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Question of the day part 10
RokofAges75:
After looking at my read count stats, I'm going to add a few follow-up questions to Mare's.
If you go to View Your Statistics under Account Info and then click on your number of stories (next to "Author of"), you can click View Chapters at the top and see the stats for each individual chapter you've posted.
Which of your novels has the highest average read count per chapter? Is this also your most read novel? Most reviewed?
How about the lowest average? Is this your least read novel? Least reviewed?
Are there any stories where you notice a significant drop in read count from the beginning chapters to the end? Why do you think that is?
Do any individual chapters stand out as having an unusually high or low read count compared to the rest of the chapters in that story? Why do you think that is?
What is your most and least read one-shot?
Were you surprised by any of these stats?
Sakabelle:
Looking back on your novels, go check and see how many chapters each one is.
What is your longest one?
Forever Like This - 42 chapters
What is your shortest one?
Left and Leaving - 22 chapters
Going along with that, is your longest one the one with the most reviews? And your shortest the one with the least?Forever Like This has the most reviews, but Left and Leaving doesn't have the least - it's got 167 reviews which is somewhere in the mid-range.
What about read counts? (even though I HATE those! LOL)
They are very similar read counts, actually. That's kind of weird, given the review stats of them and that FLT has been on the site for a lot less time. Plus FLT had readers who weren't reviewing - I know because they'd let me know on twitter their thoughts about certain things.
Which of your novels has the highest average read count per chapter? Is this also your most read novel? Most reviewed?
In Pieces has the highest average read count, around 600-700 per chapter and this is also my most read novel. Makes sense, I think a lot of people knew me for that one when I first started posting here, and it was also a featured story. It's my least reviewed though!
How about the lowest average? Is this your least read novel? Least reviewed?
The lowest is actually Running Up That Hill! Some of those chapters don't even have 100 hits. It's not my least reviewed and I think the reason is that the people who enjoy that story are a lot of people on this forum, and obviously we are advocates for reviewing each other's work lol
Are there any stories where you notice a significant drop in read count from the beginning chapters to the end? Why do you think that is?
Best of Both Words has a big read drop between chapters 20 and 21 and I'm sure it's because there was a year in between those two chapters. Forever Like This also has a big read drop after the chapter where Nick dies. Not surprising.
Do any individual chapters stand out as having an unusually high or low read count compared to the rest of the chapters in that story? Why do you think that is?
Besides the drops I mentioned above the reads stayed pretty steady.
What is your most and least read one-shot?
Most read is Slightly off Schedule with 469 reads, least is a tie between Rogues of the Sea and Picture Perfect.
Were you surprised by any of these stats?
I think it's sort of weird that Picture Perfect has a low read count, but the rest of it isn't that surprising.
mare:
Looking back on your novels, go check and see how many chapters each one is.
What is your longest one?
Why I'd Do it All Again at 55 chapters
What is your shortest one?
Comedy of Errors at 11
Going along with that, is your longest one the one with the most reviews? And your shortest the one with the least?
Yes, Why has the most reviews and Comedy of Errors has the least. Weird lol
What about read counts? (even though I HATE those! LOL)
Why does have the most and Comedy of Errors has the least.
Which of your novels has the highest average read count per chapter? Is this also your most read novel? Most reviewed?
A Million Little Things and nope it's not my most reviews or most read. It had 185 reviews which is about the average for my novels the read count was at almost 12,000 which kind of falls in the middle range of my stuff.
How about the lowest average? Is this your least read novel? Least reviewed?
Comedy of Errors has the lowest everything pretty much and deservedly so because it sucked lol
Are there any stories where you notice a significant drop in read count from the beginning chapters to the end? Why do you think that is?
Sadly, all of my stories saw a big drop from the first chapter to the last one. I think it's normal for the first chapter to have the highest read count because people are curious and want to check it out to see what it's all about but the most noticeable drop is for Why Id' do it All Again. The first chapter has 940 and then the next chapter fell to 650. FAIL! LOL That's why I don't like to look at read counts they psych me out! All the others were pretty consistent with small spikes here or there.
Do any individual chapters stand out as having an unusually high or low read count compared to the rest of the chapters in that story? Why do you think that is?
