Forum: Author Hangout

My vaunted Research Department — teenage son — took a look at reader interactions with yrs. truly. He identified a dozen or so methods of contact. These communiqués are tabulated — in descending order of frequency — as of latish December, 2020:

1) Story downloads 502,398
2) Homepage visits 118,936
3) Blog access 43,312
4) Votes 9,008
5) Library 3,366
6) Comments 1,144
7) Followers 596
8) Blog emails several hundred
9) Story emails a few hundred
10) AF (authors' favorites) 6
11) Reviews 3
12) Forum inquiries a couple

(The number of Big Clit voters is unknown. At least so far as Research could figure out.)

I know my numbers are anemic compared with more popular writers, but I wonder … do any of you real writers track stuff like this? Would your frequency list be in a different order?

Not that I pay the slightest attention to reader scores.

Paige

do any of you real writers track stuff like this? Would your frequency list be in a different order?

Sorry, no, so I have no idea.

and my stats trail far behind you, Paige.

But I discovered that reading thoughtful comments fuelled my writing sprees, so in my later stories I actually made conscious changes to the structure and release schedule to encourage feedback. It worked; I went from two or three comments per story to 60 and then over a hundred for my last two.

I'm guessing I'm saying its possible to deliberately skew the stats slightly if that does anything for you :)

real writers

Paige, I think we're all 'real writers' on here. Some of us are simply more productive than others. Some of us have a different skill set than others. What sets all of us apart is that we're willing not just to put our thoughts down as words, but that we're also willing to share those with others on here.

I'm always curious as to how I compare to others, even though we're not in competition with anyone other than ourselves.

1) Story downloads 757,360 (6 stories)
2) Homepage visits 105,087
3) Blog access 36,081
4) Votes 5,800
5) Library 3,051
6) Comments 672 (with quite a number of those my replies)
7) Followers 1,130
8) Blog & story emails received - 1885 for the last year (everything gets deleted after it's a year old)
9) Replies I've sent out - 975
10) AF (authors' favorites) 2
11) Reviews 1
12) Forum inquiries 3 that I've seen

OK, here's mine.

1) Story downloads - 5,887,835 (38 stories)
2) Homepage visits - 2,317,798
3) Blog access - 366,212
4) Votes - 60,043
5) Library - 20,128
6) Comments 2554
7) Followers - 1770
8) Blog & story emails received - a bunch
9) Replies I've sent out - quite a few
10) AF (authors' favorites) - 15
11) Reviews - A few. Not as many as I'd like.
12) Forum inquiries - A few.

I like to try/have a bash at, different subjects/genres, hence why so many.

Main Account:

1) Story downloads – 81,200 (23 stories)
2) Homepage visits – 63,427
3) Blog access – 6,726
4) Votes – 1,382 Average Score: 6.45
5) Library - 563
6) Comments 37
7) Followers - 77
8) Blog & story emails received - x
9) Replies I've sent out - x
10) AF (authors' favourites) - 1
11) Reviews - 0
12) Forum inquiries -0

2nd Account:

1) Story downloads – 25,761 (9 stories)
2) Homepage visits – 31,301
3) Blog access – 5,997
4) Votes - 515 Average Score: 6.6
5) Library - 99
6) Comments 7
7) Followers - 15
8) Blog & story emails received - x
9) Replies I've sent out - x
10) AF (authors' favourites) - 0
11) Reviews - 0
12) Forum inquiries -1.

3rd Account:

1) Story downloads – 6,453 (4 stories)
2) Homepage visits – 4,165
3) Blog access - 383
4) Votes - 160 Average Score: 6.52
5) Library - 79
6) Comments 11
7) Followers - 22
8) Blog & story emails received - x
9) Replies I've sent out - x
10) AF (authors' favourites) - 0
11) Reviews - 0
12) Forum inquiries – 0

4th Account:

1) Story downloads – 24,708 (6 stories)
2) Homepage visits – 32,536
3) Blog access - 5147
4) Votes - 464 Average Score: 6.1
5) Library - 70
6) Comments 8
7) Followers - 20
8) Blog & story emails received - x
9) Replies I've sent out - x
10) AF (authors' favourites) - 0
11) Reviews – !!One!!
12) Forum inquiries – 0

5th Account:

1) Story downloads – 12,282 (5 stories)
2) Homepage visits – 32,097
3) Blog access – 4,114
4) Votes - 440 Average Score: 6.4
5) Library - 60
6) Comments 0
7) Followers - 18
8) Blog & story emails received - x
9) Replies I've sent out - x
10) AF (authors' favourites) - 0
11) Reviews - 0
12) Forum inquiries - 0

1) Story downloads – 5,101,807 (27 stories)
2) Homepage visits – 795,415
3) Blog access – 219,027
4) Votes – 29,537 Average Score: 8.75
5) Library - 12464
6) Comments 2567
7) Followers - 1497
8) Blog & story emails received - 2500+
9) Replies I've sent out - 2500+ (one for each email received)
10) AF (authors' favourites) - 13 (10 for one story, 3 for another)
11) Reviews - 5
12) Forum inquiries - dozens (at least)

And here, from the other end of the wealth spectrum ...

1) Story downloads - 20,131 (1 story)
2) Homepage visits - 12,478
3) Blog access - 2,225
4) Votes - 93 (score: 8.09, so I'm not very popular but the ones that like me, REALLY, REALLY like me)
5) Library - 119
6) Comments - 12
7) Followers - 21
8) Blog & story emails received - something more than 20, most have fallen off due to Lazeez's time limits
9) Replies I've sent out - also >20
10) AF (authors' favorites) - zip, nada, none
11) Reviews - bupkiss
12) Forum inquiries - What's a forum inquiry?