How much views should i expect

edgy_chuuni

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I'm 20 or so chapters in with a novel and am thinking of releasing it but i don't want to be dissapointed.
So how much views do you usually get.
Or how much should i expect?
 
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Honestly, it is probably best to not care about that and instead focus on simply continuing to write and improve your skill at doing so. I would also recommend going through your work several times for editing purposes, and/or find someone else to help you edit it. The views on your story are more of a bonus, IMO, unless you are writing purely for the goal of profit.
 

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100 views per chapter after the first day is good I think?
In the future, the number of views can increase to 1000 per chapter (or more) if your story is promising
 

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A metric ton of variables will decide your overall view count, and unless you're doing this to grow a writing job or something, the best answer is to put your best foot forward, post, and find out.

Sailus is right that one of the biggest contributors is whether or not your story aims for the main audience on SH. A straight-laced historical horror with a dose of tragedy isn't going to pull the same numbers here as the next rendition of Isekai/LitRPG + Fantasy + Your specific spice. Series rank on weekly paints a very clear picture here.

As for algorithm visibility, SH's Trending has a preference for spikes in viewership if I recall, which has the funny revelation that posting one chapter every day religiously actually limits your chances of getting frequent visits there in the long term. While it's a good idea to do daily for the first week or so to grab an initial reader base, in the long term most stories adopt the 2-3 day or weekly update method with a bit of lean on one end to grab a view 'spike'. Unless you're the Kitsune guy, dropping multiple chapters in a day to get that spike. Mad man, more chapters than the story's publish age, good lord. :sweating_profusely:

Title, synopsis, cover, plot and prose quality all play a factor as well, but since you didn't offer any examples there isn't much people can say here except give speculative estimates. One thing I'd like to say is perhaps the three drafts:

The initial draft is for you.
(Just get it down on the page, write and flow. Editing can come later.)

The next draft is when ideas become concrete.
(This is the first round of editing, just going through the mess you made.)

The third draft is when feedback and the audience come to mind.
(Truthfully, a large chunk of SH stories get published on site in this stage. Some fall ass-backward into success while others dip into obscurity. If you got honest writer friends or in a group, this is a good time to gauge feedback before publishing.)​

Well, all my useless rambles aside, good luck. You won't know your readerships numbers for real until you post. Or you know, like Agentt said, if you even get approved to begin with.
 

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Usually a hundred million at the bare minimum. What can I say? The bar is pretty high around here. Better get used to it~ ?
 

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Some stories get a hundred views the first day, some get a thousand. It's impossible to predict, because very small things can change that number drastically.

If it's girl's love and/or gender bender, maybe with smut, then you can count for even 500 viewers at first day and over 10k after a month, but that number is very unreliable. I've even seen one that got 2,3k at the first day.

But it's pretty common for a story to get like 50 views in the first day and a couple thousand in a month, even if it's brilliant, because it's niche or isn't catchy.

My advice to just not care about it. I've personally written a story that got really many views and good reviews here on Scribble, but I know there would much smaller audience and a lot more criticism if I published it on Royal Road.
 

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I've been testing a new approach where I have two stories that i update alternating between the two every 2 days, so the readers get a new chapter ever 48 hours, but the book gets a chapter every 4 days. I'm trying to see if this spikes me on the trending page more or less.
 

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Unless you're the Kitsune guy, dropping multiple chapters in a day to get that spike. Mad man, more chapters than the story's publish age, good lord. :sweating_profusely:
This makes it sound like there is only one guy making kitsune stories... There are bunches of us! Just not as rapid at releasing new chapters.
 

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Expect none. Be pleasantly surprised if it is some.
 

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Predicting views and their growth is a little hard. At least for me. I remember my story getting twenty or thirty views at start and at one point spiking on favorites and new readers plus getting almost 1000+ views then dropping to hundreds next chapters, sometimes even to fifties.
 

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I'm 20 or so chapters in with a novel and am thinking of releasing it but i don't want to be dissapointed.
So how much views do you usually get.
Or how much should i expect?
Expect 20. That way if you get 30 views, you won't be too disappointed. Take note that some of the views would be by scraper bots, not actual readers.
 
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