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We're barely halfway through January, and I've posted NINE pieces in the last eleven days! That has to be a record for me.
What makes it even scarier is that there are still ideas bouncing around for more pieces, most of those being continuations of current stories.
I have no idea how long this will last, but I may as well go with the flow and write while the ideas are there, right?
It's kind of funny, there have been times where I've grumbled that the muse was being stingy, now she's on a major roll. LOL
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Ideas...
Around 1 in 10 of my ideas make the published status. The rest sit somewhere until I have enough.
I'll second that
At the last count there is close to 200 stories that I have started and ... well many are just one page. Some are 10K words and still didn't get anywhere...
It is just how most of us work. Ideas come, ideas go. Some stick, some don't. Some are good, some are bad.
In the words of the song sung by Tom Jones, 'It's not unusual!'
This will decrease your readership.
I think that your writing skills and talent are very good, but starting all these stories and leaving them unfinished will frustrate your reader base until they simply stop reading your stories. This is just constructive advice.
Gwen
Re: This will decrease your readership.
I have to disagree. I would think that readership depends more on whether people like what they see when they take a look at a story.
A second point, I posted the prologue to The Artemis Project nine months ago, it's drawn 216 kudos, my highest for any story. I didn't post the first chapter until a few days ago, and in the short time that one has been up, it's drawn 168 kudos, almost 80% of the prologue's count.
A third point, I've posted 87 pieces since early December of '16, three of those being poems. Of the 84 prose pieces, 44 have drawn a minimum of 100 kudos, five of those reaching 170 or higher. I have only five pieces with a kudos count under 50, two more right at 50.
Of the five items under 50, two of them are for the two parts of a rather nasty tale that I started early last year. I wasn't expecting a lot from them, but the way I work is that when the muse comes out, I write and I post parts as the muse shows me where to take a story.
The other three that are under fifty kudos are the three poems I've posted here.
A fourth point, I have twenty pieces with 1500+ reads and another half dozen near 1500. Yeah, I know that a fair portion of reads is people just taking a quick look or accidentally clicking a page, but that still means a fair number of people are actually reading the stories.
I have had people say they wished I updated stories more often, but I have not had a single person do more than complain a bit. That tells me that, even though I don't post a regular string of pieces in one story like others do, people like my writing and are okay with waiting.
As I said before, how many people read a story and how many give kudos on one depends on whether a story strikes their fancy.
kudos and hit counts are just part
of being a writer. In my case, they serve to tell me that people are reading my work. Even stories I posted more than 5 years ago are still getting reads and kudos and even the occassional comment.
What matters to me is the writing of a story and completing it knowing that I've done the best I can at the time. Yes, they can be improved over time. I was editing a story that appeared on my blog at the end of 2015 only this morning. I added around 500 words to the story. I'll be posting it here in a few months. IT WILL be edited again before posting. That is life really.
Many painters were never truly satisfied with their work but most knew that they had to stop somewhere.
The same goes for writers.
Please don't get hung up over read counts and kudos levels. Post a story knowing that you have done well in your own mind.
Samantha