Just the first chapters.
What is your most and least read one-shot?
The most read one is a story called The Words That Come Out of Kevin's Mouth at close to 700 reads. I don't even remember that one at all! I am actually going to go back and read it. LOL The least read one is Summer at Elk Wood Pines. with a whooping 114. guess no one liked my banner! :(
Were you surprised by any of these stats?
I was very surprised by A Million Little Things and it's read count. I had no idea. Wouldn't it be something else if people really did leave reviews for everything they read? LOL
julilly:
Looking back on your novels, go check and see how many chapters each one is.
What is your longest one? All That Glitters - 63 chapters
What is your shortest one? Satin and Silk - 14 chapters (I didn't include incomplete novels)
Going along with that, is your longest one the one with the most reviews? And your shortest the one with the least? Yes, the longest has the most reviews. The shortest is tied with a few others for the least.
What about read counts? My longest does has the most amount of reads but I have a couple of novels with less reads than my shortest.
Which of your novels has the highest average read count per chapter? Is this also your most read novel? Most reviewed? All That Glitters, my most read and reviewed novel
How about the lowest average? Is this your least read novel? Least reviewed? Not including incomplete novels, my lowest read count goes to Stockholm Syndrome but it's not the least reviewed - Satin and Silk takes that title.
Are there any stories where you notice a significant drop in read count from the beginning chapters to the end? Why do you think that is? Hawk and a Handsaw, actually. It goes from an average of 186/chapter to 53/chapter. It's probably because it got not very good near the end after my four-year-long break. :P
Do any individual chapters stand out as having an unusually high or low read count compared to the rest of the chapters in that story? Why do you think that is? History Repeating has a 1059 read count for Chapter 1, which is actually about 15 reads higher than the next one down, which is my most read story. I have no idea why that is. Someone kept hitting refresh? lol
What is your most and least read one-shot? They're all around the same - within 20 reads of each other, but my least read one is Sweet Charity - I think it was a birthday challenge. Most read is another challenge one-shot, Good Deeds Written On Snow.
Were you surprised by any of these stats? Not particularly lol Maybe by how many ppl read chapter 1 of History Repeating.
RokofAges75:
Which of your novels has the highest average read count per chapter? Is this also your most read novel? Most reviewed?
Curtain Call has the highest average read count and is also my most reviewed story, but not my most read. Broken is my most read, probably just because it has more chapters.
How about the lowest average? Is this your least read novel? Least reviewed?
Secrets of the Heart has the lowest average read count of my finished novels and is also the least read, but not the least reviewed.
Are there any stories where you notice a significant drop in read count from the beginning chapters to the end? Why do you think that is?
As others have said, most of my stories have a drop from the beginning to the end, I think because people start reading and then don't continue. The biggest drops tend to happen in stories where I may have started off strong with updating regularly and then stopped. Song for the Undead, for example, was pretty consistently in the 400s for the first 75 chapters or so while Rose and I were updating it a lot, and then it tapered off to the point where the last few chapters we've posted still have read counts under 100.
Do any individual chapters stand out as having an unusually high or low read count compared to the rest of the chapters in that story? Why do you think that is?
Curtain Call averaged about 500-1000 reads per chapter, but I noticed one chapter had 4157 reads! And it wasn't the first chapter or the last chapter. It was Chapter 61, right in the middle. Other than being a "morning after" romantic chapter, there's nothing memorable about it, so I have no idea what happened there. Some spambot action, maybe? Then again, the chapter before it had over 1000 reads, which was 200-300 higher than all the other chapters around it, so maybe people just like re-reading sex scenes? LOL Anyway, that was the one that inspired this question because it was so out there!
What is your most and least read one-shot?
My most read is Watch Me as I Bleed, and least read is Unsuspecting Sunday.
Were you surprised by any of these stats?
Some of my older stories have more reads per chapter than I realized. A lot of the older ones I didn't post on AC until they had already been up on my site for awhile, and I didn't get a lot of reviews on them because of that, so I didn't realize people were actually reading them on AC. Broken only has about 1 review for every 2 chapters, but it's my most read and second-most favorited story. Go figure!
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