What are some major milestones to track for your stories?

[tantrayaan]

I guess it was pretty special for me when I had around three hundred readers after the first couple of weeks. Combined with staying quite consecutively on #1 trending. Given that I truly had no expectations, am a non-native English speaker, and was acutely aware that my writing abilities are not on par with a dedicated author, I still think that this warm and fuzzy feeling I had back then, and this sense that this is beyond my expectations, was some kind of milestone.
Another would be anytime when I find some new reader binging through one of my soon-to-be 300 chapter series. To think someone developed this much engagement to spend all this time on what I wrote is a huge honor, and I don't take it for granted, but it gives me the confidence and self-esteem that it must be good enough, so I can consider it good as well, and develop a sense of pride.

Wow ... 300 readers in 2 weeks is amazing. How'd you manage that?

 

[expentio]

Probably the title? "Slime Girl" is pretty simple, yet it's something that people would randomly type in the search bar. Also, it got an interesting premise that comes down in the early chapters. Yet back then I didn't even have a proper prologue nor was my writing all that great (so that may not have been it). I edited a lot in the first chapters over the years.
I think foremost it was a great degree of luck. I got into first place trending, people saw, more went into it, which triggered I get another week into trending, more exposure, repeat, and so on. I guess I also had a good starting amount of chapters to get people engaged. So it mattered when the read through.

Also, I'm very sorry, but I can't completely remember the exact number over the corresponding weeks back then. I'm halfway sure it was over 200 after three and threehundred after five. Yet I can't say if it was threehundred after two.

 

[WriterTrek]

Writing Milestones

1. Complete a Synopsis
2. Complete an Outline
3. Rough First Draft
4. Final Draft

Publication Milestones

1. Are people engaging with it on RR and SH?
2. Does it make money?
3. Does it make enough money to be useful?
4. ???