Writing What is the best time to post chapters?

[oiaacccc]

My story won't have many chapters, so I wanted to know the best times to post a chapter to increase the chances of my story being recognized.

 

[LightNovelNovice]

My story won't have many chapters, so I wanted to know the best times to post a chapter to increase the chances of my story being recognized.

In my experience it's not really something you can predict, BUT I did something different with my most recent story's release. I wrote roughly 10 chapters before I ever posted them publicly, and released them roughly an hour apart throughout one day. This resulted in a huge influx of readers and views during that day, and overall the readers seemed to enjoy suddenly being able to binge through a chunk of the story.
Of course now the views and such are declining, but that's just how the cookie crumbles when you frontload content...
Anyways, if you have the patience you could try that, otherwise I have no helpful tips..!

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Depends on the type and countries of origin your story's audience will pull. By now, this site is well-known globally, with readers from almost all countries.

Best way to do it is to update on weekends, on different hours, so readers from different parts of the world can see your work.

Do be warned, readers would only pick it up once they deemed you consistent in updates and had enough chapters to not leave them hanging.

 

[BouncyCactus]

this site is well-known globally, with readers from almost all countries.

Aye, Hans is right. Your morning might not be my morning. Having a consistent and predictable schedule is more important. If you are releasing chapters less frequently, then I think the weekend is the best time for most folks, and if you are releasing more frequently, space them chapters out for an even distribution.

I myself like to binge read, so I usually let the daily release bunched up and read them on the weekend. Your readers will adjust (if they like your story well enough to follow it).

But the BEST TIME is often between RIGHT and NOW!

 

[Jemini]

In my experience it's not really something you can predict, BUT I did something different with my most recent story's release. I wrote roughly 10 chapters before I ever posted them publicly, and released them roughly an hour apart throughout one day. This resulted in a huge influx of readers and views during that day, and overall the readers seemed to enjoy suddenly being able to binge through a chunk of the story.
Of course now the views and such are declining, but that's just how the cookie crumbles when you frontload content...
Anyways, if you have the patience you could try that, otherwise I have no helpful tips..!

I'm doing something like this right now. I'm going so far as to write an entire 40 chapters in advance. 10 will be dropped all at once publicly, ~20 will be on my patreon, and ~10 will be saved up in advance to give me buffer space.

 

[Jemini]

I'm doing something like this right now. I'm going so far as to write an entire 40 chapters in advance. 10 will be dropped all at once publicly, ~20 will be on my patreon, and ~10 will be saved up in advance to give me buffer space.

I am going to add now, I am supremely glad I have not dropped this series yet despite having well over the number of chapters most authors would have before releasing.

I managed to jam my pinky finger pretty good and it has been painful to type for the past 3 days and am only just getting over it now. Would have been a complete disaster if I'd already dropped a new series and was trying to attract attention to it.

 

[RiaCorvidiva]

There are no best times. And even if there were, people would just congregate at those best times, crowding out your limited front-page visibility and making those times no longer the best. Consistency and quality of writing matter more than trying to find minute edges in this manner.

 

[Golden_Hyde]

You "can" mass publish it in bulk like an entire volume or something like that, but you might have to plan it carefully with it. My only suggestion is to finish one arc at a time and publish all of the entire arc whenever you're ready