your next story. The more you write the better you will become. Caution 2 - do not write for scores. By that, write what YOU want, not what readers want. Explore new things, be creative, and do so fearlessly.Oh ok! I will check that out. Thanks very much to you both for the help and the welcome! Hope you’re having a wonderful Spring weekend
I could not agree with you more on both cautions - it’s always a balancing act to absorb the reactions of others (good, bad, or indifferent) to one’s creative efforts. But I’ve learned over the years to accept the reality that no matter what you write, it won’t please everyone, and that’s how it SHOULD be - the beauty of the human race is in the uniqueness of each individual. So write for the one person you have no choice but to live with for the rest of your life - yourself. As long as I’m satisfied, it’s enough; that’s the goal, and I’m better at reaching it than I once was.
That's really fascinating - I do love a graph! I guess the spread between a category's rating curve and the "all stories" rating curve is almost usable as a measure of the conflict between camps within a category - since you get 5* and 1* for the same story, depending on which camp you catered to.
Dreoilin, congrats on your first contest entry.
Hope you got it in before the deadline! Not sure if there's a time zone associated with the 3/24 date
I submitted it before the deadline but it didn't get published until today or late yesterday. It may be that it doesn't have 25 ratings yet? If not, oh well.
