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[Deleted member 166076]

I've found that it takes time for readers to discover a story, but having an interesting story, mostly regardless of quality, will lead to an avalanche effect. I don't do well enough to afford professional anything for my books and have to do everything from the book covers to the editing to the writing myself. So, everything is a little lacking and I can't write a ton in a week, but writing a consistent amount in a consistent basis still adds up.

However, the readers who give my story a chance mostly either love it or hate it. Mostly the haters dislike that it isn't like every other story or they want to argue about something that makes no sense at all. Anyhow, the comments, reviews, library adds, and people recommending my stories to others means more new people get to discover them.

One of my series has been out for almost two years now and only gets one free update a week (it's finished on Patreon), but I still have a dozen or so new readers on Wattpad alone that discover my work each week. Even if 75% of them were to drop it before the end, that'd still be 3 new loyal readers each week, which adds up to hundreds of even thousands over the years. Kind of crazy that the first book in that series has nearly 1/2 million views now, though a million would only be ~12k readers since 1 chapter read = 1 view. It's still way better than I ever expected, though.

 

[Deleted member 68927]

I've found that it takes time for readers to discover a story, but having an interesting story, mostly regardless of quality, will lead to an avalanche effect. I don't do well enough to afford professional anything for my books and have to do everything from the book covers to the editing to the writing myself. So, everything is a little lacking and I can't write a ton in a week, but writing a consistent amount in a consistent basis still adds up.

However, the readers who give my story a chance mostly either love it or hate it. Mostly the haters dislike that it isn't like every other story or they want to argue about something that makes no sense at all. Anyhow, the comments, reviews, library adds, and people recommending my stories to others means more new people get to discover them.

One of my series has been out for almost two years now and only gets one free update a week (it's finished on Patreon), but I still have a dozen or so new readers on Wattpad alone that discover my work each week. Even if 75% of them were to drop it before the end, that'd still be 3 new loyal readers each week, which adds up to hundreds of even thousands over the years. Kind of crazy that the first book in that series has nearly 1/2 million views now, though a million would only be ~12k readers since 1 chapter read = 1 view. It's still way better than I ever expected, though.

Good for you! Keep on rocking! =)

 

[ThatTwat3000]

How come people love the taxi drivers who stay quiet during the ride, the authors who don't post every day, and the cat that sleeps all day?

And yes, I am searching for an answer to the middle part. The other two questions are just something I have the answer to, but don't understand.

I think what you’re witnessing is the reader count on the novels increasing when the author posts content less frequently, and associating that with liking the novel.

While that assumption would be true to an extent, I would also argue that when an author has a good synopsis but updates less frequently, a reader is more inclined to add the novel to their list so that they get updated when the author posts a new chapter.

If the author has a set schedule of frequent releases... why do you need to get a notification when they update the story? You can just check on the days the story should update.

 

[3guanoff]

How come people love the taxi drivers who stay quiet during the ride, the authors who don't post every day, and the cat that sleeps all day?

And yes, I am searching for an answer to the middle part. The other two questions are just something I have the answer to, but don't understand.

To answer the middle part, I do not care how often the author posts. I only want them to finish the story before I am dead.