I do hope this story has not been abandoned by the author.
Substitute Housewife
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Often when the reads and the
Often when the reads and the likes fall below a certain point, I assume that readers have lost interest. If you go on too long you feel like you are flogging a dead horse. Although that story still had some life in it, the reads had decreased by over 50%.
I sort of left her accepting and even enjoying what she was doing. I really should finish it. I have had requests from some of the other sites I post on for the same. I would think there is only 1 part left though.
Leeanna
Honestly, that looks like a pretty normal curve to me.
Earlier parts tend to pick up more reads as new parts come along, either due to people jumping in late or re-reading to catch up. Likewise, it looks like you were receiving very good comment response on posts, and a lot of thumbs-ups as well.
Melanie E.
To be honest, many comments
To be honest, many comments are my responses to other comments. On Literotica, P1 got 27k views P5 got just under 8k. The ratings were good on both sites. Anything over 4.5 out of 5 is rated HOT, all parts achieved that.
Good point about the reads. I suppose what many of the views are, are a quick look then they decide it's not for them. I suppose a way to get 1000's of reads is to come up with a really good title, but ignore the comments when they find out the story is no good.
Leeanna
I agree with Melanie
Series have two characteristics when it comes to Kudos
1. Falling numbers
2. The first one gains kudos for every new installment.
I seldom write series and when I do it's in the form of linked stories rather than one story.
This series managed to get 59% as many kudos on the fifth installment as on the first.
One of my "series" was down to 30% at the fourth part ;)
Another Perspective
A few years back, Melanie ran a contest for serials writers to see who could hold the largest percentage of their audience.
I won that contest.
That doesn't make me an expert, or even special, but it does give me some (flimsy) standing to comment on this issue.
My serial was done in four parts. The first installment has attracted 4,753 reads. (Reads is the accurate term in that BC uses that term, however, it should be understood that they might be more accurately described as hits or opens. Nothing suggests an installment is read by each hit.)
The first installment in my serial has drawn 302 kudos.
By the fourth and final installment, the reads had dropped to 2,860 -- a forty percent falloff, which was the smallest falloff of those in the contest. Kudos had dropped nineteen percent to 245 for the fourth installment.
Leeanna has suggested a lack of interest due to her series' falloff in reads. Two things strike me:
1.) The falloff in readers her story has experienced seems about average for a serial, and
2.) The falloff in its readers might be due largely to the month-and-a-half lag time between the fourth installment and the fifth. The first four installments were posted within two to six days of each other. My serial was posted about four days apart. Thirty days is a long time for readers to retain story information.
The Substitute Housewife is a robust story with interesting characters that deserve to be developed. The storyline moves forward efficiently. The author might want to "show" rather than "tell" more often -- but overall the writing is good. Anytime the kudos to reads ratio is over 5% I consider the story to be an audience success. (You can expect that over time the kudos to reads ratio will go down as those who read old stories rarely comment or leave a kudo.)
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Thank you all for the
Thank you all for the comments. I was surprised to see the kudos was 184 for part 1. That is the highest amount I have for a story. On Literotica, the reads are less than 50% of Seven years as a wife, which on here has 5,360 reads or hits and 165 kudos.
This is Seven years as a wife on Lit. It bears out what you wrote.
I think I am to blame often. I start a story enthusiastically, then get bored. So leave it half finished. I ended You're my wife now, in a quick violent conclusion. I got moaned at, as some of my Literotica readers were enjoying the sexual torture the character was going through. It was only meant to be a short story, but I kept getting asked to add to it. I really was not enjoying it near the end. It did not do too well here.
One thing I have noticed is that on Literotica I have to mention "Wife" or "Housewife" to get a story well read. the other authors there told me several other buzz words that get hits.
I wonder if I ever decide to sell them on Amazon the titles will increase sales?
Leeanna